Soil family
Limestone & calcareous clay
Old sea floors turned to rock: the Jurassic limestone of the Kraków Jura and Pálava, and the calcareous ground under the loess of Sandomierz.
Soil profile
- Topsoil · thin, stony topsoil
- Calcareous clay · weathered limestone and clay
- Limestone · Jurassic limestone bedrock
- Formation
- Jurassic sea floors, marl, chalk
Grapes that like it
Limestone & calcareous clay · where it dominates
Regions on the road
Elsewhere along the road
Kraków-Częstochowa Jura, SE Wrocław, Pálava, Vienna, Thermenregion, Kras
What limestone & calcareous clay gives the wine
Cool roots, high natural acidity, saline length, slow ripening. Tension and mineral grip.