{"id":496,"date":"2015-04-03T02:36:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lospilareswine.com\/production\/?p=496"},"modified":"2015-04-03T02:43:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T02:43:51","slug":"ambient-yeast-and-terroir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lospilareswine.com\/production\/ambient-yeast-and-terroir\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambient Yeast and “Terroir”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some thoughts on ambient yeast and \u201cterroir.\u201d<\/p>\n

One reason why ambient-yeast fermentations tend to give more variety and distinction (aka “terroir”) in wine: \u00a0The winemaker who does not sulfite or inoculate needs very healthy fruit to avoid problems (rot, spoilage, etc.). \u00a0To get really healthy fruit, he cannot impose his will on the grapes. \u00a0He cannot (as has become so common) harvest overripe and add acids or water or both. \u00a0He has to take what the vineyard and the vintage give him, and he has to take when it’s ripe but not overripe. \u00a0That means (1) more varietal expression, because overripe fruit tends to lose its varietal character; (2) more vintage variation; and (3) more dependency on local climatic conditions. \u00a0All of this can amount to more distinctive terroir.<\/p>\n

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Some thoughts on ambient yeast and \u201cterroir.\u201d One reason why ambient-yeast fermentations tend to give more variety and distinction (aka “terroir”) in wine: \u00a0The winemaker who does not sulfite or inoculate needs very healthy fruit to avoid problems (rot, spoilage, etc.). \u00a0To get really healthy fruit, he cannot impose his will on the grapes. \u00a0He…Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nAmbient Yeast and "Terroir" - Los Pilares<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lospilareswine.com\/production\/ambient-yeast-and-terroir\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ambient Yeast and "Terroir" - 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