A searing wine for 2007

Sancerre is a wine on everyone’s lips.

This sauvignon blanc has been the world’s most fashionable white wine for almost a decade, with the attendant strong sales and bandwagon-jumpers this title attracts.

Appearing on the bandwagon are two sets of winemakers: the entire New World and wannabe fellow French winemakers. Now, almost all of the world’s wine regions have developed a sauvignon blanc vineyard to join the cabernet sauvignon, merlot and chardonnay vines ...