Kimmeridgian is soil type described by Tom Stevenson (2011) as ‘a greyish-coloured limestone originally identified in, and so named after, the village of Kimmeridge in Dorset, England. A sticky, calcareous clay containing this limestone is often called Kimmeridgian clay.’ Katrina Alloway describes this soil as ‘chalky, off white lumps of stone embedded with titchy [tiny] white fossilised shells from the Upper Jurassic period.’ This soil is found in the Chablis region.

Bibliography

Tom Stevenson (2011) The Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia 5th Edition by Tom Stevenson (Dorling Kindersley, 2011), p.17-19.

Katrina Alloway, ‘Talk the Chalk,’ Wine Magazine ,August 2001, p.62.