terroir
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The complete natural environment of a place, especially as it shapes the character of its produce.
Wine writers spoke reverently of the vineyard's terroir, that elusive taste of chalk and sea air.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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