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Beaujolais Flashcards

1
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What departments cover Beaujolais AOP?

A

Saone-et-Loire
Rhone

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Which Beaujolais Cru AOPs are in the Saone-et-Loire and Rhone department?

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Julienas
Chenas
Moulin-a-Vent

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What Beaujolais Cru AOP is located only in Saone-et-Loire?

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Saint-Amour

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What styles are allowed in Beaujolais AOP?

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  • Blanc - 100% Chardonnay
  • Rouge and Rose - max. 10% combined Gamay de Bouze and Gamay de Chaudenay; max. 15% combined mixed plantings of Aligoté, Chardonnay, Melon de Bourgogne, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir
  • Rouge/Rosé Primeur/Nouveau
  • Rouge “Supérieur”
  • Beaujolais “Villages”

Aligoté vines planted before November 28, 2004 may be used for Beaujolais blanc until the 2024 harvest. Whole Pinot Noir blocks (rather than mixed field plantings) may be included in Beaujolais rouge and rosé vineyards through the 2015 vintage up to a max. 15%.

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Beaujolais AOP

  • Planting density
  • R/S
  • Date
A

Beaujolais AOP
- 5,000 vines per hectare
- 3 g/L
- 1937

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Beaujolais Cru AOPS

  • Style
  • Alcohol %
  • Min Must weight
  • RS
  • Yield
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Beaujolais Cru AOPS

  • Rouge: Gamay, plus a max. 15% mixed plantings of Chardonnay, Aligoté, and Melon de Bourgogne
  • 10.5%
  • 180 g/L
  • 3 g/L
  • 56 hl/ha (58 hl/ha prior to 2011)
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How may all Beaujolais Cru AOPs be labeled?

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  • Their name.. Morgon, Fleurie, ect
  • Cru du Beaujolais
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Beaujolais AOP Alcohol per Style

  • Blanc
  • Rose
  • Red
  • Beaujolais Superieur
  • Beaujolais Villages Blanc
  • Bueajolais Village Rose/Rouge
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Beaujolais AOP Alcohol per Style

  • Blanc: 13%
  • Rosé: 12.5%
  • Rouge: 12.5%
  • Beaujolais “Supérieur”: 13%
  • Beaujolais “Villages” Blanc: 13.5%
  • Beaujolais “Villages” Rosé/Rouge: 13%
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Beaujolais AOP Max Yields per Style

  • Blanc
  • Rosé/Rouge
  • Beaujolais “Supérieur”
  • Beaujolais “Villages” Blanc
  • Beaujolais “Villages” Rosé/Rouge
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Beaujolais AOP Max Yields per Style

  • Blanc: 68 hl/ha (60 hl/ha prior to 2011)
  • Rosé/Rouge: 60 hl/ha (64 hl/ha prior to 2011)
  • Beaujolais “Supérieur”: 58 hl/ha (62 hl/ha prior to 2011)
  • Beaujolais “Villages” Blanc: 66 hl/ha (58 hl/ha prior to 2011)
  • Beaujolais “Villages” Rosé/Rouge: 58 hl/ha (60 hl/ha prior to 2011)
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Brouilly AOP

  • Commune
  • Size
  • Soils
  • Date
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Brouilly AOP

  • Cercié, Charentay, Odenas, Quincié-en-Beaujolais, Saint-Etienne-la-Varenne, Saint-Lager
  • 1,327 ha (20% of the entire area of Cru Beaujolais)
  • pink granite, limestone-marl, and alluvial deposits
  • 1938
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Chiroubles AOP

  • Commune
  • Size
  • Soils
  • Elevation
  • Date
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Chiroubles AOP

  • Chiroubles
  • 350 ha
  • gore (sand produced from eroded granite)
  • 250-450 meters
  • 1936
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Chénas AOP

  • Commune
  • Size
  • Soils
  • Date
A

Chénas AOP
- Chénas and La Chapelle-de-Guinchay
- 253 ha
- granite in higher altitudes, siliceous clay in the lower areas
- 1936

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Côte de Brouilly AOP

  • Commune
  • Size
  • Soils
  • Date
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Côte de Brouilly AOP

  • Cercié, Odenas, Quincié-en-Beaujolais, Saint-Lager
  • 322 ha
  • granite, diorite (volcanic rock), and schist
  • 1938
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Fleurie AOP

  • Commune
  • Size
  • Soils
  • Elevation
  • Date
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Fleurie AOP

  • Fleurie
  • 857 ha
  • Pink granite
  • 220-450 meters
  • 1936
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Juliénas AOP

  • Commune
  • Size
  • Soils
  • Elevation
  • Date
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Juliénas AOP

