Terroir Effect in Essential Oil Crops
TERROIR is a French word, as in TERRITORY. Originally applied to wine, but later it was seen to be equally relevant to essential oils and Tea, or any phyto-pharmaceutical crop. Terroir is a factor of MICRO-ENVIRONMENT (soil, shade, latitude, longitude, wind direction, water, rain and territory or terrain). Terroir can be defined as an interactive cultivated ecosystem, in a given place, including climate, soil and the effect of the micro-environment on sensory attributes of the end product. Because terroir involves…
