Quincy-AOC since August 1936, this very old wine-growing site produces whites from very typical terroirs (Sauvignon grape varieties at 100%)
The vineyard of Quincy, has about 330 hectares, 44 producers in two communes of Quincy and Brinay.
A bit of history:
The first vine plantations date back to the fifth century of the beginning of the Christian era.
In the Middle Ages, vines were cultivated more intensively, as evidenced by the documents of the time regulating the production of wine and which mention areas still cultivated today.
The appearance of the Quincy vineyard is made in 1120 in the Middle Ages, it is then one of the oldest vineyards in the region.
The Sauvignon grape variety was brought there by the abbey of the women of Beauvoir and the monks of the order of Citeaux.
After the replanting following the phylloxera pandemic, Quincy became the first AOC of the Centre Loire in August 1936.
A local legend tells that a druid, Salvagnus, tamed the wild vine and passed on his secret to his daughter Salvinia, who married Quincius, founder of the Quinciacum estate (villa), which would become Quincy.
The name Salvagnus gave the word Sauvignon!
The terroir:
The vineyard is located west of Bourges, in the communes of Quincy and Brinay. The wines find their specificities in soils made up of sand and gravel with a clay component. It has 5 types of terroirs: the complex terroir, the limestone terroir, the clay terroir on alluvium, the sandy terroir on alluvium and the gravelly terroir on limestone.
The soil is mainly clayey and the rooting is generally several meters deep.