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Central Vineyards Flashcards

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Orléans AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Orléans

  • Blanc: min 60% Chardonnay, + Pinot Gris
  • Rosé: min 60% Meunier, + Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris
  • Rouge: 70-90% Meunier, + Pinot Noir
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Orléans-Cléry AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Orléans-Cléry

  • Rouge: 100% Cabernet Franc
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Sancerre AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Sancerre

  • Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • Rosé: 100% Pinot Noir
  • Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
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Pouilly-Fumé/Fumé de Pouilly AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Pouilly-Fumé, Fumé de Pouilly

  • Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • min alc 10.5%
  • max RS 4 g/l
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Pouilly-sur-Loire AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Pouilly-sur-Loire

  • Blanc: 100% Chasselas
  • min pot alc 9.5%
  • max RS 4 g/l
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Menetou-Salon AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Menetou-Salon

  • Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Gris permitted for white wine but may not be replanted
  • Rosé: 100% Pinot Noir
  • Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
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Quincy AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Quincy

  • Blanc: Sauvignon Blanc, plus max 10% Sauvignon Gris
  • min pot alc 10.5%
  • max RS 4 g/l
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Reuilly AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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​Reuilly

  • Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • Rosé: Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris
  • Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
  • max RS: Blanc/Rosé: 4 g/l , Rouge: 2.5 g/l
  • min pot alc: 10.5%
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Coteaux du Giennois AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Coteaux du Giennois

  • Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • Rosé: Pinot Noir, Gamay (neither may exceed 80%)
  • Rouge: Pinot Noir, Gamay (neither may exceed 80%)
  • min pot alc: 10%
  • max RS: Blanc/Rosé: 4g/l. Rouge: 2.5g/l
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Le Monts Damnes vineyard

  • Soil
  • Village
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Le Monts Damnes vineyard

  • Terres Blanches soils
  • giving broader wines
  • located outside Chavignol
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Le Chene Marchand vineyard

  • Soil
  • Village
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Le Chane Marchand

  • Caillots soils
  • giving finely etched wines
  • located outside Bue
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Producers experimenting with oak

Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé

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  • Alfonse Mellot
  • Henri Bourgeois
  • Didier Dagueneau
  • Vincent Pinard

All Sancerre except Dagueneau

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Sancerre

Area with Silex soils

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  • Menetreol sous Sancerre
  • Bands of silex run NW-SE in both Sancerre and Pouilly Fume
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Sancerre

Soil

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  • Terres Blanches - kimmeridgian clay
  • Caillottes - stony
  • Silex - flinty
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Central Vineyards

9 AOPs

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  • Orléans
  • Orléans-Cléry
  • Coteaux du Giennois
  • Pouilly-Fumé/Fumé de Pouilly
  • Pouilly-sur-Loire
  • Sancerre
  • Menetou-Salon
  • Quincy
  • Reuilly
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What is the red varietal in the Côte Roannaise AOP and Côtes du Forez AOP?

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  • Gamay, in both red and rosé.
  • Côte Roannaise AOP
  • Côtes du Forez AOP?
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What are the styles and varietal requirements of Châteaumeillant AOP?

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  • Rouge: min. 60% Gamay plus Pinot Noir
  • Vin Gris: min. 60% Gamay plus Pinot Noir, max 15% Pinot Gris
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Appellation for Chasselas?

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Pouilly-sur-Loire

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What is Pinot Gris used for in Reuilly?

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  • Vin Gris
  • a pale and dry rose using pink skin for color
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What are the three main soils of Sancerre?

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Silex: Flint
Terres Blanches: Kimmeridgean Clay
Caillottes: Stony, fossil-laden

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What is the sole 100% Sauvignon Blanc AOP in the Central Vineyards?

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Pouilly-Fumé

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What are the major soil types in Pouilly-Fumé?

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Kimmeridgean Marl
Caillottes (Oxfordian Limestone)
Silex (Flint)
Clay-Silica

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What styles and varietals are authorized for Sancerre? What other AOP has the same encépagement?

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Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rouge/Rosé: 100% Pinot Noir

Menetou-Salon

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What is the grape in Pouilly-sur-Loire AOP?

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Chasselas

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What is Pouilly-sur-Loire AOP named for?

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The central commune in Pouilly-Fumé

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What are the styles and varietal requirements for Quincy AOP?

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Blanc only: Sauvignon Blanc plus max 10% Sauvignon Gris

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When was the Quincy AOP established?

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1936 - the second delimited appellation in France after Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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What are the styles and varietal requirements for Reuilly AOP?

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Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir

Rosé: Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris

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What are the styles and varietal requirements for Coteaux du Giennois AOP?

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Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rouge/Rosé: Pinot Noir and Gamay (neither may exceed 80%)

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Where is the Coteaux du Giennois AOP?

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North of Pouilly Fumé on the Loire

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What are the styles and varietal requirements for Orléans AOP?

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Blanc: min. 60% Chard, plus Pinot Gris
Rosé: min. 60% Meunier plus Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris
Rouge: min. 70-90% Meunier plus Pinot Noir

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What is the single grape in Orléans-Clery AOP?

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100% Cabernet Franc

33
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Which three AOPs are located along the Cher River?

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Valençay (Touraine)
Quincy (Central Vineyards)
Reuilly (Central Vineyards)

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Major climats of Sancerre?

