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	Terroir
		Terroir is a term that is crucial to the understanding of quality wines and the differences between them.
		Terroir speaks quietly and there is very little in modern culture that is apprehended beneath the blare of the superficial and the obvious.
		Terroir is one path that enables us to remain honest; if we are true to terroir, we are making wines in service of something beyond our own egos, we are subordinating ourselves to a greater reality.
	www.beekmanwine.com /prevtopar.htm (4995 words)

	Andeluna Cellars :: Terroir
		Terroir (Tear-WAH) is a French term in wine appreciation used to denote the special characteristics of the land that give a wine its individuality.
		The concept of terroir means that wines from a particular area are unique, and incapable of being reproduced outside that area, even if the variety and winemaking techniques are painstakingly duplicated.
		Embracing terroir as a critical step in the winemaking process, we chose 80 hectares (approximately 200 acres) of the best vineyards owned by the Reina Rutini family, located at altitudes ranging from 3,600 to 4,265 feet at the base of Mt. Tupungato.
	www.andeluna.com /about/terroir.shtml (278 words)

	Terroir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Terroir (/tεʀwaʀ/ in French) was originally a French term in wine and coffee appreciation used to denote the special characteristics of geography that bestowed individuality upon the food product.
		Terroir is often italicized in English writing to show that it is a French loanword, although many now regard it as a word naturalized into English.
		The question of whether terroir is quantifiable, and the role that terroir plays in producing a "good" wine are matters of some controversy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terroir (954 words)

	New York Grape Terroir - the viticultural climate of New York
		However, as in prospecting for gold, prospectors for terroir can increase their chance of stumbling upon the real thing if they know some of the important elements which are common to regions blessed with ample terroirs.
		Terroirs are often be found in association with geology, and the geology shown in figure 1 provides a basis for our state's viticultural history.
		Terroirs are attracted by climate and weather, and the diligent prospector should always be alert to the possibility that his region may have a climate.
	www.nysaes.cornell.edu /hort/faculty/pool/NYSite-Soils/terroir.html (1260 words)

	Terroir '06
		This conference will explore how aspects of terroir can be studied scientifically in ways that are of use to the wine industry.
		The conference is conceived as a dialogue between individuals who do research on aspects of terroir, and grape growers and winemakers who can make use of the insights gained from that research.
		Expressions of Terroir in Vine and Grape Physiology
	terroir.ucdavis.edu (183 words)

	What is Terroir?
		Terroir is a French word used to refer to the general characteristics a place impart on the taste of either wine or coffee.
		Terroir is central to the idea that a wine cannot simply be reproduced anywhere in the world, just by using the same grapes and a similar set of practices.
		Terroir is viewed by many wine lovers as the essence of a wine, and by incorrectly applying a terroir term, something important is lost.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-terroir.htm (513 words)

	Oliveto Restaurant and Cafe: "Terroir: Paul Bertolli"
		A terroir, in its most local sense, is a single vineyard (cru) or portion thereof, or a specific plot of land.
		Whether on a small geographical scale or larger one, the term terroir is used to describe the whole complex of environmental factors that shape the flavor of a wine or food irrespective of genetics.
		There is a human dimension to terroir: To the extent that the farmer affects any part of the natural system--altering or amending the soil, irrigating, using cover crops and crop rotation, and other plant or environment management--he affects terroir.
	www.oliveto.com /terroir.html (2116 words)

	Jay Farrar - News
		Often, "terroir" is associated with wine making, where it has come to represent a blend of soil type, landscape, air and sun that cannot be found solely in nature or created solely by man. By definition, "terroir" represents a delicate balance of nature's bounty and human labor shaped over time.
		Terroir Blues was recorded at the tail end of 2002 and the beginning of 2003, working from a batch of songs that Farrar had written over a few months that summer.
		Some of the haunted nature of Terroir Blues' songs is rooted in Farrar's recollections and reflections on the life of his father, Jim "Pops" Farrar - a wandering musician and Merchant Marine in both World War II and the Korean War with Missouri family roots.
	www.jayfarrar.net /discs/terroirblues.htm (1776 words)

	blog au vin » Terroir
		My interpretation of their paper is thus: the role of man combined with the manner in which the grapes are processed and the wine is made conceals the terroir sufficiently for it to be meaningless as a concept.
		It seems that “terroir” would be the ideal subject of a research paper and case study of a nation’s marketing success which has now endured for more than a century and is based on substance rather than the “smoke and mirrors” of today’s campaigns.
		My interpretation of “terroir” is the plain vanilla version, the contribution of all aspects of the environment of a site to the expression of wine style and quality.
	blogauvin.finewinepress.com /category/terroir (1024 words)

