{"id":89,"date":"2019-02-25T13:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2020-06-04T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T13:11:58","slug":"stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can read about stories from people who have contributed to wine production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MVI 1068\" width=\"1249\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fKCph8AkIyA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Let the terroir speak\u2019 AdV, DRC (Burgundy)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018To produce AOC wines\ndoes not necessarily mean producing the wines that you like. Can we be more\nambitious than our AOC?\u2019 A.MC, Premeaux-Prissey (Burgundy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018We are right at the\nlimit when you can grow grapes commercially\u2019., T.S Sussex (UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018This wine was\nsparkling, they did not like it, it did not correspond to their expectations in\nterms of the tastes of the AOC in this area. But you see I thought it was nice,\nyou could drink it with a picnic on a nice summer\u2019s day\u2019. C.L, Hautes-C\u00f4tes\n(Burgundy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Vitivinicultural\nterroir is a concept which refers to an area in which collective knowledge of\nthe interactions between the identifiable physical and biological environment\nand applied vitivinicultural practices develops, providing distinctive\ncharacteristics for the products originating from this area. Terroir includes\nsoil, topography, climate, landscape characteristics and biodiversity features.\n(Organisation\nInternationale de la Vigne et du Vin, resolution\u2019 OIV-VITI 3332010, author\u2019s\nitalics).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;We don&#8217;t have the\nlegislation they have so we can adapt our new techniques and develop new\nideas&#8217;. T.S Sussex (UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018When you work hard and\nyou aim at producing better wines, in one way or another it costs more, then\nyou logically have to increase your prices and then your clientele changes as a\nresult\u2019. JL, Vosne-Romanee (Burgundy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;I believe in terroir.\nIt&#8217;s important terroir! I have this site located in a car park near the airport\nand the site was previously a car industrial site and an aviation zone during\nthe Second World War. Year after year, we have won international awards for\nthese wines. T.S, Sussex (UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Engaging around the environment is to gather around this cause, support the development of ever more sustainable practices, draw more attention towards them, contribute to the overall picture each time a little more and in doing so, step by step transforming the world\u2019 (Teil, Barrey, Floux and Hennion 2011: 297; my own translation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Terroir as Worldviews-Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Zealand<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Nick Mills Pinot Noir 2017<br> Day 1, Session 2, Speaker 3 <br> Karanga Mai! Mihi Mai! Thank you for your welcome. <br><strong>My name is Nick<\/strong><br><strong>My Planet is Earth<\/strong><br><strong>My mountain is Tititea<\/strong><br><strong>My River is Mata-Au<\/strong><br><strong>My town is Wanaka<\/strong> <br><strong>My farm is Rippon<\/strong><br><strong>My Iwi is Pakeha\/Winegrower<\/strong><br><strong>My whanau is Mills<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nam a product of my environment. In some respects, I\u2019ve had little choice in the\nmatter; I was born into Rippon, so talking about it has always come pretty\nnaturally to me. Talking has always come pretty naturally to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strangely\nthough, preparing for this was really tricky. In searching out why, I came with\nthe following thoughts: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nbrief I\u2019ve been given opens me up to consider pretty much most of what I know\nand love, so a greater sense of responsibility to do justice to all that, has\nfallen upon me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detailing\nto a few hundred of my peers how we are connected to our land, further binds us\nto our task: that is to hold on to our beautiful farm: to perpetuate certain\npastoral values over successive generations of our family. To be honest though,\nI spend an unhealthy amount of time just terrified. Terrified of not being able\nto hold onto the farm and what that might mean to our family\u2019s sense of\nself-esteem and definition. Talking about it here, in front of you all raises\nthe stakes yet again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills.jpg 800w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills-356x200.