Category: Food and Wine
In Burgundy, It’s All About Terroir, by Eric Pfanner and Stefana Russell
By ERIC PFANNER for the New York Times, Published: September 16, 2011
ALOXE-CORTON, FRANCE — In an 18th-century cellar under his family home in this village in Burgundy, Franck Follin-Arbelet pulls the corks on two of his 2009 red wines. Each comes from a vineyard in Aloxe-Corton. Each has the same quality imprimatur, premier cru. Each was made from the same grape variety, pinot noir.
Watch it here (a bilingual French/English presentation) >>> Romanée-Conti: It’s All About Terroir – The video
Vineyards in Aloxe-Corton and Pernand-Vergelesses in Burgundy. No other wine-growing region in France takes the idea of terroir as seriously.
Stefania Rousselle
Franck Follin-Arbelet, left, at work in Aloxe-Corton.
Stefania Russell
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