Ep 191: Proving Terroir is Real with John Dimos of Biome Makers

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 7 June 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Is terroir a concept concocted by the French to hide flaws, as some suggest? Or is it a real thing that can be tasted and measured? John Dimos from Biome Makers and Wine Seq has a tool that resolves the question. In this nerdy, fascinating podcast we dig into the details and provide solid answers to the questions below! I never thought we'd see this in our lifetimes, but here we are!

1. What is it?! John tells us the premise of Biome Makers and how it's an affordable and viable premise now vs 5 years ago

2. He answers terroir questions around...

Why people have denied the presence of "terroir" in wine
How Biome Makers changed the game on the notion of terroir
How soil variation impacts on grapes
The effect of the biomes v chemicals from winemaking in the final wine?

3. We discuss the WIM (What it Means) and the impact of the tool on wineries...

Who is this tool for and how will they use it?
Given that terroir is a real thing and that it CAN be detected in many wines, why isn't expressed in all wine (or food for that matter)?
How is this new tool going to change wine growing going forward?
Will it empower people to take more "risks" on farming organically?
Does this steal the "art" from grape growing/winemaking?

I encourage you to check out the site and to follow them on Facebook and Twitter. A company that surely will change the way winemaking happens!

http://www.biomemakers.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:23.0	There are many things I love about doing the podcast.
0:25.8	And one of the things is that sometimes you guys, the listeners,
0:30.6	send me stuff, and I follow up on it and I have the best experiences
0:36.8	ever so lesson to you if you're listening please send me things that you find
0:41.3	interesting because Sally Cantello who is in Australia
0:45.8	sent me a link to something on a blog from a master solv, Tim Geiser.
0:53.2	And he wrote about this company called
0:56.7	Biome Makers that is doing all this cool stuff with wine
1:01.6	and about terra and learning about microbes and I was
1:05.8	fascinated so without looking for any common connection I just shot a note over the
1:11.7	transom and I found one of the coolest people I have talked to in
1:17.2	wine in the longest time probably because like everybody else I love in wine you
1:21.5	weren't in wine forever.
1:22.5	So we have John Demos here from biomeakers.
1:25.2	John, welcome to the podcast.
1:26.7	Thank you.
1:27.7	Elizabeth, pleasure to be here.
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