Natural Terroir Units, Siena province, Tuscany (scale 1:125,000) Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura - Centro di Ricerca per l'Agrobiologia e la Pedologia (CRA-ABP), Firenze, Italy - Unità di Ricerca per la Viticoltura (CRA-VIC), Arezzo, Italy Authors: Simone Priori, Roberto Barbetti, Giovanni L'Abate, Pierluigi Bucelli, Paolo Storchi, Edoardo A.C. Costantini 10°50'0"E 11°0'0"E 11°10'0"E 11°20'0"E 11°30'0"E 11°40'0"E 11°50'0"E Coordinate System: WGS 1984 UTM Zone 32N Projection: Transverse Mercator Datum: WGS 1984 False Easting: 500,000.0000 False Northing: 0.0000 Central Meridian: 9.0000 Scale Factor: 0.9996 Latitude Of Origin: 0.0000 Units: Meter Raster resolution: 100 m DEM Tuscany Region, resolution 20 m Soil survey and mapping (2001-2006) Granted by Amministrazione Provinciale di Siena Firenze NTU mapping (2013) M.Maione -811- * © Journal of Maps (2014) 1 Radda in Chianti 43°30'0"N 12°0'0"E 43°30'0"N Castellina in Chianti San Gimignano Gaiole in Chianti Poggio del Comune -696- Poggibonsi h& ia C C C S ta gg * 2 * M.Calvo -839- 9 hC ± Castellina Scalo hS Colle Val d'Elsa Arezzo 6 M. Maggio - 658- * 43°20'0"N Casole d'Elsa SIENA Rapolano Terme S Ombrone ia A 3 Ar b Pisa Elsa C 43°20'0"N Castelnuovo Berardenga G Sovicille R Radicondoli Rosia 5 Rigomagno S C Asciano Monteroni d'Arbia C M.Auzzo -754- * h& C Fo en na h& Scrofiano C hS Sinalunga 4 Trequanda hS 43°10'0"N Torrita Vescovado di Murlo 43°10'0"N 7 Chiusdino San Giovanni d'Asso 8 N Casciano di Murlo Montepulciano Scalo O Buonconvento Merse Poggio Fògari -734- * B Legend Text C Pienza R Montalcino U San Quirico Chianciano Terme Poggio Civitella -659- * Orcia 43°0'0"N DOC & DOCG boundary (ha) 6426 (10.5%) 1 9066 (14.8%) 2 7077 (11.6%) 3 9306 (15.2%) 4 Mean elevation (m a.s.l.) Low (120-180) Medium-low (230-300) Medium-low (250-300) Medium (270-310) Mean Annual Precipitation (°C) (mm y-1) High (14-14.3) Medium-high (13.8-14) Medium (13.6-13.9) Medium (13.5-13.9) Moderate (730-760) Moderate (710-780) High (800-840) Soil texture High (115-140) Silty clay and Silty Scarce clay loamy Loamy and Silty loamy Cetona Sant'Angelo Scalo * Medium (110-130) Scarce Moderate (720-750) Loamy and Clay loamy Moderate (730-760) Loamy and Silty loamy Scarce Loamy Common or frequent High (120-135) Scarce Rooting depth Moderate High (115-140) High Slow High Moderate High Moderate or slow 7262 (11.9%) Medium (270-330) Medium (13.6-13.9) 6 6169 (10.1%) Medium-high (350-420) Medium (13.3-13.6) High (800-860) Medium (100-115) 7 5703 (9.3%) Medium-high (330-440) Medium (13.3-13.6) Moderate (680-750) Silty loam and Silty Frequent clay loamy 8 5592 (9.1%) High (400-500) Low (13.1-13.4) Moderate (700-730) Sandy loamy and Loamy 4603 (7.5%) 9 10°50'0"E High (430-530) Low (13-13.3) Moder.-high (760-860) Scarce Sandy loamy and Frequent Loamy Medium (100-110) Clay content Flysches of the Ligurian unit Moderate or slow Moderate 1) Hills between 320 and 450 m a.s.l. of the Staggia river valley (Monteriggioni, Lilliano, San Leonino); 2) Hills around Casciano di Murlo and Murlo; 3) Hills betwen 320 and 450 m a.s.l. of the high Orcia river valley (Pienza, south-eastern slopes of Montalcino). Brunello di Montalcino, Chianti Colli Senesi and Orcia. Flysches of the Ligurian unit; marine deposits (Early Pliocene) Good Medium 1) High hills (400-500 m a.s.l.of the Trequanda-MontepulcianoChianciano ridge; 2) South-eastern slope of Montalcino; 3) Northwestern hills of San Gimignano. Nobile di Montepulciano and Orcia, Chianti Colli Senesi (Southern) Marine sandy deposits (Early Pliocene) 1) High hills (430- 600 m a.s.l.) of the Chianti ridge (Castellina in Chianti, Radda in Chianti) and of Ambra river valley; 2) Southern slope of Montalcino at 550-600 m a.s.l.; 3) Hills between 350 and 530 m a.s.l. between Rigomagno and Scrofiano towns. Chianti Classico Formations of Ligurian and Nonmetamorphic Tuscan units, richer in sand (arenites). 