The Terroir and the Vigneron | Jacky Rigaux

Single varietal wines or terroir wines? Brand wines or appellation wines? Marketing wines or cultural wines? In these times of globalization, with vineyards expanding all over the world, a wine crisis, and increasingly fierce competition, it was necessary to question the values that have always accompanied the creation and tasting of wine.

The notion of terroir, often contested today, is one of these values, as are the good practices to serve it. With an extraordinary diversity of expression, terroir wines delight the enthusiast and perpetuate a way of life in the face of the onslaught of technical, varietal, and brand wines that are the same all over the world.

Disciples or admirers of Henri Jayer, "the pope of winemakers," the fifty or so winemakers who express themselves in this book enjoy coming together each year for the International Henri JAYER Meetings: Winemakers, Gourmets, and Terroirs of the World. They offer to the enthusiasts who will read them the fruit of their reflections on this complex reality that is the wine terroir, a prelude to tasting their wines that make the terroirs of the world sing.