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1
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What are the still wine appellations in Champagne?

A

Coteaux Champenoise

Rose de Riceys

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2
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How many villages are authorized to grow grapes for Champagne?

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357

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3
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How many villages have Grand Cru status in Champagne? Premier cru?

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17 GC

42 Premier

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4
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In Champagne, producers would historically briskly shake bottles to prevent sediment from sticking to the sides. What was this process called?

A

Pointage

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5
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Who produces Dom Perignon?

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Moet et Chandon

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6
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What is the prestige cuvee rose from Laurent Perrier?

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Alexandra

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What is the workhorse grape of Cremant d’Alsace?

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Pinot Blanc

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Who produces Cuvee des Enchanteleurs?

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Henriot

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9
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What is débourbage?

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Allowing the pressed juice to settle for 8-15 hours, so the remaining solids (bourbes) in the must can be removed by racking prior to fermentation

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10
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How many pressings must grapes go through in Champagne? What are they called?

A

3
Vin de Cuvee- First 2050 of 4000 liters
Vin de Taille- Following 500 liters
Rebeche- 1-10% of total, must be distilled

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11
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What is the prestige cuvee of Ruinart? Inaugural vintage?

A

Dom Ruinart
BdB 1959
Rose 1966

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12
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What is the prestige cuvee of Roderer?

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Cristal Brut and Rose

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13
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What are the prestige cuvees of Tattinger?

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Comtes de Champagne (BdB and Rose)

Tattinger Collection

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What is the prestige cuvee of Delamotte? (No longer produced)

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Nicholas Louis Delamotte

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15
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What are the two traditional method DOCGs of Lombardy?

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Franciacorta

Oltreppo Pavese Metodo Classico

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16
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What is Blanquette de Limoux AOP?

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Traditional method sparkling from Languedoc

Minimum 90% Mauzac, chardonnay and Chenin blanc

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17
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What are the traditional method Cremant appellations in France?

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Cremant de Bourgogne
Cremant d'Alsace
Cremant de Jura
Cremant de Die
Cremant de Limoux
Cremant de Bordeaux
Cremant de Loire
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18
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What year did Special Club Champagne originate?

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1971

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19
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What is a muselet?

A

Wire cage

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20
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What is the synonym for Pinot Gris in Champagne?

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Fromanteau

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21
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What is the prestige cuvee of Gosset? First vintage?

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Celebris

1988

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22
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What single vineyard Champagnes does Krug produce? Grapes, and inaugural vintages?

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Clos du Mesnil 100% Chardonnay 1979

Clos d’Ambonnay 100% PN 1995

23
Q

What are the allowed pruning methods in Champagne?

A

Cordon de Royat
Chablis
Valée de la Marne
Guyot (Double and simple)

24
Q

What is the traditional press called in Champagne?

A

Coquard

25
Q

Is chaptalization legal in Champagne?

A

Yes

26
Q

Name all the approved varieties for Champagne AOP?

A 
Pinot Noir
Champagne 
Meunier
Pinot Blanc
Fromanteau (Pinot Gris) 
Petit Meslier
Arbanne
27
Q

Name the major districts of Champagne from North to South

A 
Montagne de Reims
Valée de la Marne
Cotes des Blancs
Cotes des Sezanne
Cote de Bars (Aube)
28
Q

When fertilizing Champagne vineyards, what nutrient is most commonly added?

A

Iron

29
Q

What is the primary soil structure for Champagne’s slopes? Valleys?

A

Slopes- Belemnite chalk

Valleys- Micraster chalk

30
Q

What does ND mean on a bottle of Champagne?

A

Negociant-Distributor

Middleman company that distributes Champagne it did not make

31
Q

What are the prestige cuvées of Deutz? Cepage and inaugural vintage?

A

Amour de Deutz 100% Chardonnay 1993

Cuvee William Deutz Chard, PN, PM 1959

32
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What is the prestige cuvée of Pol Roger? 1st vintage?

A

Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill

1975

33
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What is the prestige cuvée of Veuve Cliquot? First vintage?

A

La Grande Dame
Brut 1969
Brut Rose 1988

34
Q

When did the CIVC stop setting the price of grapes through the Echelle de Crus?

A

1990

35
Q

What does CM mean in Champagne?

A

Cooperative Maniupulant

Co-op produces wine under a single brand

36
Q

What does RM mean on Champagne?

A

Recolant Manipulant

95% minimum own fruit

37
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What does NM mean on Champagne?

A

Negociant Manipulant

38
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What is a bidule?

A

A small plastic capsule that sits in the neck of a Champagne bottle beneath the crown cap to capture sediment that will later be disgorged

39
Q

What is remuage?

A

Riddling by hand or gyropalette

40
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What is transvasage in Champagne? When is it allowed?

A

Champagne is disgorged into a pressurized tank and filtered (no remuage) then pumped into a clean bottle under pressure. It is allowed when bottling wines larger than a jeroboam or smaller than a half bottle

41
Q

What styles of wine are permitted in Coteaux Champenoise?

A

Still dry white, rose, red

42
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What is Rose de Riceys?

A

Still, dry rose produced in Les Riceys, a village in the Aube. Carbonic maceration

43
Q

What was the first Champagne to be made from a single vineyard?

A

Philliponnat Clos de Goisses

44
Q

What was the first prestige cuvée?

A

Dom Perignon

45
Q

What is the only appellation in France that does not need to include AOP or AOC on the label?

A

Champagne

46
Q

What are the aging requirements for vintage and nonvintage Champagne?

A

NV- 15 months from date of tirage

Vintage-36 months

47
Q

Who owns Krug? When was it founded?

A

LVMH

1843

48
Q

Where does Selosse Initial come from?

A

Oger
Avize
Cramant

49
Q

Where does Selosse Substance come from? What year was the solera started?

A

Avize

1986

50
Q

What is Bereche Reflet d’Antan?

A

1/3 each Chardonnay, PN, PM

600 liter barrel solera started in 1985

51
Q

What is the grape of Armand de Brignac?

A

Chardonnay

52
Q

A gyropalette holds how many bottles?

A

504

53
Q

What 3 villages house the majority of the large Champagne houses?

A

Reims
Aÿ
Epernay

54
Q

Who created the first brut bottling in Champagne? In what year?

A

?

1874

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