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French Wine & Terroir — France

The Love France Guide № 004: French Wine & Terroir

French Wine & Terroir — France
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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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