Procedure – SAMPLING AND Shipment of a soil sample

The soil sample is a crucial to get a cuvée certified “VOLCANIC ORIGIN. It helps to determine if the soil on which the vines that produced the wine in question are located is indeed situated on a volcanic terroir.

If you do not already have a soil test report issued by an accredited soil testing laboratory and proving evidence of established volcanic rock, then we have to ask you to send a soil sample to VINORA, which will then be forwarded for analysis to a partner laboratory or expert.

This is how to proceed:

• Out in the vineyard plot used to make the mark-eligible cuvée, use an earth augur to hand-take the first 60 to 80 centimeters deep into the soil (Horizon 1).
• Take 4 soil samples per plot/ha.
• Each sample should be the equivalent of roughly a fistful (250g), i.e. 4 × 250g = max 1kg per plot.
• Send the collected sample to this address:

Biopole de Clermont Limagne
VEGEPOLYS VALLEY
2 rue Michel Renaud
63 360 Saint Beauzire

As a reminder, shipping costs for sending the sample are borne by the operator (applicant filing for use of the mark), and the soil test costs are invoiced at the cuvée declaration step.

Complete with a permanent marker and send by email along with the soil sample :

• Name of the stucture
• Adress
• E-mail contact
• Name of the cuvée
• Plot references
• GPS coordinates near the sampling site
• Applicant’s signature: