Beaujolais Flashcards

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Beaujolais

General Viti. and Vini.

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  • Mostly high density planting
  • Gobelet-trained
  • Hand-harvested
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Largest Cru

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Brouilly 1,300 ha

  • 6 communes
  • Over 20% Beaujolais production
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Highest Cru

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Chiroubles AOP 250-450 m

  • Coolest, Lightest
  • Harvested a week later than neighbors
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Coolest Cru

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Chiroubles AOP

  • Highest (250-450m), Lightest
  • Harvest a week later than its neighbors
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Saint-Amour AOP

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Saint-Amour AOP

  • Northernmost
  • Only cru located w/in Sâone-et-Loire dept.
  • 300 ha
  • Like Fleurie, Chiroubles - LIGHTER, LESS CONCENTRATED
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Julíenas AOP

Size in ha

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Julíenas AOP - 600 ha

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  • Saint-Amour 300 ha
  • Juliénas 600 ha
  • Chénas 240 ha (smallest)
  • Morgon 1,100 ha (2nd largest)
  • Fleurie 900 ha
  • Chiroubles 300 ha
  • Moulin-à-Vent 700 ha
  • Régníe 400 ha
  • Brouilly 1,300 ha (largest)
  • Côte de Brouilly 300 ha
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Juliénas AOP

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  • Most ancient cru, roots in Roman era, supposedly honoring Julius Caesar
  • 4 communes - Juliénas + Julié
  • 230-430m
  • Range in elevation and soils = varied styles, but generally fuller than Saint-Amour
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Julíenas AOP

Producers

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  • La Cave des Producteurs de Julíenas
    • 1/3 total production made by co-op
  • Pascal Granger
  • Domaine du Clos du Fief
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Chénas AOP

Origin of name

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“chêne” or “oak”

  • Vines gradually replaced ancient forests
  • Smallest cru, 240 ha
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Moulin-à-Vent AOP

Soils

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  • Soft, pink granitic soil (gore)
    • Similar in Fleurie, Chiroubles, Régníe
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Moulin-à-Vent AOP

Producers

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Better known producers located in M-à-V

  • Georges Duboeuf
  • Louis Jadot’s Château des Jacques
  • Potel-Aviron
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Fleurie AOP

Soils

Aspects

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  • Pink granite (gore)
  • Similar to Moulin-à-Vent, Chiroubles, Régníe
  • Steeper slopes of Mount la Madone
  • 220-450m
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Fleurie AOP

Producers

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  • Coudert’s Clos de la Roilette
  • Domaine de la Chapelle des Bois
  • Dom. Chignard
  • La Cave des Producteurs des Grands Vins de Fleurie
    • oldest coop in Beaujolais
    • prod. 1/3 of Beaujolais wines
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Morgon AOP

Soils

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  • roche pourrie “rotten rock”
    • Unusual mix of iron-rich schist + basalt streaked w/ manganese
  • Other soils: various granite, alluvial, clay
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Morgon AOP

Producers

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  • Kermit Lynch “gang of four”
    • Marcel Lapierre
    • Jean Foillard
    • Jean-Paul Thevenet
    • Guy Bréton
    • Guided by philosophyies of late Beaujolais chemist and winemaker Jules Chauvet
    • Pioneers in natural winemaking area, something beyond nouveau
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Régníe AOP

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  • AOP as late as 1988
  • Joined 2 communes - Régníe-Durette + Latignié - under 1 banner
  • 400 ha = small cru
  • Pink granite (gore) hillsides
  • 350m, SE, early-ripening
  • Middle of the pack, quality, charater
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Brouilly

Origin of name

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brûle - “burnt”

  • 1,300 ha, largest cru
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Côte de Brouilly AOP

Soils

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  • More Schist, Grey-Blue Diorite rock
  • Less granite
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Côte de Brouilly AOP

Producer

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Château Thivin

  • Kermit Lynch
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Côte du Py

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lieux-dit of Morgon

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La Madone

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lieux-dit of Fleurie

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Les Capitans

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lieux-dit of Juliénas

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Grange-Charton

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lieux-dit of Régnié

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2nd Largest Cru

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Morgon AOP 1,100 ha

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roche pourrie

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roche pourrie ​”rotten rock”

  • Dominant soil in Morgon
  • Unusual mix of iron-rich schist + basalt streaked w/ manganese