Terroir’s Profession
DO YOU KNOW ROGER DION ?
If you don’t know him at all ; be reassured ; he still is the great unknown of wine’s world and he is disturbing this world.
The quote on the home page is his. Yet he is unmissable. He used to be a geographer ; he wrote books, articles on wine’s history and about terroirs. “So, the role of the soil in the conception of a great wine is does not got beyond the role of the material needed for the creation of a piece of art” this doesn’t mean that the terroir is nonexistent ; rather than the fact that it is nothing without men, their history and the quality of their work.
To me this is the proof that if our parcel from the Cornillard (dry white chenin) on the hills of Ardenay is less known than a “premier cru” from Burgundy it is not that our Cornillard is less able to offer great wine rather than connected to the importance of Anjou’s history and geography and Burgundy’s one.
After having worked a bit on this subject you are more than welcome to read the documents below.
The quote on the home page is his. Yet he is unmissable. He used to be a geographer ; he wrote books, articles on wine’s history and about terroirs. “So, the role of the soil in the conception of a great wine is does not got beyond the role of the material needed for the creation of a piece of art” this doesn’t mean that the terroir is nonexistent ; rather than the fact that it is nothing without men, their history and the quality of their work.
To me this is the proof that if our parcel from the Cornillard (dry white chenin) on the hills of Ardenay is less known than a “premier cru” from Burgundy it is not that our Cornillard is less able to offer great wine rather than connected to the importance of Anjou’s history and geography and Burgundy’s one.
After having worked a bit on this subject you are more than welcome to read the documents below.
BIBLIOGRAPHY :
Histoire de la Vigne et du Vin en France, Roger Dion, Editions du CNRS
Le Paysage et la Vigne, Roger Dion - recueil d’articles- Editions Payot
Le Bon Vin Actualité de la pensée de Roger Dion, Entre terroir, savoir-faire et savoir-boire, colloque 2008 sous la direction de JR Pitte, Editions du Cnrs.
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