Application domain
Viticulture
Terroir is not an idea.
Our work It is a soil depth, a texture, a water reserve — quantities you can measure.
Questions
Read the terroir before working it.
The vine expresses soil better than any other crop. The point is knowing what it expresses, and over what distance that changes.
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Where to plant, and on which rootstock?
Usable depth and water stress can change over twenty metres. Knowing that before planting avoids thirty years of compromise.
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How should vinification units be drawn?
Intra-parcel zoning based on soil lets you harvest and vinify separately what ripens differently.
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Why does this zone suffer in a dry year?
Low water reserve, rising bedrock, a change of texture. Mapping identifies the physical origin of the stress.
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Should we irrigate, and where?
Where the reserve is structurally low — not uniformly. The map sets the layout and the sizing.
Explorer
Terroir in section.
Drag the marker down. Rooting depth and the depth to bedrock decide most of it.
- Topsoil and texture In this slice 0 – 0.4 m
- Rooting zone In this slice 0.3 – 1 m
- Water reserve and stress In this slice 0 – 1.2 m
- Depth to bedrock In this slice 0.8 – 2 m
- Deep heterogeneity In this slice 1 – 3 m
The marker sets the depth. A target lights up when it sits in the explored slice.
Benefits
- Rootstock and planting chosen on real depth, not on an average.
- Vinification units cut where the soil changes.
- Irrigation laid out where the reserve is structurally low.
Keywords
- Terroir
- Intra-parcel zoning
- Rootstock
- Available water
- Drainage
Deliverables
Terroir maps, intra-parcel zoning, planting studies.
Map your vineyard?
Estates, châteaux, cooperatives: from a single parcel to an entire vineyard.