BORDEAUX Flashcards
What country was the most important foreign market in the Middle age for buordeaux?
England
Where is Bordeaux location?
Southwestern France, island from the Atlantic Ocean.
located on the 45th parallel.
What is Bordeaux’s climate?
Maritime
The climate is moderated by the Atlantic Ocean.
The regions can suffer from rain and frost.
What are 3 important rivers in Bordeaux?
The Garonne and Dordogne, meet north and form the Gironde Estuary, which flows into the Atlantic.
What is the geography of Bordeaux ?
A large pine forest along the coast to the west protect the regions from storms and winds from Atlantic.
Bordeaux ‘s soil type
Medoc and Graves
- Gravel
Saint-Emillion
-Gravel, limestone, sand
Pomerol
-Iron pan under sand and clay
What is Bordeaux’s grape varieties?
White:
Sauvignon Blanc
Semillon
Muscadelle (small)
Red:
Merlot (most)
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Franc
Petit Verdot (small)
Malbec (allowed, rarely seen)
Carmenere (allowed, rarely seen)
What is Bordeaux’s vilification?
Bordeaux wines are usually blends of two or more of the grapes varieties in the Bordeaux family.
What is Medoc’s wine style?
-70% Cabernet Sauvignon
-30% Merlot
+Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot
These wines are usually aged in new French oak barrels.
What is Saint-Emilion and Pomerol wine style?
-70% Merlot
-30% Cabernet Sauvignon
-These wines also spend some time in French oak barrels.
What is Graves wine style?
Dry white wine
-80% Sauvignon Blanc
-20% Semillon
What is Entre-Deux-Mers wine style?
Dry white wine
-80% Sauvignon Blanc
-20% Semillon
What is Sauternes wine style?
Sweet wine
-80% Semillon
-20% Sauvignon Blanc
-Muscadell (Small)
-Many sweet wines of Bordeaux are aged in new freanvh oak barrels.
What is Bordeaux Appellations?
- Commune Appellation
(Pauillac AOP) - Sub-Regional Appellation
(Haut-Medoc AOP)
3.Regional Appellation
(Bordeaux AOP)
How did Medoc get find for good wine area?
Medoc was salt marsh and pine forest, but Dutch engineers drained marshes and found beds of Gravel.
these became the home of the best Cabernet Sauvignon.
Where is Medoc located?
North of the Bordeaux along Gironde Estuary.
What is Medoc soil?
Gravel
with great moisture and draining.
Perfect for CS
What is Medoc’s grape varieties?
Cabernet Sauvignon based blend.
Only red wine.
What are main sub regions of Medoc?
Medoc AOP
Haut- Medoc AOP
What are main Commune in Haiti-Medoc AOP? (4)
Saint-Estephe
Pauillac
Saint-Julien
Margaux
What is 1855 Classification?
The classification system for best Bordeaux’s wines.
By Emperor Napoleon lll
For the Universal Exposition in Paris.
(パリ万博)
What are First Growth Chateaux of the 1855 Classification?
CH Lafite-Rothchild
CH mouton-rothschild (elevated in 1973)
CH Latour
CH Margaux
CH Haut-Brion (Graves)
What year dis CH Mouton-Rothchild elevate to first growth status?
In 1973
Where Graves AOP located?
South on the Medoc and the city of Bordeaux.
What is Graves’s soil?
Gravel
What is Graves’s grape varieties?
White:
Sauvignon Blanc
Semillon
Red:
Cabernet sauvignon, Franc, Merlot
What are main sub-regions of Graves?
Pessac-Leognan AOP
Sauternes AOP
What is Pessac-Leognan AOP?
Graves’s sub-region
Northernmost part of Graves, include the most highly regarded chateaux.
Dry white wine (main)
Dry red wine
New French oak
What is Sauternes AOP?
Graves’s sub-region
Southernmost of graves, borders by the Garonne and Ciron River.
Botrysts-affected sweet wine.
Oak aged, in new French barrique.
What is Entre-Deux-Mers AOP?
= “land between two seas”
A large area between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers.
What is Entre-Deux-Mers’s Soil?
Very fertile silt
What are main grapes of Entre-Deux-Mers AOP?
Dry White only
Sauvignon Blac
Senillon
Muscadel
Little to no oak, stainless steel
Red wines made in this area fall under the Bordeaux AOP appellation.
What is saint-Emilion’s location?
On the right bank
long the dordogne River near town of Libourne.
What is soil for Saint-Emilion?
Very depending on ty=he the location.
Large bed of silt, clay, and gravel
Limestone plateau
sand
What is Said-Emillion’s wine style?
AOP for red wines only.
-Merlot
-Carbernet Franc
What is Saint-Emilion Grand Cru AOP?
Wines are produced under slightly tighter productions than regular Saint-Emilion.
They are an appellstiion, not a classification.
wines have an additional 0.5% alcohol and must undergo a longer aging Tham wines labeled Saint-Emilion AOP.
What is Saint-Emilion Grand Cru’s system like?
Instituted in 1955, with a goal of revision every 10 years.
The most recent revisin was in 2022.
Who is Premier Grands Crus ClassesA In 2022?
CH Figeac
Ch Pavie
How do thy rank for Santa-Emilion Classification?
- Premiers Grands Crus Classe A
- Premier Grands Crus Classe B
- Grands Crus Classe
What is Pomerol’s soil?
Sand
Clay
Gravel
Subsoil of iron pan and rich clay
What is Pomerol’s grape varieties?
Red wine only
Merlot and Cabernet Franc-based blends
Where is Château Petrus?
Pomerol
What is considered the most important grape variety in th Medoc?
Cabernet Sauvignon
What soil in Bordeaux is most suitable for Cabernet Sauvignon?
Gravel
In what year were the wines of the Medoc first classified?
In 1855
Where is Chateau Haut-Brian is located?
Medoc
Which the regions produces only dry, white AOP wines?
Entre-Deux-Mers
What grape typically dominates the wine of Pomerol?
Merlot
Margaux’s wine style?
Cabernet Sauvignon
Pomerol’s wine style?
Merlot
Sauternes
Sweet wines
Semillon
Passac-Leognan’s wine style
Cabernet sauvignon blends
Entre-Deux-Mers
Sauvignon blanc
dry white
Which area of Bordeaux is best known for not having a classification of its chateaux?
Pomerol
Pomerol is the only major Bordeaux appellation that does not include a classification of its wines.
Why were the wines of Bordeaux better known internationally than most other French wins?
Because it’s direct link with the region’s important as a center of trade with easy access to the Atlantic Ocean.
And they classified
Describe the difference between how the wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy Are classified?
Burgundy is classified by land.
Bordeaux is by Chateaux which is blends.
