: the combination of factors including soil, climate, and sunlight that gives wine grapes their distinctive character
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Each of these brands reflects an important part of Michael’s personal story and highlights the regional variances of California and Oregon’s terroir.
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Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
Each of the contemporary pieces, anonymously strung like shaky rope bridges between the comparative terra firma of the Bach movements, struggled to cloak the rocky, inhospitable terroir of their respective origins.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
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Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
Each of the contemporary pieces, anonymously strung like shaky rope bridges between the comparative terra firma of the Bach movements, struggled to cloak the rocky, inhospitable terroir of their respective origins.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
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“Terroir.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terroir. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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