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The Ground Beneath

Why one hillside in eastern France grows wine nobody has copied

The Côte · Limestone · Climat · 3 chapters · 9 min read

Why one hillside in eastern France grows wine nobody has managed to copy.

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The Slope

  1. 01Why the Hill Faces EastOn why the most valuable farmland in the world is an accident of tectonics.
  2. 02Limestone, Marl and ScreeOn what soil actually does, and the one thing it definitely does not do.

Named Ground

  1. 03What a Climat IsOn the twelve hundred named parcels, and the strange claim they make.