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Touraine Azay-le-Rideau

Sub-zone

Touraine Azay-le-Rideau is a named sub-zone of Touraine in France, covering 2,153.1 ha across 6 communes. That is 5.5% of the Touraine appellation area. The rules allow rosé, white and red wine. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks. It lies 20 km south-west of Fondettes and 26 km west of Tours.

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Key facts

Type
Dénomination géographique complémentaire
Within
Touraine
Category
Vin tranquille
Area
2,153.1 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
11.39 × 16.71 km
Centre
47.2800° N, 0.4064° E

Where it is

Nearest town
20 km south-west of Fondettes
Nearest city
26 km west of Tours 141,621 people
To the sea
159 km
Rivers nearby
Loire (3.8 km) · Cher (9.7 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
44–110 m
Mean elevation
82 m

Measured over the whole outline on 9,295 elevation cells of about 52 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Bedrock

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

Communes · 6

Sources

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

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