Geography Wines of Provence

GEOGRAPHY

Geological crumplings of the Pyrenees in Provence conditioned the relief with the accesses of the Mediterranean from Martigues in Cannes and those of low interior Provence. With them the Moors and Esterel were born - old littoral solid masses of modest altitude ( 600 m ) - and the chains limestones of Sainte-Victoire and Sainte-Baume which separate from the more or less wide and deep basins (Aix-en-Provence, Trets). At the North-East of Saint-Raphaël, Esterel presents splendid landscapes of red rocks, they are porphyries of Trayas. Towards the south, the Moors slopes show whose slopes, softer, are covered with forests of pines and cork oaks. The plates limestones, more in the west which overhang the Mediterranean drew broken white cliffs of narrow throats that poeple from Provence calls "calanques"( Pronounce :Kalank)

In the north and the east of this unit, a vast mountainous surface was joined by the folding of the Alps: the Alps of the South. Luberon and them plates naked and stony limestones of the Plans of Provence form a zone of transition. They rise up to 1 200 m of altitude of the plate of Canjuers to the canyon of Provence of the Gorges of the Verdon. Préalpes which border altitudes close to 2 000 m are spread out largely to Nice and Menton in folds meridian lines supporting the hills of the sea. The high alpine, close mountain border, is reduced to a 40 km broad band; average altitude exceeds there 2 000 m, the tops rise above 3 000 meters. The valley of the Durance is the principal axis of the Alps of the South.

Vignoble du Domaine OTT à Taradeau

The Climate

The southern Climate is not always the ally of vine growers because january"s average temperatures vary between 0 °C in the high valley of Durance, 4°C in the plains of Vaucluse and 6° to 7 °C on the coast; the high tops record negative values. The winter is soft but does not exclude freezing (from 20 days per annum in Marseilles), which isn"t a joke! The summer is hot: july's averages exceed 23 °C on the coast and reach 18 to 20 °C in the major part of lowalps. Every year, interior Provence and the valley of the Durance undergo torrid days (more than 35 °C ). The mistral is the wind from the north which blows in gusts force, sometimes with more than 100 km/h , on the plains and the western hills. Its release involves a fall in temperature of 10 °C in one day. It is almost stopped by the hills of Estérel and dies in the entry of Nice. What is normal, since the border of Provence is the Var river which is thrown in the Mediterranean very close of the airport of Nice-Cote-d'Azur..
Annual precipitations, where as slight close to Marseille, rise to nearly 800 mm in the mountainous littoral. They exceed 800 mm in the mountains. Nice and Marseille recieve each other in few days as much précipitations as Brest and Paris, hence the great violence of those precipitations


	Index Wines Of Provence Vignoble du Domaine Deffends - Carnoules - Var GEOGRAPHY Geological crumplings of the Pyrenees in Provence conditioned the relief with the accesses of the Mediterranean from Martigues in Cannes and those of low interior Provence. With them the Moors and Esterel were born - old littoral solid masses of modest altitude ( 600 m ) - and the chains limestones of Sainte-Victoire and Sainte-Baume which separate from the more or less wide and deep basins (Aix-en-Provence, Trets). At the North-East of Saint-Raphaël, Esterel presents splendid landscapes of red rocks, they are porphyries of Trayas. Towards the south, the Moors slopes show whose slopes, softer, are covered with forests of pines and cork oaks. The plates limestones, more in the west which overhang the Mediterranean drew broken white cliffs of narrow throats that poeple from Provence calls "calanques"( Pronounce :Kalank) In the north and the east of this unit, a vast mountainous surface was joined by the folding of the Alps: the Alps of the South. Luberon and them plates naked and stony limestones of the Plans of Provence form a zone of transition. They rise up to 1 200 m of altitude of the plate of Canjuers to the canyon of Provence of the Gorges of the Verdon. Préalpes which border altitudes close to 2 000 m are spread out largely to Nice and Menton in folds meridian lines supporting the hills of the sea. The high alpine, close mountain border, is reduced to a 40 km broad band; average altitude exceeds there 2 000 m, the tops rise above 3 000 meters. The valley of the Durance is the principal axis of the Alps of the South. Vignoble du Domaine OTT à Taradeau The Climate The southern Climate is not always the ally of vine growers because january"s average temperatures vary between 0 °C in the high valley of Durance, 4°C in the plains of Vaucluse and 6° to 7 °C on the coast; the high tops record negative values. The winter is soft but does not exclude freezing (from 20 days per annum in Marseilles), which isn"t a joke! The summer is hot: july's averages exceed 23 °C on the coast and reach 18 to 20 °C in the major part of lowalps. Every year, interior Provence and the valley of the Durance undergo torrid days (more than 35 °C ). The mistral is the wind from the north which blows in gusts force, sometimes with more than 100 km/h , on the plains and the western hills. Its release involves a fall in temperature of 10 °C in one day. It is almost stopped by the hills of Estérel and dies in the entry of Nice. What is normal, since the border of Provence is the Var river which is thrown in the Mediterranean very close of the airport of Nice-Cote-d'Azur.. Annual precipitations, where as slight close to Marseille, rise to nearly 800 mm in the mountainous littoral. They exceed 800 mm in the mountains. Nice and Marseille recieve each other in few days as much précipitations as Brest and Paris, hence the great violence of those precipitations