Geologist to discuss local wines and a 'taste of place'
Posted on January 23, 2012 |
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GEOLOGIST SCOTT BURNS will deliver a talk Tuesday about how the taste of wine grapes, such as these pictured above at New Haven's Lincoln Peak Vineyards, are influenced by the soil in which they grow.
Independent file photo/Trent Cambpell.
MIDDLEBURY — When one thinks of a French wine, perhaps Bordeaux or Beaujolais comes to mind.
That’s the concept of “terroir” at play: the “taste of place” that is so central to French wines. And the concept is one that Scott Burns, a professor of geology at Portland State University, is extending to home turf with his studies of how soil type affects wine in his home state of Oregon.
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