Champagne Flashcards
Name some Special Club Producers
Paul Bara, Gaston Chiquet, Gimmonnet, Marc Hebrart, Larmandier P&F, J. Lassalle,
What is the required time sur latte in Champagne?
12 months til disgorgement post tirage
What is Jetting?
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.
In a liquor de tirage, how much sugar = how much pressure, and what is typical to add?
4g sugar = 1 atmosphere pressure. 6 atmo’s is standard so 24g is the standard sugar addition
What are the parts of the juice extracted from pressing?
Vin de cuvee - 1st 2050L; Vin de Taille - 2nd 500L; and Rebeche - 1-10% that is discarded for distillation
What are the Grand Cru villages in Vallee de la Marne?
Ay and Tours sur Marne (R)
When were the Champagne Riots?
1911
What are the only 99% premier cru in the Echelle de Crus?
Mareuil sur Ay in VdlMarne, and Tauxieres in MdReims
What is the capacity of a gyropalette?
504 bottles. 42 cases
What is Morillon?
Chardonnay in Champagne. Also Pinot Blanc…
What are the 5 primary districts of Champagne?
Montagne de Reims, Vallee de la Marne, Cote de Blancs, Cotes de Sezannes, Cotes de Bars (Aube)
What are the Grand Cru villages in Cote de Blancs?
Choiully (W), Oiry, Cramant, Avize, Oger*, Le Mesnil sur Oger
What is the oldest sparkling Champagne house?
Ruinart 1729
What is fromenteau?
Pinot Gris
What is required for Rose des Ricys?
100% PN, Whole bunch rose
Name non-dose champagnes
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
What is the maximum amount of a RM’s production that may be from purchased grapes?
5%
What are the Grand Cru villages of Montagne de Reims?
Sillery, Puisieulx, Beaumont sur Vesle; Verzenay, Mailly Champagne, Verzy*; Louvois, Bouzy, Ambonnay
What is the required yield of Champagne when pressed?
One marc of Champagne, 4000K, to yield 2550L of must. 102L of must for 160kg of grapes. (CIVC 1992)
What Grand Cru villages were added after 1985
Verzy (MdR); Chouilly (W), OIry, Oger, Le Mesnil sur Oger - all Cote des Blancs
What are the non-sparkling AOP of Champagne?
Coteaux Champenois and Rose des Ricys
Who was first to produce a Brut Champagne?
Pommery in 1874 - Pommery ‘Nature’
How many Grand Cru villages are in Champagne?
17
When is transvasage permitted?
<375ml or >3L
When may transversage occur in champagne?
In bottles less than 375 ml or greater than 3L
What are the grapes of Champagne?
Chardonnay, Meunier, Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc Vrai, Pinot Gris, Arbane, and Petit Meslier
What is a muselet?
Cage for Champagne corks
What equipment can be used for Reumage?
pupitre or gyropalette
Name 3 CM producers of Champagne
Nicolas Feuillatte, Jacquart, Mailly Grand Cru
What is the big city of the Vallee de la Marne?
Epernay
What is required of a Special Cub Champagne?
Belong to the club tresors, estate bottled, Vintage, top bottling, special bottle and label, tasting analysis
What Champagnes are done in a perpetual cuvee?
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
What is MCR?
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.
What amount of wine may be used to produce a vintage wine?
80% of a harvest
What are the sizes of champagne bottles?
Piccolo (187), Demi (375), bottle, magnum, Jeroboam (3L), Rehoboam (4.5L Disc), Methuselah (6L), Salamanzar (9L), Balthazar (12L), Nebucadnezzar (15L), Solomon (18L)
What is the minimum alcohol for champagne?
9%
When was RD first released?
1952 Grand Annee as RD in 1961
What are the terms and related dosage for Champagne?
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+
When was Champagne most recently expanded?
2009 from 319 to 357 villages
Producers who avoid Malo?
Bereche, Simonet, Vergnon, Vilmart. Krug and Salon don’t encourage it. Lanson, Gosset, Gratien make non-ML styles
What is the french term for the release of older vintages of base wine for use in assemblage?
Deblocage
What is the required elevage for NV champagne? Vintage?
12 m. lees for both. 15 months; 36 months for release
What is required for fermentation of Rose des Riceys?
Whole bunch! (semi-carbo)
A finished champagne w/20 g/l RS would be labeled as what?
Sec
What parcels are used to produce Vieilles Vignes Francaises?
Clos Chaudes Terres and Clos St. Jacques. Formally Croix Rouge too - but phylloxera got to it.
Biodynamic Champagne producers?
Fleury (1st in 92), Bedel, Larmandier-Bernier, Leclapart, Leclerc Briant, Vouette & Sorbee, and LOUIS ROEDERER
What is blocage?
The reserving of stock wine
Jerome Prevost produces Les Beguines from which village?
Gueux
Where is PN known as Pinot Vert Dore?
in Ay/Mareuil in Vallee de la Marne
How many members are in the Club Tresors?
28 as of 2017
What is the oldest Champagne house?
Gosset 1584
When/what was the first commercially available prestige cuvee?
1921 Dom Perignon was released in 1936
What is the soil type for Champagne?
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)
What is the most property a Negociant may farm?
18 ha. Owned or rented
What is the CIVC?
Comite Interprofessional de Vin de Champagne, established in 1941 by Comte Robert Jean de Vogue in negotiating the interests of Champagne with the Nazis
What are the vine training types of Champagne?
Cordon de Royat (only type allowed in GC/PC), Chablis, Vallee de la Marne (meunier only) and Guyot (1x or 2x)
