Ep 568: Alternatives to a Favorite -- Sauvignon Blanc

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's another edition of the "Alternatives to a Fave" series! This time: Sauvignon blanc.

As an extension of the Grape Mini-series, for this series I come up with lists of wines that lovers of a specific grape can try as alternatives.

Sauvignon blanc is not a one note! It has so many different styles -- from the acidic, minerally, citrus and flinty notes of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé to the tropical fruit, peach, grass, green pepper, and sauteed herb aromas in New Zealand and the blends with Semillon in Bordeaux, there are many, many iterations of this very popular grape.

Photo: Sauvignon Blanc in South Africa. Credit: Getty Images from Canva

After a brief refresh on the Sauvignon blanc grape, in this show I come up with a list of eight wines that are alternatives -- things like Chablis for the more minerally, flinty substitutes for Sancerre, and then fruity alternatives like Vermentino to stand in for Chilean or New Zealand Sauvignon.

I hope, as usual, that this show opens some new doors and gives you new ideas of wines to add to your repertoire!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
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0:54.2	I am just back from Washington, D.C. Wine Access.com slash normal. Listen in the middle of the show for more details.
1:01.8	I am just back from Washington, D.C., where I had a live page or meetup. It was small.
1:08.4	It was a little steamy. We had such great wines, including I brought some wines from Victoria, which was last week's podcast with Steph Dubedon.
1:13.1	And I got to thank John asked publicly 1998 Chateau-Prioré-Lichin Margot. He brought it to share
1:22.3	just such an incredible wine. Everybody brings a bottle to these events. We hang out. We hung out for a couple
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1:43.1	I try to bring some fun wines. So I am always excited
1:46.6	when I get to do the alternatives to a favorite. I love that this was recommended as a podcast
1:54.8	series a long time ago by Searle Z. She's a member of Patreon. And I've done a whole bunch of them. And I love doing
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