	Avenue Vine: Terroir Debate The Next Chapter
		As the meaning of “terroir” continues to be hotly disputed, settling on a definition that considers soil, topography and climate, as well as human intervention, proves very complex.
		Terroir is one of the most intriguing and perplexing challenges in the world of wine, and, even more broadly, for a variety of agricultural goods, such as other fruit crops, spices, coffee and tea.
		Terroir will be defined as the sum of all the natural parameters—especially soil, topography and climate—which may potentially influence the character and characteristics of wine.
	www.avenuevine.com /movabletype/archives/000986.html (3476 words)

	WINE BUSINESS MONTHLY
		The traditional view of terroir put forward by others stresses the role of nature in isolation; that is, terroir refers to those qualities that derive strictly from the soil and subsoil, orientation to the sun, proximity to a river, altitude, climate, or the combined effect of these and other natural factors.
		Terroir will be defined as the sum of all the natural parameters-especially soil, topography and climate-which may potentially influence the character and characteristics of wine.
		Terroir is reduced to soil type and chemistry along with vineyard exposition.
	www.winebusiness.com /html/MonthlyArticle.cfm?dataId=42095 (3105 words)

	Terroir - Sacramento, California
		Terroir is from God, or so thought the German monks, who treasured Pinot Noir and Riesling wine grapes for their clear expression of a site.
		The physical environment is a common denominator of terroir, but how much it matters remains controversial: Everyone knows you can’t grow Burgundy at the North Pole, but some winemakers, or at least their marketing staffs, believe you can make Burgundy in California.
		The Champagne region of France is an unmistakable terroir of soil, grapevine clones, climate and human innovation, namely méthode champenoise, the introduction of a second fermentation into a bottle of still wine.
	www.sacmag.com /media/Sacramento-Magazine/June-2006/On-Wine (924 words)

	Mark Squires' E-zine, Terroir, May 2006
		The terroir rant often becomes rather laughable, the ultimate in pretension, not because it is non-existent, but because, as in this example, the claims for terroir are exaggerated, to the detriment of other factors that influence--and should influence--the wine.
		Terroir identifies inherent characteristics in a vineyard which, if allowed to come forth, will impart to the wine that vineyard's stamp in some respect (although perhaps nowhere near as obviously as some would hope).
		Yet, if terroir is so hard to identify reliably even amongst experts, let alone the average consumer, perhaps it is fairer to consider it a factor in the wine's profile, not the key reason to evaluate it.
	marksquires.com /art_terroir.htm (4133 words)

	Château Haut-Brion: Terroir
		The origin of the word terroir brings to mind the predominant influence of the terrain on all the other natural elements that contribute to the making of a Grand Vin.
		In summing up, one would say today that the terroir is a veritable ecosystem where natural conditions have been modified and transformed by man who throughout the centuries has exploited the land to the best of his ability using what nature has given him.
		It is the combination of these conditions both from nature and mankind that evolves into the notion of terroir and the originality and specific characteristics of the wine produced thereon.
	haut-brion.com /home/en/winemaking/terroir.php (510 words)

	Avenue Vine: Randall Grahm, On The Phenomenology of Terroir
		Terroir’s differentiating signal somehow shines through the non-trivial level of noise of climatic variation that occurs from one vintage year to the next, in the Old World, at least.
		To produce a terroir wine, there must be a seamless link between the wine-grower and his vines and a connection strong enough to drown out the din of competing voices.
		To conclude, terroir is a descriptive mechanism that speaks to the intelligence or organizational force of a particular viticultural site, and miraculously persists through the vicissitudes of fermentation and maturation of a wine.
	www.avenuevine.com /movabletype/archives/001143.html (4746 words)

	Terroir: towards a working definition
		The minerals in the soil may be fortuitously imparting chalky notes to the wine indirectly by altering the vine's metabolism, but you'd only be able to tell this by comparing this wine with one made from the same grapes grown on different soils and vinified in a similar way.
		It isn't possibly to taste the 'terroir' in a wine, unless you are comparing wines produced from different vineyard sites, or you have prior knowledge of the wine.
		However, certain wines reflect their ecology more than others (just like certain people reflect their "neighborhood", etc. more than others), and the terroir of these wines is therefore more clear, influential and definable than the terroir of a wine which does not clearly reflect its ecology.
	www.wineanorak.com /terroir2.htm (1155 words)

	Saintsbury on Terroir
		One simple way to think about terroir is to define it as a place with the potential to grow grapes that have the possibility of making compelling wines.
		Yet it is really impossible to say if it is the terroir of a vineyard or the hand of the winemaker that is more responsible for the final character of a wine.
		Yet it is not the relatively static influence of terroir that alone affects the final character of the grape.
	www.saintsbury.com /college_terroir.html (699 words)

