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Terroir is a combination of soil-and-climatic factors and specific characteristics of the terrain (relief, wind, presence of waterbodies, woodlands, insolation, surrounding animal and vegetal life, human factors), which determine the varietal characteristics of produced wines. It is one of the fundamental notions of French oenology.<\/p>\n
The Ch\u00e2teau Gunes\u2019 vineyards, located in the very heart of the M\u00e9doc region, benefit from Medoc\u2019s privileged terroir for many reasons:<\/p>\n
The Medoc peninsula is surrounded by two very important water bodies: the Atlantic Ocean and the Gironde estuary. This situation contribute, by regulating the temperature, to create a favorable microclimate for the vineyard and the grapes.<\/p>\n
The soils of the Medoc\u2019s region are mostly composed of alluvial layers brought for millennia by the Garonne. They have a slightly high proportion of gravels, with more or less proportion of sand and clay. This kind of soils gives the vines a chance to work hard to get to provide itself with water and nutrients. An adage states that the vines must suffer to produce concentrated wine grapes\u2026 From this point of view, the degree of suffering of the vine in Medoc has reached its climax!<\/p>\n
At Ch\u00e2teau Gunes, the soils consist in different proportions of the gravel, sometimes coarse, mixed with sand and clay. In the basement, there is a clay-limestone matrix (asteroid limestone) which thickness can reach several meters. Slight variations in the component proportions are very important \u2013 they can generate great differences in quality of wine, even between two neighbouring plots. It is precisely from this variety of terroirs that the diversity of wines is born.<\/p>\n
The altitude of slopes is very low, from 10 to 12 meters on average at Ch\u00e2teau Gunes. They descend toward the forest, and shallow streams allow the rapid evacuation of rainwater. Soils are well drained, and the vine can evolve to give each plot a character specific to its terroir.<\/p>\n
The vineyards are mainly planted with the colorful Cabernet Sauvignon (traditional for the northern part of the Medoc) and the elegant Merlot, with also a small proportion of the spicy Petit Verdot and the herbal Cabernet Franc.<\/p>\n
Terroir Terroir is a combination of soil-and-climatic factors and specific characteristics of the terrain (relief, wind, presence of waterbodies, woodlands, insolation, surrounding animal and vegetal life, human factors), which determine the varietal characteristics of produced wines. It is one of the fundamental notions of French oenology. The Ch\u00e2teau Gunes\u2019 vineyards, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-208","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n