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How The Rocks rock
In search of the very special character of wines from this area on the border of Oregon and Washington. At the beginning of March, when Elaine and I embarked on...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Wednesday 15 June 2022
• 9 min read
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Alex on taste
9 July 2015 Alex's thoughts on where terroir begins and ends published on Monday are worth sharing with everyone for...
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This is a version of an article also published by the Financial Times. As anyone who has ever been to...
Alex on taste
The last few weeks have been better than most for wine stories in the British press. First, the Daily Mail...
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John Atkinson MW has a particular interest in terroir and soil composition, as you can read in his Terroir and...
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See A rocky blueprint for Chile's future for the first part of this story. Having presented his personal project, Clos...
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Pedro Parra's vision of the Chilean wine revolution depends on rocks and working at a very small scale. He's realistic...
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Part 3 of my coverage of the NEW11 on yeast as part of terroir provoked such a long thread in...
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John Atkinson MW has written a scholarly article 'Terroir and the Côte de Nuits' in an attempt 'to try to...
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Now the following announcement by Wines of Germany may not come as a great surprise to you… Ground-breaking research into...
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You may have read about the fascinating experiment currently being conducted at Ch d’Arsac on the slightly contentious border of...
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Adam Feil sends the following report on the influx of institutional capital into the world’s vineyards, based on his graduate...
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Last week I had the great pleasure of an extended conversation in the garden with Harold McGee, the esteemed and...
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[For the long and fascinating correspondence that has resulted from this, see your turn.] David Schildknecht was moved by one...
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