Burgundy Flashcards
What communes make up Pouilly-Fuisse?
Fuisse
Solutre Pouilly
Chaintre
Vergisson
What 3 villages make up the hill of Corton?
Aloxe-Corton
Ladoix-Serrigny
Pernand-Vergelesses
What four lieux dits were approved in the 1990’s to add their name to the label of Burgogne AOP?
La Chapelle Notre Dame
Le Chapitre
Cote St. Jacques
Montrecul
The Cote Chalonnais lies in what department?
Saone-et-Loire department
The Grand Cru Bonnes Mares is shared between Chambolle-Musigny and one other commune. What is it?
Morey St. Denis
How many Grand Cru in Gevrey-Chambertin
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Clos de Beze is the only one that doesn’t contain Chambertin at the end of it.
Name 3 great producers within Gevrey-Chambertin.
Armand Rousseau
Claude Dugat
Fourrier
What are Pommard’s best Premier cru vineyards?
Les Rugiens (divided into haut and bas sections)
Les Epenots
Clos des Expeneaux (monopole for Comte Armand- central portion of the les epenots vineyard)
What are the 10 Crus of Beaujolais
Julienas
St. Amour
Chenas
Moulin a Vent
Fleurie
Chiroubles
Morgon
Regnie
Brouilly
Cote de Brouilly
When was La Grand Rue promoted to grand cru?
1992
What soil is indicative of Cru Beaujolais?
Granite
Define: piece
Burgundy barrel- 228L
What three villages do not make white wine in the Cote de Nuits?
Gevrey-Chambertin
Chambolle-Musigny
Vosne-Romanee
Name the Grand Crus of Beaune.
There are none
There are 42 Premier Cru, most notable:
Les Marconnets
Greves
Clos du Roi
Clos des Mouches
Name 3 great Premier Cru Vineyards of Meursault
Aux Perrieres
Les Genevrieres
Les Charmes
List 3 great producers of Meursault
Coche Dury
Guy Roulot
Comtes Lafon
Which of the following villages does not produce Côte de Nuits-Villages AOP wines?
Prissey
Fixin
Brochon
Corgoloin
Marsannay
Marsannay
Beaujolais and Coteaux du Lyonnais lie in what department?
Rhone department
Where is les Genevrières?
Meursault
In what department do Chablis, Auxerre, Irancy, and St-Bris lie?
Yonne department
Santenot if planted to white grapes is labelled as____________ and if planted to red grapes _______________.
Meursault Premier Cru
Volnay Premier Cru
Name 4 great producers from Chambolle-Musigny
Comte Georges de Vogue
Barthod
Georges (and Cristophe) Roumier
Perrot-Minot
Which of the following villages is not a Beaujolais cru?
Morgon
St-Aubin
Brouilly
St-Amour
Fleurie
St-Aubin
Where is Fourchaume?
Chablis
1erCru
What do Beaujolais Superieur wines need for classification?
Higher must weight
half a degree higher alcohol
All grand cru wines from the Côte de Nuits are red.
True or False?
False
Musigny Blanc
List the Grand Cru vineyards of Puligny-Montrachet
Montrachet (Split with Chassagne)
Batard-Montrachet (Split with Chassagne)
Chevalier-Montrachet
Bienvenues-Batard-Montrachet
Vergisson is a commune of Pouilly-Fuisse.
True or False?
True as well as
Chaintre
Solutre-Pouilly
Fuisse
What are the 4 premier cru vineyards of Vougeot?
Clos de la Perriere (Bertagna monopole)
Les Petits Vougeot
Les Cras
Le Clos Blanc (Vougeraie monopole)
What are the four Chablis AOPs?
Petit Chablis
Chablis
Chablis Premier Cru
Chablis Grand Cru
List 4 great Premier cru of Vosne-Romanee
Aux Malconsorts
Clos de Reas
Beaux Monts
Cros Parantoux
Which of the following villages does not have any grand cru vineyards?
Meursault
Chassagne-Montrachet
Morey-St-Denis
Flagey-Echézeaux
Chambolle-Musigny
Meursault
Which of the following vineyards is an important premier cru in Meursault?
