The central valleys of Chile protect a secret that spread throughout the country. It was here where the history of sauvignon blanc began and where today some of its best examples are found.

Towards the end of the 1980s, a vineyard in Casablanca began planting the first vines of sauvignon blanc. What was formerly known as sauvignon, was actually a kind of poor brother or distant relative known as sauvignon vert or sauvignonasse. The oenologists realized that the new clonal material was of much later maturity, at least a month; that the acidity was more pronounced, that the aromas were more fruity and less onions, and that the wine managed to maintain freshness for a longer time.

The nobility of the royal sauvignon – the blanc – made a tremendous difference with what had been tried until that time as examples of the strain. And, moreover, Casablanca and its cool and marine climate allowed the grape to be expressed even more clearly. We are talking about 1991 or maybe 1992, when clonal plants, imported from California, gave their first fruits.

Today Casablanca has around six thousand hectares planted with vineyards, and half of them are sauvignon blanc. Casablanca is also directly responsible for Chile having one of the few categories of its own in the world. Along with the Chilean cabernet (and, perhaps, being generous, with the carménère), there is the coastal sauvignon blanc of Chile, a category that is sought and recognized in the world as prestigious.

The sauvignon blanc is reliable most of the time, even when it drops from the $ 6,000 Chilean pesos, which speaks of a consolidation of the strain in the valley. However, higher in terms of prices, you can also find some of the best sauvignon in Chile. And both the expensive (never so expensive, actually) and the cheapest, all serve to give freshness to what is left of the summer.

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