[Growwine] Terroir and the french appellations

[midmp@abacom.com]

Anthony wrote:
Martin, Is it truly terroir or winemaking that makes the high-end wines?

Hi Anthony,

I know you lean toward a strong winemaker ID. were you in Italy you would 
likely be making those high-end Vino di tavola.

But I sincerely think terroir has it role- not in the broad sense it is usally 
used: generic interelation of climate-soil-variety-methods, but when you go 
down to very specific combination identified trough time - which we do not have 
here - yet.

I mean a well defined appellation makes sense (variety X on type Y of soil in 
county Z), say St-Chinian, while restrictive appelation on a broad land base 
(say L-R) may be better off with an provenance system but in which methods are 
not as tightly defined, otherwise you're playing with one hand tied.

An Eastern Townships appellation would not make sense (too broad, go IGP if you 
want to) but a "Coteau de Montérégienne" would  - in 25 yrs from now( very 
specified soils found on the foothill of each montérégienne. really stands out 
on soil series maps)

martin

PS Speaking of strong winemaker ID, my last '05 frontenac is gone. * sigh*











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