Clos de la Roche
les Serpentières
les Perrières
Clos Napoléon
Les St-Georges
Les Perrieres
What are the village appellations of Cote de Nuits from north to south?
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Marsannay
Fixin
Gevrey-Chambertin
Morey-St-Denis
Chambolle-Musigny
Vougeot
Vosne-Romanee
Nuits St. Georges
Cote de Beaune Village wines are exclusively _________ ?
Red
Made from any village in Cote de Beaune except for Volnay, Pommard, Aloxe-Corton, and Beaune
Where is Pouilly-Fuisse?
Côte de Nuits
Chablis
Mâconnais
Côte Chalonnaise
Beaujolais
Maconnais
Which of the following is not a Chablis Grand Cru?
Les Clos
Clos des Tart
Vaudésir
Valmur
Bougros
Clos de Tart
What is selection massale?
Choosing to select cuttings for propagation from the most desirable older vines in a vineyard, rather than using specific clonal material from a nursery. Mass selection can help to maintain the consistency of style of the wine from a particular vineyard.
Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet is located within which of the following villages?
Chassagne-Montrachet
Meursault
Puligny-Montrachet
Savigny-lès-Beaune
Aloxe-Corton
Puligny-Montrachet
What are the Grand Crus of Vosne-Romanee?
La Tache (monopole DRC)
Romanee-Conti (monopole DRC)
La Romanee (monopole Liger-Belair)
La Grand Rue (monopole Francois Lamarche)
Richebourg
Romanee-St-Vivant
What 5 main villages have their own appellation within the Cote Chalonnaise?
Bouzeron
Rully
Givry
Mercury
Montagny
Which of the following Grand Cru vineyards is located in Vosne-Romanée?
Chambertin
Montrachet
La Tâche
Corton
Bonnes Mares
La Tache
What may the following villages label there wine as?
Flagey-Echezeaux
Premeaux
Flagey-Echezeaux - Vosne-Romanee
Premeaux - Nuit St Georges
What is the largest Grand Cru in the Cote de Nuits?
Clos Vougeot
Mazoyères-Chambertin is a climat of the grand cru Charmes-Chambertin.
True or False?
True
Coteaux du Lyonnais AOP produces wine from what grapes?
White: chardonnay, aligote, pinot blanc
Red: gamay
What villages may Cote de Nuit Villages be sourced from?
Fixin
Brochon
Prissey
Corgoloin
Comblanchien
Can be white(rarely) or red
What are the 5 separate village AOPs of the Maconnais?
Pouilly-Fuisse
Pouilly-Loche
Pouilly-Vinzelles
St-Veran
Vire-Clesse
What are the Grand Crus of Morey-st-Denis?
Bonnes Mares (sliver shared with Chambolle-Musigny)
Clos de la Roche
Clos de Saint-Denis
Clos de Tart (Mommesin monopole)
Clos des Lambrays
What are the Grand crus of Flagey-Echezeaux?
Echezeaux
Grands-Echezeaux
What is the preferred soil type in Chablis?
Kimmeridgian limestone
What are Volnay’s best Premier cru vineyards?
Taille Pieds
Les Caillerets
Clos des Chenes
Clos de Ducs (monopole Marquis d’Angerville)
What are the Grand crus of Chambolle-Musigny?
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Musigny
Bonnes-Mares
Givry produces only red wine.
True or False
False
List 2 great producers of Morey-St-Denis
Dujac
Ponsot
What is the minimum percentage of Pinot Noir in Bourgogne Passetoutgrains ?
30%
For what cocktail is Aligoté traditionally used?
Kir
it is combined with creme de cassis and drunk as an apertif
Which of the following is a Bourgogne AOP lieu-dit in the Côte de Nuits?
Montrecul
Aux Malconsorts
Chitry
Épeneuil
Marsannay
Montrecul
Where is Maranges?
Cotes de Beaune
Cotes de Nuit
Cotes Chalonnaise
Macconaise
Beaujolais
Cotes de Beaune
Clos des Lambrays is a monopole of Mommessin.
True or False?
False
Clos de Tart is a monopole of Mommessin
Coteaux Bourguignons is just like Bourgogne AOP except for what?
