Description
White Wine by Domaine Saumaize-Michelin from Burgundy, France – regions. This vineyard is literally adjacent to the soon to be premier cru, Clos sur la Roche vineyard, right on the border with Pouilly-Fuisse. The middle-Jurassic monolith of Sur la Roche towers over the village of Vergisson. Les Creches, which rides the back of the Roche, is most likely limestone from the latest Bajocian to the early-Bathonian 166 to 168 million years ago called Calcaire à Chailles. Chailles are rounded, oblong shaped chert (aka flint) stones which formed from a silica (quartz) ooze that developed from dissolved diatoms and radiolarians (types of alga) on the seabed. Although these chert nodules stud the limestone strata, they are much harder than the limestone which surrounds them. For this reason, quarrymen typically avoid areas where chailles are common because these stones are too difficult to cut through.
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