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The Viré-Clessé appellation in figures...
71 estates produce the Viré-Clessé appellation:
37 in Viré and 34 in Clessé.
The surface area of Viré-Clessé already planted and available for planting in the communes concerned:
- 1,334.74 acres hectares in total, of which
- 649.19 acres for Clessé
- 611.79 acres for Viré
- 65.10 acres for Montbellet
- 8.64 acres for Laizé.
The figures for the Viré-Clessé surface area already planted:
963.91 acres in total (471.77 acres for Clessé, 433.80 acres for Viré and 58.34 acres for Montbellet).
Average production of the cooperative cellars, all appellations included:
Clessé 8,500 hectolitres, Viré 26,000 hectolitres.
Geological situation of Viré and Clessé
- Oxfordian Limestone in Clessé (pH from 7 to 8.5),
- Bajocian entrochal limestone in Viré,
- the second slope of middle and upper Jurassic limestone dominates at Viré (pH from 7 to 8).