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nI\u2019ve asked myself to be here, now, in the present, and not be limited by fear\nof the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nmay talk about <em>my<\/em> place, but of\ncourse it doesn\u2019t belong to me. I\u2019m the second youngest of 6 siblings. I work\nwith my mother, two of my sisters, my brother, my wife and about 5 full-time\nstaff, some of them who have been with us over a decade. We have been granted a\nmoment of custodianship over a very special piece of land, we care for\ncollectively, but, over time each of us has developed our own unique\nrelationships with it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, I believe that landform, geology, geography, informs human culture as much as it does agriculture. Hang about long enough in one place and you become subject to the rhythms of that place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nI\u2019ve asked myself to be here, now, in the present, and not be limited by fear\nof the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nmay talk about <em>my<\/em> place, but of\ncourse it doesn\u2019t belong to me. I\u2019m the second youngest of 6 siblings. I work\nwith my mother, two of my sisters, my brother, my wife and about 5 full-time\nstaff, some of them who have been with us over a decade. We have been granted a\nmoment of custodianship over a very special piece of land, we care for\ncollectively, but, over time each of us has developed our own unique\nrelationships with it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For\nme, I believe that landform, geology, geography, informs human culture as much\nas it does agriculture. Hang about long enough in one place and you become\nsubject to the rhythms of that place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,\nI\u2019ve been asked to speak about our place: how it was shaped and how it has\nshaped us. I\u2019m going to do that following my mihimihi. But there\u2019s a clear\ninvitation here for you all, now and over the course of the next three days, to\nconsider YOUR place and how THAT place has shaped you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My Planet is Earth <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\n(and everyone else I know, all of us) live on a ball of molten rock that spins\naround in a vacuum. It\u2019s just the right distance away from the Sun that water\ncan exist in its all three of its forms: not so close so that it burns off into\nspace, not so far away that it is bound up as a solid mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At\nsome point, around one billion years into the earth\u2019s existence, organic cells\nfound a way to self-replicate\u2026metabolising, eating, excreting, multiplying in a\ndark, wet and airless place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water\nbecame life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost\n2 billion years later (!), the first plants, trees, vines\u2026evolved to put their\nroots down into this anaerobic mess and began to release vapour and gas and\ncreated the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nis perhaps Tane, Maori god of the forests tearing Ranginui, the sky father from\nPapatuanuku, the earth mother, to create the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At\nany rate, the balanced, stable, self-regulating world that we can live in began\nhere. And now, all life as we know it exists in this thin, receptive and fluid\nspace between rock and nothingness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My mountain is Tititea,\nMount Aspiring<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over\ntime, the earth developed a crust on the outside. It\u2019s only about 1% of the\nplanet\u2019s volume (kind of like a skin of an apple), never the less it has become\nr<em>elatively <\/em>rigid, broken only into\nlarge tectonic plates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At\nsome stage the Australasian plate and the Pacific plate began to collide,\npushing land up out of the ocean and laying it into a massive chain of\nmountains that have become known as K\u0101 Tiritiri o te Moana: The Southern Alps\nof New Zealand. Closest to us, and therefore the massif that most strongly\nguides our region\u2019s climate is Tititea, the beautiful Mount Aspiring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nestled\nin under the eastern flanks of Aspiring is a place of temperance. A place of\nrest and education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My town is Wanaka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wanaka\nhas the same root word as Wananga, which in our native language is school, or\nwork shop. Maori used to come up from the strongholds on the East Coast and,\nwhile the men would cross the divide for in search of pounami (NZ\u2019s\ngreenstone), the families; the women and children would remain and teach\/learn\nhunting, fishing, gathering, genealogy. Essentially how to survive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following\nthe Te Puoho raid in 1836, Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, Wasteland\u2019s Act 1855 a\nperiod of European land prospecting &amp; pastoralism began. Now, over 100\nyears later, Wanaka is one of the fastest growing towns in the country, yet I\nbelieve these values of rest and education still exist. They remain instructive\nto the culture of our people and to the nature of our wines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nI mentioned the word pastoralism. I\u2019d like to talk about that idea and why it\nwas so important to the development of our turangawaewae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nfarming is what one does on a piece of land; the period of pastoralism was more\nthe seeking to find the potential of a piece of land, through any type of\nculture. Adapting one\u2019s culture to the land and not vice versa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My\nancestors bought Wanaka Station, a large, isolated high-country run, in\n1912.&nbsp; By necessity, the whole place was\nrun by horses. Feed had to be grown for the horses. The local community was the\npermanent workforce on the farm; so food had to be grown to feed them. There\nwere gardens, mixed crops, orchards, sheep, cattle, goats. Inventive ways of\nusing water were developed for irrigation, grinding grain and electricity. It\nhad a cook shop with a large bread oven and live in cooks that would feed the\ncommunity. It was, in effect a self-sustaining farm unit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This then, was the milieu that our father, Rolfe Mills was born into; and he spent a life time observing the land, particularly on the Rippon Hill part of the station and adapting the culture, including its viticulture, to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills2-356x200.