There has been a recent trend involving smelling and even tasting soil
in order to help understand the origins of the produce of the land. Now
Nez du Vin is commercialising the idea.

http://www.winenous.co.uk/wp/archives/4551

--
www.winenous.co.uk

On 4/1/14 1:30 AM, Steve Slatcher wrote:
> There has been a recent trend involving smelling and even tasting soil
> in order to help understand the origins of the produce of the land. Now
> Nez du Vin is commercialising the idea.
>
> http://www.winenous.co.uk/wp/archives/4551

This would seem to be predicated on the assumption that soils impart
their flavors to wine in some sort of direct fashion. I think that most
of us agree that this sounds improbable.

Mark Lipton


--
alt.food.wine FAQ: http://winefaq.cwdjr.net

On 4/1/2014 12:53 PM, Mark Lipton wrote:
> On 4/1/14 1:30 AM, Steve Slatcher wrote:
>> There has been a recent trend involving smelling and even tasting soil
>> in order to help understand the origins of the produce of the land. Now
>> Nez du Vin is commercialising the idea.
>>
>> http://www.winenous.co.uk/wp/archives/4551
>
> This would seem to be predicated on the assumption that soils impart
> their flavors to wine in some sort of direct fashion. I think that most
> of us agree that this sounds improbable.
>
> Mark Lipton
>
>
In my family tradition, April Fool jokes must end by 12 noon or else
it's "More fool you!"

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not." in Reply To.

On 4/1/14 1:29 PM, James Silverton wrote:

> In my family tradition, April Fool jokes must end by 12 noon or else
> it's "More fool you!"

Ah, hoist on me own petard. Good catch!

Mark Lipton


--
alt.food.wine FAQ: http://winefaq.cwdjr.net

On 01/04/2014 18:29, James Silverton wrote:
> On 4/1/2014 12:53 PM, Mark Lipton wrote:
>> On 4/1/14 1:30 AM, Steve Slatcher wrote:
>>> There has been a recent trend involving smelling and even tasting soil
>>> in order to help understand the origins of the produce of the land. Now
>>> Nez du Vin is commercialising the idea.
>>>
>>> http://www.winenous.co.uk/wp/archives/4551
>>
>> This would seem to be predicated on the assumption that soils impart
>> their flavors to wine in some sort of direct fashion. I think that most
>> of us agree that this sounds improbable.
>>
>> Mark Lipton
>>
>>
> In my family tradition, April Fool jokes must end by 12 noon or else
> it's "More fool you!"

In mine too. But Mark seemed to have recorded my top post here as
1.30am in his time. Tradition does not account very well for the
Internet and multiple time zones, but I was at least careful to post
when at least some of America was actually in April.

Having said that, and to pick up on Mark's point, I believe the videos
on my blog were deadly serious, and they seemed to be implying that the
soils had flavours reflected in the produce of the land.

--
www.winenous.co.uk

"Steve Slatcher" wrote

> Having said that, and to pick up on Mark's point, I believe the videos on
> my blog were deadly serious, and they seemed to be
> implying that the soils had flavours reflected in the produce
> of the land.

Steve, I spent my first 12 years a small dairy farm in Northland NZ.

Our farm had quite a few different soil type - from heavy clay; peat;
volcanic loam to loam over limestone)

Now, I was not a great consumer of soil or grass myself, however, if the
"conduct" of our dairy cows is any guide, we saw on a daily basis, that when
we introduced the animals to a field where there were a mixture of soil
types, they would often make a bee-line to those areas where "the grass was
sweeter".

All these years later (and my father has long departed - as he would have
told me) I do not know which soil types grew the most preferred pasture, but
I am in no doubt that various soils certainly do reflect in the produce.

To the degree this is reflected in grapes, I find a fascinating subject.

st.helier