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Wine appreciation: The inimitable, profound taste of... soil

The concept of gout de terroir – that a wine's flavour should express the characteristics of the soil it comes from – is the sort of thing that bores many non-wine buffs rigid. That grapes are affected by the earth that has fed them makes perfect sense, but locating the specific flavours supposedly added by the soil can seem so specious.

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