Florian Mollet Le Roque Val de Loire Rose
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The Domaine Roc de l’Abbaye is one of the rare Sancerre estates with all of its parcels planted on the flint (Silex) Terroir. This represents only 15% of the vineyards of Sancerre. It is the most sought-after terroir because it produces wines with a ‘taut’ profile, with ‘gunflint’ aromas, a strong ‘minerality’ combined with finesse and power. Our cellar is located a few hundred meters East of the ‘Sancerre fault’ which is a major geological event occurred some 360MYA at the end of the Devonian and at the beginning of the Carboniferous (Paleozoic Era). It is the result of a major tectonic event that crossed France following a North-South axis by which the land moved away, creating pits and depressions. This explains the structure of the Loire area. Geologists estimate that the Sancerre fault has a vertical displacement of 100-150 meters and extends to the Massif Central (a highland region in the middle of Southern France). The Sancerre fault is also at the origin of the alignment of the hills of Sancerre, St-Satur and the Orme aux Loups. The peaks and slopes of our flint clay hills are more recent, only 50 to 30MYA. They have at their upper part a conglomerate of white siliceous cement containing flint. The Western slopes of the hills have white or grey flint, sometimes black, as we find at the Roc de l’Abbaye.