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Integral Assessment of the Soil Component of Wine Terroir

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Selection of a land plot is one of the first and most important stages during realization of the vineyard project. The final decision at this stage is determined by many factors, including the cost of the land plot, its logistical parameters, tourist attractiveness, etc. The most important among them is the suitability of the plot for grape cultivation, determined by a combination of soil, climatic, and orographic conditions, which are combined in the concept of terroir in the production practice of viticulture and winemaking. An integral assessment of the soil component of the terroir of test plots located in contrasting physical-geographical conditions of France (communes of Le Bignon and Domme) and Russia (villages of Fruktovoe and Beregovoi) was performed. The optimal list of analyzed soil properties based on the parameters taken into account when choosing rootstock varieties—the design solution that most depends on soil conditions—was determined in the course of the work. Then, the procedure of compression of the information on the soil component of the terroir of test plots was performed, and locally oriented weight coefficients were calculated. According to the results of the average integral assessment in the 1-m-deep layer of soil profiles, the following ranked sequence of test plots from the best soil conditions to the worst ones was obtained: the village of Beregovoi (score 0.84), the commune of Le Bignon (score 0.70), the village of Fruktovoe (scores 0.66 and 0.65), and the commune of Domme (score 0.63), the values of which can be compared with other factors at the stage of making a decision on planting vineyards.

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    A. A. Averianov, E. D. Androsova & A. V. Rusakov

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This study was presented at the International Scientific Conference XXVI Dokuchaev Youth Readings Soil Science Matrix (http://www.dokuchaevskie.ru/).

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Averianov, A.A., Androsova, E.D. & Rusakov, A.V. Integral Assessment of the Soil Component of Wine Terroir. Eurasian Soil Sc. 56 (Suppl 2), S172–S182 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229323601518

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