Champagne Flashcards
What is the tête de cuvée of Ayala?
Cuvée Perle d’Ayala
What are the 3 tête de cuvées of Billecart Salmon?
Nicolas François Billecart
Grande Cuvée
Elisabeth Salmon Rosé
What are the 3 tête de cuvée of Bollinger?
La Grand Année
R.D.
Vieilles Vignes Françaises
What is the tête de cuvée of Boizel?
Joyau de France (Brut and Brut Rosé)
What is the tête de cuvée of Canard Duchêne?
Charles VII (NV All Styles)
What is the tête de cuvée of Comtes Audoin de Dampierre?
“Prestige” Blanc de Blancs
What is the tête de cuvée of De Castellane?
Cuvée Commodore (White and Rosé)
What is the tête de cuvée of De Meric?
Catherine de Médicis
What are the 2 têtes de cuvées of De Venoge? Which is no longer produced? When was it made again?
Grand Vin des Princes (no longer produced since the intro of Louis XV in 1994, but was created once more in 2000)
Louis XV
What is the tête de cuvée of Delamotte? Is it still produced?
Nicolas Louis Delamotte
no longer produced
What are the 2 têtes de cuvées of Deutz?
Cuvée William Deutz
Amour de Deutz (Blanc de Blancs)
What is the tête de cuvée of Diebolt Vallois?
Fleur de Passion (Blanc de Blancs)
What is the tête de cuvée of Drappier?
Charles de Gaulle
What is the tête de cuvée of Duval-Leroy
Femme de Champagne
What is the tête de cuvée of Gosset?
Celebris
What is the tête de cuvée of Alfred Gratien?
Cuvée Paradis
What are the 2 tête de cuvée of Charles Heidsieck?
Champagne Charlie (1985 was last vintage)
Blanc des Millénaires
What is the tête de cuvée of Henriot?
Cuvée des Enchanteleurs
What is the tête de cuvée of Jacquesson?
Grand Vin Signature
What are the têtes de cuvées of Laurent-Perrier?
Grand Siècle
Alexandra (Vintage Rosé)
What are the 2 têtes de cuvées of AR Lenoble?
Cuvée Les Aventures
Cuvée Gentilhomme
both are Blanc de Blancs
What is the tête de cuvée of G.H. Mumm?
Cuvée R. Lalou
What is the tête de cuvée of Bruno Paillard?
Nec-Plus-Ultra
What is the tête de cuvée of Joseph Perrier?
Cuvée Joséphine
What are the têtes de cuvées of Perrier-Jouët?
Belle Époque/Fleur de Champagne (USA Market)
What is the tête de cuvée of Piper Heidsieck?
Rare
What is the tête de cuvée of Ployez-Jacquemart?
Liesse d’Harbonville
What is the tête de cuvée of Pol Roger?
Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill
What is the tête de cuvée of Pommery?
Cuvée Louise
What is the tête de cuvée of Louis Roederer?
Cristal
What is the tête de cuvée of Ruinart?
Dom Ruinart
What are the 2 têtes de cuvées of Taittinger?
Comtes de Champagne
Taittinger Collection
What is the tête de cuvée of Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin?
La Grande Dame
What are the 2 têtes de cuvées of Henri Billiot (RM)?
Cuvée Laetitia
Cuvée Julie
What is the tête de cuvée of Bonnaire (RM)?
Cuvée Prestige
What is the tête de cuvée of Chartogne-Taillet (RM)?
Fiacre
What is the tête de cuvée of Hubert Dauvergne (RM)?
Fine Fleur de Bouzy
What is the tête de cuvée of Paul Déthune (RM)?
Brut Prestige (NV)
What is the tête de cuvée of Guy Larmandier (RM)?
Cramant Grand Cru Cuvée Prestige
What is the tête de cuvée of Jacques Selosse (RM)?
Substance (NV)
What is the tête de cuvée of Villmart et Cie (RM)?
Cœur de Cuvée
What is the tête de cuvée of Nicolas Feuillatte (CM)?
Palmes d’Or
What are the 2 têtes de cuvées of Jacquart (CM)?
Cuvée Alpha
Brut de Nominée (discontinued; made from ‘85-‘90)
What are the 2 têtes de cuvées of Mailly Grand Cru?
Les Échansons
L’Intemporelle
Who makes “Vénus” Brut Nature? What’s the village and grape?
Agrapart (RM)
Avize
Chardonnay
Who makes “Clos St-Hillaire”? What’s the village and grape?
Billecart-Salmon
Mareuil-sur-Aÿ
Pinot Noir
Who makes “Clos du Moulin”? What’s the village and cepage?
