Pedro Parra is an internationally renown terroir specialist trained in France who lives in Chile and travels the world as a consultant for winery and vineyard owners.
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International expert digs into Willamette Valley
By L.M. Archer
Pedro Parra, wiping his sweaty brow, heaves a soil-smeared pickaxe from the chest-high pit surrounding him. A backhoe looms above the burly, bearded man, a silent sentinel and partner-in-crime to this scene of calculated destruction stretching under Oregon’s late afternoon sky. Parra sighs and hoists himself out of the hole, dusting dirt off his smudged jeans and shirt.
It’s not easy being a terroir whisperer. Read the full article here.
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