Champagne Flashcards
How many atmospheres of pressure in a regular bottle of champagne?
5-6
What was the first Rose released?
Ruinarts Oeil de Pedrix
What are the three zones of Champagne
Zone de l’elaboration
Zone de production
Zone parcellaire de production de raisins
What is the climate like in Champagne
Cool Continental
What does NM stand for
Negociant Manipulant
What does RM stand for
Recolant Manipulant
produces exclusively from their own vineyards
What does CM stand for
Cooperative de manipulation
Coop that sells wine made from its members grapes
What does SR stand for
Societe de recoltants
grou of growers who make champ from their own vines
normally family members
What are Negociant distributeurs?
merchant that buys bottles of finished champagne and markets it under their own name
What is MA
Marque auxilaire
brands like kroger, kirkland
What is the CIVC
Comite interporfessionnel du vin de Champagne
Clonal research project
What is the most planted grape in Champagne
Pinot Noir
What grape is the first bud break?
Chardonnay
What is the big grape of Cote de Blancs
Chardonnay
How many clones of Chardonnay are allowed
31
What are the other grapes allowed in Champagne
Arbanne
Fromenteau
Petit Meslier
Piont Blanc
What was the Echelle des Crus
classification of Champagne for 100 years
created in the 18th cen to formalized the prices of grapes for negociants
What was the price structure of Echelle des Crus
Grand Cru earns 100% of the price set by house/negociant
1er Cru 90-99%
All else 80-89%
Who created Prestige Cuvee concept
Laurence Venn, a UK markerting consultant
What was Prestige/Tete Cuvee a response too
Created as a response to the Great Depression
What was the first vintage of Prestige?
1921
When was the special club established
1971
What is the special club
a collection of growers marketing their wines to compete with larger negociants
Must pass a tasting panel
Bottles are shaped from the 1700s
How many wineries started the special club
12
Who are the three remainning from the 12 that founded the Special Club
Paul Bara
Gaston Chiquet
Pierre Gimonnet
How many subvillages in Montagne de Reims
94
What is the main grape of Montagne de Reims
Pinot Noir
What are the subdistricts of Montagne de Reims
Grand Montagne
Massif de Saint-Thierry
Monts de Berru
Ardre Valley
Vesle Valley
City of Reims
What is the most important subdistrict in Montagne Reims
Grande Montagne
What are the big grand crus in Grande Montagne
Ambonnay, Beaumont-sur-Vesle, Bouzy, Louvois, Mailly, Puisieux, Sillery, Tours-Sur-Marne, Verzenay, Verzy
Whats the Grand Cru in Vallee de la Marne
Ay
What is the big grape of Vallee de la Marne
Meunier
What are the Grand Crus in Cote des Blancs
Chouilly, Oiry, Cramant, Avize, Oger, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger
What are the sub regions of Cote des Blancs
Cotes des Blancs
Montgueux
Cote de Sezanne
Coteaux du Morin
Vitryat
Grand cru village of Montagne de Reims with the most plantings
Verzy
What is the best Lieu-dit in Couilly
Montaigu
Departments of Champagne
Aube
Aisne
Marne
Haute-Marne
Seine et Marne
What is fromenteau
Pinot Gris in Champagne
This percentage of a years harvest may be sold as vintage champagne
Max 80%
Aging for vintage and non vintage champagne
Non Vintage- 15 months
Vintage- 36 months
P Cru villages in Champagne with a score of 99
Mareuil-sur-Ay (marne)
Tauxieres (Montagne)
Sizes of Campagne bottles
MJMSBNS
Piccolo 187
demi 375
bottle 750
Magnum 1.5L
Jeroboam 3L
Rehoboam* 4.5L
Methusaleh 6L
Salamanthar 9L
Balthazar 12L
Nebuchadnezzar 15L
Solomon 18L
What is bouvreaux
When rain interrupts flowering, so there is a second crop after the first harvest
second crop is high acid
Minimum potential alcohol for champange base wines
9%
Max RS Champange base wines
10g/l
Sugar levels for champagne
Brut Nature- 0-3
Extra Brut 3-6
Brut 6-12
Extra Dry 12-17
Dry
Demi sec
Champagne press is called
Cocquard
First prodcution of Cristal
1945
1876 for the Czar
Amount of sugar required to create 6 atmospheres of pressure
24 g/l
Where is Meunier planted in GC of Valley of Marne
Ay 3%
What is Marc de Champagne
Brandy made with pomace of Champagne grapes
Soil types on Champagne
Belemnite- high limestone content
Micraster- found on valley
Clay- found in Aube, over kimmeridgian
Avoid these champagne vintages
2001
2003
Rivers of Champagne
Marne
Seine
Aube
Training methods in Champagne
Cordon de Royat
Chablis
Vallee de la Marne
Guyot
How many bottles on a gyropallett
504
What is MCR in Champagne production?
