#9 - Specificity of Place - Bachelder Niagara - Lowrey Vineyard Pinot Noir

​Can a single wine represent what an entire region has to offer? ​What factors differentiate wines within a single region? Happy new year! The Viticulture Edge is back with more exciting episodes in 2026, including more winemaker interviews and introducing more wines from Japan and Canada. In this episode we discuss how many vineyards and subregions wine regions get broadly categorized into a single region name. Furthermore we often assume a single wine experience from that region represents all wine produced there. In reality there are numerous factors creating differences between producers and even individual wines from a single producer within a wine region. This creates a vast world of often overlooked wine to explore within each region. Fitting with this theme, this episode features Bachelder Niagara’s Lowrey Vineyard Pinot Noir. Known as Canada’s “terroir-ist”, Thomas Bachelder is a Niagara producer obsessed with understanding and mapping the various growing sites within Niagara. His wines focus on single vineyard bottlings of Gamay, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir that express the different growing conditions of each site. Follow Bachelder Niagara on Instagram: @bachelder_wines Find Bachelder Niagara wines in Japan: Heavenly Vines Find Bachelder Niagara wines in your local region: Wine Searcher Your questions and comments are appreciated and help us guide and improve the show! Also, if you think you’d make a good guest on the show, let us know! Feel free to reach us on Spotify, on Instagram, or email us at [email protected].