You and a friend are being sent to a deserted island for 6 months…for reasons known only to you! Luckily you are allowed 3 wines to take with you. Which 3 wines do you choose? (Let’s also say that you have a way of keeping white wines chilled.)
Okie-dokie, before we get started, it’s probably best to get the pronunciation of terroir word out of the way before we move on with the rest of the article: Terroir [ter-whah] Very loosely translated from French (since no-one can agree on the exact definition, and there is no English equivalent), terroir means “a sense of place”. It’s applied by wine nerds to talk about all the things that have an effect on the grapes in…