THE OBSERVANT VISITOR is hardly aware of the eventful history of the landscape, which can be traced back to the Palaeozoic. This ancient history is preserved in the long eroded ancient mountain ranges and the remains of the shallow seas that once covered the land. The rocks from which our vineyard soils have developed can be many thousands or hundreds of millions of years old. Very often, the rocks vary from young to old within a small distance, which results in soils with very different properties.