Touraine Noble Joué
Styles
Principal grape varieties
Terroir
Natural factors
- Plateau vineyards on the interfluve between the Indre and Cher rivers, fragmented into isolated pockets within a peri-urban setting, across 5 communes in Indre-et-Loire
- Brown calcareous soils over Upper Turonian limestone or lacustrine limestone, with some sectors of clay, millstone grit, and coarse sands
- A degraded oceanic climate among the driest and mildest in the département, with approximately 650 mm of annual rainfall over the Tours conurbation
- Fewer frost events than the eastern part of the département: approximately 55 frost days between October and April, compared with 60 days to the east (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Only plots with good water management and thermal behaviour are included within the delimited area
Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.