GRAPE VARIETIES: A classic grape variety planted widely in Bordeaux, the Loire Valley (Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume) and the New World. It should be planted on poorer soils and it is prone to rot. It is generally used to produce dry wines with marked acidity, either with or without oak ageing, but is also an important constituent of Sauternes, where it is used to add acidity to the blend., It tends to have a distinctive herbaceous, green, vegetal taste.

NOSE OF WINE: Grapefruit, lemons, fresh herbs, cut grass, smoke, flint.