The combined blend of Colombard and Sauvignon Blanc is a white wine blend variety which is used extensively The attraction of varieties like Colombard is that they are capable of producing heavy crops of grapes with interesting wines. The Sauvignon Blanc is a grape that contains one of the most pungent and powerful of aromas in wine. Flavours of passionfruit, and gooseberry, followed on the palate by very zingy crisp acid.
Sauvignon Blanc grape makes wines with enough bite and sharpness to accompany quite rich fish dishes as being an obvious choice for seafood. The characteristic acid intensity makes a brilliant match with dishes made with tomato, but the best match of all is Sancerre and local Loire goats' cheese.