Central Vineyards Flashcards
Best Producers of Pouilly Fumé
Ladoucette “Chateau du Nozet”
Didier Daguenau
Audry
Reuilly:
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé: Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris
Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
Appellations of the central vineyards (9)
Orléans
Orléans Clery
Sancerre
Pouilly Fumé
Pouilly Sur Loire
Menetou Salon
Quincy
Reuilly
Coteau du giennois
Styles and encepagement of Coteaux du Giennois (central vineyards)
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé: Pinot and Gamay, neither exceeding 80%.
Rouge: Same
First vintage of Silex
1985
When was Daguenau Pouilly Fumé established
1982
Louis Benjamin making the wine now
Sancerre Rouge producers
Vatan
Vacheron
Alphonse Mellot “Generation XIX”
Pouilly sur Loire is reserved for whites made from this grape
(Central Vineyards)
Blanc: 100% Chasselas
Best sites of Chavignol Sancerre
Les Monts Damnés
Le Cul de Beaujeu
La Grande Cote (Kimmeridgian Marl) Francois Cottat produces these
Best sites of Bué (Sancerre)
La Poussie
Chene Marchand
Best sites between town of Sancerre and Menetreol
La Moussiere
Les Romains (Silex)
Belle Dame
max Yields, must weight for Sancerre
Blanc: 65 hl/ha
Rosé: 63 hl/ha
Blanc 170g/L
Rosé and Rouge: 175 g/l
Main Red Grape of Menetou-Salon
100% Pinot Noir
Central Vineyards
Departement of Sancerre
Cher
Communes of Production Sancerre
Bannay
Bue
Crezancy en Sancerre
Menetoul Ratel
Menetreol-Sous Sancerre
Ratel
Menetreol-Sous Sancerre
Montigny
Saint Satur
Sainte Gemme-en Sancerrois
Sancerre
Sury-en Vaux
Thauvenay
Veauges
Verdigny
Vignon
Who produces Clos la Néore
Edmond Vatan
Parcel in Sancerre of famous Mont Damnes vineyard
In what departmenmt is Pouilly Fumé
Nievre
Red wine of Orléans-Clery AOP is this (the only style of Orleans Clery)
100% Cabernet Franc!
Orleans AOP:
(2006, same year as Orleans-Clery)
Blanc:
Principal Variety: Min. 60% Chardonnay
Accessory Variety: Pinot Gris
Rosé:
Principal Variety: Min. 60% Meunier
Complementary Variety: Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir
Rouge:
Principal Variety: 70-90% Meunier
Accessory Variety: Pinot Noir
In Quincy they do this to prevent frost
Wind turbines
On Cher river
Soil of Quincy
sand
Second AOP in France only to Chateauneuf du Pape (est. 1936)
Quincy (white wine only from Sauvignon Blanc)
1936
Sancerre vineyards on this side of Loire River
3000 ha on left bank
Main village of Sancerre, most famous historically
Chavignol
Sancerre became AOC in this year
1936
in this year, Red and rose wines made solely from Piot Noir were incorporated into Sancerre’s region
1959
Another word for Caillottes
Griottes (limestone pebbles of different styles)
Oxfordian Limestone
Soil types of Sancerre
Terres Blanches (relatively cool, longer ripening)
Caillottes (more open fruity wines)
Silex (rich in flint, on Eastern slopes of Sancerre) powerful firm styles
Who owns Barre a Mine vineyard in Pouilly Fumé
Michel Redde
Pinot Noir is planted on both sides of Sancerre’s fault lines. How does this affect taste
Both flint and limestone based expressions
What style of wine is Alphonse Mellot’s Vingt Mille Pieds Sous Sancerre?
