terroir

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• A great city, like a great wine, has to express its terroir.

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• The culture, the people, the soil, the weather—I guess the idea of terroir produces such diversity in the wines that hundreds of years of stodgy tradition actually enforce something really beautiful.

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• Well, you see, Max, the terroir needs more than sun and rain.

  A Good Year (2006)

• Delicacy and nuance were lost, and very few wines showed their terroir or sense of place.

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• In agriculture, the French notion of terroir grew out of the recognition that the physical attributes of the land influence a wine's characteristics and, by extension, its value.

  Academic text (2011)

• It is from the terroir that the milk and consequently the cheese will be given uniquely regional characteristics and complexities.

  Artois the Goat (2009)

• The final product is the outcome of terroir, the grape varietal, the distillation process (and final alcohol level), the length of aging, and the type of oak used for the cask.

  Academic text (2011)

• All of the wineries I visited, particularly Reif Estates, Inniskillin, and Peller Estates, interpret and elaborate the terroir similarly, yet with subtle nuances unique to each.

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• The unique terroir of the region influences the flavor of the grapes used in the wine.

• Every bottle of wine reflects the terroir, capturing the essence of the land where the grapes were grown.

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