The Terroir

The terroir where Domaine Bisconte evolves has a very strong identity due to a very contrasted natural context. The mountain ranges are 50 km to the west represented by Mount Canigou, the highest point in the eastern Pyrenees at 2,784 m above sea level, and 10 km to the east with the magnificent “Côte Vermeille” where the mountains plunge into the Mediterranean Sea. The combination of these two natural contexts brings meteorological and geological complexity which makes our terroir unique.

The floors are from detrital origins, they come from the different periods of intense erosion that have occurred since the uplift of the Pyrenean chain. Today’s soils are the result of the accumulation of more or less coarse sediments (pebbles, gravels, sands, silts, clays …). More recent geological history has shaped the last deposits by the untimely action of the rivers (the Tech and the torrents descending from the Albères) forming more or less high alluvial terraces.