Our terroir

Between land & sea | Île de Ré terroir

The climate is temperate, with a high rate of sunshine

Ile de Ré stems from various sedimentary deposits. This is why the soil here is chalky and sandy. The climate is temperate, with a high rate of sunshine and a pretty low rainfall.
Wind can be strong, but it’s hot and the temperatures are usually mild, mainly thanks to the Gulf Stream.

These natural factors favour the vine growing

The combination of these natural factors favours the vine growing and even gives us a more clement climate than the continental one, which will for example protect our vines from the frost. Thus we can grow grapes and then turn them into wine to obtain wines with very specific aromas and flavours

We love and cosset our wines.

We constantly try to improve their quality by perfecting our cultural and working methods.
With this goal in our mind, we have called for a terroir study from 2001 to 2005 to determine the soils composition. Thanks to this study, we have been able to map precisely the different soils of the whole vine-growing area, and thus we have adapted each grapes variety to each soil.
Indeed, some varieties will need less water than others and will this way be more appropriate for dry and drain soils. This meticulous adaptation of the varieties guarantees a better grapes ripeness and therefore a greater quality.