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Monts Damnés (Chavignol)
Chêne Marchand (Bué)

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Cotat Family History

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Founded by Ferdinand Thomas (1920), handed to Paul and Francis in 1947. The brothers pooled resources and produced one wine under 2 labels. Farming was organic; fertilizer and pesticides were never adopted.
In 1990’s: Paul –> François, and Francis —> Pascal.

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François Cotat: Location and vineyards

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Chavignol
-Les Monts Damnés
-Les Culs de Beaujeu
-La Grande Côte
Plus .9ha of young vines between Chavignol and Sancerre, bottled as Caillottes (previously Jeunes Vignes to 2008)

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François Cotat: Winemaking

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-Harvested late, looking for ripeness.
-Must goes direct to barrel with no débourbage (old barrels & demi-muids)
-Bottled unfiltered.

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What is Cuvée Paul?

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A demi-sec bottling from François Cotat, named for his father, labeled VDF.

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Pascal Cotat: Location and vineyards

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Sancerre
-Les Monts Damnés
-La Grande Côte
-plus other assorted Pinot Noir vines (mostly for rosé)

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Pascal Cotat: Winemaking

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-Like François: harvested late, and sometimes with a bit of RS.
-Fermented in demi-muid, and DO see debourbage before.
-Still no fining or filtering.End result is richer, nearly creamy.

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Who produces Clos la Neore?

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Edmond Vatan
From Les Monts Damnés, harvested late (like Cotat), bottled unfined/unfiltered.

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Vacheron: Viticulture

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Biodynamic; certified as of 2004

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Vacheron: Wines

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Cuvée Domaine: red and white, stainless steel, 70% old oak for red)

WHITE
- Les Romains (flint; foudre)
- Paradis (clay over limestone, 2600-3600hL foudre)
- Chambrates (clay and caillottes, mix of foudre and barrel)
- Guigne Chèvres (clay and caillottes, large vat)

RED
- La Belle Dame (from Les Romains, flint, barrel into wooden cuve)

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Why do you see other Vacheron bottlings in the market?

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Reine Blanche, Cailleries, etc. are names name up by merchants, renaming wines already made.

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Dagueneau: Vineyards

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  • En Chailloux (first plot; no longer part of the domaine)
  • La Folie (flint & clay, partial franc de pied)
  • Le Bois de Saint-Andélain
  • Clos du Calvaire
  • Buisson Menard (heavy clay)
  • Les Coques
  • Les Monts Damnés (Sancerre)
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Dagueneau: Wines

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  • Blanc Fumé de Pouilly (replaced En Chailloux; blended from multiple plots
  • Pur Sang (from La Folie)
  • Buisson Renard (from Buisson Menard)
  • Silex (from Bois de Saint-Andélain)
  • Astéroïde (La Folie franc de pied)
  • Mont Damnés (first vintage 2006)
  • Jardins de Babylone (first release 2004)
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Dagueneau: Winemaking & Wood

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  • Epic investment in the vineyards (1 worker per hectare - equal to Yquem!)
  • Fermentation and aging in wood (demi-muid and cigare [350-400L]) or stainless.
  • NO MALOLACTIC.
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Touraine Noble-Joue?

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min 40% meunier

49
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What are “varennes”

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sandy alluvial soils in Chinon
closest to the river Vienne

50
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Appellations of Touraine that permit sparkling wine production:

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  • Touraine AOP
  • Vouvray AOP
  • Mont-Louis sur Loire
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5 denominations within Touraine AOP

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  • Oisly (lees-aged SB)
  • Chenoneaux (SB only)
  • Amboise (Chenin)
  • Azay-le-Rideau (Chenin)
  • Mesland (Chenin, blended with SB/Chard)
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What style of wine does Touraine Oisly make?

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  • lees-aged Sauvignon Blanc
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Saint Nicolas-de-Bourguiel AOP

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  • Red and Rose
  • Cab Franc + max 10% Cab Sauv
54
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Chinon’s vineyards sit on what river?

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Vienne
most on north bank

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Chinon Soil

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Tuffeau - yellow limestone
unlike white tuffeau of Saumur

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Vouvray AOP:

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  • 1936
  • Blanc: min 95% Chenin + 5% Orbois
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What are Vouvray’s clay/flint topsoils called?

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“Perruches” (parakeets)

58
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Domaine Huet’s famous dessert wine?

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“Cuvee Constance”

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RS levels for Vouvray:

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sec: 8 g/L
demi-sec: 9-18 g/L
moelleux: 18-45 g/L
doux: 45 g/L

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Jasnieres AOP:

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  • 100% Chenin Blanc
  • known for steely firm wines
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Coteaux du Vendomois AOP:

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  • Blanc: min 80% CB, with max 20% Chard
  • Vin Gris - 100% Pineau d’Aunis
  • Rouge - min 50% Pineau d’Aunis, 10-40% PN, 10-40% CF, max 20% Gamay
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Sancerre Rouge producers:

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  • Vacheron
  • Vatan
  • Alphone Mellot
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Best sites of Chavignol?

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  • Les Monts Damnes
  • Le Cul de Beaujeu
  • La Grande Cote

Cotat produces these

64
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What satellite appellation mirrors Sancerre?

A

Menetou-Salon

65
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Quincy is on the left bank of what river?

66
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What river influences Reuilly?

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Arnon River

France - Loire (7 decks)

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