Soil family
Volcanic (basalt & tuff)
Basalt, andesite and rhyolite tuff: Hungary's volcanic hills such as the Somló basalt plug, and basalt in Austria.
Soil profile
- Topsoil · dark, stony topsoil
- Weathered tuff · volcanic ash rock
- Basalt · lava bedrock
Volcanic (basalt & tuff) · where it dominates
Regions on the road
Elsewhere along the road
Sudeten and Subcarpathian foothills, Somló, Badacsony, Tokaj, Eger, Mátra, Südoststeiermark, Litoměřice
What volcanic (basalt & tuff) gives the wine
Smoke, salt and weight. Dense texture with a gun-flint finish; cellars dug straight into the tuff.