Champagne: According to Peter Liem Pt. 1, Ch. 1&2 Flashcards
What village does Salon come from?
Le Mesnil-sur-Oger
Who is the head winemaker of Louis Roederer?
Jean Baptiste Lecaillon
Who were considered “the Three Coteaux”
De Saint-Evremond
Comte d’Olonne
Marquis de Bois Dauphin
What was the name of the Champagne Fraternity started in 1956?
Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne
In the ninth century, what were the two categories Champenois wines were divided into?
Vins de la Riviere and Vins de la Montagne
What city was briefly deserted in the 14th Century in France?
Reims, in 1350
What pope instigated the first crusade? and what village was he from in Champagne?
Urban II
Chatillon sur Marne
What was the favored wine of Pope Urban II
The wines of Ay
Around what time were sparkling wines being deliberately produced in Champagne?
The early 1700’s
What was the first house to produce Champagne exclusively? When did they begin?
Ruinart
1729
Who started Ruinart? Where is the business located?
Started by Nicolas Ruinart in Epernay
Moved to Reims by Claude Ruinart
When was the Champagne house Chanoine started?
1730
Jacques Fourneaux opened what house? When? What is it now? Since when?
Forest-Fourneaux
1734
Taittinger
1931
When did Moet Chandon start producing sparkling wines?
Who started it?
1743
Claude Moet
Who founded the house that would become Henri Abele?
Theodore Van der Veken, in 1757
Where is Delamotte located?
Le Mesnil sur Oger
When was Delamotte started?
1760
What winery was originally called Dubois Pere et Fils?
Louis Roederer
Who took over the Clicquot estate in 1805?
Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin
What three wineries came out of the original Heidsieck estate?
Piper Heidsieck
Charles Heidsieck
Heidsieck Monopole
Who currently owns Jacquesson?
Gaston Chicquet
When was phylloxera discovered in the Aube?
1888
What villages did Thomas Jefferson believe to make top rate wines from Champagne?
Ay Hautvillers Epernay Cramant Avize Le Mesnil Mareuil
What year did Joseph Perrier open?
1825
What German Family started a Champagne house in 1827?
Mumm
What house was founded by Athanse de Villermont? Who were his partners?
Bollinger (1829)
Joseph Bollinger
Paul Renaudin
When was De Venoge started?
1837
Who were the original partners of Deutz?
William Deutz
Pierre - Hubert Geldermann
Edouard Lambray
What partner at Jacquesson left to start his own Champagne house in 1843?
Joseph Krug
What Champagne house recieved a Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria in 1877?
Pol Roger
What was Charles Heidsieck’s Nickname?
Champagne Charlie
When was Mercier established?
1858
Who made the first comprehensive effort to classify Champagnes vineyards? When?
1816, Andre Jullien