Although soils are part and parcel of terroir, few wineries and winemakers emphasize the difference between wines whose fruit comes from plants on different soils. There was however prominent in the neighbourhood wine shop specializing in organic wines, a range of Muscadet from the Domaine de l'Ecu which emphasized the different soils (or more specifically rocks) in which the different wines were grown.
There were three different wines in that series: Gneiss, Orthgneiss and Granite. All three are from the Muscadet de Sevre et de Maine appellation, all biodynamic and sur lie, and from vineyards featuring the aforementioned subsoils. Now it would certainly be interesting to try these in a side by side tasting, wouldn't it?
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