‘Soil signatures may provide wine’s most haunting music’
Could this be wine’s most alluring idea? It might be. Three books (two published recently) allude to its magnetic appeal, though every Decanter reader will already be aware of it. That idea is the soil signature: the notion that the sensual profile of a wine might derive from the rocks and soils which characterise its vineyard(s) of origin.
Rhône correspondent Matt Walls’ excellent (£35, Infinite Ideas, (Jacqui Small, 2016).
