Champagne Flashcards

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Name some Special Club Producers

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Paul Bara, Gaston Chiquet, Gimmonnet, Marc Hebrart, Larmandier P&F, J. Lassalle,

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What is the required time sur latte in Champagne?

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12 months til disgorgement post tirage

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What is Jetting?

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Technique used to regulate oxygen that occurs via disgorgement. A drop of water or wine is added just before the cork is inserted, causing the CO2 on the the surface to foam and expel air, reducing the amount of air in the bottle, and then corked.

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In a liquor de tirage, how much sugar = how much pressure, and what is typical to add?

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4g sugar = 1 atmosphere pressure. 6 atmo’s is standard so 24g is the standard sugar addition

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What are the parts of the juice extracted from pressing?

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Vin de cuvee - 1st 2050L; Vin de Taille - 2nd 500L; and Rebeche - 1-10% that is discarded for distillation

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What are the Grand Cru villages in Vallee de la Marne?

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Ay and Tours sur Marne (R)

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When were the Champagne Riots?

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1911

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What are the only 99% premier cru in the Echelle de Crus?

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Mareuil sur Ay in VdlMarne, and Tauxieres in MdReims

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What is the capacity of a gyropalette?

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504 bottles. 42 cases

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What is Morillon?

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Chardonnay in Champagne. Also Pinot Blanc…

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What are the 5 primary districts of Champagne?

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Montagne de Reims, Vallee de la Marne, Cote de Blancs, Cotes de Sezannes, Cotes de Bars (Aube)

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What are the Grand Cru villages in Cote de Blancs?

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Choiully (W), Oiry, Cramant, Avize, Oger*, Le Mesnil sur Oger

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13
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What is the oldest sparkling Champagne house?

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Ruinart 1729

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14
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What is fromenteau?

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Pinot Gris

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15
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What is required for Rose des Ricys?

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100% PN, Whole bunch rose

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16
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Name non-dose champagnes

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Agrapart Venus, Lahaye’s Violaine, Larmandier Bernier Terre de Vertus, Laval’s Les Chenes, Roederer’s Brut Nature, RdJeanne’s Les Ursules and Le Creux d’Enfer, Vergnon’s Confidence, Vouette & Sorbee’s Blanc d’Argile

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17
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What is the maximum amount of a RM’s production that may be from purchased grapes?

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5%

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What are the Grand Cru villages of Montagne de Reims?

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Sillery, Puisieulx, Beaumont sur Vesle; Verzenay, Mailly Champagne, Verzy*; Louvois, Bouzy, Ambonnay

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What is the required yield of Champagne when pressed?

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One marc of Champagne, 4000K, to yield 2550L of must. 102L of must for 160kg of grapes. (CIVC 1992)

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20
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What Grand Cru villages were added after 1985

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Verzy (MdR); Chouilly (W), OIry, Oger, Le Mesnil sur Oger - all Cote des Blancs

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21
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What are the non-sparkling AOP of Champagne?

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Coteaux Champenois and Rose des Ricys

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Who was first to produce a Brut Champagne?

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Pommery in 1874 - Pommery ‘Nature’

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23
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How many Grand Cru villages are in Champagne?

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17

24
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When is transvasage permitted?

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<375ml or >3L

25
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When may transversage occur in champagne?

A

In bottles less than 375 ml or greater than 3L

26
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What are the grapes of Champagne?

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Chardonnay, Meunier, Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc Vrai, Pinot Gris, Arbane, and Petit Meslier

27
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What is a muselet?

A

Cage for Champagne corks

28
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What equipment can be used for Reumage?

A

pupitre or gyropalette

29
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Name 3 CM producers of Champagne

A

Nicolas Feuillatte, Jacquart, Mailly Grand Cru

30
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What is the big city of the Vallee de la Marne?

A

Epernay

31
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What is required of a Special Cub Champagne?

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Belong to the club tresors, estate bottled, Vintage, top bottling, special bottle and label, tasting analysis

32
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What Champagnes are done in a perpetual cuvee?

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Bereche Reflet d’Antan, Billot’s Laetitia, Laherte’s Les 7, Pierre Peters Cuvee de Reserve, De Sousa Caudalies. Selosse has an actual solera for Substance BdB and the single vineyards

33
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What is MCR?

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MCR (Moût concentré et rectifié)—Concentrated and rectified grape must, increasingly preferred by many small growers for the dosage, instead of the traditional liqueur d’expédition.

34
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What amount of wine may be used to produce a vintage wine?

A

80% of a harvest

35
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What are the sizes of champagne bottles?

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Piccolo (187), Demi (375), bottle, magnum, Jeroboam (3L), Rehoboam (4.5L Disc), Methuselah (6L), Salamanzar (9L), Balthazar (12L), Nebucadnezzar (15L), Solomon (18L)

36
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What is the minimum alcohol for champagne?

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9%

37
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When was RD first released?

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1952 Grand Annee as RD in 1961

38
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What are the terms and related dosage for Champagne?

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Brut Nature 0-3 g/l No dosage; Extra Brut 0-6; Brut 0-12, Extra Dry 12-17, Sec 17-32, Demi Sec 32-50, Doux 50+

39
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When was Champagne most recently expanded?

A

2009 from 319 to 357 villages

40
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Producers who avoid Malo?

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Bereche, Simonet, Vergnon, Vilmart. Krug and Salon don’t encourage it. Lanson, Gosset, Gratien make non-ML styles

41
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What is the french term for the release of older vintages of base wine for use in assemblage?

A

Deblocage

42
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What is the required elevage for NV champagne? Vintage?

A

12 m. lees for both. 15 months; 36 months for release

43
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What is required for fermentation of Rose des Riceys?

A

Whole bunch! (semi-carbo)

44
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A finished champagne w/20 g/l RS would be labeled as what?

A

Sec

45
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What parcels are used to produce Vieilles Vignes Francaises?

A

Clos Chaudes Terres and Clos St. Jacques. Formally Croix Rouge too - but phylloxera got to it.

46
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Biodynamic Champagne producers?

A

Fleury (1st in 92), Bedel, Larmandier-Bernier, Leclapart, Leclerc Briant, Vouette & Sorbee, and LOUIS ROEDERER

47
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What is blocage?

A

The reserving of stock wine

48
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Jerome Prevost produces Les Beguines from which village?

A

Gueux

49
Q

Where is PN known as Pinot Vert Dore?

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in Ay/Mareuil in Vallee de la Marne

50
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How many members are in the Club Tresors?

A

28 as of 2017

51
Q

What is the oldest Champagne house?

A

Gosset 1584

52
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When/what was the first commercially available prestige cuvee?

A

1921 Dom Perignon was released in 1936

53
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What is the soil type for Champagne?

A

Chalk - Belemnite on slopes, Micraster in the valleys, Clay in the Aube, with a thin layer of clay and sand over the subsoils. So generally speaking, Clay over limestone with Lignite (cendres noires)

54
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What is the most property a Negociant may farm?

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18 ha. Owned or rented

55
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What is the CIVC?

A

Comite Interprofessional de Vin de Champagne, established in 1941 by Comte Robert Jean de Vogue in negotiating the interests of Champagne with the Nazis

56
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What are the vine training types of Champagne?

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Cordon de Royat (only type allowed in GC/PC), Chablis, Vallee de la Marne (meunier only) and Guyot (1x or 2x)