mark wrote:

alors, le terroir....rien de plus!!
I have spent an entire night (by that I mean until 5.00am in the morning,
slightly ****ed by then admittedly) discussing with a vigneron the *terroir*
and why one piece of vineyard one side of a road is AOC classification and
one on the other side of the road not..... in French!!
I still don't get it.... but then, when you realise that the classification
of wines is carried out locally by the owners of vineyards the whole thing
sort of falls into place..
Completely differently, I was amazed to learn that there was often a rose
bush planted at the end of each row of vines and on asking was told that the
rose acted as a forewarning of disease to the vines...apparently, the rose
would show infection long before the vine showed infection....not sure how
true this is..or indeed if it isn't some sort of *paysanne* folklore but I
still see the roses around from time to time. Less so since the advent of
the machine...!

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You'd be hard put to find 5.00 am at any other time of the day...
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