Central Vineyards Flashcards

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Best Producers of Pouilly Fumé

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Ladoucette “Chateau du Nozet”
Didier Daguenau
Audry

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Reuilly:

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

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Appellations of the central vineyards (9)

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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)

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

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First vintage of Silex

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1985

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When was Daguenau Pouilly Fumé established

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1982
Louis Benjamin making the wine now

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Sancerre Rouge producers

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Vatan
Vacheron
Alphonse Mellot “Generation XIX”

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Pouilly sur Loire is reserved for whites made from this grape

(Central Vineyards)

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Blanc: 100% Chasselas

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Best sites of Chavignol Sancerre

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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)

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La Poussie

Chene Marchand

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Best sites between town of Sancerre and Menetreol

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La Moussiere
Les Romains (Silex)
Belle Dame

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max Yields, must weight for Sancerre

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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

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100% Pinot Noir

Central Vineyards

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Departement of Sancerre

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Cher

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Communes of Production Sancerre

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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

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Edmond Vatan
Parcel in Sancerre of famous Mont Damnes vineyard

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In what departmenmt is Pouilly Fumé

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Nievre

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

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100% Cabernet Franc!

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Orleans AOP:

(2006, same year as Orleans-Clery)

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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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20
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In Quincy they do this to prevent frost

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Wind turbines

On Cher river

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Soil of Quincy

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sand

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

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Quincy (white wine only from Sauvignon Blanc)

1936

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Sancerre vineyards on this side of Loire River

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3000 ha on left bank

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Main village of Sancerre, most famous historically

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Chavignol

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Sancerre became AOC in this year
1936
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in this year, Red and rose wines made solely from Piot Noir were incorporated into Sancerre's region
1959
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Another word for Caillottes
Griottes (limestone pebbles of different styles) Oxfordian Limestone
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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
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Who owns Barre a Mine vineyard in Pouilly Fumé
Michel Redde
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Pinot Noir is planted on both sides of Sancerre's fault lines. How does this affect taste
Both flint and limestone based expressions
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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
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Pouilly Fumé sits on this bank of the Loire across from Sancerre
East 1333 ha
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After Phylloxera, when Sauvignon Blanc plantings began to dominate, one region remained Chasselas Dominant
Pouilly-Sur-Loire AOP
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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
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How did Pouilly Fumé get its name
"smoked white of Pouilly" because of the smoke colored bloom at maturity Blanc Fumé de Pouilly
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Wines of Didier Dageneau have been labeled as this since 2017
VdF
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Pouilly-Sur-Loire village has this soil
Clay-limestone Kimmeridgian Marl, oyster shells
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Northeast in the Appellation of Pouilly Fumé, soils are predominately this
Oxfordian Limestone Caillottes, as in Sancerre
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Two fine producers making Pouilly Sur Loire AOC wines
Michel Redde Jonathan Pabiot (both Pouilly Fumé producers)
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Most significant of "Satellite appellations" of Central vineyards, with 627ha moving Southwest away from the loire toward the town of Bourges
Menetou-Salon
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Soils of Menetou Salon
Kimmeridgian and Portlandien limestone soils
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Most important village of Menetou Salon
Morogues
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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.
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Quincy AOC is located Southwest of this town
Bourges
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Two river valleys of Reuilly and Quincy
Arnon and Cher
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Vines of Quincy, on a terrace of ancient sandy soil, are planted on this bank of the Cher
Left
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Quincy is entirely devoted to this wine
Sauvignon Blanc (Max10% Sauvignon Gris)
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Reuilly is 289ha and sits just Southwest of Quincy in this river valley
Arnon
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Though half the production of Reuilly is Sauvignon Blanc, in 1961 it was granted appellation status for this grape
Pinot Noir
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Reuilly is famous for Vin Gris made from this grape
Pinot Gris
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Coteaux du Giennois is named after this city in the North of the region
Gien
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Vineyards of Coteaux du Giennois AOC are concentrated in this party of the region
Far South, closer to Pouilly-Fumé appellation
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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
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Departements of Coteaux du Giennois
Loiret and Nievre
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Two IGPs of Loire Valley (formerly classified as Vin de Pays, both on right bank of Loire)
Cotes de la Charité Coteaux de Tannay
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Cotes de la Charité IGP covers 50 ha south of Pouilly, in a wooded area with these soils
Calcareous clay
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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
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Coteaux de Tannay (IGP) is 25 ha just east of this vineyard area
Coteaux du Giennois
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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
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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
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Main white grape of Orléans AOC
Chardonnay, small amount of Pinot Gris permitted 30%
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Wines of Orléans-Clery are 100% this
100% Cabernet Franc
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Islands of Flint are particularly present in this town of Pouilly Fume
Saint-Andelain
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Vineyards from Les Montes Damnés rise to this elevation and this slope
436m 45 degree slope
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Ripe vintages of Sancerre
2018, 2019, 2020