97

The highest number of points ever awarded by Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate to a sauvignon blanc. The wine, a 1994 Pierre Boullay Sancerre Chavignol, was rated in 1996. Although several chardonnays have received 100 point scores from The Wine Advocate, no sauvignon blanc has yet been thus awarded by the newsletter.

What Is Fiasco?

“We entered the wine industry when there were no wine magazines, no wine critics, no 100-point scale—all 23 of us vintners in the Napa Valley in the 1960s. What we learned, we learned from the vineyard itself. Back then, it seemed like less was better.”

— Janet Trefethen (Trefethen Family Vineyards is 50 years old this year)

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