a wordTerroir
The claim that a wine tastes of where it grew — soil, slope, aspect, weather, and the habits of the people farming it. In France it is also a legal argument, because appellations are drawn on it.
Root. French terroir, from Latin territorium; older French sense 'soil, ground' Cited · wp-terroir
Facts
| kind | vineyard |
|---|---|
| region | The world |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Its kin
wordClimatThe unit Burgundy uses to make the claim specific.the vinePinot noirThe variety most often held up as the transmitter, whether or not it is.
Sources
- Terroir · link
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.