Travelling around the world, I’ve met some people who claim there is no such thing as terroir, and that wine is just wine, no matter where it is crafted. I’ve also met others who regard terroir as merely the dirt and the wind (which, coincidentally, matches the individual literal meanings of the two...
East meets west through terroir
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Wednesday 27 January 2016
Shanghai-based Master of Wine student Young Shi (in a grey suit with orange scarf below) of prominent Chinese wine website Tastespirit.com describes what happened when Aubert de Villaine of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti met the man in charge of wine in China's most viticulturally proactive province, Ningxia.
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