German Speaking Wine & Cheese: Testing the Concept of Terroir

"Ein Käse ohne Wein ist wie ein Tag ohne Sonnenschein." - "A cheese without wine is like a day without sunshine."

Whenever possible, shared terroir creates my preferred wine and cheese pairing. Together they tell a story of place. Years ago, I made artisan cheeses at the same time as I discovered the world of wine, and even then, in the 1990s, terroir made sense in both contexts. Terroir has been defined as “the sum of natural conditions, including climate, hours o…