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Oregon, the Ahr and Central Otago, and the closest thing terroir will get to an experiment
David Lett · Robert Drouhin · the growers who went south · 4 chapters · 10 min read
Oregon, the Ahr and Central Otago, and the closest thing terroir will ever get to a controlled experiment.
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The grape, transplanted
- 01Two Tenths of a PointOn a man who planted in the wrong place, and the Burgundian who came second to him.
- 02The Third Country Nobody NamesOn being third in the world at something for a century without anyone noticing.
- 03The Southern EdgeOn schist at the bottom of the world, and the moment everybody stopped apologising.
- 04What the Experiment ProvedOn the closest thing this argument will ever get to an experiment, and why the result helps nobody.