  • Juliénas, Jullié, Emeringes, Pruzilly
  • 586 ha
  • granite-based in the western part, alluvial soils in the eastern part
  • 230-430 meters
  • 1938
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Morgon AOP

  • Commune
  • Size
  • Soils
  • Date
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Morgon AOP

  • Villié-Morgon
  • 1,126 ha
  • “Roche Pourrie” (“rotten rock,” a mixture of volcanic rock, schist, and soft crystalline rock)
  • 1936
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Moulin-à-Vent AOP

  • Commune
  • Size
  • Soils
  • Elevation
  • Date
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Moulin-à-Vent AOP

  • Chénas and Romanèche-Thorins
  • 611 ha
  • pink granite (locally called gore or grés)
  • 230-390 meters
  • 1936
18
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Régnié AOP

  • Commune
  • Size
  • Soils
  • Elevation
  • Date
A

Régnié AOP

  • Régnié-Durette and Latignié
  • 400 ha
  • pink granite
  • 350 meters
  • 1988
19
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Saint-Amour AOP

  • Commune
  • Size
  • Soils
  • Date
A

Saint-Amour AOP

  • Saint-Amour-Bellevue
  • 313
  • granite, clay and schist
  • 1046
20
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Coteaux du Lyonnais AOP

  • Blanc
  • Blanc Primeur/Nouveau
  • Rosé
  • Rosé Primeur/Nouveau
  • Rouge
  • Rouge Primeur/Nouveau
A

Coteaux du Lyonnais AOP

  • Blanc: Aligoté, Chardonnay, and a max. 30% mixed plantings of Pinot Blanc
  • Blanc Primeur/Nouveau
  • Rosé: Gamay, plus a max. 10% combined Gamay de Bouze and Gamay de Chaudenay
  • Rosé Primeur/Nouveau
  • Rouge: As for Rosé
  • Rouge Primeur/Nouveau
21
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What year was Beaujolais Nouveau first allowed to be released by law?

A

1951

22
Q

What percentage of Beaujolais is planted to Gamay?
What percentage of the worlds Gamay is planted in Beaujolais?

A

95%
50%

23
Q

When was Beaujolais-Village made an appellation?
When was it absorbed into Beaujolais AOP as a geographic designation?

A

1950
2011

24
Q

How many villages in Beaujolais can append their name to Beaujolais-Villages?

A

38

The Village name replaces the “village” in “Beaujolas-Villages”

25
Q

Describe the expresions of the different Crus

A

Fruity - Brouilly, Régnié, Chiroubles
Fruity, structured, elegant - Saint-Amour, Fleurie, and Chénas
Structured - Côte de Brouilly, Morgon, Juilénas, and Moulin-à-Vent

26
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What is the smallest Beaujolais Cru?

A

Chenas

27
Q

What can producers in Chenas also label their wine as?

A

Moulin-a-Vent

28
Q

What is Moulin-a-Vent named after?

A

A historic windmill

29
Q

What Cru is the most full-bodied, longest-lived, tannic and likely to see new oak?

A

Moulin-a-Vent

30
Q

What Cru is known for high levels of Manganese?
How does this affect vines?

A

Moulin-a-Vent
- It’s a necessary element for plant growth but toxic to vines in high concentrations—which serves to stunt growth and naturally limit yields
- Often used to explain structure of this cru

31
Q

Where is Mount la Madone?

A

Fleurie

32
Q

What is the lightest cru in Beaujolais?

A

Chiroubles

33
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What is the largest Cru in Beaujolais?

A

Brouilly

34
Q

What is Brouilly named after?

A

Mount Brouilly, an extinct volcano

Brouilly from Brulee meaning burnt

35
Q

What elevation is Cote de Brouilly?

A

300-400 meters

36
Q

What is the highest elevation cru in Beaujolais?

A

Chiroubles
250-450 meters

37
Q

Weaujolais Nouveau wines are officially released on what day every year?

A

THIRD THURSDAY OF NOVEMBER

38
Q

Which Duke of Valois banned the cultivation of Gamay in stating that it was, “[an] evil and disloyal plant”, and “injurious to the human creature”?

A

PHILLIP THE BOLD

39
Q

Chateau Thivin is based in what Cru of Beaujolais?

A

COTE DE BROUILLY

40
Q

What back-to-back vintages decimated the vineyards of Beaujolais?

A

2016 & 2017, QUALITY STILL GOOD – YIELDS LOW

41
Q

What is the largest Beaujolais Cru? The Smallest?

A

BROUILLY & CHENAS

42
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A

France_Beaujolais (2 decks)

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