Bordeaux (MP) Flashcards
AOPs of Cotes de Bordeaux?
- 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
Graves AOP?
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
Medoc AOP
Red Wines only
St. Julien Second Growths
- Leoville Poyferre
- Leoville Barton
- Leoville Les Cases
- Ducru Beaucaillou
- Gruard Larose
Important Pomerol Chateaux?
- 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
Main Grapes of Cognac?
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
Pineau de Charantes?
- w) St.Emilion, Folle Blanche (Gros Plant), Colombard
- r) Mlabec, Merlot, CS, CF
- Serve it cold
- From the Cognac Region
Communes of St. Julien?
- St. Julien
- St. Julien de Beycheville - think of the 4th growth
- Cussac - Fort Medoc
- St.Laurent
Vintage 2005 in Bordeaux?
- Droughtlike yet not period of extreme heat
- high tannin
- high extract
- moderate acid
- which leds to high concentration
Cru Bourgeois?
- 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.
Second Labels?
Lynch Bages
- Lynch Bages - Haut Bages Averous, then Echo de Lynch Bages
Generic Bordeaux AOPs?
- Bordeaux AOP
- Bordeaux Sup. AOP - w) 12 acquired ABV
- Cremant de Bordeaux - must hand harvest
White Bordeaux?
70% min: Semillion, SB, Muscadelle
30% the crap: Ugni Blanc, Merlot Blanc, Colombard
Cotes de Castillon AOP?
- East of St.Emilion
- Name comes from Castillon la Bataille
- Famous site where the English lost a battle - and helped end 100 year war
Third Growths (1855 Classification)
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
First Growths
- Haut Brion - only one to have white wine under the same AOP, due to rules of Graves
Levels of French Wine
- Vin de France
- Now can list vintage & varietal
- Vin de Pays - 100hl/ha
- ABV - 9 to 10%
- Same as IGP
- w) 90 hl/ha, r & ro? 85 hl/ha
- AOP
Bordeaux Climatic influences
- Altantic Ocean and Girdonde moderate
- Pine Forest
- Concern: humid - hence “bordeaux mixture”
- Gravel soil deepest in Pauillac
Sauternes
Sub regions, RS, Rivers
- 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
Cote de Duras?
- Extension of E-d-M - and to the East
- Fuller style of wine than E-d-M
AOPs of Entre deux Mers?
There are 7 sub regions
Between Dordogne & Garonne - White wines only
White only
- Entre-Deux-Mers AOP - dry white only. Can use Haut Benage
- Sainte-Croix-du-Mont AOP - sweet white
- Loupiac AOP - sweet white
- Cadillac AOP - sweet wine
- Côtes de Bordeaux-Saint-Macaire AOP - white - all styles
Red & White
- Graves de Vayres AOP - r & w
- Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux AOP - r&w
Second Growths of Bordeaux
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
Vintages in Bordeaux
83 to 88
- 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
Right Bank AOPS
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
