ENABLING LOCAL

 
When one moves from the urban bustle in the town of Bordeaux Tresses, the environment is gradually becoming more soothing, more rural, nature reasserts itself.

 Dominating the right bank of the Garonne, four successive slopes from east to west with the north side is composed of land and soft the southern slope of clay and gravel or clay and limestone.

It is on these little hills of Entre-Deux-Mers vineyards that extend the Castle Lisennes. Its soil has throughout the years of the mild maritime climate. Winters are mild, usually early spring and summers are hot but tempered by prolonged autumns long and fairly sunny.

 The soil in the area is all clay and limestone with siliceous silt due to the proximity of the slopes of the banks of the Garonne. Thus we find two types of soils Lisennes, those with a high loam texture (coarse and fine silt) and those of clay-siliceous limestone medium or low with excellent structure and strongly support the development of the vine. The first require further work particularly in relation to soil aeration.

Moreover, the nature of soil required the installation of a drainage system. A network of several kilometers of drains (perforated plastic pipes) were buried about 80 cm deep in the whole vineyard.They replaced an old network of clay pipes. These pipes recover waters whose soil is saturated during wet periods to lead them to the bottom of the hill. There, they flow in two small lakes created in the late 70s.