	As international style homogenizes wine, many still defend terroir
		The French, of course, are wildly into terroir; some vintners go so far as to say the flavor of the rocks themselves are captured in the glass.
		"Terroir does matter, but it won't matter to the consumers who want to drink based on price and in a style they always like to drink," she said.
		Since one of the theories behind Sauvignon Republic is that this varietal so easily expresses terroir, or place of origin, we asked panelists to pick the country of origin for each wine.
	www.azcentral.com /home/wine/articles/0813wineterroir0813.html (965 words)

	Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog: Marketing Terroir
		Terroir certainly has the potential to be misused and become perceived as "all about marketing", because of the nature of the conceptual benefits which marketers must sell to justify high-end wines over everyday wines.
		In the end, the consumer will have to sort out whether each terroir story is believable, and whether it justifies their choices in the market.
		Terroir is the only part of a wine you can not substitute.
	fermentation.typepad.com /fermentation/2006/01/marketing_terro.html (1241 words)

	Terroir
		Terroir (pronounced as "tear-wahr") is a peculiar word.
		Terroir is the reason why rootstock taken from a vineyard in France, and planted in California will not produce the same wine.
		With new techniques exploding around the world in the last twenty years, the notion of terroir was thought of as old fashioned, or Old World, and for a while, not fully respected.
	www.supermarketguru.com /page.cfm/186 (724 words)

	Terroir need not terrify
		They are the ones who took the word terroir, French for soil, and gave it an almost mystical meaning.
		"When the subject of terroir comes up in class, someone has invariably heard of and reports on the rigors of the master sommelier advanced exam, where one has to taste and peg the origins of a flight of wines," she said.
		Yet Durbin said once the conversation turns to the why of terroir, and consumers can taste the difference, they realize there is something to it after all.
	www.azcentral.com /home/wine/articles/0728terroir0728.html (786 words)

	terroir restaurant in Cley, Norfolk is on the move
		Well, sadly, all good things must come to an end, and terroir is no exception: after eight very full on years, terroir opened its doors in Cley for the last time on 2 September 2006.
		You can count on one hand the number of days in our terroir years that we didn't have guests or diners (or builders!) in the house; you can count on the fingers of the other hand the number of times we had a day off or left the house other than to grow or shop.
		But mostly we're on the move because we felt the time was right to fulfil what for Kalba has been a 30 year ambition (and for John a more recent but equally passionate one) to move to France.
	www.terroir.org.uk (541 words)

	Geotimes — August 2004 — Understanding the Mysteries of the Grape
		The general topic of terroir is of growing international interest, with numerous recent publications and symposia devoted to it, including at the 2003 national Geological Society of America meeting in Seattle, the 2004 Geological Association of Canada meeting in St. Catharines, Ontario, and the 2004 meeting of the International Geological Congress in Florence, Italy.
		My research on terroir and the geology of wine bloomed during 22 years at Washington State University in the midst of one of the world’s great wine regions — the Columbia Valley of Washington, nearby areas of Oregon and the Okanagan of British Columbia.
		The study of terroir does not aim to minimize the different factors or the importance of human ingenuity in making great wine from great vineyards, but simply to illustrate the importance of understanding the physical environment as one essential element of terroir — a topic that should be of interest to all geologists.
	www.agiweb.org /geotimes/aug04/feature_terroir.html (3076 words)

	Amazon.com: Terroir: The Role of Geology, Climate, and Culture in the Making of French Wines: Books: James E. Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The impressive work on terroir done at INRA (the National Institute of Agronomic Research) in France by Barbeau, Asselin, Morlat and others is basically ignored.
		He has inspired me to make a study of the terroirs of Texas viticulture but I doubt if the results would ever be published in such a fine form as this book.
		If you feel that the idea of "Terroir", i.e., that the land influences the wine in such a way that it can be distinguished by taste, is foolish, read this book.
	www.amazon.com /Terroir-Geology-Climate-Culture-Making/dp/0520219368 (1641 words)

	Terroir Napa Valley Wines
		Terroir is the French term for earth and in a winemaking context it includes all of the factors, mineral content, soil type, exposure to the sun, wind and rain, that contribute to the nuances in the taste and quality of the fruit grown in a specific vineyard.
		These differences in terroir exist as factors that even before the winemaker steps in.
		Terroir Napa Valley Wines' focus is small lot terroir in red varietals.
	www.terroirnapavalley.com /pages/tnvus.html (190 words)

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