Cidre Cotentin ou Cotentin

Terroir

• Territory coinciding with the Cotentin Peninsula, northern half of the Manche département, maximum elevation 170 m.
• Varied, deep, and well-drained soils, never sandy or sandy-gravelly, within a bocage landscape context.
• Strongly oceanic climate: rainfall on more than 150 days per year, 900–1,000 mm annually, low temperature variation, frequent westerly winds.
• Structuring bocage landscape: natural hedgerows limiting sightlines and dividing the orchards into small isolated plots.

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Sources

• Product specification (BO Agri, PDF), JORF 22 octobre 2016
• Official INAO text (show_texte)
• INAO product entry