Nantes is really at the very edge of France, and we are very close to the Atlantic Ocean. We are located on the very old Armorican massif, which is composed of metamorphic rocks like schist and gneiss as well as rock from magmatic eruption such as granite. We've always been fascinated by the diversity of our terroir, and we were lucky enough to acquire an exceptional plot on a lieu-dit called "Butte de la Roche". We called our plot "Terre de Pierre", and its unique due to its serpentine soils. This serpentine forms the hill itself, and actually comes from terrestrial crusts that that broke off during a period of tectonic movement; these crusts eventually made their way to the surface, and form this very hill. In the 500 million years it took for this to happen, the serpentine became altered. So we have all this silicious, irony serpentine that is okra red.
Some geologists from the University of Nantes came to test it and told us we must do our best to preserve this site. They even declared it a geological landmark!
Some geologists from the University of Nantes came to test it and told us we must do our best to preserve this site. They even declared it a geological landmark!
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