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Feature Article
Analyzing the sometimes schizophrenic personality of a single vineyard is a big part of producing “wines of place”
Nickel & Nickel's Dirk Hampson on Terroir:
Understanding the cause and solution of “Multiple Terroir Syndrome”
by
Alan Goldfarb
March 31, 2006
Dirk Hampson and his partners at Far Niente announced less than 10 years ago they were starting a second winery whose entire focus would be single vineyard-designated wines, I thought it to be an ambitious and worthwhile project. After all, the folks at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti had staked their fame – and considerable fortune – on producing some of the world’s most highly regarded single-vineyard Burgundies. But that’s France, where terroir, especially in Burgundy, counts for something.
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