Pays de Brive

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Bassin de Brive: a geological window (boutonnière) approximately 60 km long and 10–20 km wide, oriented NW/SE, at low elevation (150–250 m for the vineyard area).
• Mosaic of soils: acid brown soils over sandstone and schist, calcareous brown soils over marly limestones, and thin calcareous brown soils over the Causse.
• Southern oceanic climate with a marked rainfall gradient: 800 mm in the Bassin de Brive versus 1,500 mm on the Plateau de Millevaches.
• Varied geological bedrock: Permian red sandstones to the north, marine and lagoonal Triassic and Liassic formations to the south, Jurassic limestones of the Causse to the west.

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 13 octobre 2020
• Official INAO text (show_texte)
• INAO product entry