Wine: Terroir Tales and Fables, You Can't Taste the Soil

Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson · Jan 8, 2022 · 26m

In Vino, Veritas – or In Wine, Truth – by Pliny the Elder

When the Holy Roman Empire was forming Charlemagne gave lands to the monks in order for them to plant vineyards to make wine for the Eucharist. Those first vineyards, planted by Benedictine monks, make some of the classic wines of all time. Wine was in France centuries prior to Charlemagne, but it was those monks that we have a provenance of today’s wine. It was also from those Monks that we got the concept of terroir.

Today terroir is the “in” thing that wine sommeliers will talk about. One of the myths is that you can taste the soil…