Wine is a big part of French culture and a lot of American travelers might be surprised at this interesting element that ...

Many professionals expect wines grown in limestone soil to be more focused and acid-driven—but is there a reason why?

Like Mr. Vocoret, Athénaïs de Béru of Château de Béru, believes climate change has created a lot of unknowns. Ms. Béru, whose ...

Just as a fine wine owes its character to the stresses it endured, so too do we owe our growth to the challenges we overcome.

Hotness, coolness, soil composition ... It's a tricky territory (or, for sommeliers, "crunchy terroir") because wine-lovers ...

what they call “terroir.” Then, his passion for these stellar wines had him delve into the research of soil depth, composition, structure, chemistry, hydrology and climate, to name a few.

“It plays a role in a wine’s terroir expression ... The conditions that accompany Matorral, such as dry-farmed soils and specific climates, also promote balanced grape ripening, enhancing ...

Here are the top Riesling wines from the 2024 SFIWC. Below are brief descriptions and tasting notes of the three wines that ...

The French wine industry has a celebrated word called "terroir", which applies to all the environmental factors that effect vines growing in a vineyard, such the soil, the climate, and the elevation.

Thousands of years ago, glaciers melted and water rushed down the Fraser Canyon. Along the way, the torrent collected gravel ...

The idea of “terroir”—that the land shapes a wine’s qualities—is an old one, but Gilbert said that the microbiome is not usually included as one of the influencing factors. “From the wine industry’s ...