Terroirs

A good ‘terroir’ for vines should have two essential qualities: it should drain easily and be able to retain moisture even in very dry periods: these are warm soils.

Our vines produce healthy, scented grapes without too much fertility.

Our two sub-soil rocks permit this symbiosis.
The slopes facing the commune of St Fiacre are made up of gneiss, which is of great value to vine-growing, as it allows the vine roots to work their way into the cracks; a brown, soft stone that cracks from top to bottom, offering the resulting wine its structured, mineral aspect: it’s a paradise for Muscadet.

The other great stroke of luck on our estate is that we also have a second outstanding ‘terroir’: friable ‘Château-Thébaud’ granite, known by its scientific name of “Biotite and hornblende bearing granodirite”. This is a yellow rock containing a lot of quartz: here, too, we produce great, very fruity Muscadets. Our other grape varieties are also planted on these soils.

Our Pinots are planted on sub-soils that are also found on a few superb terroirs in the Burgundy and Alsace wine regions.