Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Wine > Champagne > Flashcards

Champagne Flashcards

1
Q

What is Ayala’s Prestige cuvee

A

Cuvee Perle d’Ayale

80 chard, 20 Pinot N

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Who makes la Grande anee

A

Bollinger

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Where is Salon?
Special cuvee encapagemant
who owns

A

Le Mesnil-Sur-Oger
Just Salon, Blanc de Blanc first in champ
Laurent Perrier owns, works with Delamotte

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Who makes Vignes de Vrigny Brut

A

Egly Ouriet

100%.Meunier BdN

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Make and Style of Egly Ouriet location

A

Ripe, low yields, Pinot Noir dominant
Aged in Barrique
in Ambonnay

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Who makes “substance”? Style?

A

Jacques Selosse RM
Oxidative, low dosage, Solera of 12 vintages,
Thieves Stole a ton of wines in 2013
also labels and caps for counterfeit

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Who makes Les Carelles?

A

Selosse, 2010 inaugural vintage, Solera aged

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

How many liters in champed. Piece and fut

A

228 and 400

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Location of Pierre Peters

A

Les Mesnil sur Oger

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Who makes cuvee Speciale le Chetillons

A

Pierre Peters, Blanc de Blanc

Stainless, 2-6 dosage

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Style and location of Vilmart & Cie

A

In premier cru of Rilly, old vines, low yields, powerful Style, all wines see oak

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Who makes Coeur de Cuvee?

A

Vilmart & Cie, vintage 60 chard 40 pinot, Means “Heart of Pressing

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Who makes Grand Cellier?

A

Vilmart & Cie, NV but if cellier before d’Or or Rubis it means Vintage

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Who makes cuvee Rubis

A

Vilmart & Cie, NV, vintage called collier Rubis

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Pierre Gimonet location and Style

A

PC village Cuis

Stainless, Blanc de BIanc focused

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Pierre Gimonet Wines produced

A 
All BdB 
Cuis PC NV
Gastronome PC V
Fleuron PC V 
Oenophile PC V 
Paradox V (notBdB)
Special club V
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Ruinart location and style

A

oldest champ house
In Reims, most fruit from Sillery and Verzenay not Core de Blancs, gives some richness
Stainless, full malo, moderate dosage

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Ruinart Wines

A

BdB Brut
Dom Ruinart BdB V
Dom Ruinart Rose V

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

who makes “Vielles Vignes francaises” what it be

A

Bollinger, from phylox free Clos St. Jacques and Chaudes Terres in Ay

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Bollinger location and style

A

Ay, Vallee de la Marne
fermented and aged in Barrel
Makes their own barrels (only house that does)
Special Cuvee Mostly PN, 25 chard, 15 meunier

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Who makes grand Annee

A

Bollinger

60 months on lees, 2/3 PN, 1/3 Chard

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Describe “RD”

A

based on Grand Anee but aged on lees longer, ext brut

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Min PA Champers

A

9%

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

When may tirage take place in champers

A

Jan. 1st following harvest

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

When may Wines be disgorged champers

A

12 months post tirage

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

Tirage bottles Champers

A

Champer must be sold in bottle within which tirage occurred

exception 375mil or larger than 3 liter

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

Vintage champer laws

A

max 80% harvest can be declared vintage
Juice must be 100% of vintage (liqueur tirage/expedition excepted)
aged 36mo. post Tirage

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

Champer elevage (aging)

A

NV. 15 months post tirage

V. 36mo. post tirage

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

Maximum press yield

A

102 liters/ 160 kg

rest is “rebech” end of pressing. used for distillate

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

All sparkling wines of PGI or PDO must be how many bars of pressure

A

3.5

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

Champers encepagement

A

PN, Chard, PM, Pinot Banc, Pinot Gris, Arbane, Petit Meslier

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

Billecart location and style

A 
Mareuil sur Ay 
Higher acid, low alcohol, 
oak and stainless
most holdings in Marne:  Damery,, Ay, Mareuil- Sur-Ay 50 red fruit driven
some GC BdB
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

Cuvees of Billecart Salmon

A

Blanc de Blanc, GC NV
Cuvee Nicolas francois V
Cuvee Elisabeth Salmon Rose V
Clos Saint Hilaire V

