Champagne 4.21.23 Flashcards
Name 3 Champagne bottlings in which Meunier is the primary grape variety
Tarlant Vigne d’Or, Chartogne-Taillet Les Barres, Moussé Fils Special Club
Name 3 Producers who bottle a Zero Dosage
Louis Roederer, Philipponat Royale Reserve Non Dosé, Drappier Brut Nature
What was the first commercially available vintage of Louis Roederer’s Cristal? Cristal Rose?
1945, 1974
Inaugural vintage of Krug Clos d’Ambonnay?
1995 (Mesnil 1979)
What are the two parcels from which Bollinger harvests grapes for ‘Vieilles Vignes Françaises’?
Clos Saint Jacques and Clos Chaudes Terres
What is the current vintage of Salon Clos du Mesnil?
2012
Name 3 CM (Coopérative-Manipulant) Producers of Champagne?
Nicolas Feuillatte, Jacquart, Palmer & Co
What is the dominant grape variety in Philipponat Clos des Goisses?
Pinot Noir (70%)
What is the earliest CIVC harvest date of the last five vintages?
2020 (Aug 17)
Name three producers who bottle Coteaux Champenois Rouge
Bollinger (cotes aux enfants), Paul Bara (Bouzy Rouge), Rene Geoffroy (Cumieres Rouge)
How many bottles does a gyropalette hold?
504 btls
What is the range of sugar for champagne labelled Demi-Sec?
33-50 g/l
What are the grapes allowed in champagne production besides pinot noir, meunier, and chardonnay?
Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Arbane, Petit Meslier
What is the maximum residual sugar for base wines in Champagne production?
10 g/l
What is Rebêche in Champagne production?
What is jetting? Why do producers do it?
wine and pressure forcing it into the top to active carbon dioxide and blow out excess air
Members of the Club Tresors?
25
How many Grand Cru villages are in the Cotes des Blancs?
6
Arrange the following villages from north to south: Mesnil-Sur-Oger, Chouilly, Cramant
Describe the 2021 vintage in Champagne
frost, hail, rot, tough
First vintage of Bollinger Grande Annee
1952
First Vintage of Vieilles Vignes Francaises
1969
Diebolt-Valois Prestige Cuvee
Fleur de Passion (100% Charddonay 1995)
Drappier Prestige Cuvee
Charles de Gaulle 1990
Duval-Leroy Prestige Cuvee
Femme de Champagne (chardonnay dominant 1990)
Current vintage of Heidsick’s Champagne Charlie
2017 (last was 1990)
Inaugural vintage of Blanc des Milenaires
1983
What is the difference between an RC and a CM producer?
RC - Sells grapes to co-op, receives wine and bottles under own label
CM - receives wine and bottles under the co-op’s collective label
What type of press is the traditional Champagne press?
Vertical basket
Why would a champagne producer opt to use a pneumatic press or a PAI?
Controlled extraction, no retrousse
What is a serre in champagne production?
pressing
autopressurage
first 100 liters (discarded)
How many Serres constitute the cuvee?
3
what is the maximum volume of the cuvee?
2050 liters
maximum volume of the taille
500 l
finally rebeche
not allowed for wine production
How many grams of sugar in the liqueuer di tirage will results in 6 bar of pressure in the final wine?
24 g
What is Armand Walfart known for?
inventing degorgement a la glace in 1884
Brut Nature
max 3 g/l sugar (zero dosage)
Extra Brut
0-6
Brut
0-12
Extra Dry
12-17
Sec
17-32
Demi-sec
32-50
Doux
50
3 demi-sec bottlings
Veuve Clicquot, Billecart-Salmon, Pol Roger
Size of a Barrique (piéce) in Champagne
205L
Who was the first producer to bottle a Special Club Rosé
Paul Bara
What is Boues de Ville?
Urban Waste the was used for fertilizer, banned 1998
Piccolo
20 cl
Jeroboam
3 L
REhoboam
4.5L
Methuselah
6L
Salmanazar
9L
Balthazar
12L
Nebuchadnezzar
15L
Producer of Sonate no. 9, Boléro, and Notes Blanches?
Fleury
Blocage and Debocage
3 1er cru montagne de reims
vineyard facing in oiry and les mesnil
two AOps for still wine in Champagne
Why are vintage champagnes not generally chaptalized?
Base stocks for non vintage, Blocage, reblocage
climate of the marne valley
cool continental
grand cru village of vallee de la marne
Aÿ
River of the Aube
Aube river
Egly-Ouriet, Benoit Marget village
Ambonnay
Difference between solera and perpetual reserve
Belval Stream and Flagot rivers are tributaries of which river?
Marne
3 producers baed in Marueil Sur Ay
Billecart Salmon, Marc Hebrart, Philipponat
CIVC formed
1941
Vine training method for meunier
Valle de la Marne
Training prohibited for grand cru vineyards
vallle de la marne
follie de la marquetterie grape
Taittinger Chardonnay
Berchard Bollier
Pinot Blanc
Prevost Fac-simile Grape
Meunier
Massif de Saint Thierry
what grape was recently approved in champagne
Remise, Sur Clay
who owns Salon?
L-P Group
IN vintage champagne what is the name of the wine that will not be from a vintage when you’re making it?
Couer di Tirage
What percentage are RM producers allowed to buy?
5%
Grower Orgs besides special club
Terres et Vins de Champagne, Les Artisans du Champagne