11°30'0"E 3 cm / 100cm 55 55 Available Water Capacity (AWC) Km 11°40'0"E 11°50'0"E Rooting depth mm / m cm 180 150 45 160 125 35 130 100 20 100 75 10 70 50 0 40 25 0 20 Terni Viterbo 11°20'0"E 3 5 Km Marine silty or sandy deposits (Early Pliocene); fluvial terraces and Quaternary continental deposits Chianti Classico and Terre di Casole 65 10 Nobile di Montepulciano and Chianti Colli Senesi Hills between 350 and 420 m a.s.l. around Radda in Chianti, Gaiole in Chianti, north of Castelnuovo Berardenga. Scarce Piancastagnaio 42°50'0"N Moderate Stoniness 0 Marine clayey and silty deposits (Early Pliocene) Good Good San Casciano dei Bagni Celle sul Rigo Abbadia San Salvatore Chianti Colli Senesi and Grance senesi - Valdarbia 15 20 Marine clayey and silty deposits (Early Pliocene); continental deposits (MiocenePleistocene) and travertines (Quaternary) Moderate 30 10 Nobile di Montepulciano, Chianti Colli Senesi, Grance senesi - Valdarbia and Orcia. Chianti Colli Senesi (north), Chianti Classico and Grance senesi Valdarbia M. Amiata -1738- * Moderate 45 0 Marine deposits (Early Pliocene); fluvial terraces and Quaternary continental deposits Marine deposits (Early Pliocene); Quaternary continental deposits, Nonmetamorphic Tuscan and Ligurian units whith scarce clay. 11°10'0"E g / 100g 1) Low hills of the high Arbia (Siena) and Ombrone (Castelnuovo Berardenga) rivers valleys; 2) Low hills of the high Elsa (Pievescola, Casole d'Elsa) and Cecina (Radicondoli, Chiusdino) rivers valleys. Brunello di Montalcino and Chianti Colli Senesi (north) 1) Eastern hills of Poggio del Comune (San Gimignano) and Poggibonsi; 2) Hills between Rapolano Terme and Sinalunga; 3) Low hills along Astrone creek valley (Sarteano and Cetona towns); 4) Orcia river valley around Castelnuovo dell'Abate village. Low (60-80) 11°0'0"E 1) Fluvial terraces and slopes of the Elsa river valley among San Gimignano, Colle Val d'Elsa and Poggibonsi; 2) Fluvial terraces and slopes of the Orcia and Ombrone rivers valleys, in the south and west of Montalcino. 1) Plans and low hills between Colle Val d'Elsa, Castellina Scalo and Siena, "Crete senesi" area (Asciano, San Giovanni d'Asso); 2) Arbia river valley, northern slopes of Montalcino and San Quirico; 3) Eastern hills of Montepulciano. Main lithology High Low (70-100) Medium-low (80-110) More representative DOC and DOCG Most representative geographical areas 1) Northern hills of Siena and San Gimignano; 2) Hills around Torrita, Montepulciano and Chiusi. 42°50'0"N 5 43°0'0"N Sarteano Castelnuovo dell'Abate Soil Available Soil Gravel Water Capacity Internal content Drainage (mm m-1) Loamy and Silty Scarce clay loamy Chiusi S Surface NTU Mean Annual Temperature * Ch & Villages Chianti Classico DOCG Chianti & Chianti Colli Senesi DOCG Brunello di Montalcino DOCG Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG Terre di Casole DOC Grance Senesi DOC Orcia DOC B Montepulciano Towns and cities ChC Ch&ChS BRU NOB CAS GRS ORC Perugia Ch Grosseto R O 10 20 Km 0 10 20 Km
