Fume and Sauvignon Blanc

After the arrival of Sauvignon Blanc to the United States, it commonly used as an inexpensive sweet wine to fill the thirsts of the average sweet-toothed American. Eventually, Robert Mondavi took the varietal and created a quality, sweet wine and then a dry-style wine. He decided, that using the regular “Sauvignon Blanc” name would not denote the change in quality or style, so he named the new wine, “Fume.”