Champagne Flashcards
Aging requirements
NV - 15 months
Vintage - 36 months
Sweetness level
Brut Nature, Non Dose - o-3 Extra Brut - o-6 Brut - o-12 Extra Dry - 12-17 Sec - 17-32 Demi Sec - 32-5o Doux - 5o plus
Grapes of Champagne
Pinot Noir Pinot Meunier Chardonnay Arbane Petit Meslier Pinot Blanc Vrai Pinot Gris
Pressing requirements
16o kg - 1o2 l
4ooo kg - 255o l
Grand Crus of Cote des Blancs
Avize Cramant Chouilly Oiry Le Mesnil Sur Oger Oger
Grand Crus of Vallé de la Marne
Ay
Tours Sur Marne
Grand Crus of Montagne de Reims
Bouzy Sillery Puisieulx Verzy Verzenay Louvois Ambonnay Mailly Champagne Beaumont sur Vesle
Two 99 points Echelle de Crus
Mareuil Sur Ay - Valle de la Marne
Tauxiéres - Montagne de Reims
Which GC have been added in 1985
Verzy Chouilly Oiry Oger Le Mesnil sur Oger
Which GC are only classified for one colour?
Cramant
Avize
Oger
Le Mesnil sur Oger
How do you call the second fermentation
preiss de mous
Liqueur de dosage
liqueur d’expédition, a liquid mixture of sugar syrup and wine. Rarely, bone-dry non-dosage styles are produced
Liqueur de tirage
After the assemblage and cold stabilization, the blend will be racked and bottled with the addition of liqueur de tirage, a mixture of still wine, yeasts, sugar, and fining agents that will serve to ignite the second fermentation.
How many bottles can fit in a gyrop palette
5o4
Soil of Champagne
Belemnite Chalk
Pruning methods of Champagne
Cordon de Royat
Chablis
Vallée de la Marne
Guyot (simple)
Name of the press in Champagne
Coquard
Regions of Champagne
Montagne de Reims Vallée de la Marne Cote des Blancs Cote de Sézanne Cotes des Bars
CIVC date
1941
Style of Champagne wines
Vin Mousseux Blanc
Vin Mousseux Rose
Appellations of Champagne
AOP Champagne
AOP Coteaux Champenois
AOP Rose des Riceys
NM
RM
CM
Négoltant Manipulant - champagne maker buying grapes
Récoltant Manipulant - a grower, estate grown fruti, 95% of the grapes are from him
Coopérative Manipulant - a cooperative of growers who also make and sell champagne under theri own labels
RC
SR
ND
MA
Récoltant Coopérateur - grower whose grapes are vinified at a co operative but sells the wine under his own label
Société de Récoltants -
Négociant Distributeur - Company buying and selling it not making it
Marque d’Acheteur - buyers own brand (Berry Bros)
Still wines of Champagne
Coteaux Champenois
Rosé de Riceys
