Anders Tørneskog wrote:
> "Dee Dovey" > skrev i melding
> ...
>> I can't figure this out.
>>
>> If a Bordeaux blend is made up of several grapes, and terroir is so
>> important, does a winery that blends several grapes also own several
>> terroirs (plots of land) where he grows the different grapes that he uses
>> in his wine that he labels that is from his winery?
>>
> Good question. The chateaux of Bordeaux generally comprise a contiguous
> plot of land which is planted with a variety of grapes. The proportion
> within a given plot depends on the aptitude of the land and the decided
> profile for the winery - traditions that often are centuries old but may be
> modified over time. Furthermore, the grapes actually used in the official
> blend depend on the vintage - the blends in cold years are often different
> from these in warm ones.
>
> The cheaper Bordeaux wines may well be sourced from different plots and thus
> do not display much terroir other than that of Bordeaux itself in general.
>
> A simplified response, this, I think :-)

Simple, but correct as far as I know for Bordeaux

In other places though, occasionally you get "field blends". Here,
different varieties are grown in the same vineyard. If they are old
vineyards, the varieties may be very well mixed, and the owner may not
even know or care what the viarieties are. In more recently planted
vineyards for field blends, each row will contain only one variety, but
adjacent rows may well be different.

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Steve Slatcher
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