The Dirt Behind Great Kosher Wine

About this episode

This episode explores the importance of soil in the production of kosher wine.

Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir You can watch a winemaker in a vineyard for five minutes and learn the real secret: they don’t spend most of their time looking at the grapes. They look down at the dirt. From Jerusalem, I’m taking you underground to the place where kosher wine is actually made, in the topsoil, subsoil, bedrock, and the living microbiome that turns geology into something you can feel on your tongue. We walk through the vineyard’s layers, then travel across the t...

People in this episode

Host: Solomon Simon Jacob

Topics covered

• kosher wine
• vineyard
• microbiome
• geology
• winemaking

Keywords

• kosher wine
• vineyard
• soil
• microbiome
• geology

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Jerusalem

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