Provincia di Pavia

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Pre-Apennine orography with valley furrows oriented predominantly from south to north, set within the Apennine belt running from Piedmont toward Emilia-Romagna. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Terraced alluvial deposits along the piedmont foothill zone: incoherent clastic sediments of heterogeneous grain size, covered by a weathering mantle.
• Heterogeneous alternations of sandstone, breccias, limestones, marls, gypsiferous conglomerates, and clays in lens-shaped bodies variously interstratified across the western hill zone.
• Sandstone-dominant lithofacies with beds of 80–100 cm along the stream valleys of the west-central zone, with landslide phenomena at contacts with clay layers.
• Rhythmic alternations of marly limestones (30–250 cm) and clays (5–70 cm) form gently sloping relief in the marly-calcareous-clay zone.

• Soils with heterogeneous lithology — sandstones, limestones, marls, conglomerates, and clays — characterise the central hill zone of the Provincia di Pavia IGT.

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

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PGI-IT-A1015
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Tutela Vini Oltrepo Pavese