Champagne

Question 1

How many atmospheres of pressure in a regular bottle of champagne?

Answer 1

5-6

Question 2

What was the first Rose released?

Answer 2

Ruinarts Oeil de Pedrix

Question 3

What are the three zones of Champagne

Answer 3

Zone de l’elaboration
Zone de production
Zone parcellaire de production de raisins

Question 4

What is the climate like in Champagne

Answer 4

Cool Continental

Question 5

What does NM stand for

Answer 5

Negociant Manipulant

Question 6

What does RM stand for

Answer 6

Recolant Manipulant

produces exclusively from their own vineyards

Question 7

What does CM stand for

Answer 7

Cooperative de manipulation

Coop that sells wine made from its members grapes

Question 8

What does SR stand for

Answer 8

Societe de recoltants

grou of growers who make champ from their own vines

normally family members

Question 9

What are Negociant distributeurs?

Answer 9

merchant that buys bottles of finished champagne and markets it under their own name

Question 10

What is MA

Answer 10

Marque auxilaire

brands like kroger, kirkland

Question 11

What is the CIVC

Answer 11

Comite interporfessionnel du vin de Champagne

Clonal research project

Question 12

What is the most planted grape in Champagne

Answer 12

Pinot Noir

Question 13

What grape is the first bud break?

Answer 13

Chardonnay

Question 14

What is the big grape of Cote de Blancs

Answer 14

Chardonnay

Question 15

How many clones of Chardonnay are allowed

Answer 15

31

Question 16

What are the other grapes allowed in Champagne

Answer 16

Arbanne
Fromenteau
Petit Meslier
Piont Blanc

Question 17

What was the Echelle des Crus

Answer 17

classification of Champagne for 100 years
created in the 18th cen to formalized the prices of grapes for negociants

Question 18

What was the price structure of Echelle des Crus

Answer 18

Grand Cru earns 100% of the price set by house/negociant
1er Cru 90-99%
All else 80-89%

Question 19

Who created Prestige Cuvee concept

Answer 19

Laurence Venn, a UK markerting consultant

Question 20

What was Prestige/Tete Cuvee a response too

Answer 20

Created as a response to the Great Depression

Question 21

What was the first vintage of Prestige?

Answer 21

1921

Question 22

When was the special club established

Answer 22

1971

Question 23

What is the special club

Answer 23

a collection of growers marketing their wines to compete with larger negociants
Must pass a tasting panel
Bottles are shaped from the 1700s

Question 24

How many wineries started the special club

Answer 24

12

Question 25

Who are the three remainning from the 12 that founded the Special Club

Answer 25

Paul Bara Gaston Chiquet Pierre Gimonnet

Question 26

How many subvillages in Montagne de Reims

Answer 26

94

Question 27

What is the main grape of Montagne de Reims

Answer 27

Pinot Noir

Question 28

What are the subdistricts of Montagne de Reims

Answer 28

Grand Montagne Massif de Saint-Thierry Monts de Berru Ardre Valley Vesle Valley City of Reims

Question 29

What is the most important subdistrict in Montagne Reims

Answer 29

Grande Montagne

Question 30

What are the big grand crus in Grande Montagne

Answer 30

Ambonnay, Beaumont-sur-Vesle, Bouzy, Louvois, Mailly, Puisieux, Sillery, Tours-Sur-Marne, Verzenay, Verzy

Question 31

Whats the Grand Cru in Vallee de la Marne

Answer 31

Ay

Question 32

What is the big grape of Vallee de la Marne

Answer 32

Meunier

Question 33

What are the Grand Crus in Cote des Blancs

Answer 33

Chouilly, Oiry, Cramant, Avize, Oger, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger

Question 34

What are the sub regions of Cote des Blancs

Answer 34

Cotes des Blancs Montgueux Cote de Sezanne Coteaux du Morin Vitryat

Question 35

Grand cru village of Montagne de Reims with the most plantings

Answer 35

Verzy

Question 36

What is the best Lieu-dit in Couilly

Answer 36

Montaigu

Question 37

Departments of Champagne

Answer 37

Aube Aisne Marne Haute-Marne Seine et Marne

Question 38

What is fromenteau

Answer 38

Pinot Gris in Champagne

Question 39

This percentage of a years harvest may be sold as vintage champagne

Answer 39

Max 80%

Question 40

Aging for vintage and non vintage champagne

Answer 40

Non Vintage- 15 months Vintage- 36 months

Question 41

P Cru villages in Champagne with a score of 99

Answer 41

Mareuil-sur-Ay (marne) Tauxieres (Montagne)

Question 42

Sizes of Campagne bottles MJMSBNS

Answer 42

Piccolo 187 demi 375 bottle 750 Magnum 1.5L Jeroboam 3L Rehoboam* 4.5L Methusaleh 6L Salamanthar 9L Balthazar 12L Nebuchadnezzar 15L Solomon 18L

Question 43

What is bouvreaux

Answer 43

When rain interrupts flowering, so there is a second crop after the first harvest | second crop is high acid

