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Fume Blanc, North Coast

Fume Blanc, North Coast Wine Details
Price: $12.50 per bottle

Description: Created from Sauvignon Blanc grapes, our light, dry Fume Blanc is pure magic! Versatile and complex, with notes of citrus and melon, a grassy nose and a soft, smoky finish. It’s an excellent sipping wine, all by itself, and pairs beautifully with Asian food, mild white fish and seafood. Medals received: 4 Bronze

Varietal Definition
Sauvignon Blanc:
Sauvignon Blanc is widely grown in California — at over 15,000 acres, it’s now the third most planted variety — and often assumes the moniker ‘Fume Blanc’. This popular synonym, credited to Napa’s Robert Mondavi, derives from the grape’s historic home of Pouilly in France’s Upper Loire Valley, where Sauvignon Blanc is the dominant varietal and goes locally by the name of ‘Blanc Fumé’. When treated with respect and afforded suitable growing conditions, Sauvignon Blanc is one of the wine world’s darlings. Steely, racy acidity, green, gooseberry fruit, asparagus and a grassy, herbaceous character characterize dry wines made from this grape.


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