Regional Variations In Microbes Influence A Wine’s Flavor

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“Ooh yes, I’m getting a whiff of geranium, a hint of licorice and notes of sweaty socks.” Mm, okay. Even if you don’t manage to pick up half of the flavors supposedly present in a wine, we know that wines look, smell and taste different. Sure, there are different grape varieties, and people adopt different winemaking techniques to make their plonk unique. But even when you have vines that are virtually genetically identical, if you grow them in two distinct regions, the resulting wine will be different.