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a slow conspiracy between dirt, weather, and patience to bottle a place you can taste
means a piece of land planted with grapevines, grown for making wine (or sometimes just eating the grapes).
from A plain English compound: 'vine' plus 'yard.' 'Vine' came in through Old French 'vigne' from Latin 'vinea' (vineyard, vine), tied to 'vinum,' wine. 'Yard' is the homegrown Old English 'geard,' an enclosure or fenced ground — the same word that gives us a back yard and the courtyard. So the whole thing is half-borrowed, half-native: a Latin vine fenced inside a Saxon yard, a little linguistic marriage about as old as the practice itself.
- old vines
- Some grapevines still fruit after 400 years
- terroir
- Same grape tastes different across one hillside
- struggle wins
- Stressed vines in poor soil make better wine
- phylloxera
- A tiny louse nearly destroyed all European vineyards
- deep roots
- Vine roots can reach 30 feet underground
opus one — oakville, napa valley, founded 1979 by robert mondavi and baron philippe de rothschild
cloudy bay — marlborough, new zealand, established 1985, defines sauvignon blanc region