Competition from the New World, a changing climate and technological advances have threatened the Burgundian notion that the quality of wine depends on regional geography and culture. Only flexibility can keep the concept of terroir alive.
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White, M., Whalen, P. & Jones, G. Land and wine. Nature Geosci 2, 82–84 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo429
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