Burgundy - Côte de Beaune, Côte Chalonnaise Flashcards
Top producer of Bouzeron
Domaine A and P de Villaine
Best producers in Volnay
- d’Angerville
- Hubert de Montille
- Michel Lafarge
What color(s) of wine do Pommard and Volnay make?
Rouge only
Two larger 1ers in Chassagne that contain many others?
- La Maltroie
- Morgeot (over 1/3 of 1er land in Chassagne)
Top necociant of Mercurey
- Faiveley
- Antonin Rodet
Which Montrachet adjacent Grand Cru sits above it on the slope? Which Village does it fully lie in?
Chevalier-Montrachet
Puligny-Montrachet
Who owns monopole Clos des Ducs? Where is it?
Marquis D’Angerville
Volnay, Côte de Beanue
What AOP in Burgundy must be hand-harvester?
Crémant de Bourgogne AOP
Three négociants based in Beaune?
- Joseph Drouhin
- Bouchard Père et Fils
- Louis Jadot
Special soil in Beaune?
Oxfordian-Rauracian (Upper Jurassic) limestone. The bedrock is younger here than in the Côte de Nuits or further south in the Côte de Beaune.
Red-tinted soils on the mid-level and lower slopes are common, due to the presence of iron in the underlying Oxfordian limestone
When did Côte Chalonnaise become geographic designation of Bourgogne AOP?
1990 :)
Which three communes encircle sourthern half of hill of Corton and each have some GC land?
Ladoix-Serrigny
Aloxe-Corton
Pernand-Vergelesses
Best 1ers in Puligny?
Adjacent to Grand Crus
- Les Pucelles
- Le Cailleret
- Les Demoiselles
What is notable about Chassagne in terms of color wine produced
Made more red than white until 1980s
What is the only red-wine producing Grand Cru in the Côte de Beaune
Corton
Why is it cooler/harder to ripen in Côte Chalonnaise than Beaune if its further south?
- No protection from escarpment of Cote d’Or
- cool westerly winds (across Saône River)
Best 1er Crus of Volnay?
- Les Caillerets
- Champans
- Clos des Chênes
- Taillepieds
- Clos des Ducs
What commune in Cote d’Or has the most 1er crus?
Chassagne-Montrachet
Villages of Côte de Beaune (N-S)
Ladoix Serrigny
Aloxe-Corton
Pernand Vergelesses
Savigny-Les-Beaune
Chorey-Les-Beaune
Beaune
Pommard Volnay Monthelie Auxey Duresses St. Romain
Meursault
Puligny Montrachet
Chassagne Montrachet
Saint Aubin
Santenay
Compare Pommard and Volnay style
Pommard
- harder edged, tannic structure, most full bodied red of Côte de Beaune after Corton
Volnay
- softer fragrance and charm
What is the smallest white grand cru?
-Criots-Bâtard-Montrahet (Chassagne)