Cap Corse forms a long, narrow peninsula approximately forty kilometres in length and eight to ten kilometres wide, with a steep and irregular western slope dominated by Monte Stello at 1,305 metres.
Cap Corse is characterised by the force and frequency of its winds, including the libeccio, which blows for nearly two hundred days per year, with an irregular distribution of winds and rainfall across its coastlines.
Rainfall exceeds 1,100 millimetres at Luri despite an altitude of only 250 metres, while sunshine totals 2,475 hours annually at Ersa and the mean annual temperature is 16.4 °C.
The geological bedrock is predominantly schist, though calcareous formations are also present around Patrimonio, with soils that are calcareous (Saint-Florent limestones, calcareous schists), acidic (lustrous schists), or highly magnesian (serpentine, basalts).
The appellation area extends across 17 communes in the département of Haute-Corse, between the northern tip of Cap Corse and the Nebbiu region, a term meaning 'fog' in the Corsican language.
Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.
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