Mout concentre et rectifie
Concentrated and rectified grape must, preferred by many smaller growers for the dosage, instead of the traditional liqueur d’expédition.
Who invented the gyropallett
1968 by Jacques Ducion and Caude Cazals
Who invented chaptalization
Jean Antoine Chaptal
Only AOC/AOP that does not need to include Appellation Contrôlée (or Protégée) on the label.
Chamapgne
The caves of Champagne provide a storage environment of ____ degrees for millions of bottles
53-54
When was “Les bleus de ville” outlawed in Champagne? Champenoise have a long history of relying on recycled Parisian garbage to fertilize their vineyards, blue plastic bags
1998
Bollinger top wines
Ay
La Grande Annee (tete)
RD
Grande Annee Rose
VV FRrancaise
Special Cuvee NV
What is the most recent vintage of Krug Clos d’Ambonnay
2006
95,96,98,00,02,06
What grape is Krugs Clos d’Ambonnay made from
Blanc de Noirs
What is Krugs Clos du Mesnil made from
Blanc de Blancs
What was the first vintage of Salon Le-Mesnil-Sur-Oger
1905
What is unique about Jacques Selosse Substance
Grand Cru wine made via Solera that was started in 1987
What is unique about Vilmart & Cie
They only make wine from their vines, in Rilly (Montagne)
What is Bollingers Coteaux Champenois production
Coteaux Enfant
still wine
Charles Heidsieck Tete
Reims
Champagne Charlie (Discont.)
Blanc des Millenaires
Dieblolt Vallois Tete de Cuvee
Cramant
Fleur de Passion
Drappier Tete de Cuvee
Urville
Charles de Gaulle
Deuval Leroy Tete de Cuvee
Vertus
Femme de Champagne
Gosset Tete de Cuvee
Epernay
Celebris
Delamotte Tete de Cuvee
Mesnil Oger
Nicolas Louis Delamotte
Deutz Tete de Cuvee
Ay
Cuvee William Deutz
Moet and Chandon Tete de Cuvee
MCIII
Business partners of Salon
Delamotte
First comercial Tete de Cuvee
Dom Perignon 1921
First biodynamic producer of Champagne
Fleury 1992
Who owns Salon and Delamotte
Laurent Perrier
Who makes Ace of Spades
Armand de Brignac
& Jay Z
Salosse Demi Sec
Exquisme
Avize
Henriot Tete de Cuvee
Hemera
Which Agrapart bottling has 6 of the 7 grapes
Complantee
This producer has a bottling of all 7 grapes
Nombre d’Or by Aubry
What is Ratafia Champenois, and name a producer
Eau de Vie made from Champagne grapes and fortifed with Brandy
Champagne Dumangin
Mumm Champagne Tete de Cuvee
Cuvee R. Lalou
First Brut Champagne
Pommery ‘Nature’
1874
Best Champagne vintages of the 2000s
2000
2012
2015
2018
Billecart Sallmon Tete de Cuvees
Nicolas Francois Billecart
Grand Cuvee
Elizabeth Salmon Rose
Laurent Perrier Vintage Rose Tete de Cuvee
Alexandra
First vintage of Dom Ruinart
1959