Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Fingerprinting Wine

Scientists now have the ability to fingerprint wine and can tell where the grapes were produced to make the wine. This dispels the myth that wine has no sense of place and that terroir didn’t exist.

Terroir is about the environment in which the grapes were grown which means soil and season.

If one is able to detect terroir traces in wine it must therefore soak up the nutrients from the soil. This is what the wine purists have always thought but big industrialist’s have disputed.

Once and for all, don’t drink shit wine that doesn’t have a fingerprint and mass produced crap that you get from Montana etc.  

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