HORT 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Viticulture, Landform, Unit
21 May 2016
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The term terroir was coined in the burgundy region and relates to the stable, consistent wine quality differences in neighbouring vineyards. Terroir is a complex combination of climate, soil, geology, and culture(including good viticultural practices as well as expert winemaking practices) that affect the ultimate quality of a wine. Meteorological: temperature maxima and minima, hours of sunlight, wind conditions, precipitation. Physiographic: type of landform, elevation, slope gradient and slope aspect, slope air drainage. Pedological: composition and porosity, mineralogy and chemistry, particle size and texture, clay mineralogy. Geological: geology of the subsoil, geochemistry, texture of the individual strata, surface water and groundwater flow rates, water chemistry. Viticultural: trellising method, row spacing, crop control, nutrition, soil amendments, tile drainage, irrigation. Model that is emulated around the world. Been around since the 14th century under the management of the benedictine and the cistercian monastic orders. Some say the actual legal classification by vineyard only dates back to an exposition in 1855 in paris.