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So,\nover time, on a farm on the shores of Lake Wanaka, through much trial and the\nodd error, the potential of a piece of land was found in wine growing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My farm is Rippon<\/strong>\n\nRippon is a very well defined piece of land;\nit\u2019s a hill with steep slopes on all sides. Its vines lie on the north-facing\nslopes, but mixed crops, trees, animals, family areas and native habitat\nprosper on others. We farm Rippon as having its own identity.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Nick-Mills3-356x200.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When\nwe talk about Rippon, we are talking about a distinct individual. It is our\ncraft to maintain a culture, from micro through to macro, that maintains a\nrelationship with this individual, and helps it to express itself as such. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This creates a notion of terroir that is perhaps more aligned with Steiner: A farm voice, which represents the living, breathing entity as the farm as a whole, rather than the Cistercian or Burgundian construct of a singular site, or <em>climat<\/em>, with which we are more familiar in pinot noir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My whanau is Mills:\nRolfe Mills, Lois Mills, my five siblings and their children, my wife Jo and\nour two boys<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\na family, we\u2019ve been on the land for over 100 years and we have subjected\nourselves to the rhythms of this place. Above ground and within it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nfamily house is made from earth. The earth was taken from the site. A hole was\ndug to make the cellar and then the earth is rammed into the walls. Timber was\ntaken from the property for the trusses and internal structure. The kitchen\ncabinetry were once the kauri workshop benches from the Station\u2019s old tractor\nshed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\ncontributes to the feeling we have of having roots growing out of our feet and\ninto our land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\nit reflects an understanding about wine: If one wishes their wines to be round,\nsupple, alive, communicative of their soils, then when the wine is in its\ninfancy, in the first 18 months of its life, when it is most receptive to its\nsurrounds, then surely we must surround the wine in these elements. A vaulted\ncellar for example is round, supple, alive and reflective of its soils \u2013 it is\nin fact built out of them and through the barrels maintains a symbiosis with\nthe young wine. A Georgian<em> queveri<\/em>\nhas similar properties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\nrammed earth building, built from the land itself, had us growing up completely\nencased in our farms own native context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,\nthat\u2019s a start\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How else do WE (or how\ndo we all) maintain a connection the land? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nfeel we\u2019ve been able to stay here, to gain our own purchase in this particular\nplace, because of culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nemotional\/spiritual base of this is love, family, team, community. The\nphysical, or biological base starts with <strong>compost.<\/strong>\nThis is a regular inoculation of living material, that grows down into the land\nand metabolises minerals out of the rock, into a form the vines can then gain\ntheir nutrition from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These\nmature vines then, which are on their own roots, biodynamically grown and\nunirrigated, have now found true purchase in their place. They are in effect\nthe living tissue, manifest of the land itself and as such, are a vital part of\nour turangawaewae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The human link to our\nplace<\/strong>\nbegins the moment we\u2019re born. The 5<sup>th<\/sup> generation on the farm has\ntheir placentas buried under the roots of native trees. Placenta and land share\nthe same word in Maori: <em>whenua<\/em>. This\nstrengthens the bonds between humans with their place of birth, enhancing their\nsense of belonging. The land on which these trees are planted faces the place\nwhere the ashes of their ancestors are kept. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with any type of\nfarming, trying to safeguard the relationship a family has with a piece of\nland, so that it might remain intact over successive generations, is the\ngreatest and most rewarding challenge we face. This is particularly true in\nviticulture: the quality and accuracy of a wine depends on the health of the\nland and the vine, yet land and vines far outlive a single human generation. We\ncan\u2019t simply insist that our descendants carry on, they have to fall in love\nwith the land on their own terms. They, like us, have to find out for\nthemselves that it is something that might occupy and satisfy their passions\nover a life time. If winegrowing remains the clearest way of caring for the\nland, then learning the craft becomes a natural thing to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nthe meantime, we as a family remain active participants in our greater\nenvironment. We lie, walk, swim, run, climb in it. We bring up our children as\nbeing part of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nengagement in land doesn\u2019t always need to be active. It could be as simple as\nsitting, looking, listening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One\ncan also participate in the care of a place simply one\u2019s purchase decisions\n(and consumption habits). