New Zealand’s Sauvignon Blanc

By Karen MacNeil
August 9, 2024

Why is it that so many of New Zealand’s Sauvignon Blancs (the leading grape variety there) taste virtually the same?

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The Single Perfect Cheese for Wine

It is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough, we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid that evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth’s rocks, and in its composition, we see the secrets of the universe’s age, and the evolution of stars.

— Richard Feynman (1918-1988) American theoretical physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965