The concept of Terroir on Viticulture By Cornalia Van Leeuwen Quote “it is important to consider the human factor of terroir because no vineyard exists without the intervention of mankind.” So often when asked to talk about terroir you will hear people tell you the same things over and over again, I saw this example in class during our wine tasting as well. Soil, climate, water, sun, slope, air, ect but so often we forget that the manmade aspect is a huge part of terroir. We build the vineyards, plant and harvest the grapes. We chose what to put in the soil fertilize, pesticides, etc. And the human element has a lot to do with how the finished product comes out. I think it’s a piece that should not be so easily forgotten on the subject of viniculture. Samantha H.
4. “It is important to consider the human factor of terror because no vineyard exists without the intervention of mankind.” This quote speaks directly to the (agri)culture of the class. While the terror is the ground and the vines and grapes produced, it is the people that farm the land it is their tradition and their methods that are there to develop them. So they play each other out and together contribute to creating exceptional or not so exceptional wine. --Liz V.
On The Concept of Terroir in Viticulture Throughout my time at the CIA (the first place I heard the word terroir), I have been convinced that terroir is what defines food from different regions. I always thought that if you have two chardonnays made exactly the same way but from two different places, they can never be the same because of variations in the soil, mineral content, air temperature, rainfall, diurnal temperature, etc. To an extent, that may be true, but I recall a lecture in FWA class where Professor Wasser convinced me that the concept of terroir is more of a human invention. Yes those minute variations may make a difference, but it is the person who makes the product who gives it it’s defining qualities. I could say my wine tastes different than your wine because I made it that way. We now have a lot of technology that lets us control or modify some of the terroir factors, even more of an argument that subtleties in different products are man-made. Ryan C.
The concept of Terroir on Viticulture
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Quote “it is important to consider the human factor of terroir because no vineyard exists without the intervention of mankind.”
So often when asked to talk about terroir you will hear people tell you the same things over and over again, I saw this example in class during our wine tasting as well. Soil, climate, water, sun, slope, air, ect but so often we forget that the manmade aspect is a huge part of terroir. We build the vineyards, plant and harvest the grapes. We chose what to put in the soil fertilize, pesticides, etc. And the human element has a lot to do with how the finished product comes out. I think it’s a piece that should not be so easily forgotten on the subject of viniculture.
Samantha H.
4. “It is important to consider the human factor of terror because no vineyard exists without the intervention of mankind.”
ReplyDeleteThis quote speaks directly to the (agri)culture of the class. While the terror is the ground and the vines and grapes produced, it is the people that farm the land it is their tradition and their methods that are there to develop them. So they play each other out and together contribute to creating exceptional or not so exceptional wine.
--Liz V.
On The Concept of Terroir in Viticulture
ReplyDeleteThroughout my time at the CIA (the first place I heard the word terroir), I have been convinced that terroir is what defines food from different regions. I always thought that if you have two chardonnays made exactly the same way but from two different places, they can never be the same because of variations in the soil, mineral content, air temperature, rainfall, diurnal temperature, etc. To an extent, that may be true, but I recall a lecture in FWA class where Professor Wasser convinced me that the concept of terroir is more of a human invention. Yes those minute variations may make a difference, but it is the person who makes the product who gives it it’s defining qualities. I could say my wine tastes different than your wine because I made it that way. We now have a lot of technology that lets us control or modify some of the terroir factors, even more of an argument that subtleties in different products are man-made.
Ryan C.