What is "sauvignon"

Usage examples of "sauvignon".

Still-wine lovers can slip into the equally casual back room to sample truly tasty chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon, and zinfandel.

Helena in Napa, the warmer climate suits Bordeaux grapes such as cabernet sauvignon, merlot, and sauvignon blanc.

You get plenty of attention and information on their sauvignon blanc, merlot, and cabernet sauvignon.

But they also produce merlot, cabernet sauvignon, Rhone varietals, and a small amount of chardonnay.

Alisande gestured down-slope, and Sauvignon turned, surprised, to see the priest who had accompanied the expedition on his knees in the mud, his vial of blessed oil in his hand, marking the Sign of the Cross on each dead soldier, reciting the words of the last annointing in a quick mutter before he rose and went on to the next corpse.

First there are the younger scrofulous boneheaded black-T-shirt-and-spiked-bracelet types who do not have the sense to regret the impulsive permanency of their tatts, and will show them off to you with the same fake-quiet pride with which someone more of Ewell's own social stratum would show off their collection of Dynastic crockery or fine Sauvignon.

When they had been making their own wine, the grapes would have gone into highly prized blends of chardonnays, cabernet sauvignons, sauvignon blancs, pinot noirs, and zinfandels.

And she had three glasses of the Cabernet Sauvignon with the steak.

Their quick kisses tingled and stung, but now their taste had the mellow tang of De Leon Cabernet Sauvignon.

He put his arm back in its sling and accepted coffee and a second glass of Californian wine, a 1978 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon I’.

At the last moment (as end-time closed in on him) he changed his mind on a decisive issue and decided to drink the reds down with a connoisseur wine instead of Ripple or Thunderbird, so he set off on one last drive, over to Trader Joe's, which specialized in fine wines, and bought a bottle of 1971 Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon, which set him back almost thirty dollars--all he had.

At home I've got steaks in the freezer and a lot of bottles of Robert Mondavi's Cabernet Sauvignon.

Junior enjoyed a superb filet mignon with a split of fine Cabernet Sauvignon.

She had drunk a few cocktails, the better part of a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, and two after-dinner brandies.

Two bottles of a very pleasant Napa Valley California Cabernet Sauvignon were opened to breathe.