Question 44

Minimum potential alcohol for champange base wines

Answer 44

9%

Question 45

Max RS Champange base wines

Answer 45

10g/l

Question 46

Sugar levels for champagne

Answer 46

Brut Nature- 0-3 Extra Brut 3-6 Brut 6-12 Extra Dry 12-17 Dry Demi sec

Question 47

Champagne press is called

Answer 47

Cocquard

Question 48

First prodcution of Cristal

Answer 48

1945 | 1876 for the Czar

Question 49

Amount of sugar required to create 6 atmospheres of pressure

Answer 49

24 g/l

Question 50

Where is Meunier planted in GC of Valley of Marne

Answer 50

Ay 3%

Question 51

What is Marc de Champagne

Answer 51

Brandy made with pomace of Champagne grapes

Question 52

Soil types on Champagne

Answer 52

Belemnite- high limestone content Micraster- found on valley Clay- found in Aube, over kimmeridgian

Question 53

Avoid these champagne vintages

Answer 53

2001 2003

Question 54

Rivers of Champagne

Answer 54

Marne Seine Aube

Question 55

Training methods in Champagne

Answer 55

Cordon de Royat Chablis Vallee de la Marne Guyot

Question 56

How many bottles on a gyropallett

Answer 56

504

Question 57

What is MCR in Champagne production?

Answer 57

Mout concentre et rectifie Concentrated and rectified grape must, preferred by many smaller growers for the dosage, instead of the traditional liqueur d’expédition.

Question 58

Who invented the gyropallett

Answer 58

1968 by Jacques Ducion and Caude Cazals

Question 59

Who invented chaptalization

Answer 59

Jean Antoine Chaptal

Question 60

Only AOC/AOP that does not need to include Appellation Contrôlée (or Protégée) on the label.

Answer 60

Chamapgne

Question 61

The caves of Champagne provide a storage environment of ____ degrees for millions of bottles

Answer 61

53-54

Question 62

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

Answer 62

1998

Question 63

Bollinger top wines | Ay

Answer 63

La Grande Annee (tete) RD Grande Annee Rose VV FRrancaise Special Cuvee NV

Question 64

What is the most recent vintage of Krug Clos d'Ambonnay

Answer 64

2006 | 95,96,98,00,02,06

Question 65

What grape is Krugs Clos d'Ambonnay made from

Answer 65

Blanc de Noirs

Question 66

What is Krugs Clos du Mesnil made from

Answer 66

Blanc de Blancs

Question 67

What was the first vintage of Salon Le-Mesnil-Sur-Oger

Answer 67

1905

Question 68

What is unique about Jacques Selosse Substance

Answer 68

Grand Cru wine made via Solera that was started in 1987

Question 69

What is unique about Vilmart & Cie

Answer 69

They only make wine from their vines, in Rilly (Montagne)

Question 70

What is Bollingers Coteaux Champenois production

Answer 70

Coteaux Enfant | still wine

Question 71

Charles Heidsieck Tete | Reims

Answer 71

Champagne Charlie (Discont.) Blanc des Millenaires

Question 72

Dieblolt Vallois Tete de Cuvee | Cramant

Answer 72

Fleur de Passion

Question 73

Drappier Tete de Cuvee | Urville

Answer 73

Charles de Gaulle

Question 74

Deuval Leroy Tete de Cuvee | Vertus

Answer 74

Femme de Champagne

Question 75

Gosset Tete de Cuvee | Epernay

Answer 75

Celebris

Question 76

Delamotte Tete de Cuvee | Mesnil Oger

Answer 76

Nicolas Louis Delamotte

Question 77

Deutz Tete de Cuvee | Ay

Answer 77

Cuvee William Deutz

Question 78

Moet and Chandon Tete de Cuvee

Answer 78

MCIII

Question 79

Business partners of Salon

Answer 79

Delamotte

Question 80

First comercial Tete de Cuvee

Answer 80

Dom Perignon 1921

Question 81

First biodynamic producer of Champagne

Answer 81

Fleury 1992

Question 82

Who owns Salon and Delamotte

Answer 82

Laurent Perrier

Question 83

Who makes Ace of Spades

Answer 83

Armand de Brignac | & Jay Z

Question 84

Salosse Demi Sec

Answer 84

Exquisme | Avize

Question 84

Henriot Tete de Cuvee

Answer 84

Hemera

Question 85

Which Agrapart bottling has 6 of the 7 grapes

Answer 85

Complantee

Question 86

This producer has a bottling of all 7 grapes

Answer 86

Nombre d'Or by Aubry

Question 87

What is Ratafia Champenois, and name a producer

Answer 87

Eau de Vie made from Champagne grapes and fortifed with Brandy | Champagne Dumangin

Question 88

Mumm Champagne Tete de Cuvee

Answer 88

Cuvee R. Lalou

Question 89

First Brut Champagne

Answer 89

Pommery 'Nature' | 1874

Question 90

Best Champagne vintages of the 2000s

Answer 90

2000 2012 2015 2018

Question 91

Billecart Sallmon Tete de Cuvees

Answer 91

Nicolas Francois Billecart Grand Cuvee Elizabeth Salmon Rose

Question 92

Laurent Perrier Vintage Rose Tete de Cuvee

Answer 92

Alexandra

Question 93

First vintage of Dom Ruinart

Answer 93

1959