* * * * * * * * * * M.Auzzo -754- M.Calvo -839- M.Maione -811- M. Maggio - 658- M. Amiata -1738- Poggio Fògari -734- Poggio Civitella -659- Poggio del Comune -696- Rosia Monteroni d'Arbia Sarteano Montepulciano Scalo Piancastagnaio Sant'Angelo Scalo Vescovado di Murlo Celle sul Rigo Scrofiano San Casciano dei Bagni Rigomagno San Giovanni d'Asso Castelnuovo dell'Abate Torrita Chiusi Poggibonsi Sinalunga Colle Val d'Elsa Chianciano Terme Asciano Montepulciano Pienza Rapolano Terme Buonconvento San Quirico Montalcino Castellina Scalo San Gimignano Castellina in Chianti Sovicille Cetona Abbadia San Salvatore Chiusdino Castelnuovo Berardenga Gaiole in Chianti Trequanda Casciano di Murlo Radda in Chianti Radicondoli Casole d'Elsa SIENA A rbi a E ls a Orcia Mer s e Fo en n a 8 1 6 2 4 3 7 5 9 O m b r o n e St a ggi a 12°0'0"E 11°50'0"E 11°50'0"E 11°40'0"E 11°40'0"E 11°30'0"E 11°30'0"E 11°20'0"E 11°20'0"E 11°10'0"E 11°10'0"E 11°0'0"E 11°0'0"E 10°50'0"E 10°50'0"E 43°30'0"N 43°30'0"N 43°20'0"N 43°20'0"N 43°10'0"N 43°10'0"N 43°0'0"N 43°0'0"N 42°50'0"N 42°50'0"N Natural Terroir Units, Siena province, Tuscany Natural Terroir Units, Siena province, Tuscany (scale 1:125,000) (scale 1:125,000) 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 Grosseto Grosseto Arezzo Arezzo Firenze Firenze Pisa Pisa Perugia Perugia Terni Terni Viterbo Viterbo ± g / 100g 65 55 45 30 15 5 Clay content 0 20 10 Km Stoniness cm / 100cm 55 45 35 20 10 0 0 20 10 Km mm / m 180 160 130 100 70 40 Available Water Capacity (AWC) Rooting depth cm 150 125 100 75 50 25 0 20 10 Km 0 20 10 Km Authors: Simone Priori, Roberto Barbetti, Giovanni L'Abate, Pierluigi Bucelli, Paolo Storchi, Edoardo A.C. Costantini 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 Surface Mean elevation Mean Annual Temperature Mean Annual Precipitation Soil Available Water Capacity (ha) (m a.s.l.) (°C) (mm y -1 ) (mm m -1 ) 1 6426 (10.5%) Low (120-180) High (14-14.3) Moderate (730-760) Loamy and Silty clay loamy Scarce High (115-140) Moderate High 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. Brunello di Montalcino and Chianti Colli Senesi (north) Marine deposits (Early Pliocene); fluvial terraces and Quaternary continental deposits 2 9066 (14.8%) Medium-low (230-300) Medium-high (13.8-14) Moderate (710-780) Silty clay and Silty clay loamy Scarce High (115-140) Slow High 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. Nobile di Montepulciano, Chianti Colli Senesi, Grance senesi - Valdarbia and Orcia. Marine clayey and silty deposits (Early Pliocene); continental deposits (Miocene- Pleistocene) and travertines (Quaternary) 3 7077 (11.6%) Medium-low (250-300) Medium (13.6-13.9) High (800-840) Loamy and Silty loamy Scarce Medium (110-130) Moderate High 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. Chianti Colli Senesi (north), Chianti Classico and Grance senesi - Valdarbia Marine clayey and silty deposits (Early Pliocene) 4 9306 (15.2%) Medium (270-310) Medium (13.5-13.9) Moderate (720-750) Loamy and Clay loamy Scarce High (120-135) Moderate or slow High 1) Northern hills of Siena and San Gimignano; 2) Hills around Torrita, Montepulciano and Chiusi. Nobile di Montepulciano and Chianti Colli Senesi Marine silty or sandy deposits (Early Pliocene); fluvial terraces and Quaternary continental deposits 5 7262 (11.9%) Medium (270-330) Medium (13.6-13.9) Moderate (730-760) Loamy and Silty loamy Scarce Medium (100-115) Moderate Moderate 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. Chianti Colli Senesi and Grance senesi - Valdarbia Marine deposits (Early Pliocene); Quaternary continental deposits, Non- metamorphic Tuscan and Ligurian units whith scarce clay. 6 6169 (10.1%) Medium-high (350-420) Medium (13.3-13.6) High (800-860) Loamy Common or frequent Low (70-100) Good Moderate Hills between 350 and 420 m a.s.l. around Radda in Chianti, Gaiole in Chianti, north of Castelnuovo Berardenga. Chianti Classico and Terre di Casole Flysches of the Ligurian unit 7 5703 (9.3%) Medium-high (330-440) Medium (13.3-13.6) Moderate (680-750) Silty loam and Silty clay loamy Frequent Medium-low (80-110) 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) 8 5592 (9.1%) High (400-500) Low (13.1-13.4) Moderate (700-730) Sandy loamy and Loamy Scarce Medium (100-110) Good Medium 1) High hills (400-500 m a.s.l.of the Trequanda-Montepulciano- Chianciano ridge; 2) South-eastern slope of Montalcino; 3) North- western hills of San Gimignano. Nobile di Montepulciano and Orcia, Chianti Colli Senesi (Southern) Marine sandy deposits (Early Pliocene) 9 4603 (7.5%) High (430-530) Low (13-13.3) Moder.-high (760-860) Sandy loamy and Loamy Frequent Low (60-80) Good Scarce 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 Non- metamorphic Tuscan units, richer in sand (arenites). NTU Most representative geographical areas More representative DOC and DOCG Main lithology Soil texture Gravel content Soil Internal Drainage Rooting depth 3 3 Legend Towns and cities Villages DOC & DOCG boundary Soil survey and mapping (2001-2006) Granted by Amministrazione Provinciale di Siena NTU mapping (2013) © Journal of Maps (2014) Text Ch&Ch S Ch&Ch S CAS CAS ChC ChC Ch&ChS Ch&ChS BR U BR U G R S G R S O RC O RC Ch&ChS Ch&ChS N OB N OB Ch &C hS Ch &C hS ChC Chianti Classico DOCG Ch&ChS Chianti & Chianti Colli Senesi DOCG BRU Brunello di Montalcino DOCG NOB Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG CAS Terre di Casole DOC GRS Grance Senesi DOC ORC Orcia DOC