2017 was not a happy time for a huge swathe of Bordeaux grape growers. An early flowering of the vines due to warmer temperatures at the start of the year was followed by a devastating frost in April, wiping out an entire year’s crop for the unlucky ones. Would fate be cruel enough to have …
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« Chers amis de Please Bring Me My Wine, Je présente depuis longtemps la météo sur une grande chaîne de la télévision française et j’aimerais bien comprendre le lien entre climat et le petit Brouilly que je bois avec ma terrine de lapin. Pourriez-vous m’aider à y voir plus clair ? Evelyne D. »
The more you drink wine or spend time at wine dinners or tastings or what-have-you, you’ll hear this term pop up. Terroir (pronounced tare-wahr). Obviously it’s a french word but it’s now used pretty much across the world to describe the same thing. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is… …well it’s everything really. Well let’s …
