I don't know about you but Sauvignon Blanc is not a grape variety I readily associate with Germany. It's not, after all, as though Germany is short of other grape varieties that offer direct fruit, marked acidity and a powerful aroma. A certain R**sling, the country's most-planted grape, springs to mind, after all. And then when I mentioned to our German specialist Michael Schmidt that those charged with representing German wine generically, Phipps PR, had recently sent me a small selection of German Sauvignons, he harrumphed somewhat (as is his wont). He made the valid point that Germany's own Scheurebe...