Central Vineyards Flashcards by Christina Stanley

Best Producers of Pouilly Fumé

Ladoucette “Chateau du Nozet”
Didier Daguenau
Audry

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Reuilly:

Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé: Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris
Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir

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Appellations of the central vineyards (9)

Orléans
Orléans Clery
Sancerre
Pouilly Fumé
Pouilly Sur Loire
Menetou Salon
Quincy
Reuilly
Coteau du giennois

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Styles and encepagement of Coteaux du Giennois (central vineyards)

Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé: Pinot and Gamay, neither exceeding 80%.
Rouge: Same

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First vintage of Silex

1985

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When was Daguenau Pouilly Fumé established

1982
Louis Benjamin making the wine now

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Sancerre Rouge producers

Vatan
Vacheron
Alphonse Mellot “Generation XIX”

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Pouilly sur Loire is reserved for whites made from this grape

(Central Vineyards)

Blanc: 100% Chasselas

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Best sites of Chavignol Sancerre

Les Monts Damnés

Le Cul de Beaujeu
La Grande Cote (Kimmeridgian Marl) Francois Cottat produces these

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Best sites of Bué (Sancerre)

La Poussie

Chene Marchand

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Best sites between town of Sancerre and Menetreol

La Moussiere
Les Romains (Silex)
Belle Dame

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max Yields, must weight for Sancerre

Blanc: 65 hl/ha
Rosé: 63 hl/ha

Blanc 170g/L
Rosé and Rouge: 175 g/l

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Main Red Grape of Menetou-Salon

100% Pinot Noir

Central Vineyards

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Departement of Sancerre

Cher

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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

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Who produces Clos la Néore

Edmond Vatan
Parcel in Sancerre of famous Mont Damnes vineyard

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In what departmenmt is Pouilly Fumé

Nievre

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Red wine of Orléans-Clery AOP is this (the only style of Orleans Clery)

100% Cabernet Franc!

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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

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In Quincy they do this to prevent frost

Wind turbines

On Cher river

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Soil of Quincy

sand

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Second AOP in France only to Chateauneuf du Pape (est. 1936)

Quincy (white wine only from Sauvignon Blanc)

1936

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Sancerre vineyards on this side of Loire River

3000 ha on left bank

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Main village of Sancerre, most famous historically

Chavignol

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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