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CAPS 3a - Old/New World Regions and their Grapes > CAPS: Old World Week 1: Grapes of Alsace and the Loire > Flashcards

CAPS: Old World Week 1: Grapes of Alsace and the Loire Flashcards

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine
Pays Nantais

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Grape: Melon Blanc

Dry
High acid
Medium alcohol (12%)
Light body

Wine bottled in the year following the vintage; winter on lees
Handled very little to retain delicacy and freshness

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Muscadet et Gros Plant du Pays Nantais

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  1. Melon Blanc
  2. Gros Plant Nantais / Folle Blanche / Picpoul de Pinet
Light green

  1. Gros Plant Nantais
    • aka Folle Blanche - Loire
    • aka Picpoul de Pinet - Languedoc

The Folle Blanche variety is historic to the Nantes region. Planted near the Atlantic, it produces a lemony, saline and mineral wine that is ideal with oysters.

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Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire

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  1. Melon Blanc
  2. Pineau d’Aunis (fresh, light red or rosé)
Brown - Made well inland on steep slopes of schist

Melon Blanc:

Tends to be leaner

Dry
High acid
Medium alcohol (12%)
Light body

Wine bottled in the year following the vintage; winter on lees
Handled very little to retain delicacy and freshness

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Muscadet Côtes de Grandlieu

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Pays Nantais

Melon Blanc

Light green stripes - sandy, stony soils

Riper than most grapes

Dry
High acid
Medium alcohol (12%)
Light body

Wine bottled in the year following the vintage; winter on lees
Handled very little to retain delicacy and freshness

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Coteaux d’Ancenis
Pays Nantais

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Melon blanc

Dark brown stripes

Dry
High acid
Medium alcohol (12%)
Light body

Wine bottled in the year following the vintage; winter on lees
Handled very little to retian delicacy and freshness

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Anjou Coteaux de la Loire

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  1. Chenin Blanc / Pineau de la Loire
Baby blue, top left
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46 villages
Anjou

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White
1. Chenin Blanc / Pineau de la Loire

Red
1. Cab Franc
2. Cab Sauv

Dark blue boundary

The appellation covers the better plots of land around Anjou and is restricted to the prime south-facing slopes in 46 communes.

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Savennières

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  1. Chenin Blanc / Pineau de la Loire
Dark blue

Anjou

Dry
Dense and rich in substance
Rigid in substance

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Coteaux de l’Aubance
Anjou

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Chenin Blanc / Pineau de la Loire
(Can produce sweet wines)

Green

River Aubance:
- parallel with Layon River to south
- can produce great sweet wines

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Coteaux du Layon

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Anjou

Chenin Blanc / Pineau de la Loire
(noble rot when nature cooperates)

Yellow

South to southwest buttes
Drying winds off Atlantic

Concentrates grape sugars

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Quarts de Chaume

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Island in savennières

Chenin Blanc / Pineau de la Loire
Sweet wine from noble rot

Very well protected
Considered better than Bonnezeaux
First official Grande Cru in the Loire
“Island” in the Coteau du Layon

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Bonnezeaux
Anjou

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Chenin Blanc / Pineau de la Loire
Noble rot

Bottom right

Own appelation
“Island” in the Coteau du Layon

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Coulée de Serrant
AOC in Savennières
Anjou

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AOC in Savennières
Anjou

Chenin Blanc / Pineau de la Loire (dry)

Top left

Nicolas Joly
Vineyard with its own appelation
6ha - biodynamic

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Roche aux Moines

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AOC in Savennières
Anjou

Chenin Blanc / Pineau de la Loire (dry)

Top right

Vineyard with its own appelation
19ha

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Saumur-Puy-Notre-Dame
Saumur

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Cabernet Franc

Purple stripes
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What is the sparkling wine in Saumur called? What grape(s)?

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Sparkling
Saumur

Chenin Blanc with up to 10% Chardonnay

1) Saumur Mousseux
- grown all over Saumur and parts of Anjou
- too tart to enjoy as a still wine

2) Crémant de la Loire
- less flavourful than Champagne
- Considered better than Saumur Mousseux
- Less geopgraphically specific but stricter rules

17
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Saumur Champigny
Saumur

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Cabernet Franc - one of the best expressions

Purple stripes
18
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Bourgueil

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Touraine

Cabernet Franc - raspberry, sharpened pencil

Orange, left

Steeper slopes and more limestone = more structure, wines can age 10+ years

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Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil

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Touraine

Cabernet Franc - raspberry, sharpened pencil

Orange, left
20
Q

Chinon

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Touraine

Cabernet Franc - raspberry, sharpened pencil

Orange, left
21
Q

Touraine Noble Joué
Touraine

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Pinots Meunier, Noir and Gris
Dry rosé
One of the original vin gris

Dark orange
22
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Vouvray

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Touraine

  1. Chenin Blanc
  2. Arbois

Dry to sweet

Tarter than Anjou
Distinct taste of honey
Long life, even though light: key is acidity
Vintage variation

Arbois

23
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Montlouis-sur-Loire

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Chenin Blanc
Dry / sparkling

Touraine

Very similar to Vouvray north on other side of the Loire
Sandier soils
Lighter and less intense
More product made into sparkling

24
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Valençay

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Central Loire

  1. Sauvignon Blanc
  2. Arbois
Baby blue, top
25
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Coteaux du Loir and Jasnières

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Central Loire
Chenin Blanc
Pineau d’Aunis

Baby blue, bottom right

Fine, challengingly dry CB
Single slope

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Cheverny and Cour-Cheverny

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Central Loire

  1. Sauvignon Blanc
  2. Romorantin
  3. Arbois
Dark blue

Sauvignon Blanc
Best

Romorantin Grapes
Sharp, dry whites
Labelled Cour-Cheverny

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Reuilly and Quincy

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Central Loire

  1. Sauvignon Blanc
  2. Pinot Noir
  3. Pinot Gris (Reuilly) makes vin gris
Brown

Quincy: Rustic

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Menetou-Salon
Central Loire

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  1. Sauvignon Blanc
  2. Pinot Noir
Hot pink

Hot pink

29
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Town of Pouilly-sur-Loire
Pouilly Fumé
Central Loire

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  1. Sauvignon Blanc
  2. Chasselas - very mild wine

Sauvignon Blanc
More perfumed than Sancerre
High proportion of clay-flint:
- potential for ageing
-gunflint character (pierre à fusil)

30
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Sancerre

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  1. Sauvignon Blanc
  2. Pinot Noir

Sauvignon Blanc
Terres blanches: white limestone with high clay
- sturdier

Pinot Noir
- Rarely seen outside Sancerre
- Rosé: rare
- Red: light compared to Burgundy

31
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Name a famous producer in Sancerre

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François Cotat
Monts Damnés vineyard
“La Grande Côte”
Near Chavignol village
Sauvignon Blanc

Kimmerigdean marl gives broader wines

32
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Rosé d’Anjou

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Grolleau

33
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Anjou

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Gamay

34
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Crémant d’Alsace

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  1. Pinot Blanc
  2. Auxerrois / Klevner / Clevner
35
Q

Zotzenberg

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Sylvaner
Grand Cru status for a non-noble grape

#7 on map
36
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Grapes of Alsace

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  1. Riesling
  2. Pinot Gris
  3. Pinot Noir
  4. Pinoy Blanc / Auxerrois
  5. Gewürztraminer
  6. Muscat (Ottonel, Blanc à Petit Grains)
  7. Sylvaner

CAPS 3a - Old/New World Regions and their Grapes (3 decks)

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