Pour two glasses of Chardonnay grown a few hundred metres apart on the slopes of Burgundy and they can taste noticeably different — one leaner and flinty, the other rounder and riper. That difference, and the French conviction that it matters enormously, is the whole idea behind terroir: the notion that a wine should taste of the specific place it came from. This is Guide № 004 in The Love France Guide series.
In this guide
- What Terroir Actually Means
- How French Labels Are Built
- The Great Regions in Brief
- How Champagne Gets Its Bubbles
- The Vines Almost Died
- Myths Worth Retiring
- Frequently Asked Questions
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