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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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Figure 1: 'The Vintner' (left) and 'The Clos de Vougeot' (right) showing idealized depictions of the rural wine making tradition — woodcuts by Louis William Graux.
Figure 2: A 'folklorized' map of Burgundy's winemaking Côte-d'Or region — by Louis William Graux.

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  1. Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, 84322–5210, Utah, USA

    Michael A. White

  2. Coastal Carolina University, PO Box 261954, Conway, South Carolina 29526, USA,

    Philip Whalen

  3. Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland, 97520, Oregon, USA

    Gregory V. Jones

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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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