National White Wine Day!

Today marks National White Wine Day, and it couldn’t come at a better time!  It’s hot outside!  And as the days are long, you’ll need a cold, refreshing glass of white wine to cool you off in the warm mornings, hot middays, and simmering summer afternoon/evenings. Today is…

It’s International Sauvignon Blanc Day!

Happy International Sauvignon Blanc Day! We have a fun challenge for you today… more on that in a moment. Sauvignon Blanc is a grape that truly deserves international acclaim.  Noble grape of the Bordeaux, hero of Sancerre in Loire, strange invader of Burgundy (yes, there is Sauvignon Blanc…

Fumé Blanc?

Today marks a first for Cameron Hughes Wine: Fumé Blanc. So what, pray tell, is Fumé Blanc? In the 1800s Sauvignon Blanc was arriving in America and by 1960 was sadly degraded into a washed up, sweet, indistinguishable wine. Robert Mondavi decided it was time to refurbish the…