Soils Flashcards
South of Villefranche-sur-Saône and the Nizerland River
Clay
Limestone
Fruity wines
Saône Plain.
Pierres Dorées (Golden Stones)
Broken yellow limestone
Fruity wines
Diorite
Volcanic soils in Côte de Brouilly AOC & Broilly AOC
Spice and Pepper quality
What is Tufeau?
Turonian Chalk or White Chalk - Cretaceous Period 90m years olf
Centre Loire
Used for châteaux of Loire
Soils of Anjou-Saumur
West - Dark Schist and Sandstone
East - Tuffeau - White Chalk
Perruches
Stony, Flinty clays (aubuis) found in Valençay AOC
Vourvray
Montlouis
Eastern Touraine
Where can you find Portlandian and Kimmeridgean Marl?
Chablis
What soils do you find Grand Cru, Premier Cru and Chablis AOC planted in?
Kimmeridgean Marl
soft limestone-clay
160m years
Small comma shaped oyster
What are Kimmeridgean soils and impact on wine?
Soft limestone-rich clay
160m years
Zesty, High Acidity, Mineral
Chablis Grand Crus
What are Portlandian soils and impact on wine?
Harder clay and no fossils
Plateaus in Chablis
More exposed
Lighter, fruity with more acid, less mineral
Petit Chablis AOC (some Chablis AOC)
Soils of the Côte de Nuits
- Sedimentary Limestone
- Limestone-Rich Marl - heavier clay-like marl good for red
Soils of the Côte de Beaune
- Limestone-Rich Marl - heavier clay-like marl good for red
- Limestone - lighter good for whites eg Meursault, Chassagne, Puligny
Soils of the Côte Chalonnaise
- Limestone-Rich Marl most has this same as Beaune
- Sandy Marl - From Givry south more like Mâconnais
The Soils of Mâconnais
- Limestone-Rich Marl (160-220m) Oldest in Bourgogne
- Granite and Schist - Beaujolais type soils only found here in all of Bourgogne
In the Mâconnais what is planted on 90% of the limestone?
Chardonnay
What are “colluvial” soils?
Soils formed by slope wash.
What are “alluvial” soils?
Soils formed by river deposits.
What type of soil covers much of Roussillon?
Soils grapes grow?
An iron-rich, sandy, red, water-retaining clay
Enormously diversed
Limestone, black schist, granite, gneiss, gray schist, galets, sandstone, shale, quartz, yellow clay, marble and sand and
In Jurançon, the sandy-clay soils are dotted with galets. What are they known as locally?
Poudingues
Alsace Soils Lower Foothills
Limestone
Calcareous Sandstone
Marl Sandstone
Marly Limestone
Marly Clay
Calcareous-Marl Sandstone
Alsace Vosges lower slope soils
Granite
Schist
Volcanic
Sandstone
Alsace Soils - Rhine Plain
Alluvial
Loam / Loess (wind blown silt and sand)
Valley Floor Colluvial
What is a “Graben”
Geologically-speaking, a graben is a trench that has sunk between two parallel fault lines.
N Rhône soils
Granite and mica schist sands
Hermitage Rhône
Clay and sand
Crozes-Hermitage
Galets, clay and windblown loess/molasse