Sauvignon blanc is one of the world's most popular white wines, and for a columnist who started writing about wine 45 years ago, that's a shock.
I've always been a fan of it and hoped it would get popular. In the early 1980s, I wrote that this variety was well under the radar and was unlikely to gain wide traction.
I hope that column in some small way helped put sauvignon blanc on the vinous map as well as on the tongues of readers. However it happened, the variety now thrives worldwide.
Updated: Tue Apr 26, 2022