Battle of the Sauvignons
Thursday 2 May 2019
Which region produces better Sauvignon Blanc, the Loire or New Zealand? You may already have a view. Prepare to change it.
Tomorrow is Sauvignon Blanc Day. Surely you knew that? In celebration of it, after a fairly bibulous evening after the International Wine Challenge, Victoria Kukla of the French export arm Sopexa and Chris Stroud of NZ Winegrowers evolved the idea of a blind tasting of Sauvignons from the two most important regions producing it, the Loire and New Zealand.
The idea was that wine writers Jamie Goode and Rebecca Gibb MW would choose six pairs of wines, and I...
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