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

Where is Clos Saint Hilaire

A

Mareuil Sur Ay

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

Pol Roger location and Style

A 
Epernay
owns 50% rest is Premier and GC Sourced 
BdB is GC 
Vintage brut is 60 pinot 40 chard 
Stainless, reductive
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

Jacquesson location and Style

A

Dizy
4 single vineyard Cuvees and NV driven by vintage character of base grapes, NV has bin # starting with 728
foudre fermentation and aromatics
full malo, very low dosage,

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
37
Q

Difference between pre 2010 and current sugar designation Champer

A

Starting with brut range gets smaller

Nature, ext brut, Doux are the same

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
38
Q

Current Brut-sec amounts champer)

A

0-12
12-17
17-32
pre: 0-15, 12-20, 17-35

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
39
Q

Gaston Chicquet style and location

A

first RM in Champagne
In Dizy
known for having lots of Meunier (40% plantings) plus rare plot of chard in Pinot Noir focused Ay
No oak, full malo

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
40
Q

Gaston Chicquet Cuvees

A

BDB Ay grand cru NV
Special club Brut GC V
3 levels of Brut: Selection, tradition, cuvee reserve, cuvee Or V, plus a Rose PC

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
41
Q

Charles Heidsiek location and style

A

Reims
No oak, Started practice of labeling bottled date on NV
Charles H and Ernest Henriot
Charles pushed his Bubbles in NY and became well known socialite and was christened “Champagne Charlie”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
42
Q

Charles Heidsiek cuvees

A

Champ. Charlie is fucking dead
following have regular and rose, all brut, Reserve, Millesime, Blancs de Millenaires (CDB from GC and PC, is years on lees)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
43
Q

Philipponnat location Style

A

Mareuil sur Ay
fermented in old barrels, very low dosage,
grapes sourced around Ay and Mareuil sur Ay

44
Q

Philipponnat Goisses

A

Clos de Goisses south facing in Mareuil Sur Ay
70 PN 30 Chard (ish)
blocked malo, 8-9 years on lees

45
Q

Philipponnat other cuvees

A

Royal Reserve brut NV
Grand blanc Brut vintage
Cuvee 1522 extra brut vintage

46
Q

Taittenger first known as…

A

Forneaux forest 1734

47
Q

Taittenger location and Style

A

Reims
Chardonnay driven
Stainless Steel

48
Q

taittengers’s cuvees

A

La folies de la Marquette NV

Comtes de Champagne BdB GC Cole de BIanc V

49
Q

Oldest producer in champagne region

A

Gosset, 1584, Started in Still wine

50
Q

Style and location Gosset

A

Ay
finesse, chard driven,
long lees aging, 4 years NV longer for vintage

51
Q

Cuvees Gosset

A

Celebris, in BdB, Rose, and blended Styles, all Vintage and extra brut

52
Q

Original name Roederer

A

Dubois pere at fils in 1776, .Roederer bought 1833

53
Q

wineries owned by Roederer firm

A

Champagne Deutz, Pichon Comtesse, Chateau de Pez, Domain Ott, Ramos Pinto

54
Q

Quick Roederer history

A

Cristal invented in 1870s and supplied Tsar Alexander Il but 1917 saw revolution and hard times, widow Camile Olry-Roederer kept afloat and brought to current prominence

55
Q

Cuvees Roederer

A

Cristal (60 PN 40 chard)
Cristal Rose
BdB Vintage, Vintage Brut, Brut Premier

56
Q

Roederer Cristal Style

A

(60 PN 40 chard)
15-25% 6,000 Liter oak foudres
No malo
8 villages Source, 7GC

57
Q

Who makes Trilogie des Grands Crus

A

Moet et Chandon

A Set of three singleVariety GC wines, Chard, PM, PN

58
Q

Winemaker for Larmandier Bernier

top cuvees

A

Pierre Larmandier, Chardonnay focused
top cuvees Ne dune Terre de Vertus and
Cramant Vielles Vignes

59
Q

Agrapart location and cuvees Style

A 
90% chard 
Avize
gentle oxidation, Large old casks 
3 vintage single parcel champagnes
L'Avizois
Mineral
Venus
60
Q

vielles vignes meaning

61
Q

Alte Reben meaning (german)

62
Q

Rene Geoffroy location and Style

A

Ay
Mostly PN PM in Cumieres Premier Cru
Richness, structure, depth of fruit
fermeated in oak

