Champagne

Question 1

What are the still wine appellations in Champagne?

Answer 1

Coteaux Champenoise

Rose de Riceys

Question 2

How many villages are authorized to grow grapes for Champagne?

Answer 2

357

Question 3

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

Answer 3

17 GC

42 Premier

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Pointage

Question 5

Who produces Dom Perignon?

Answer 5

Moet et Chandon

Question 6

What is the prestige cuvee rose from Laurent Perrier?

Answer 6

Alexandra

Question 7

What is the workhorse grape of Cremant d’Alsace?

Answer 7

Pinot Blanc

Question 8

Who produces Cuvee des Enchanteleurs?

Answer 8

Henriot

Question 9

What is débourbage?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What is the prestige cuvee of Ruinart? Inaugural vintage?

Answer 11

Dom Ruinart
BdB 1959
Rose 1966

Question 12

What is the prestige cuvee of Roderer?

Answer 12

Cristal Brut and Rose

Question 13

What are the prestige cuvees of Tattinger?

Answer 13

Comtes de Champagne (BdB and Rose)

Tattinger Collection

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Nicholas Louis Delamotte

Question 15

What are the two traditional method DOCGs of Lombardy?

Answer 15

Franciacorta

Oltreppo Pavese Metodo Classico

Question 16

What is Blanquette de Limoux AOP?

Answer 16

Traditional method sparkling from Languedoc

Minimum 90% Mauzac, chardonnay and Chenin blanc

Question 17

What are the traditional method Cremant appellations in France?

Answer 17

Cremant de Bourgogne
Cremant d'Alsace
Cremant de Jura
Cremant de Die
Cremant de Limoux
Cremant de Bordeaux
Cremant de Loire

Question 18

What year did Special Club Champagne originate?

Answer 18

1971

Question 19

What is a muselet?

Answer 19

Wire cage

Question 20

What is the synonym for Pinot Gris in Champagne?

Answer 20

Fromanteau

Question 21

What is the prestige cuvee of Gosset? First vintage?

Answer 21

Celebris

1988

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Clos du Mesnil 100% Chardonnay 1979

Clos d’Ambonnay 100% PN 1995

Question 23

What are the allowed pruning methods in Champagne?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What is the traditional press called in Champagne?

Answer 24

Coquard

Question 25

Is chaptalization legal in Champagne?

Answer 25

Yes

Question 26

Name all the approved varieties for Champagne AOP?

Answer 26

``` Pinot Noir Champagne Meunier Pinot Blanc Fromanteau (Pinot Gris) Petit Meslier Arbanne ```

Question 27

Name the major districts of Champagne from North to South

Answer 27

``` Montagne de Reims Valée de la Marne Cotes des Blancs Cotes des Sezanne Cote de Bars (Aube) ```

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Iron

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Slopes- Belemnite chalk | Valleys- Micraster chalk

Question 30

What does ND mean on a bottle of Champagne?

Answer 30

Negociant-Distributor | Middleman company that distributes Champagne it did not make

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Amour de Deutz 100% Chardonnay 1993 | Cuvee William Deutz Chard, PN, PM 1959

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill | 1975

Question 33

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

Answer 33

La Grande Dame Brut 1969 Brut Rose 1988

Question 34

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

Answer 34

1990

Question 35

What does CM mean in Champagne?

Answer 35

Cooperative Maniupulant | Co-op produces wine under a single brand

Question 36

What does RM mean on Champagne?

Answer 36

Recolant Manipulant | 95% minimum own fruit

Question 37

What does NM mean on Champagne?

Answer 37

Negociant Manipulant

Question 38

What is a bidule?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

What is remuage?

Answer 39

Riddling by hand or gyropalette

Question 40

What is transvasage in Champagne? When is it allowed?

Answer 40

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

Question 41

What styles of wine are permitted in Coteaux Champenoise?

Answer 41

Still dry white, rose, red

Question 42

What is Rose de Riceys?

Answer 42

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

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Philliponnat Clos de Goisses

Question 44

What was the first prestige cuvée?

Answer 44

Dom Perignon

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Champagne

Question 46

What are the aging requirements for vintage and nonvintage Champagne?

Answer 46

NV- 15 months from date of tirage | Vintage-36 months

Question 47

Who owns Krug? When was it founded?

Answer 47

LVMH | 1843

Question 48

Where does Selosse Initial come from?

Answer 48

Oger Avize Cramant

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Avize | 1986

Question 50

What is Bereche Reflet d'Antan?

Answer 50

1/3 each Chardonnay, PN, PM | 600 liter barrel solera started in 1985

Question 51

What is the grape of Armand de Brignac?

Answer 51

Chardonnay

Question 52

A gyropalette holds how many bottles?

Answer 52

504

Question 53

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

Answer 53

Reims Aÿ Epernay

Question 54

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

Answer 54

? | 1874