Having identified a great fieldwork location, I needed to do something about it. My original plan was to dig soil pits in the vineyards, take samples and analyse them back in Edinburgh. All went well except the ‘back to Edinburgh’ part… Turned out I wasn’t allowed to bring soil samples back to the UK, and …
I hyped up my project so much with tons posts on geology and wine, but never really revealed what I was doing. I think today is the day. Where should I start? I’m thinking mid-June 2022, when I walked into my supervisor’s office saying ‘I wanna look at wine and geology for my MEarthSci project. …
As we were talking about the physical attributes of soil, I’ve intentionally left something important out so that I can REALLY stress its importance here. It is far too simple to assume that vine roots simply go around in the soil trying to find a cocktail of minerals to suck up. There’s something more intricate …
So hopefully you’ve all read my villain origin story, and this post serves as an expansion on the role of geology and soil in wine. Sometimes people forget the very obvious fact that vines are cultivated by the land. Geology is the sole determining factor for the arrangement of topographic relief of the land. Tectonic …
A few years ago I chose a life that involves wine. Alot of wine. To the point that I can’t go a week without it. I know it sounds bad, but that is not the point of the story. It came to a day when I was comparing two white Burgundies from two different vineyards …