It allows blending of the Gamay grape in red blends.
Where is Bouzeron AOP located?
Cote Chalonnaise
Bouzeron produces wines from what grape?
Aligote
List the Grand Crus of Chassagne-Montrachet
Le Montrachet (Split with Puligny)
Batard-Montrachet (Split with Puligny)
Criots-Batard-Montrachet
What is unique about the village of Marsannay?
They make rose
Which of the following appellations is not located in the Côte Chalonnaise?
Mercurey
Bouzeron
Givry
Rully
Aloxe-Corton
Aloxe-Corton
What is a well regarded Premier cru in Chambolle-Musigny?
Les Amoureuses
List 3 great producers of Volnay?
Marques d’Angerville
Hubert Montille
Michel Lafarge
Bourgogne Mousseaux is exclusively made from ?
Red grapes made in the traditional method
Define:
Metayage
Fermage
Share cropping
leasing
If Blagny is white it is labelled as ____________ and if it is red it is labelled as ______________.
Meursault-Blagny
Blagny
What is a synonym for Pinot Beurot?
Pinot Gris
What is the smallest AOP in all of France?
La Romanee
What are the only 2 Grand Cru vineyards in Vosne that have multiple owners?
Richebourg
Romanee-St-Vivant
What grapes make up the red wines in the Maconnais?
Pinot Noir & Gamay
Name 3 premier cru sites in Gevery-Chambertin that are worthy of note.
Clos St-Jacques
Lavaux St-Jacques
Les Cazetieres
How many Grand Cru vineyards are in the Cote de Nuits?
24
Name 3 top producers in Vosne-Romanee?
Henry Jayer (run by nephew Emmanuel Rouget)
Domaine de la Romanee Conti
Domaine Leroy
others of note-
Michel Gros, Anne Gros, Jean Grivot, Meo Camuzet
Other than Pommard and Volnay, which commune of the Côte de Beaune produces red wines exclusively?
Blagny
Who is the sole producer of Musigny Blanc?
Comtes Georges de Vogue
How many communes make up the Beaujolais Villages AOP?
38 communes including the northern cru.
What are the Grand Crus of Chablis?
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Bougros
Les Preuses
Vaudésir
Les Grenouilles
Valmur
Les Clos
Blanchots
8th
La Moutonne
(an unofficial “8th” grand cru comprised of parcels of both Les Preuses and Vaudésir, and a monopole of Domaine Long-Depaquit)
What is the largest Grand Cru in Burgundy?
Corton
What are the Grand Crus of Nuit St Georges?
There are none
Premier Cru Les Saint Georges is seeking Grand cru status
Le Montrachet is split between what 2 villages?
Chassagne-Montrachet
Puligny-Montrachet
Why was Coteaux de Bourguignons AOP introduced?
Formerly known as Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire AOP. This is used to bring Gamay into red blends. It shares the same dimensions as Bourgogne AOP
What village began the production of sparkling wines in Burgundy?
Rully
What is the smallest AOP in France?
La Romanee
What is a chevet?
Water Channel
What are murgers?
Piles of rocks removed from the vineyards while tilling.
What is a clos?
Walled vineyard
Define Climat
- A parcel of vines defined and named to be associated with the wines it produces- a single vineyard in Burgundy
- Signals, the climats of Burgundy draw from the notion of terroir, and become tracts of land whose wines are shaped not only by location, but by other environmental and manmade conditions particular to the vineyard
Define Leux Dits
Nearly synonymous with climat, a lieu-dit is a named single vineyard, and forms one contiguous parcel within a single commune
Define Parcel
A parcel is a single contiguous holding within a vineyard, owned entirely by one grower
What does coupage mean?
Blend or blending
Define provignange
is the name given to the technique used originally to propagate the vines, by layering a branch and covering it with soil
When replanting after phylloxera in Burgundy, what head training was most often used?
Single Guyot
In what part of Burgundy do you typically see Double Guyot?
Chablis
In what part of Burgundy does gobelet training remain wide spread?
Beaujolais
What is the minimum number of plants per hectare in the Cote d’Or?
