Le Nez du Vin kit for terroirs

There has been a recent trend involving smelling, and even tasting, soil in order to help understand the origins of the produce of the land. Now Nez du Vin is commercialising the idea.

Has anyone tried the Coffee version of this?

Looking to take the leap and invest $500CDN into one

Sounds like complete baloney, since there’s no evidence, as I understand it, that grapes pick up flavors from the soil. Their flavor can certainly be affected by the soil – how it retains moisture (rich versus sandy or rocky soils) and heat (e.g, rocks, light colored versus dark colored soil, how far down its roots are forced to go, etc. But my understanding is that vines do not pick up flavor compounds from the soil that make it into the grape.

I still have a kit that I picked up nearly 2 decades ago - and open it from time to time in my tasting room. Note that these are ‘synthetically created’ scents, so that they may not replicate what you specifically think of when you think of something like mushrooms or orange or whatever. My kit has 54 different aromas that ‘commonly associated with’ wine - and note that this is a French company and their scents tend to be a tad ‘different’ than if a company did the same here in the US. Still a ‘fun’ kit that shows how ‘differently’ we process smells . . .

I can imagine the ‘terroir’ one is probably ‘okay’ - it is much too simplistic for most people. I think it might be interesting to have ‘soil’ aromas that mimic ‘mineral’, ‘volcanic’, etc. Seems like it’d be ‘possible’.

Cheers.

Nobody looked at the date of the article?

I have the kit. It came with my Sonoma Wine Patrol Is this wine ready to drink tester.
You stick this device into the cork and when the wine is ready to drink it pops up.

The inventor worked next door to Scribe when it was a turkey farm

I was wondering why I suddenly started getting page views for that post again