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nengagement in a place could also be a form of reconciliation. Aiding the\nre-establishment of flora and fauna that was here before humans arrived, on our\nown land and public land alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is a hand hoe! <\/strong>I\u2019ve included it here\nas a totem representing an approach to team culture. As a team, we come to work\nten minutes before actual start time for huddle. We shake each other\u2019s hands,\nlook each other in the eye, understand where each of us are all at and talk\nabout what we\u2019ve all got on for the day ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Rolfe-Mills.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Rolfe-Mills.jpg 800w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Rolfe-Mills-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Rolfe-Mills-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Rolfe-Mills-356x200.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nthen get out into the vines and go hand hoeing: virtually every pair of hands\non the property start their day on the kanuka handle of a heavy hand hoe. And\nin the dirt. We connect with our land, manually, on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nstart each day as a collective, equally engaged in the same goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our\nterroir is not just the soils, climate and vines, it\u2019s us and how we\ncommunicate with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s\nalso how we share our culture with others: The Rippon Hall, also built from\nearth and wood from the property, is a place where our local community can be\npart of the culture of our land. Theatre, music, art, celebration, education,\ncommunity groups\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further\nafield this is also the base behind the Central Otago &#8211; Burgundy Exchange, now\ninto its 11<sup>th<\/sup> year. And it\u2019s from these encounters, we understand\nthat we\u2019re not alone or isolated in our work and values. And this is important.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While wine has developed\ncertain geographic parameters over time: regions, appellations, particular\nsites (and the associated cartography that may help us to better identify their\nnuances), what we do and believe in as winegrowers has a clear universality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, I\u2019m proud\nand completely comfortable being identified as coming from a distinct place.\nBut as my mihimihi affirms, I identify this as simply being within a zone of\ncrustal up-thrust that has come to be known as Rippon, Lake Wanaka, Central\nOtago, New Zealand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I identify myself as\nbeing a part of this place, but my real peers aren\u2019t just from here\u2026they\u2019re\nsimply those who believe in the craft of the winegrower. That is, the\ndevelopment of living plant tissue from a particular site and guiding it\nthrough a natural secondary process into something we can taste, feel and\nassimilate into our own bodies. This doesn\u2019t have political, national or even\nhemispheric boundaries. We\u2019re on a ball! The equator is an arbitrary line on a\nmap. Old World\/New World what does <em>that<\/em>\nreally mean anymore? Our craft is universal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Rolfe-Mills2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Rolfe-Mills2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Rolfe-Mills2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Rolfe-Mills2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/terroirwineworldstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/309\/2020\/06\/Rolfe-Mills2-356x200.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And I hope that this\nevent and the conversations that follow can stand as testament to that: it is a\ncelebration of pinot noir in 2017. It is held in New Zealand and has a certain\ndirective towards promoting this country\u2019s produce, but first and foremost it\nmust be a celebration of our craft and the brilliant way in which it can make\nsense of time and place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This sense of place\nexists on these Islands. It\u2019s here now and from what we\u2019ve just heard, it\u2019s\nbeen here for some time. What\u2019s left for you, is to go out from this room and\nfind it. To <em>feel<\/em> it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m\nimmensely grateful to be have been given this opportunity to share, over the\nnext few days, <em>our<\/em> place with you. I\ngive my heartfelt thanks to all those who have made it possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Above\nall, I\u2019m happy to be here. To share <em>our\ntime in wine<\/em>, together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re\nhere now, let\u2019s make the most of it! This is our iwi. Our tribe.For now, at least, this is our era. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kia Ora! <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read about stories from people who have contributed to wine production. \u2018Let the terroir speak\u2019 AdV, DRC (Burgundy) \u2018To produce AOC wines does not necessarily mean producing the wines that you like. 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