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What is a terroir?

What is a terroir? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The complete set of local conditions in which a particular wine or family of wines is produced, including soil type, weather conditions, topography and wine-making savoir-faire.
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The winery produces award-winning Chardonnays and Cabernet Sauvignons that burst with the powerful flavors of the terroir.
We like these wines to represent their terroir, their soil, their vineyard.
Good terroir encourages optimum fruit maturity and stamps the wine with its unique character.
This lowly-ranked wine still retains the terroir of the region, of the Les Setilles vineyard and of Oliver Leflaive, the winemaker.
The real joy comes when both food and wine are of the same region, or terroir, so that you are eating as locally as you are drinking.
Inert vats have no effect on the taste of Chablis and allow the wine to express the terroir of a particular cru, without any external influence.

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