Geology and Wine with Jimmy Smith - ideal for WSET L4 and above

hey Jimmy,

i see loads of people mentioning the roots of vines are urged to go deeper in/on certain types of soil if the soil have good drainage. why this happens? :

Excellent video as always! VERY informative and well organised! A question about minerality. I recently enjoyed a bottle of El Lance 7 Fuentes from Suertes del Marqués in the Valle de la Orotava , Canary Islands. Overwhelming sulfur aroma that needed several minutes before it settled down. If that aroma isn’t coming from the grapes absorbing from the soil, it is added during maceration or aging? Thanks for your reply!

Thank you for the profound explanation on soil. A question that Calcium is Akaline, isn't it? You mean it will make more acidic wine? I am a bit confused here. Thankyou.

dear Jimmy the Basalt rock is more Malic rock instead of Felsic right?

I have been working in the wine sector for 8 years and I believe this is the most instructive and well explained content I have bumped into with relation to how soil types impact in wine style. Well done man !

Love your videos you have great energy when explaining it. As you mentioned J.Szabo’s book can you recommend any other books must have or you found helpful when you where studying Level 3 / level 4. Would be cool a little review on the books you think is useful to read
Thank you

I can't wait to take the time to watch this one!!

I am watching this video as part of my WSET3 revision, and despite the fact that this is more aimed at L4 it is really interesting, maybe L4 next!😱

Great job Jimmy. :)

Very useful info! Nicely explained!

thumbs up!!

I find this really pleasing...

Thank you very much Jimmy, I found this topic very interesting and particularly well explained.

So, a volcanic soil could be very fertile, but the fertility is "locked" within the rocks. Thus erosion by weather factors, like wind and rain, is necessary to make those nutrients available to the vine.
If we apply the same erosion influence but for a much longer time, is it correct to presume that particularly old mountain range could be so weathered by the elements to a point that they will lack fertility as nutrients have been washed away and therefore this might be a decisive factor in producing higher quality grapes? For example, Chile, Coastal Range Vs Andes?
Thank you very much!

Really interesting video. I’ll look into the Szabo book. Could you recommend any other further reading regarding geology and wine?