Soil and Zoning

The company zoning performed by Feudi della Medusa should be seen as the final result of a multi discipline method in which geological, morphological, climactic, botanical, agronomical and enological considerations have all been brought to bear in determining and understanding the most suitable areas for the production of quality wine, based on the characteristics of each different soil type.
The first step was the production of a detailed geo-botanical mapping of the company land, that in this instance was divided into plots, by which we mean geo-pedological units.
This tool has defined the particular genetic characteristics of each of our soils, allowing us to exploit and enhance their qualities and express them through our wines.
Overall, the company land is made up of ancient terraced alluvial cones of the Pleistocene age resulting from the break-up of the granite rocks of which the surrounding mountains are made. Where the land climbs up to meet the mountain the company soils come into contact with harsher landscapes with steeper gradients, very stony, featuring granite rock of the Palaeozoic era.
In other areas there are also sandy deposits with rounded pebbles that may be ascribable to possible Palaeolithic riverbeds.
Other more limited areas are also marked by the presence of limestone.
The soils, all extremely complex in terms of their make up, go from the slightly acidic to neutral in depth, with traces of iron/manganese in nodules and coatings, with colourings that tends towards pink, tied in with the alterations in the granite stone from which they come and that are well integrated in the soils providing excellent drainage and a good permeability.
The soils vary from loosely packed or sandy, moving through a medium texture to hard packed clay soils.