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Terroir

Terroir

Why a wine tastes of the place it grows.

Two bottles from the same grower, same grape, same cellar, can taste nothing alike because of where the vines stand: how high, which way they face, how far the fog reaches, what the roots find underneath. Start with everywhere we pour from, tap a region, and go down to the slope itself.

Soil and stone

What the roots find underneath.

Galets roulés at Châteauneuf-du-Pape
The Stone LibraryWhat lies under the vinesEvery rock and soil under the wines we import, from Champagne chalk to Etna lava: what it is, what it does for a vine, and which of our growers farm on it.Open the library →
Slope sections · 53The ground at depthThe hill cut open, top to bottom: a drawing of the rock under the slope, and which of our wines grow where.Every slope section →
Interactive maps in preparation
  • Northern RhôneGranite slopes, and the loess and galets of Crozes-Hermitage.
  • Alto Piemonte, Montalcino, EtnaAn ancient volcano under the Monte Rosa, the two slopes of Montalcino, the lava flows of the north face.
  • Petaluma GapThe afternoon wind through the gap in the coast hills, hour by hour.