Muscat du Cap Corse
Styles
Principal grape varieties
Terroir
Natural factors
- A narrow peninsula (~40 km × 8–10 km), a schist 'mountain skeleton' with a central ridge peaking at 1,305 m (Monte Stello).
- Predominantly schistous soils (lustrés schists, calcareous schists), limestone around Patrimonio, and highly magnesian soils (serpentine, basalts).
- The libeccio blows for ~200 days per year; high sunshine hours (2,475 h/year at Ersa); mean annual temperature of 16.4 °C.
- A zone of 17 communes in the Haute-Corse department, encompassing the AOC Patrimonio and Corse Coteaux du Cap Corse appellations.
- Rainfall varies considerably with aspect: over 1,100 mm at Luri (250 m altitude); frost is negligible during the growing season.
Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.