Wines, soils, Climates



Touraine-Mesland is characterized by :

Its specific soil :

 

During the tertiary era, siliceous river sand alluvia originating in the primary education solid masses of the centre of France were abandoned on the edge of Touraine and in Sologne.

With quaternary, the rivers, small and large, by digging their furrow in the tufa caused the constitution of grounds favourable to the vine.

They modelled well shone upon slopes and soft slopes on which water does not remain. In the valley, they gave up gravels and sands.

Bournais, Bournais Perrucheux, Varennes :


Unsuitable grounds with the vine being appropriate for the meadows and the field crops.

Parakeets :
They are clay-with-flints. They present very abundant flints surfaces some, which allows a good cleansing in general and the production of the red wines; but in very good exposure and on under calcareous ground, the white are excellent there. This type of ground is present by 30% on Château Gaillard.

Aubuis :
They are grounds argilo- permeable stony limestone and being heated easily.
The vine is liked it well, in particular the Chenin.

Grounds of old alluvias: :
In certain valleys, in particular in the west of Touraine, between the game preserves and the slopes, grounds of old alluvia to the culture of the vine in terraced rows where the cabernet gives excellent wines.

Nature of the grounds


The nature of the grounds contributes to the sensory expression of the wine. The vineyards rest on various grounds.

As a whole, these grounds are drained by the Loire or its affluents. So we can say that the vineyards are installed on slopes.

That's why they are, for the major part of them, between two influences: the water masses and the forest solid masses of the plates.

At the end of the secondary, the sea covered the Paris area, from which Touraine forms part, and deposits a mud argilo-limestone charged of sand and mica, called "tufa".

It is in this calcareous rock that the cellars are dug. While being withdrawn, it leaves a less calcareous sedimentation, richer in flint and clay-with-flints.

The soil of Mesland


The wine area of Mesland is right bank of the Loire, facing the chateau of Chaumont sur Loire.  

Its surface of name extends on six towns, downstream from Blois.

The vineyard gathers primarily around the four villages of Mesland, Monteaux, Onzain, Chouzy sur Cisse. The grounds consist of clay-with-flints and sands of Miocene.


Climate :

Touraine, located in the northern of the zone but near the sea, is subject to oceanic influences. The winters are rather soft, without strong frosts, and the seldom excessive summers.

The autumns in the Touraine-Mesland area are usually beautiful, very sunny, which allows a good maturation of the latest type of vines.

However, this oceanic influence is less felt on the part east of Touraine, where the climate presents a continental nuance.

Various types of climates.


Oceanic Climate :

It is characterized by soft winters (10�C average) and very wet marked by intermittent rains and especially of drizzle; the summer, time is much drier but very fresh (not more than 23�C average).

Continental Climate :

It is a brutal climate because of its temperatures which unceasingly vary from one season to another; thus in winter we can belong to the temperatures about 0�C and in summer more than 30 �C!!! Precipitations are the strongest in summer with the many storms (in winter, it is rather snow).