Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate: A Geologist Wanders Through the World of Wine by Maltman, Alex

Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate: A Geologist Wanders Through the World of Wine

Terroir is everything in modern wine appreciation. Geologist and professor, Alex Maltman looks at the rocks that...
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Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate: A Geologist Wanders Through the World of Wine by Maltman, Alex

Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate: A Geologist Wanders Through the World of Wine

$70.75

Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate: A Geologist Wanders Through the World of Wine

$70.75
Author: Alex Maltman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Terroir is everything in modern wine appreciation. Geologist and professor, Alex Maltman looks at the rocks that make up key wine regions and what difference they make.

"Rocks and soils haunt our thinking about wine. We see links, sniff origins, taste connections, digest differences. Is this cause and effect -- or fantasy? Alex Maltman is ghostbuster-in-chief. This wide-ranging and clearly reasoned book shines a torch through the cobwebs." -- Andrew Jefford

Burgundy thrives on the limestone remnants of a warm, shallow sea while Sancerre and Pouilly wrap their roots around flint. The finest Pomerols bloom in a 'button' of blue clay, and Beaujolais famously begins life in granite. Cabernet Sauvignon loves just about any sandstone and Champagne gets on gloriously with chalk. But is the secret to great port really schist? Alex Maltman, Emeritus Professor of earth sciences at Aberystwyth University, finds himself between a rock and a vineyard place as he explains how a wine's flavors relate to the geology at foot, and discovers that there is more to 'minerality' than mud, rocks and the earth's stark materials...

Terroir is as intrinsic to the quality of a wine as the grapes it comes from or the intentions of the wine maker. This beautifully produced and illustrated book looks at the many factors that influence, or don't, how a wine tastes. Professor Maltman poses lots of questions and answers, while busting some myths along the way.

Author: Alex Maltman
Publisher: Academie Du Vin Library Ltd
Published: 07/01/2025
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781917084628

About the Author
Alex Maltman is emeritus professor of Earth sciences at Aberystwyth University, in Wales, UK, and the author of Vineyards, Rocks and Soils: A Wine Lover's Guide to Geology (Oxford, 2018).

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