9,000
10,000 is typical in the region.
What is a Chaufferettes?
diesel-burning smudge pots, designed to heat the vines at night) first appeared in Chablis vineyards in the 1950s, but the cost of fuel—both to the vigneronand to the environment—remains high.
What is winemaking consultant, Guy Accad, famous for.
Cold Soak
White sugar is added to Burgundian wines for Chaptilization. What vegetable is the sugar sourced from?
Beets
What is subtractive must enrichment?
The technique, illegal before 2009, allows a Burgundian producer to remove water from the must to concentrate the remainder by a maximum factor of 10%.
What is a feuillettes?
Smaller barrels that hold 132 liters of wine. They remain the official unit of measurement for Chablis growers selling wine to négociants but are rare in actual wine production. Few coopers even make feuillettes today.
What percentage of Chablis vineyards are harvested by machine?
95%
What river does Chablis lie along?
Serein
What are the 3 communes of Marsannay?
Chenove
Marsannay-La-Cote
Couchey
What is the only village AOP in Burgundy that produces a Rose?
Marsannay
Introduced by the now-defunct Domaine Clair-Däu in the 1920s
Who is considered the top estate in Marsannay?
Domaine Bruno Clair
Grandson of Clair Dau
Domaine de la Perriere is known for what wine in Fixin?
Monopole- Clos de la Perriere
Jules Lavalle’s ranked it as one of the Côte d’Or’s tête de cuvées
What are Burgundy’s two oldest climats?
Clos de Beze
Chambertin
Both located in Gevery- Chambertin
What are the Grand Cru vineyards in Gevrey Chambertin from North to South. First name the western side of the Routes de Grand Crus than the eastern side.
Western side of Routes de Grand Crus: 5
Mazis-Chambertin
Rouchottes-Chambertin
Chambertin-Clos-de-Beze
Chambertin
Latricieres-Chambertin
Eastern side of Routes de Grand Crus: 4
Chapelle-Chambertin
Griottes-Chambertin
Charmes-Chambertin
Mazoyeres-Chambertin
What are the most important Premier Cru Vineyards of Gevrey-Chambertin?
Located on the hillside north of the Combe de Lavaux
Clos Saint-Jacques
Les Cazetiers
Located in the southern most region of Gevrey-Chambertin
Aux Combottes
Name 5 of the most reputable Domaines located in Gevrey-Chambertin.
Armand Rousseau
Fourrier
Claude Dugat
Denis Bachelet
Denis Mortet
Joseph Roty
Pierre Damoy
Name 5 of the most reputable Domaines located in Morey-St-Denis
Dujac
Ponsot
Perrot-Minot
Guy Catagnier
Hubert Lignier
Clos de Tart
List the Grand Crus of Morey-Saint-Denis
4
Clos-de-la-Roche
Clos-Saint-Denis
Clos-de-Tarts
Clos-Lambrays
Small portion of Bonnes Mares is located within in Morey-Saint-Denis
Who owns Clos de Tart?
Mommessin
What are the 3 distinct lieux dits of Musigny
Les Musigny
Les Petits Musigny
La Combe d’Orveaux (small piece)
Who is the largest land holder of Musigny?
Comtes de Georges Vogue
What are the 2 Grand Cru of Chambolle-Musigny?
Bonnes Mares in the North
Musigny in the South
Best Premier Cru Vineyard in Chambolle-Musigny?
Les Amoureuses
Top climat surrounding Bonnes Mares?
Les Fuees
Les Véroilles
Les Cras
List 3 great Domaines of Chambolle-Musigny
Comtes Georges de Vogue
Georges Roumier
Ghislaine Barthod
Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier
What four departments make up Burgundy?
Yonne- Chablis
Cote d’Or
Saone-et-Loire
Rhone
What are the regional AOPs of Burgundy
Bourgogne
Bourgogne Aligote
Bourgogne Mousseux
Bourgogne Passe-Touts-Grains
Coteaux Bourgignons
Cremant de Bourgogne
What is the dividing line between Cote de Nuits and Cote de Beaune?
There is a break in the slope between the communes of Corgoloin and Ladoix Serrigny