Weingut Rudi Pichler

Geology and Soils The oldest parent rock of our soils was moulded during the Variscan orogeny, as the seabed of the Rheic Ocean rose upward to become a mountain range, transformed during a period of geologic upheaval some 300–370 million years ago. Weathering and erosion have worn down the roots of these mountains into the undulating hills of the Bohemian Massif, and just a few million years