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
What organization was formed to suppress wine fraud in the Champagne region? When?
1904
Federation des Syndicats Viticole
What region was originally excluded from the first attempted classification of Champagne?
The Aube
How Many Villages are in Champagne?
320
Name the 5 Departments of Champagne
The Aisne The Aube Haut Marne Marne Seine et Marne
How many Grand Cru villages are there?
17
How many Premier Cru villages are there?
42
How many vineyard hectares are there today?
34,300ha
When did Peter Liem begin requesting to taste Vins Clair?
1997
What was the first Champagne to be sourced from a single Cru/village?
Salon
Le Mesnil sur Oger
How many vintages of Salon exist?
38, since 1905
What year did Pierre Philliponnat beginning making his single vineyard wine? What was the vineyard name?
1935
Clos de Goisses
What is the single vineyard of Cattier? When did he bottle it?
Clos du Moulin
1952
What single is the Drappier’s first single vineyard bottling?
Grande Sendree
Tarlant’s first single vineyard bottling?
Cuvee Louis
Jean Milan’s single vineyard bottling?
Terres de Noel
What did Krug release in 1986 of importance?
Krug’s 1979 Clos du Mesnil
Pierre Peters 1971 single vineyard bottling?
Les Chetillons (first made as a special club)
Around what village are the vines for Grand Sendree found?
Urville
What village is Terres de Noel made in?
Oger
What is Egly-Ouriet’s Blanc de Noir single vineyard?
Les Crayeres
What is Vilmart’s first single vineyard wine? What vineyard? What village?
Coeur de Cuvee
Blanches Voies
Rilly La Montagne
What is Pierre Callot’s first single vineyard bottling?
Avize Les Avats
What village is Larmandier Bernier’s first single vineyard wine from? What is it called?
Cramant
Vieille Vigne du Levant
What is Veuve Fourny’s parcel outside Vertus?
Clos Fauburg Notre Dame
What is Jacques Selosse’ Cote Faron parcel bottling called? What village is it from?
Contraste
Ay
What is the name of George Laval’s single vineyard in Cumieres?
Les Chenes
What wine did Larmandier Bernier create in 1994?
Terre de Vertus
What is Jean Vesselle’s single vineyard near Bouzy bottled as?
Le Petit Clos
What Cramant bottling did Diebolt Vallois start in 1995?
Fleur de Passion
What bottling does Agrapart Pere et Fils start in 1995? What village is it from?
Avizoise
from Avize
What is Pierre Callot’s second single vineyard wine? Where is it?
Clos Jacquin
Avize
What is the Chardonnay bottling from Dizy of Jacquesson?
Corne Bautray
What was Single vineyard was isolated by Krug in 1995?
Clos d’Ambonnay
What is Billecart Salmon’s single vineyard in Mareuil-sur-Ay?
Clos Saint Hilaire
What new vineyard did Jacquesson isolate in 1996? Where was it?
Vauzelle Terme in Ay
In 1998, what was the single vineyard bottling of Jerome Prevost?
Les Beguines
What is David Leclapart’s bottling from his oldest parcel?
L’Apotre
In 1999, what two single vineyard bottlings did Tarlant create?
La Vigne d’Or (Old parcel of Meunier vines)
La Vigne d’Antan (ungrafted Chardonnay)
Who started making Les Ursules in 2000?
Cedric Bouchard of Roses de Jeanne
What wine was added to the Agrapart Pere et Fils lineup in 2001?
Venus
Who owns Le Mont Benoit?
Emmanuel Brochet
What is Taittingers single bottling from 2002?
Les Folies de la Marquetterie
What was the new wine by Vouette & Sorbee from 2003?
Saignee de Sorbee
What is the 2004 bottling from Buxeuil by Vouette & Sorbee?
Blanc d’Argile (Chardonnay)
What is Ulysse Collin’s Blanc de Blanc?
Les Pierrieres
What are the Aube wines from Marie Courtin that were started in 2006?
Resonance and Eloquence
Where did Coessens start making wines in 2006?
Largillier
Where is Clos Lanson? Who makes it?
Lanson, in Reims
What is Les Barres?
Chartogne Taillet, single vineyard ungrafted Meunier vines.
What was the Marguet 2008 bottling?
Les Crayeres