Terre del Volturno

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Soils formed from argille, marne, arenarie, and calcare, with extensive badland (calanchi) areas; massive limestone formations of the Marne, Mainarde, and Matese ranges.
• The Caiatina area is characterized by a molassic facies: arenaceous, clayey, and calcareous soils arranged chaotically and without evident stratification.
• The discontinuity of trace elements (copper, cobalt, iron, manganese) can radically alter the organoleptic minerality between wines from even adjacent areas.
• Fertile alluvial soils developed over pyroclastic deposits from Roccamonfina and the Campi Flegrei, with abundant water availability.
• The Volturno valley was formed during the Quaternary, after the Tertiary Apennine folding, through fluvial erosion of easily erodible rock.

• Viticulture is documented prior to Greek colonization (late 9th–early 8th century BCE): the Etruscans had already founded Capua and were already cultivating the vine.

• The mineral discontinuity of the Caiatina molassic facies causes variation in the minerality component even among wines produced from grapes grown in adjacent areas.

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-A0264
• Official trade body site — VITICA - Consorzio Tutela Vini Caserta