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Lecture 3: Why the Grape is Great (Grape #1)
 Inside every single bottle of wine, is the fermented juice from grapes
o For every grape, there are thousands of factors that influence how the grape
turns out
 Climate
 Microclimate: climate of the vineyard itself
 What the weather was
 Rain, humidity, overcast, frost, elevation, slop of hill, wine, dew
that formed, etc.
 Soils, bedrock , how the vines were spaces, fertilizers, pesticides, how
they weeded, etc
 When the grapes were harvested, blended, aged, etc.
o There are thousands of other considerations of relationships that Boyer doesn’t
even understand
 MAJOR crucial difference: which grape variety went into the bottle
o Which grape did you use! How good was it that year?
 All great wine start in the vineyard
 If any of these factors is bad, you can make a good wine BUT not a great wine
 The awesome wines must have great fruit from a great year
o Think of it like chefs with okay-ish food vs great ingredients
 Base ingredient for wine: what is going on at the vineyard
 99% of it comes from the specific fruit: grapes
o There are other wines out there that come from other fruits
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