On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:57:09 +0200, Michael Pronay >
wrote:

>Steve Slatcher > wrote:

>> I have seen that definitiion before, but I think it is more
>> usual to use terroir to mean the soil, rock, local toppgraphy
>> and macro climate. ^
> ^^^^^ o
> micro

On checking the Oxford Companion, the term I actually meant was
mesoclimate. "The usual scale of a mesoclimate is in tens or hundreds
of metres, so one speaks correctly of the mesoclimate of a particular
vineyard or potential vineyard site."

Though, those who think Bordeaux has/is a terroir (I do not) might
think that terroir has a macroclimate.

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