Tasting the Earth

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for the Dec. 31, 2004 - Jan. 15, 2005 issue

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What impact does soil have on wine quality and character?

Daniel Sogg
Issue: December 31, 2004

What makes one wine different from another bottling produced on the other side of a stone wall? Or on the other side of the world? Often, vintners wrestling with these queries proffer the same response: "soil." But scraping beneath the surface reveals even more questions. There's much yet to be learned about the dynamic interplay between vines and earth.

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