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Feature Article
Napa Valley's diverse vineyards yield first rate wines, but how much terroir finds its way into the bottle?
Goldfarb’s Pressing Matters:
Terroir in America
...like a microcosm of America itself -- in an ever- increasing world driven by commerce -- many winemakers have eliminated all vestiges of terroir; or at the very least, what terroir could be in their wines.
by
Alan Goldfarb
December 7, 2005
Art Linkletter once said, “Kids say the darndest things,” while G.B. Shaw wrote, “Ah the pity, youth is wasted on the young.” Both men -- one a minor TV celeb and the other a major writer -- were most keen in their observances. I use their examples here because it applies to the subject at hand -- terroir and all its elusive meanings -- as observed by two young Frenchmen who came through the Napa Valley recently; and to a grizzled but still-coherent -- I think -- wine scribe.
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