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SOILS REGIONS OF ANJOU
ANJOU RED The very large region of Anjou has very diversified soils (clay, gravel…) at the bottom of the hills and on plateaux resting on a solid schist bed. It can be blue (Aubance slate), grey with interbedded sandstone, or purple (disintegrated friable schist from the Layon area).
	ANJOU VILLAGES The schist soils contained within the appellation Anjou-Villages are generally on hillsides with a good exposure to sunlight. These cobbly soils without too much clay, favour fast development and also obtain a superb concentration in Cabernet grapes.
ANJOU COTEAUX DE LA LOIRE Many types of soil are found on a strip seven to eight kilometres wide. The "light ground" composed of sand and silt over the Briovérien schist bed is the most characteristic. You can also see a soil composed only of blue limestone in this region.
	COTEAUX DU LAYON This appellation that stretches along the river imbedded in the Layon fault contains a multitude of soils (schists, chert rock, rhyolites, black carboniferous soil…). The sand and gravel of Anjou covers the Briovérien bedrock on hills with a slight slope.
CREMANT DE LOIRE This wine with fine bubbles made in two departments, Maine-et-Loire and Indre-et-Loire, is essentially harvested on limestone soils. The cremants produced in Anjou have the concentration of their grape varieties harvested on schist soils or, more specific, predominately rhyolite soils.

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