Over het wijnhuis

Rocks, landscape, and terroir are the heritage of a rich past deeply etched in the soil. Approximately 300 million years ago, Burgundy was a mountainous country located near the equator with a hot and humid climate. During the Secondary Age (-245 to -65 million), the continent moved and the sea advanced. During the Jurassic Period (-205 to -135 million) the sea level fluctuated, tectonic plates moved, the landscape of oolitic dunes, which would in time give calcareous scarps, separated the vast central lagoon of the sea and its various currents. The clayey depths, the result of minerals altering, would eventually form marl.In total, close to 2000 metres of land piled up like a gigantic millefeuille in which, under the weight of sediment and as a result of the plates stretching, the relief sculpted itself. During the Tertiary Age, approximately 60 million years ago, pressure from the African plate pushed Burgundy out of the water. The weather was still hot and humid. Again pressure from both the African ad European plates caused Burgundy to bend and fracture leaving great fault lines to this day. Erosion then took over; rivers forged themselves and caves and underground tunnels formed in the limestone. During the Quaternary Age (approximately 2 million years ago) a bitter cold settled in. Glaciers succeeded in shattering rocks, eroding and washing away debris. For the last 15,000 years the climate has been much milder and we no longer speak of alternating periods of hot and cold. Man settled here definitively approximately 6,000 to 7,000 years ago (during the Neolithic period).