Jimmy Smith, owner and founder of West London Wine School, co-owner of South London Wine School and Streatham Wine House talks through some major geological concepts in reference to wine including minerals, rocks, soils through igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic classifications. Included here is also a discussion on terroir and minerality.
This is ideal for those studying WSET L4 and above.
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Terroir in wine
0:00 Introduction
0:02 Geology and Wine
1:43 What is Geology in Wine?
3:36 Minerals, rocks and soils
5:53 The three group of rocks
14:14 Wines shaped by Igneous roch
16:47 Sedimentary
23:58 Wines shaped by Metamorphic roc
25:24 Soils and Wine
30:50 The concept of 'terroir