sauvignon blanc

1. 1.

   white wine grape grown in California

   Broadervinifera
2. 2.

   a California wine

   Broaderwhite wine

Questions about sauvignon blanc

What does sauvignon blanc mean?

sauvignon blanc means "white wine grape grown in California". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is sauvignon blanc a common word?

sauvignon blanc is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.