Orléans
Styles
Principal grape varieties
Accessory grape varieties
Terroir
Natural factors
- The vineyard, the most northerly in the Loire Valley, extends across 13 communes and approximately 35 km, on both banks of the Loire between the Beauce plain and the Sologne forest.
- The delimited parcels are concentrated on highly permeable sandy soils derived from ancient Loire alluvium and on the clay-limestone soils of the Beauce formations dating from the Aquitanian.
- The climate, a degraded oceanic one with continental influences, has a mean annual temperature approximately 0.7°C lower than that of the more southerly Loire Valley vineyards, while receiving the same annual sunshine totals.
- Along the riverbanks, the most recent alluvial deposits form the minor channel and the floodplain, protected by the Loire levees, composed of sandy silt and predominantly siliceous pebbles derived from the Massif Central. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
- From the edge of the Sologne woodlands, a layer of six to seven metres of ancient alluvium forms a terrace; the vineyard itself is planted essentially, downstream of Orléans, on the ancient sandy-gravelly terraces of the south bank of the Loire.
Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.
About this boundary
On the map, at overview zooms, this appellation is drawn as a silhouette of its vineyard generalised at 250 m from the INAO parcel delimitation; the parcels themselves appear as you zoom in.
Sources
- Product specification (BO Agri, PDF) — approved 25 octobre 2011, JORF 28 octobre 2011
- Official INAO text (show_texte)
- INAO product entry
- Official trade body site — InterLoire
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