Archive for May 2014

Most wines are manufactured. They are manufactured from machine harvested grapes taken from high-yielding farmland and turned into wine in continuously fed fermentation machines where the contents are adjusted for acids, alcohols, and residual sugar according to market demand. The output from these machines is directed by computer to different labels, where some of the…

Terroir is defined as the influence of soil and climate on the flavors in a wine. It is what gives some wines that sense of place, or, as Randall Grahm would say, ‘its soul.’ But, there are some non-believers who question the very existence of terroir. These nonbelievers observe that any two winemakers will produce…