Details

• Title: 떼루아 / Terroir
• Genre: Romance
• Episodes: 20
• Broadcast network: SBS
• Broadcast period: 2008-Dec-01 to 2009-Feb-17
• Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Synopsis

Lee Woo Joo meets Kang Tae Min, a man who was taught in the art of tasting wine. Tae Min inherited the wine production from his family and opens Woo Joo's eyes to the world of wine. He has a steady relationship with his girlfriend, Ji Seon, but wavers when he meets the spunky Woo Joo. Joey Park has a deep, dark secret that has haunted him for most of his life. He accidentally set the fire that killed Tae Min's parents. How will Tae Min feel when he learns that a friend caused his parents' death?

Tae-min is (Kim Joo-hyeok) uncle loves wine and wanted to become a wine master but had to take over his brother is s company - Hangang Construction after his death. When he finds out that Tae-min likes wine too, he lets Tae-min take it up as a profession. When Tae-min was young, his uncle took him to France and let him explore himself in the world of wines. It’s there that he met Ji-seon (Yoo Seon), who was adopted as a baby, and Tae-min feels his wounds healing with the help of Ji-seon and the wine. One day, Tae-min leaves for Bordeaux, France to grant the long-cherished wishes of Mir Trading President Yang Seung-geol and his uncle who is now in the final stages of his cancer. Their wish is to taste the 1945 bottle of Chateau Mouton Mayer. Meanwhile, Lee Woo-ju raised by her grandparents in a traditional Korean winery called Nancho, decides to leave for France after her boyfriend studying abroad in France hasn’t called her for a year. At last, Tae-min gets his hands on the wine, but the bottle ends up being switched with Woo-ju is raspberry wine. Tae-min finds out later and does not know what to do. He is sitting next to Woo-ju on the plane but Woo-ju begins to think that he is a pervert. After he arrives in Korea, Tae-min honestly reveals that he lost the bottle. President Yang thinks that Tae-min is hiding the wine from him because his uncle wants it. He becomes suspicious of Tae-min from then on. After a while, Tae-min’s uncle dies and Tae-min receives Nancho, a Korean winery, from his uncle’s will. Thinking that he’d like to transform it into a wine restaurant, Tae-min’s asks Woo-ju and her grandparents to move out. Woo-ju’s grandfather has gone back to the country and Woo-ju secures a job by asking Tae-min to use Nancho’s employees as workers for his new restaurant. Tae-min opens up his new restaurant, Terroir, but is unable to buy any wine when President Yang gets in his way. Woo-ju constantly bickers with Tae-min as she works in the restaurant. She gets acquainted with Joy Park (Gi Tae-young) as well. Then one day, she finds out that her raspberry wine has been switched with Tae-min is wine and finds out from a wine magazine that the bottle is worth over $100,000