the.com/viticulture
Farming grapes like the fate of civilization depends on it, because it kind of does.
means The science and practice of growing grapevines, especially for winemaking.
from Straight from Latin: 'vitis' meaning vine, plus 'cultura' meaning cultivation — the same '-culture' you see in agriculture. Simple, literal, and old, tracing back to Roman vineyard management and the terminology they used to systematize it.
- origin
- from Latin vitis, meaning vine
- stress effect
- struggling vines make better wine grapes
- terroir obsession
- same grape, different dirt, totally different wine
- ancient roots
- practiced over 8000 years, predates writing