{"id":11963,"date":"2025-05-19T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volcanic-origin.com\/scientific-studies\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:13:40","slug":"scientific-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/volcanic-origin.com\/en\/scientific-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"SCIENTIFIC STUDIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The whole story started back in January 2020, in the Vulcania theme park centre at the foot of the tectonic Cha\u00eene de Puys, when a small band of local Auvergne region winemakers decided to organize the first World Volcanic Wine Fair.
The fair threw up some essential yet unresolved questions:<\/p>

What is a volcanic wine?<\/strong><\/p>

What are its taste\u2013texture characteristics?<\/strong><\/p>

In an effort to come up with answers, the team decided to launch a scientific experiment for the year-2020 vintage.
The study, conducted in the C\u00f4tes d\u2019Auvergne region and Canada, mobilized a squad of specialists in mineral analysis, analytical chemistry, and sensory evaluation on wine, … and laid the premises to a type profile…<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Site visit to vines growing on basaltic soil<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Bolstered by the encouraging results of this first study, the team pressed ahead with a second study launched in 2021 to expand and grow what we know about what makes these wines so distinctive.
The objective this time round was to use micro-vinification processing to compare wines grown on volcanic (basaltic) soil against the same wines grown on sedimentary clay-limestone soil, and characterize their signature chemical and sensory markers.
This tighter protocol would render a scientifically-validated hallmark profile of volcanic wines.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Following on from these first two studies on the 2020 and 2021 vintages, several local-region initiatives emerged in 2023 in Puy-de-D\u00f4me wineries to foreground the value of the area\u2019s wines, thus further forging the local terroir\u2019s identity.<\/p>

To gain further knowledge and insight on the scientifically-proven signature of volcanic-terroir wine, a third study was conducted on the year-2023 vintage to expand into other French grape varieties and wine regions. This third round of research set out to address three questions:<\/p>

What are the signature characteristics of volcanic winegrowing soils in France ?<\/strong>
Are there specific type factors shared between all French volcanic-soil wines ?<\/strong>
Do different grape varieties express typicity differences in volcanic imprint in the wines ?<\/strong><\/p>

The programme was to vinify four grape varieties\u2014Gamay, Syrah, Chardonnay and Riesling\u2014from six confirmed volcanic-terroir wine-regions areas across France: Alsace, Brouilly, Forez, C\u00f4tes d\u2019Auvergne, Ard\u00e8che, and P\u00e9zenas.<\/p>

This third phase marked a further step forward in terms of understanding the science of what makes volcanic terroirs so distinctive\u2026 and, crucially, a further step towards our Volcanic Origin label<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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