63
Q

first Dom Perignoa vintage

64
Q

Encepagement Dom Perignon

A

60/40 Chard/ PN

65
Q

Largest landholder in Champagne

66
Q

Dom Perignon Cuvees

A 
AII reductive 
Three "plenitudes" 
regular 7 years lees
P2 11-20 years
P3 20 plus years
67
Q

Laurent Perrier owns

A

Salon, Delamotte, De Castellane

68
Q

Laurent Perrier Location/style

A 
Tour sur Marne 
Stainless, 
GrantSiecle blend of 3 vintages (single vintage in great years) II grand crus
55/45 Chard/PN
8 plus years on lees
69
Q

Perrier Jouet location Style history

A

first vintage dated champagne 1825
Epernay
Chardonnay heavy floral style
Grand brut and Belle Epoque BdB, Rose, blend

70
Q

Deutz location, Style, and cuvees

A 
Ay 
Sold to Roederer
No oak  
Non BdB generally pic not no or driven
special cuvees are william Deutz (PN dominant, V), Amour de Deutz (BdB), and Millesime
71
Q

Pommery location, cuvees, and style

A

said to have created 1st brut champer
No oak yes Malo
Cuvee Louise, Apagne, GC Milessime

72
Q

Cellar master at Veuve when they perfected riddling

A

Antoine Muller

73
Q

Owner of Veuve

74
Q

Style location Veuve

A

Reims
Pinot Dominant
Cave Pirivee is late disgorged 17 years o n lees
Grand Dam GC, mostly Verzenay and Avize

75
Q

Only AOP that doesn’t have to include AOP on label

76
Q

How much may Champagne firms farm

A

No more than 15 hectares

77
Q

2 levels of soil in Champagne

A

Belemnite over Micraster

78
Q

Name 5 special club producers

A 
Larmandier Pere et Fils 
Marc Hebrart
Pierre Gimmonet
Paul Bara
J Lassalle
Gaston Chiquet
79
Q

2 Still wines of Champagne

A

Coteaux Champenoise

Rose de Riceys (100% PN)

80
Q

Rebech beets

A

0-10% of pressing in Champer

distilled

81
Q

final 10% of Champ pressing

82
Q

Elevage Champer

A

NV 15 mo post tirage

Vintage 36 mo. post tirage

83
Q

Amount of Champer harvest allowed vintage

A

80% of harvest

84
Q

Amount of grapes from vintage required Champer

85
Q

Name 2 RM Prestige cuvees

A

Vilmart and Cie, Coeur de Cuvee

Jacques selosse, Substance

86
Q

How Many Liters per 4,000 kg Champagne

87
Q

how many kg per 2550 liters Champagne

88
Q

how many liters per 160 kg Champagne

A

102 liters

89
Q

how many kg per 102 liters

90
Q

Vin de Cuvee Champagne

A

first 2050 liters

91
Q

first 2050 liters Champagne pressing

A

Vin de Cuvee

92
Q

Vin de taille Champagne

A

500 liters

93
Q

Next 500 liters champagne pressing

A

Vinde taille

94
Q

debourbage Champagne

A

settling juice eight to fifteen hours (bourbes=Solids)

95
Q

Can must be Chaptalized?Champagne

A

yes and often is

96
Q

Typical Abv Vin Clair

97
Q

prisse de mousse

A

second fermentation

98
Q

Common atmospheres Champagne

99
Q

pointage beets

A

Shaking Champers before remuage

100
Q

Riddling in french

101
Q

How many bottles does gyropalette hold

102
Q

what does RD Stand for

A

Recemment Degorge

103
Q

disgorge VS aging champagne

A

12 mo. post tirage until disgorgement
15 Mo. total NV
36 Vintage

104
Q

Champagne houses under LVMH

A

Krug, Veuve Clicquot, Mercier, Moet

105
Q

Name 5 monoparcel Champagne

A

XAgrapart, Venus, Avize, 100% Chard
XBillecart-Salmon, Clos St Hillaire, MS.A. Pinot Noir
XEgly-Ouriet, Les Crayeres, Ambonnay PN
X Pierre Peters, Chetillons, MSO Chard
Xkrug Mesnil Chard, d’Ambonnay Pinot Noir

Wine (43 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions