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Research Shows Terroir Matters
Tests on German Riesling show strong similarities based on soil types

Gary Werner
Wines & Vines

 London, England -- Research conducted over three years by an agricultural research center in southwestern Germany appears to offer scientific proof of a nebulous tenet long championed by oenophiles: Terroir exists and matters.

The results of the study were presented to the U.K. wine trade and press during a seminar sponsored by the German Wine Institute in London on Nov. 7th. Speaker Andrea Bauer of the DLR-Rheinpfalz in the city of Neustadt, said, "We have tried to explore how conditions in a vineyard influence the sensory profile of the wines that it produces."

To do so, Bauer and research director Dr. Ulrich Fischer focused exclusively on Riesling. Bauer explained that wines from this variety were appropriate for their study because they are recognized as being particularly expressive of their origins--not least because their production traditionally avoids character-altering techniques such as oak-influenced fermentation or malolactic acid conversion.

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Music to drink wine by:
Vintner insists music can change wine's flavors
W. Blake Gray
San Francisco Chronical 

Which goes better with a fine Napa Valley Cabernet: Mozart or Metallica?

Until recently, I would have said "Mozart, of course." But I have since had a life-changing experience: I paid attention to the latest theory from wine industry provocateur Clark Smith. Now I may never taste wine and listen to music the same way again. Beware: If you read this article, the same thing may happen to you.

Music influences the way wine tastes. This seems obvious, and is the reason professional tastings are done in silence. If food, glassware, ambient temperature, perfume and the people sitting next to you all influence the taste of wine, why wouldn't music?

Smith, 56, isn't content without experimentation. His premise is that different music makes some wines taste better and others taste worse, and the great majority of tasters will agree with the "right" and "wrong" pairings regardless of their taste in wine or music. Moreover, it's not possible to record a generic "music to drink wine by" CD because a song that might make Pinot Noir taste great can make Cabernet Sauvignon taste awful.

You have to pay attention to individual music and wine pairings.

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The Berger Merger Report
How Corporate Consolidation of the Wine Business Is Affecting What’s in the Bottle.
Dan Berger
Appellation America

Newspaper reports of winery buyouts, mergers, consolidations, and initial public offerings that we have seen reported over the years have appeared mainly on the business pages. They rarely appear on the news pages, because of the journalistic theory that such news does not affect wine consumers.

This was certainly the case more than a dozen years ago when the Robert Mondavi Winery went public in what I considered pretty big news. I was the wine editor at the Los Angeles Times at the time and the editors declined to run my exclusive story on this development in the news section. My story ran (days late) in the business section.

Wine consumers may not realize it, but such business dealings in wine may actually have a dramatic impact on the wines they have come to know. Most cynics would suggest that corporations only ruin wine, but that’s not always the case. There are examples where corporate ownership has saved a wine company and improved the caliber of the wines.

But in any case, mergers almost always have huge consequences for wine lovers - even those who don’t care that a winery is no longer owned by the founders.

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