Terroir: About the taste of the earth at work

Before the pandemic, for several years, I attended an informal food-pairing rather than wine-tasting club, as they say now in a beautiful Romanian language. It was there that I realized what I had known bodily and instinctively since childhood (my maternal grandparents lived over the hill from Niculițel, in Tulcea County): how important the notion of terroir is, from the great speeches of the sommeliers who presented the various varieties and years of wines.

We have all heard the term, many of us know what it ^means1. However, the legitimate question for architects is twofold. The first question is this: can we establish a relationship between the concept of terroir and that of genius loci, as C. Norberg Schulz in the book of the same ^name2? I am talking about the book that has paved the way for a fairly faithful application of the concepts of Heideggerian philosophy to the understanding and even the design of architecture in th