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As the northernmost quality wine region in France, Champagne sits on which parallel?

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The 48th Parallel

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How many Grand Cru villages are there in Champagne?

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17

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How many Premier Cru villages are there in Champagne?

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42

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How many villages are allowed to produce Champagne?

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357

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How much of a years vintage may be sold as “vintage”?

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80%

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In Champagne, what are the aging requirements for non-vintage and vintage wines?

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Non-vintage: aged 15 months from the date of tirage

Vintage Wines: aged 36 months from the date of tirage

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Name the four vine training methods used in Champagne?

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Chablis -
Guyot Simple -
Cordon Royat -
Vallée de la Marne -

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Name three Premier Cru villages in the Côtes des Blancs?

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  • Cuis
  • Grauves
  • Vertus
  • Bergeres les Vertus
  • Pierry
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Name three Premier Cru villages in the Montagne de Reims?

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  • Tauxieres
  • Rilly la Montagne
  • Chigny les Roses
  • Ludes
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Name three Premier Cru villages in Valle de la Marne?

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  • Mareuil sur Aÿ
  • Dizy
  • Bisseuil
  • Hautvillers
  • Cumieres
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Name two very rare formats of a Champagne bottle larger than the Solomon?

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Sovereign & Primat

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Vintage dated wines must contain what percentage % of the stated vintage?

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100%

*with the small exception of the wine in the liqueur di tirage & liqueur d’expédition.

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What are the Grand Cru villages of Montagne de Reims from north to south?

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Sillery
Puisieulx
Beaumont-sur-Vesle
Verzenay
Mailly
Verzy
Louvois
Bouzy
Ambonnay

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What are the only two villages in Champagne that have a 99% rating on the Echelle des Crus?

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Mareuile sur Aÿ (Valle de la Marne)

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Tauxieres (Montange de Reims)

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What are the sweetness levels for Brut Champange?

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0-12 g/l

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What are the sweetness levels for Demi-Sec Champagne?

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32-50 g/l

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What are the sweetness levels for Doux Champange?

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50+ g/l

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What are the sweetness levels for Extra-Brut Champagne?

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0-6 g/l

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What are the sweetness levels for Extra-Dry Champagne?

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12-17 g/l

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What are the sweetness levels for Sec Champagne?

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17-32 g/l

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What are the three components for Liqueur de Tirage?

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Still Wine, Sugar, Yeast

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What is Bouvreux?

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A second crop, generally left of the vine at harvest. However, it can be harvested in warm vintages like 1976 or 2003 and provideed the only crop in frost damaged years like 2003.

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What is “Miller’s Pinot”?

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Pinot Meunier

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What is Rosey des Riceys AOP?

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It is a still rosé appellation from 100% Pinot Noir in the cru of Les Riceys in the Aube.

