The different soils we cultivate represent the real richness of our vineyard. Indeed, because we work with individual grape varieties in their singularity rather than blending them , every characteristic of our cuvees comes from the terroirs.
We work three types of soil:
a clay and chalky soil with many fossilized oysters and ammonites. This is a typical terroir at Pouilly sur Loire, from which the famous cuvee l’Arrêt-Buffatte” and the cuvee “Quercus” originate.
from which the cuvee « Génetin » and the Pouilly sur Loire originate.
for the Sancerre appellation.
Indeed, before 1880, the Chasselas grape variety was very present in the vineyard, particularly for the production of table grapes. Thanks to the railway, the grapes traveled from Pouilly to Paris in a few hours and were resold, freshly picked, in Paris. Unfortunately, everything stopped in the 1880s, with the arrival of phylloxera in the vineyard. This insect, which came from America in 1863, ravaged French vines, region after region, for around thirty years, until the vineyards were replanted with American rootstocks, naturally resistant to this little aphid. The Pouilly vineyard, then destroyed by phylloxera, the winegrowers decided to reorient themselves towards Sauvignon Blanc, a grape variety which allows them to produce more complex wines. The vines planted in Chasselas disappear little by little from the vineyard…
