[Hoplite]

A "terroir" is a group of vineyards (or even vines) from the same region, belonging to a specific appellation, and sharing the same type of soil, weather conditions, grapes and wine making savoir-faire, which contribute to give its specific personality to the wine.

This post brought to you by the "WTF is that word?" Club for Men, who note that the Napa Valley terroirists have won this round.

[Surtur]

Thanks for the terroir definition Hoppy. I often wonder about “journalists” who fail to give specifics about their story that might need explanation. I don’t know how many news stories I have read recently where some agency or other is identified by its acronym without an explanation of what the acronym stands for. With the advent of the internet, it is pretty easy to find out what acronyms stand for, but the reader shouldn’t have to do the work for the “journalist”, IMHO.