Drink Charitably!

I love it when a wine ‘tastes like the place.’  The word is ‘typicity‘ - cool word, I think.  The wine may not be something I particularly am used to, or maybe even like right off the bat, but I appreciate that it is true to the site…true to it’s roots.

And it occurs to me that humans have their own terroir.  I learned that there were more people born in the US in 1957 than any other year in history — the height of the boom.   It happens to be my birth year — so I guess there are a lot of ‘me’ out there. 

But growing up in So Cal and spending a LOT of time at the beach, I have my own ‘flavor’.  And that flavor is very different from the same guy who grew up, say, in the Bronx…or Memphis…or Chicago.  Genetically we are barely separated, but if you met each of us, you’d remark how different each of is and how unique we are.

In making wine, there is the physical terroir — and the people who make the wine (and grow the grapes) are the human terroir.  Combine those with a deeper ’spiritual’ terroir and you have a magical wine.  And each component adds it’s own ‘flavor’.

Here’s to terroir — and the distinct stamp the human terroir brings to the wine.  Drink charitably!