Cattier (NM)
Ludes
50/50 Chard and Pinot Noir
What are Chartogne-Taillet’s (RM) 3 single vineyard bottlings? What is the grape in each and in what village are they all from?
Les Barres and Les Alliées are both Pinot Meunier
Les Orizeaux is Pinot Noir
All are in Merfy (Montagne de Reims) in the Massif de St-Thierry
Who makes “Clos Cazals”? What is the village and grape?
Claude Cazals (RM)
Le Mesnil-sur-Oger
Chardonnay
Who makes “Grande Sendrée”? What is the village and cepage? Styles?
Drappier
Urville (Aubes)
Mostly PN with Chard
Straight Champagne and Rosé styles
Who makes “Clos des Bouveries”? What is the village and grape?
Duval-Leroy
Vertus
Chardonnay
Who makes “Les Crayères” NV? What is the village and grape?
Egly-Ouriet (RM)
Ambonnay
Pinot Noir
What are Jacquesson’s 4 single vineyard bottlings? Village and grape for each?
Dizy Corne Bautray
Chardonnay
Dizy Terres Rouges Rosé
Pinot Noir
Avize Champ Cain
Chardonnay
Aÿ Vauzelle Terme
Pinot Noir
What are the first vintages of Krug “Clos de Mesnil” and “Clos d’Ambonnay”?
Clos du Mesnil (1979)
Clos d’Ambonnay (1995)
What are the two top bottlings of Larmandier-Bernier (RM)? Grape and Villages?
Vieille Vigne de Cramant:
Chardonnay from Clamant
Terre de Vertus:
Chardonnay from Vertus
Who makes “Terres de Noël”? Village and grape?
Jean Milan (NM)
Oger
Chardonnay
Who makes “Cuvée Spéciale les Chétillons”? Village and grape?
Pierre Peters (RM)
Le Mesnil-sur-Oger
Chardonnay
Who makes “Clos de Goisses”? What’s the village? Cepage?
Philipponnat
Mareuil-sur-Aÿ
Mostly Pinot with Chard
What are the 4 major bottlings of Tarlant (RM)? What are the grapes and villages?
La Vigne d’Or:
Oeuilly, Meunier
La Vinge d’Antan
Oeuilly, Ungrafted Chardonnay
La Vigne Royale
Oeuilly, Pinot Noir
Cuvée Louis
Oeuilly, 50/50 PN and Chardonnay
Who makes “Clos Faubourg”? What is the village and grape?
Veuve Fourny (NM)
Vertus
Chardonnay
What are the inaugural vintages of all 3 of Billecart-Salmon’s prestige cuvées?
Nicolas François Billecart (1955)
Grande Cuvée (1982)
Elisabeth Salmon Rosé (1988)
What are the inaugural vintages of R.D. and Vieilles Vignes Françaises?
R.D. (1952)
VVF (1969)
What was the inaugural vintage of Diebolt-Vallois’s “Fleur de Passion”?
1995
What is the inaugural vintage for Duval-Leroy’s “Femme de Champagne”?
1990
What was the inaugural vintage of Gosset’s “Celebris”?
1988
What was the last vintage of Charles Heidsieck’s “Champagne Charlie” and first vintage of “Blanc des Millénaires”?
Last vintage of Charlie in 1985
First vintage of BDM in 1983
What was the first vintage of Jacquesson’s “Grand Vin Signature”? Last vintage?
First in ‘81
Last in ‘02
What is the tête de cuvée of Lanson?
Noble Cuvée
What were the first vintages of Laurent-Perrier’s “Grand Siècle” and “Alexandra”?
Grand Siècle (1960)
Alexandra (1982)
What was the inaugural vintage of Dom Perignon? Dom Rosé?
Dom: 1921
Dom Rosé: 1959
What was the last vintage of Perrier-Jouët’s “Fleur de Champagne” label?
2002
What was the inaugural vintage of Perrier-Jouët’s “Belle Epoque”?
1964
What is the inaugural vintage of Piper Heidieck’s “Rare”?
1976
What is the inaugural vintage of Pol Roger’s “Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill”?
1975
What was the first vintage, but not available to the commercial market, of Cristal? When was it made available to the market?
1876
Made available in 1945
What was the first vintage of Cristal Rosé?
1974
Since 1970, what vintages of Salon have been produced?
‘71, ‘73, ‘76, ‘79
‘82, ‘83, ‘85, ‘88
‘90, ‘95, ‘96, ‘97, ‘99
‘02, ‘03, ‘04, ‘06, ‘07, ‘08
For how long is Salon aged in its lees prior to release?
10 years