Saint-Chinian Roquebrun

Sub-zone

Saint-Chinian Roquebrun is a named sub-zone of Saint-Chinian in France, covering 1,187.1 ha across 4 communes. That is 5.7% of the Saint-Chinian appellation area. The rules allow red, rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 18 km south-west of Bédarieux and 23 km north-west of Béziers.

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Key facts

Type: Dénomination géographique complémentaire
Within: Saint-Chinian
Category: Vin tranquille
Area: 1,187.1 ha
Separate plots: 308
Extent N–S × E–W: 8.95 × 12.89 km
Centre: 43.4951° N, 3.0163° E

Where it is

Nearest town: 18 km south-west of Bédarieux
Nearest city: 23 km north-west of Béziers 74,081 people
To the sea: 36 km

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 68–422 m
Mean elevation: 180 m
Mean slope: 14.3° (25 %)
Steepest tenth: above 22°
Faces: south

Measured over the whole outline on 16,076 elevation cells of about 28 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Bedrock

Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks (sandstone, shale)98%

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 4

Cessenon-Sur-Orb
Roquebrun
Saint-Nazaire-De-Ladarez
Vieussan

Sources

INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles (Licence Ouverte 2.0)

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