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Wine Details
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With Sauvignon Blanc emerging as a leading performer at our estate, and with our preceding two vintages earning a total of eight gold medals at major competitions, Winemaker Kevin Willenborg was inspired to enfold our finest lots of the 2002 vintage into our Firestone Reserve program. Our 2002 Sauvignon Blanc Reserve boasts a striking bouquet of guava, melon and vanilla. Vivid flavors of pear, passion fruit and grapefruit anticipate accents of lemongrass and flint, all of which unfold with crispness and complexity into a rich, quenching finish.
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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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