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What is the French word for riddling?
Remuage
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What is the Matriculation number on a bottle of Champagne?
It is the numerical code that followes the initials indicating the type of producer that is issued by the CIVC to every Champagne producer.
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What is the max. residual sugar for vin clair?
10 g/l
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What is the min. élevage for NV wines in Champange?
Min. 15 months from the date of tirage.
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What is the min. élevage for Vintage wines in Champagne?
Min. 36 months from the date of tirage.
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What is the min. must weight for Champagne?
143 g/l
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What is the min. potential alcohol for base wines in Champagne?
9%
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What is the *Prise de Mousse*?
The secondary fermentation of Champagne.
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What is the size of a Methuselah?
6 liters (8 bottles)
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What is the size of a Nebuchandezzar?
15 liters (20 bottles)
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What is the size of a Piccolo?
187ml
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What is the size of a Salamanazar?
9 liters (12 bottles)
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What is the size of a Solomon? What is it called in Bordeaux?
18 Liters (24 bottles) Called a Melchior in Bordeaux
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What minor grape round out the encépagement for Champagne AOP?
Pinot Blanc Pinot Gris Arbane Petit Meslier
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What is the size of a Balthazar?
12 Liters (16 bottles)
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What is the size of a Jeroboam?
3 liters
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When did the French government first delimit the boundaries of the Champagne region?
1908
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When was the *Club Trésors de Champagne* founded?
1971
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When was the most recent expansion of the zone for the production of Champagne approved?
2009
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Where is the Primier Cru village of *Vertus* located?
**Côtes de Blancs**
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Where is the village of *Ambonnay* located?
Grand Cru **Montagne de Reims**
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Where is the village of *Avize* located?
Grand Cru **Côte de Blancs**
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Where is the village of *Aÿ* located?
Grand Cru **Valle de la Marne**
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Where is the village of *Beaumont-sur-Vesle* located?
Grand Cru **Montagne de Reims**
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Where is the village of *Bouzy* located?
Grand Cru **Montagne de Reims**
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Where is the village of *Chouilly* located?
Grand Cru **Côte de Blancs**
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Where is the village of *Cramant* located?
Grand Cru **Côte de Blancs**
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Where is the village of *Les-Mesnil-sur-Oger* located?
Grand Cru **Côte de Blancs**
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Where is the village of *Louvois* located?
Grand Cru **Montagne de Reims**
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Where is the village of *Mailly* located?
Grand Cru **Montagne de Reims**
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Where is the village of *Oger* located?
Grand Cru **Côte de Blancs**
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Where is the village of *Oiry* located?
Grand Cru **Côte de Blancs**
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Where is the village of *Puisieulx* located?
Grand Cru **Montagne de Reims**
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Where is the village of *Sillery* located?
Grand Cru **Montagne de Reims**
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Where is the village of *Tours sur Marne* located?
Grand Cru **Valle de la Marne**
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Where is the village of *Verzenay* located?
Grand Cru **Montagne de Reims**
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Where is the village of *Verzy* located?
Grand Cru **Montage de Reims**
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Which department is home to all of the Grand Cru villages?
The Marne department
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Which is the oldest producer of sparkling wine in Champagne?
Ruinart was the first house founded solely to produce sparkling wines in 1729
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Which villages were elevated to Grand Cru status in 1985?
Verzy Chouilly Oiry Oger Mesnil-sur-Oger
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Who is the oldest house in Champange?
Gosset, founded in 1548 as a still white and red wine producer.
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Who marketed the first Brut Champagne?
Pommery, with Pommery 'Nature' in 1874
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What is a *Marque d'Acheteur?*
MA - A buyer's own brand, often a large supermarket chain or restaurant that purchases Champagne and sells it under their own label.
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What is a *Récoltant Coopérateur?*
RC - A grower whose grapes are vinified at a co-operative, but sells the wine under their own label.
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What is a *Société de Récoltants?*
SR - A firm, not a co-operative, set up by a union of often related growers, who share resources to make their own wines and collectively market several brands.
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How many vintages of Krug's Clos d'Ambonnay have been produced?
5 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
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What is en Provinage Training?
A way to get a healthy vine to replicate underground. A tunnel is dug to come out where the farmer wants the other vine and a shoot in burried. It will grow roots and once it comes out the other side the farmer will seperate it from the other vine.
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Clos de Goisses is located within what village?
Mareuil-sur-Aÿ
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Who is the producer of the Champagne bottling ‘Vieilles Vignes Franchises’? what is the grape?
Bollinger; 100% Pinot Noir
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In what decade were the Champagne riots and what sparked the controversy?
1910 & 1911 The riots were caused by the dissatisfaction of the growers in the Aube who no longer were considered part of Champagne.
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What was the inaugural vintage of Moët et Chandon's ‘Dom Pérignon’?
1921 (first vintage was 1921, released in 1936)
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Name 3 single vineyard Champagnes made by Jacques Selosse?
Les Carelles La Côte Faron Le Bout de Clos
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What are Crayeres?
Large chalk quarries in Champagne. Used for storage.
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What is the inaugural vinage of Dom Ruinart & Dom Ruinart Rosé?
1959, 1966
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What is a Pupitre?
Standard A fram rack in Champagne.
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How many bottles does a singel Pupitre rack hold?
120 bottles

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