A serious rosé made from 100% Pinot Noir, with 20,000 vines per hectare
Pouilly Fumé sits on this bank of the Loire across from Sancerre
East
1333 ha
After Phylloxera, when Sauvignon Blanc plantings began to dominate, one region remained Chasselas Dominant
Pouilly-Sur-Loire AOP
Seven Villages (communes) of Pouilly-Fumé
Pouilly-Sur-Loire
Saint-Andelain (highest point, and home to Didier Dageneau)
Garchy, Mesves-sur-Loire, Saint-Laurent-l’Abbaye, Saint-Martin-sur-Nohain, Tracy-sur-Loire
How did Pouilly Fumé get its name
“smoked white of Pouilly”
because of the smoke colored bloom at maturity
Blanc Fumé de Pouilly
Wines of Didier Dageneau have been labeled as this since 2017
VdF
Pouilly-Sur-Loire village has this soil
Clay-limestone Kimmeridgian Marl, oyster shells
Northeast in the Appellation of Pouilly Fumé, soils are predominately this
Oxfordian Limestone Caillottes, as in Sancerre
Two fine producers making Pouilly Sur Loire AOC wines
Michel Redde
Jonathan Pabiot (both Pouilly Fumé producers)
Most significant of “Satellite appellations” of Central vineyards, with 627ha moving Southwest away from the loire toward the town of Bourges
Menetou-Salon
Soils of Menetou Salon
Kimmeridgian and Portlandien limestone soils
Most important village of Menetou Salon
Morogues
This AOC has more organic vineyards than any in the Central Vineyards
(like Sancerre, but earlier ripening)
Menetou-Salon
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé: 100% Pinot Noir
Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
Sauvignon Gris planted before 31 July, 2009 permitted for white wine, but may not be replanted.
Quincy AOC is located Southwest of this town
Bourges
Two river valleys of Reuilly and Quincy
Arnon and Cher
Vines of Quincy, on a terrace of ancient sandy soil, are planted on this bank of the Cher
Left
Quincy is entirely devoted to this wine
Sauvignon Blanc (Max10% Sauvignon Gris)
Reuilly is 289ha and sits just Southwest of Quincy in this river valley
Arnon
Though half the production of Reuilly is Sauvignon Blanc, in 1961 it was granted appellation status for this grape
Pinot Noir
Reuilly is famous for Vin Gris made from this grape
Pinot Gris
Coteaux du Giennois is named after this city in the North of the region
Gien
Vineyards of Coteaux du Giennois AOC are concentrated in this party of the region
Far South, closer to Pouilly-Fumé appellation
Styles produced in Coteaux du Giennois
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé: Pinot Noir and Gamay (neither may exceed 80%)
Rouge: Pinot Noir and Gamay (neither may exceed 80%)
AOC in 1998
Flint and limestone soil
Departements of Coteaux du Giennois
Loiret and Nievre
Two IGPs of Loire Valley (formerly classified as Vin de Pays, both on right bank of Loire)
Cotes de la Charité
Coteaux de Tannay
Cotes de la Charité IGP covers 50 ha south of Pouilly, in a wooded area with these soils
Calcareous clay
Styles of Cotes de la Charité IGP (loire valley just south of pouilly sur loire)
White: Chardonnay and Pinot Gris
Red: Pinot Noir, a bit of rosé
Coteaux de Tannay (IGP) is 25 ha just east of this vineyard area
Coteaux du Giennois
Main style of wine of Coteaux de Tannay IGP
White: Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc, Melon B, Pinot Gris, Auxerrois
Reds: Pinot Noir and Gamay account for 25% of production
small amounts of rosé
Orleans AOC is on both sides of the Loire around the city of Orleans and is distinctive for this grape
Pinot Meunier
Dominant in both red and rosé styles
60% for rosé, 70-90% for red
Main white grape of Orléans AOC
Chardonnay, small amount of Pinot Gris permitted 30%
Wines of Orléans-Clery are 100% this
100% Cabernet Franc
Islands of Flint are particularly present in this town of Pouilly Fume
Saint-Andelain
Vineyards from Les Montes Damnés rise to this elevation and this slope
436m
45 degree slope
Ripe vintages of Sancerre
2018, 2019, 2020
