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Le Clos Jordanne decided to follow the Burgundian practice of mixing clones within planting blocks. The Viniculturalists vat and ferment the wines geographically (ie "east" or "west" ignoring block boundaries and thus blending the clones, enabling Le Clos Jordanne to look at terroir more than clonal taste differences.
Spaced tightly together, the Le Clos Jordanne vines better colonize the land, resulting in lower yields. However, the fruit that does develop is a higher quality, because it enjoyed wider access to the nutrients in the soils, and the sun's energy and goodness.
The Guyot pruning system or Vertical Shoot Positioning (VSP) is used at Le Clos Jordanne vineyards. These systems are guided by the vineyard staff who carefully hand position the shoots towards the sun to ensure optimal photosynthesis, air circulation and ripening.
Niagara Terroir
The Niagara Escarpment is a unique ridge of land that stretches from New York State to the Bruce Peninsula in northwestern Ontario. Once the shoreline of the ancient Lake Iroquois, the Escarpment's cliffs and waterfalls were formed by glaciers in the last Ice Age, which left the soils above its bedrock of sandstone, limestone and dolomites rich in loam, clay-loam, sand, gravel and minerals.
Unlike the limestone rich soils in Burgundy that are a part of the "mother-rock" found deep beneath the earth's surface, the Niagara limestone was carried across the earth with the glaciers from the Canadian Shield. This process creates variation in the geological make-up of the Escarpment, creating many different terroirs within the same region. This is highly evident in the differences between the Le Clos Jordanne vineyards.
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