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
minimum 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
Montigny
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