Bordeaux (MP)

Question 1

AOPs of Cotes de Bordeaux?

Answer 1

• Cotes de Bordeaux - incorporated Francs, Cadillac, Castillon, Blaye. All colors of wine made. Francs - r & w - can append name
• Premier Cotes de Bordeaux - sweet white - 34 g/l RS
• Bourg/Cotes de Bourg
• Blaye - Red only
• Cotes de Blaye- white only

Question 2

Graves AOP?

Answer 2

Graves classification took place in 1953, again in 1959

• Graves
• Graves Superieur
• Pessac Leognan (1987)
• Cerons (CBS): 3 communes - Illats, Podensac, Cerons - can make r & w
• Barsac - can use the term Sauternes
• Sauternes

Red & White 1st Growths

• Ch. Bouscaut
• Ch Carbonnieux - tasted like celery cream soda
• Domaine de Chevalier
• Ch La Tour Martillac
• Ch Martilac LaGraviere

Question 3

Medoc AOP

Answer 3

Red Wines only

Question 4

St. Julien Second Growths

Answer 4

• Leoville Poyferre
• Leoville Barton
• Leoville Les Cases
• Ducru Beaucaillou
• Gruard Larose

Question 5

Important Pomerol Chateaux?

Answer 5

• Ch. Petrus
• Ch Vieux Ch Certain - very intellectual wine. 60M, 30CF, 10CS - licorice, sweet oak, brett
• Ch La Fleur
• Ch Le Pin - noted garagiste
• Ch Trotanoy

Question 6

Main Grapes of Cognac?

Answer 6

Minimum 90% of the following

• St Emilion: Ugni Blanc
• Folle Blance: Picpoul
• Colombard - also used 30% white bordeaux

Additional info

• Baco Blanc 2A: Hybird - no new plantings allowed
• Continuous rectfying still
• 8 Grapes permitted in all

Question 7

Pineau de Charantes?

Answer 7

• w) St.Emilion, Folle Blanche (Gros Plant), Colombard
• r) Mlabec, Merlot, CS, CF
• Serve it cold
• From the Cognac Region

Question 8

Communes of St. Julien?

Answer 8

• St. Julien
• St. Julien de Beycheville - think of the 4th growth
• Cussac - Fort Medoc
• St.Laurent

Question 9

Vintage 2005 in Bordeaux?

Answer 9

• Droughtlike yet not period of extreme heat
• high tannin
• high extract
• moderate acid
• which leds to high concentration

Question 10

Cru Bourgeois?

Answer 10

• Chasse Spleen
• D’Angludet
• du Breiul
• Haut Marzubet
• Les Ormes Sorbet
• Maucaillou
• Meyney
• Oontesac
• Sociando Mallet ***

Cru Bourgeouis system has changed. This is the only of the 3 levels that is left. It guarantees quality.

Question 11

Second Labels?

Lynch Bages

Answer 11

• Lynch Bages - Haut Bages Averous, then Echo de Lynch Bages

Question 12

Generic Bordeaux AOPs?

Answer 12

1. Bordeaux AOP
2. Bordeaux Sup. AOP - w) 12 acquired ABV
3. Cremant de Bordeaux - must hand harvest

Question 13

White Bordeaux?

Answer 13

70% min: Semillion, SB, Muscadelle

30% the crap: Ugni Blanc, Merlot Blanc, Colombard

Question 14

Cotes de Castillon AOP?

Answer 14

• East of St.Emilion
• Name comes from Castillon la Bataille
• Famous site where the English lost a battle - and helped end 100 year war

Question 15

Third Growths (1855 Classification)

Answer 15

Margaux

• Boyd Cantenac
• Cantenanac Brown
• Desmiral
• D’issan - Blason
• Ferriere
• Giscours
• Kirwan - Charmes
• Malescot
• Marquis d’Aleseme
• Palmer - Ego

Haut Medoc

• La Lagune - wedding wine

Estephe

• Calon Segur

St Julien - 3rds don’t “goa” the distance. Both “l”s

• La Grange
• Langoa

Question 16

First Growths

Answer 16

• Haut Brion - only one to have white wine under the same AOP, due to rules of Graves

Question 17

Levels of French Wine

Answer 17

1. Vin de France
   
   • Now can list vintage & varietal
2. Vin de Pays - 100hl/ha
   
   • ABV - 9 to 10%
   • Same as IGP
   • w) 90 hl/ha, r & ro? 85 hl/ha
3. AOP

Question 18

Bordeaux Climatic influences

Answer 18

• Altantic Ocean and Girdonde moderate
• Pine Forest
• Concern: humid - hence “bordeaux mixture”
• Gravel soil deepest in Pauillac

Question 19

Sauternes

Sub regions, RS, Rivers

Answer 19

• Communes: Sauternes, Barsac, Fargues, Preignac, Bommes
• 221 g/, 45 g/l RS
• ABV: 15% & 12%, 25 hl/ha
• Confluence of 2 Rivers Ciron & Garonne
• no d’yquem in 1992 or 1974

Question 20

Cote de Duras?

Answer 20

• Extension of E-d-M - and to the East
• Fuller style of wine than E-d-M

Question 21

AOPs of Entre deux Mers?

There are 7 sub regions

Answer 21

Between Dordogne & Garonne - White wines only

White only

1. Entre-Deux-Mers AOP - dry white only. Can use Haut Benage
2. Sainte-Croix-du-Mont AOP - sweet white
3. Loupiac AOP - sweet white
4. Cadillac AOP - sweet wine
5. Côtes de Bordeaux-Saint-Macaire AOP - white - all styles

Red & White

1. Graves de Vayres AOP - r & w
2. Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux AOP - r&w

Question 22

Second Growths of Bordeaux

Answer 22

St. Estephe

• Cos
• Montrose

Pauillac - gravel is deepest here

• P.Longville
• P.Comtesse

St.Julien

• Ducru Beauvaillou
• Gruard La Rosse
• Leovilles x3 - Barton, Cases, Poyferre

Margaux

• Rauzan - Gassies, Segla
• Lascombes
• Durfort Vivens
• Brane Cantenace

Question 23

Vintages in Bordeaux

83 to 88

Answer 23

• 82 - good
• 83 - good for Margaux and Botrytis
• 84 - average to bad
• 85,86,88,89,90 - good
• 87 - better than 84. overshadowed by 86
• 91,92,93 - average
• 94 - good
• 95,96 - stellar
• 97,98,99 - average. choose carefully
• 2000, 2001 - stunning
• 2009 - best of the decade

Best of previous years - 45, 49, 53, 61, 70, 75, 78, 79

Question 24

Right Bank AOPS

Answer 24

AOPs of the Right Bank

• Saint-Émilion AOP
  
  • Saint-Émilion GC AOP
  • Lussac-St-Émilion AOP
  • Montagne-St-Émilion AOP
  • Puisseguin-St-Émilion AOP
  • St-Georges-St-Émilion AOP
• Pomerol AOP
• Lalande-de-Pomerol AOP
• Canon Fronsac AOP
• Fronsac AOP