Unfiltered, Unfined

While verticals usually explore a single terroir, horizontals often look at similar terroirs, those that are in some way connected by geography or winemaking philosophy. Terroir is a French word that roughly translates as “sense of place.” Terroir is all about location, climate, regional style and the vagaries of each individual growing season.

In the next month I’ll be traveling to various places in American wine country, part of the annual extravaganza that public relations/marketing firms put on during what’s known in the business as O-N-D (October-November-December). This past week I was in central California attending the Paso Robles Wine Country Buyers’ Tour, organized by Paso Robles Wine (www.pasowine.com). Not only did I learn a lot about the region, but I tasted a bunch of great wines that won’t necessarily break the bank.