{"id":2139,"date":"2010-04-12T01:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T06:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2010-04-12T08:31:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:31:59","slug":"which-is-more-important-wine-region-terroir-or-construction-of-a-road-and-a-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/which-is-more-important-wine-region-terroir-or-construction-of-a-road-and-a-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s More Important? Preserving Terroir or a Road and Bridge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mosel, a wine region in Germany, is home to an unusual Riesling that is the result of the terroir \u2013 a combination of slate, sun and water attributes.<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0 the proposed roadway and bridge are built, there are concerns that the water system will change and that the vines will be blocked of the essential sunshine currently available to them. This wine region has been growing grapes for more than 2,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned wine critics Jancis Robinson and Hugh Johnson have already made statements\u00a0 regarding the possible detrimental affect of building this road and bridge.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, read the article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/apr\/08\/wine-germany-riesling-autobahn\">British wine critics turn their noses up at new autobahn<\/a>&#8221; by Kate Connolly in the online\u00a0 paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">guardian.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Should the terroir of vineyards take precedence over construction of any kind? Should politicians listen to wine critics? What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers! Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"What's More Important? Preserving Terroir or a Road and Bridge?\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2139\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosel, a wine region in Germany, is home to an unusual Riesling that is the result of the terroir \u2013 a combination of slate, sun and water attributes. If\u00a0 the proposed roadway and bridge are built, there are concerns that the water system will change and that the vines will be blocked of the essential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1249,1252,1245,1250,1248,1247,1246,1251,98],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-autoban","tag-critics","tag-germany","tag-guardian","tag-hugh-johnson","tag-jancis-robinson","tag-mosel","tag-uk","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}