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What are the Classic wines of Burgundy?

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Chardonnay and Pinot Noir

Also Gamay and Aligote

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What are classic dishes of Burgundy?

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Escargots à la Bourgogne (green sauce made with butter, parsley, wine, shallots) Boeuf Bourguignon, and Coq au Vin are just three of the famous regional dishes. Hearty meals these, but top chefs have updated their cuisine to appeal to modern day tastes, and as a result, there are 29 restaurants with the renowned Michelin stars, and three with three stars within Burgundy.

Escargots and Jambon Persillé (ham and parsley terrine suspended in gelatine)

With prime ingredients – beef from the Charolais cattle seen grazing in the lush pastures throughout the region, esteemed chickens from Bourg-en-Bresse, wild mushrooms, snails, pigeons, quails, boar, venison and freshwater fish, patés, terrines, cheeses and sausages.
Super Creamy cheeses like Chaource and Epoisses (pungent often paired with Trappist Beer or Saunternes).

Cassis, a blackcurrant liqueur, used for the aperitif Kir, and desserts, is a regional speciality. Mustard is synonymous with Dijon. The mustard powder is mixed with ‘verjus’ – the juice of newly pressed grapes – or slightly fermented white wine and is used extensively in cooking, creating the ‘Dijonnaise’ dishes.

The excellence of the cuisine goes back through history and remains at the forefront of life today. With the wide variety of the ingredients available, and the frequent use of red wine, some of the finest food in the world arrives on the Burgundian table.

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Describe Burgundy region

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Simple and rustic, very fragmented, smaller avg domaines ~18.5 acres (7.5 ha).
This fragmentation is a drawback to their wine making it unpredictable.

The 5 main wine growing areas: Chablis, Côte d’Or, Cote Chalonnaise, Maconnais & Beaujolais.

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Name some of the large key Negociants in Burgundy? A

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Bouchard Pere et Fils
Joseph Drouhin
Faively
Louis Hadot
Louis Latour

In Beajoulais Georges Duboeuf

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Name the key regions in Burgundy going from North to South

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Chablis 
Vezelien
Cote de Nuits
Cote de Beaune
Cote Chalonnaise 
Couchois
Maconnais (Pouilly-Fuisse, Macon-Villages, Macon)
Beaujolais
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Biodynamic Viticulture?

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Burgundy was one Frances first bastions of biodynamic viticulture

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Which regions are in Cote D’Or?

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Cote de Nuits & Cote de Beaune

Forms the core of Burgundy.

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Describe the terrain of Cote D’Or?

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Faces East with a Bias to the South
Hautes-Cotes to the left is broken plateau with abrupt scraps and protruding fault lines. Subject to lower temperatures and exposure it puts harvest a wk behind Cote d’Or.

In exceptionally hot years like 2005, 2009 the Hautes-Cotes like cooler corners if Côte d’Or can produce exceptional wine.

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Describe the soil in the Côte d’Or

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Skeletal and normal calcareous brown earth
Skeletal and normal gley calcareous brown earth
Brown Earth and Rendzinas

Rock beneath the soil is marlstone, limestone, loess

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What are the best communes in Hautes-Cotes de Beaune?

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Nantoux, Exhevronne, La Rochepot, Meloisey

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What are the best communes if Hautes-Cotes de Nuits?

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Red wines dominate
Marey les Fussey
Mangy-les-Villers
Villars-Fontaine
Bevy
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How many Grand Crus of Cotes d’Or?

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There are 31 most are in Cotes de Nuits
Each Grand Cru has it's own appellation.
The best are "Le"
Musigny (CN - Pinot (peacock tail)) Corton (CB- Pinot) 
Le Montrachet (CB - chard) 
Chambertin (CN- Pinot)
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What are the Premier Crus of Cotes d’Or

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635 in Burgundy region
Chambolle-Musigny (CN)
Charmes (CB)
Perrieres in Meursault (CB)
Rugiens in Pommard (CB)
Lea Amoureuses in Chambolle-Musigny (CN)
Clos St Jacques in Gevrey-Chambertin (CN)
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What is Appellation Communale?

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It’s the 3rd Rank of Classification

Known as Village Wines

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What is wine Bourgogne?

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The 4th class of wine

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What wine is Chassagne- Montrachet known for?

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White Burgundy
Chardonnay
Dry, golden white wine scented with flowers and sometimes hazelnuts

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Cotes de Beaune:Meursault

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Heartland of best white Burgundy

Red wine villages Volnay & Pommard

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Grand Cru Montrachet

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Chardonnay with more scent, brighter gold, longer flavour, more succulence

Limestone soil, east exposure with angle so sun gets into the rows at 9pm in summer.

Expensive

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Puligny-Montrachet vs Meursault

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Puligny tends to be more delicate and refined than Meursault - the higher water table here is higher and hard to dig cellars deep enough for a 2nd winter in cask.

Meursault has no Grand Cru but a high even standard over a large area.
Les Perrieres, upper parts of Genevrieres, and Les Charmes offer a stern challenge to Puligny’s best premier crus.

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What wine is Cote de Nuits know for?

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Pinot Noir

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Name 2 of the best Grand Cru in Cote de Nuits - Nuits St

Georges.

