Winegrowers are drilling down to create optimal soil and circumstances.
Winemaking has always been a marriage — or, at times, a compromise — between art and science. In recent years though, the technological innovations available to those with the will and the means to implement them have proliferated, letting vintners shape their art with science.
It is not uncommon to encounter NASA-grade gadgets in gilded cellars around the world, from optical sorters that ensure only perfect grapes make it into the fermenter to Lalique crystal wine barrels…