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La Grande Rue and La Tache produce some of the most highly prized and most expensive wines in the world.

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Are machines used to harvest the grapes of the vineyards in the Côte d’Or.

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Not on the upper slopes, the grapes are too valuable esp above Nuit St Georges. It is customary (de rigueur) to harvest them in small containers so as not to bruise the grapes.

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Where are the Grand Crus in Cote de Nuit - Nuits-St-Georges.

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On the Eastern side by Vosne - Romanee and Vougeot.

The 4 most famous of Vosne's
Domaine de la Romanee-Conti's
La Tache
Romanee-Conti
Richebourg
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Describe the vineyards of Cote Chalonnaise.

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Higher altitude than Cote de Beaune, later harvest, precarious ripening process.

Rully to the North makes more white than red. Brisk, high in acid, poor vintages used for Cremante de Bourgogne.

Mercurey best know appellation makes 2/3rds of Cote Chalonnaise red. 30+ premiers crus.

Givry the smallest - mostly red.

Montagny incl Buxy. The whites are fuller more like Cote de Beaune than the leaner Rully.

Bouzeron small village north of Rully - only appellation for a single village Aligote in Burgundy.

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Describe the Maconnais region

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Limestone subsoil with clay or alluvial topsoil. White wine country - 90% chard - Macon Blanc sold as Bourgogne Blanc.

Macon Rouge made with Gamay.
Pinot Noir used in Bourgogne Rouge.

Pouilly-Fuisse is in Maconnais.

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Describe Pouilly Fuisse

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While Pouilly-Fuissé is the best-known part of Mâconnais, there are no Premier Cru vineyards within the AOC, as the local growers at the time the regulations were being drawn up never applied for this. The AOC was created on 11 September 1936.The area used to be known simply as “Pouilly”, but when the AOC laws were introduced, it was split into three: Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Loché and Pouilly-Vinzelles.

Pouilly-Fuissé is a dry white wine made from Chardonnay grapes. It is pale and refreshing, often quite delicate, and often shows a clear oak influence. On average these wines sell for much less than the white wines of Côte de Beaune to the north.

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Describe Beaujolais region

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Sandy clay over granite, where Gamay is grown.
A light wine not always fashionable.
Beaujolais Nouveau released the 3rd Thursday in November after midnight.

Northern Beaujolais - Beaujolais-Villages. Granite based with Sandy topsoil.

Beaujolais Crus Ali in the north in the middle or Beaujolais-Villages. There are 10 Beaujolais Crus.

There is also Beaujolais Blanc and Macon-Villages.

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Describe Beaujolais wine

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Majority done by semi-carbonic maceration.

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Describe Chablis region.

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4 classifications 
Grand Cru (7 - Les Clos & Vaudesir best)
Premier Cru
Chablis
Petit Chablis

Cool climate vineyards need exceptional conditions to succeed.

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Describe Chablis Wine

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Chablis has stone and mineral, green hay, looks green when young.
Grand Cru and Premier Grand Crus can taste sweet and sour at 10yrs of age. Can age 10+yrs.
Can hit wet wool phase.
Mostly tank fermented Unoaked.

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What 3 Regions in Burgundy are known for their whites?

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Chablis, Maconnais & Cote de Beaune.

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What is the difference in vinification between Chablis, Maconnais and Cote de Beaune?

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Most whites (Chard) in Chablis and Maconnais are fermented in SS. In cote de Beaune a good percentage are fermented in small oak then aged in small oak.

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Are all White Burgundies produced dry?

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Yes

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What is Kir?

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A cocktail of Burgundy made with Creme de Cassis and Aligote wine.
Named after the Major of Dijon Canon Kir.

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What are the 7 Grand Cru of Chablis?

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Blanchots
Bougros
Grenouilles
Les Clos
Presses
Valmur
Vaudesir
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What are some of the top Premier Cru if Chablis?

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Cote de Vaulorent
Fourchaume
Lechet
Montee de Tonnerre
Montmains
Monts de Milieu
Vaillon
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When should I drink Chablis?

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Chablis within 2 yrs of Vintage
Premier Cru 2-4yrs
Grand Cru 3-8yrs

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Who is the largest Grand Cru producer for White in Cote de Beaune?

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Corton-Charlemagne. Does 50% of all Grand Cru whites.

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Name 3 of the most important white wine producing villages of the Cote De Beaune.

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Meursault
Puligny-Montrachet
Chassagne-Montrachet

All produce Chardonnay.

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What are the best Vintages for Cote de Beaune?

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2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

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What are the 5 basic quality levels if Maconnais Wines?

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Macon Blanc
Macon Superieur
Macon-Villages
St Veran
Pouilly-Vinzelles
Pouilly-Fuisse
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What are the main red wine producing regions of Burgundy?

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Cote de Nuits
Cote de Beaune
Beaujolais
Cote de Chalonnaise

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What are 3 important Villages in Cote Chalonnaise?

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Mercurey -95% red
Givry - 90% red
Rully - 50% red

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What are the 5 main growing areas in Burgundy

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The 5 main wine growing areas: Chablis, Côte d’Or, Cote Chalonnaise, Maconnais & Beaujolais.

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What is Cote de Beaune red wine appellations?

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Volnay & Pommard

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