Champagne General Flashcards
As the northernmost quality wine region in France, Champagne sits on which parallel?
The 48th Parallel
How many Grand Cru villages are there in Champagne?
17
How many Premier Cru villages are there in Champagne?
42
How many villages are allowed to produce Champagne?
357
How much of a years vintage may be sold as “vintage”?
80%
In Champagne, what are the aging requirements for non-vintage and vintage wines?
Non-vintage: aged 15 months from the date of tirage
Vintage Wines: aged 36 months from the date of tirage
Name the four vine training methods used in Champagne?
Chablis -
Guyot Simple -
Cordon Royat -
Vallée de la Marne -
Name three Premier Cru villages in the Côtes des Blancs?
- Cuis
- Grauves
- Vertus
- Bergeres les Vertus
- Pierry
Name three Premier Cru villages in the Montagne de Reims?
- Tauxieres
- Rilly la Montagne
- Chigny les Roses
- Ludes
Name three Premier Cru villages in Valle de la Marne?
- Mareuil sur Aÿ
- Dizy
- Bisseuil
- Hautvillers
- Cumieres
Name two very rare formats of a Champagne bottle larger than the Solomon?
Sovereign & Primat
Vintage dated wines must contain what percentage % of the stated vintage?
100%
*with the small exception of the wine in the liqueur di tirage & liqueur d’expédition.
What are the Grand Cru villages of Montagne de Reims from north to south?
Sillery
Puisieulx
Beaumont-sur-Vesle
Verzenay
Mailly
Verzy
Louvois
Bouzy
Ambonnay
What are the only two villages in Champagne that have a 99% rating on the Echelle des Crus?
Mareuile sur Aÿ (Valle de la Marne)
&
Tauxieres (Montange de Reims)
What are the sweetness levels for Brut Champange?
0-12 g/l
What are the sweetness levels for Demi-Sec Champagne?
32-50 g/l
What are the sweetness levels for Doux Champange?
50+ g/l
What are the sweetness levels for Extra-Brut Champagne?
0-6 g/l
What are the sweetness levels for Extra-Dry Champagne?
12-17 g/l
What are the sweetness levels for Sec Champagne?
17-32 g/l
What are the three components for Liqueur de Tirage?
Still Wine, Sugar, Yeast
What is Bouvreux?
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.
What is “Miller’s Pinot”?
Pinot Meunier
What is Rosey des Riceys AOP?
It is a still rosé appellation from 100% Pinot Noir in the cru of Les Riceys in the Aube.
What is the French word for riddling?
Remuage
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.
What is the max. residual sugar for vin clair?
10 g/l
What is the min. élevage for NV wines in Champange?
Min. 15 months from the date of tirage.
What is the min. élevage for Vintage wines in Champagne?
Min. 36 months from the date of tirage.
What is the min. must weight for Champagne?
143 g/l
What is the min. potential alcohol for base wines in Champagne?
9%
What is the Prise de Mousse?
The secondary fermentation of Champagne.
What is the size of a Methuselah?
6 liters (8 bottles)
What is the size of a Nebuchandezzar?
15 liters (20 bottles)
What is the size of a Piccolo?
187ml
What is the size of a Salamanazar?
9 liters (12 bottles)
What is the size of a Solomon? What is it called in Bordeaux?
18 Liters (24 bottles)
Called a Melchior in Bordeaux
What minor grape round out the encépagement for Champagne AOP?
Pinot Blanc
Pinot Gris
Arbane
Petit Meslier
What is the size of a Balthazar?
12 Liters (16 bottles)
What is the size of a Jeroboam?
3 liters
When did the French government first delimit the boundaries of the Champagne region?
1908
When was the Club Trésors de Champagne founded?
1971
When was the most recent expansion of the zone for the production of Champagne approved?
2009
Where is the Primier Cru village of Vertus located?
Côtes de Blancs
Where is the village of Ambonnay located?
Grand Cru
Montagne de Reims
Where is the village of Avize located?
Grand Cru
Côte de Blancs
Where is the village of Aÿ located?
Grand Cru
Valle de la Marne
Where is the village of Beaumont-sur-Vesle located?
Grand Cru
Montagne de Reims
Where is the village of Bouzy located?
Grand Cru
Montagne de Reims
Where is the village of Chouilly located?
Grand Cru
Côte de Blancs
Where is the village of Cramant located?
Grand Cru
Côte de Blancs
Where is the village of Les-Mesnil-sur-Oger located?
Grand Cru
Côte de Blancs
Where is the village of Louvois located?
Grand Cru
Montagne de Reims
Where is the village of Mailly located?
Grand Cru
Montagne de Reims
Where is the village of Oger located?
Grand Cru
Côte de Blancs
Where is the village of Oiry located?
Grand Cru
Côte de Blancs
Where is the village of Puisieulx located?
Grand Cru
Montagne de Reims
Where is the village of Sillery located?
Grand Cru
Montagne de Reims
Where is the village of Tours sur Marne located?
Grand Cru
Valle de la Marne
Where is the village of Verzenay located?
Grand Cru
Montagne de Reims
Where is the village of Verzy located?
Grand Cru
Montage de Reims
Which department is home to all of the Grand Cru villages?
The Marne department
Which is the oldest producer of sparkling wine in Champagne?
Ruinart was the first house founded solely to produce sparkling wines in 1729
Which villages were elevated to Grand Cru status in 1985?
Verzy
Chouilly
Oiry
Oger
Mesnil-sur-Oger
Who is the oldest house in Champange?
Gosset, founded in 1548 as a still white and red wine producer.
Who marketed the first Brut Champagne?
Pommery, with Pommery ‘Nature’ in 1874
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.
What is a Récoltant Coopérateur?
RC - A grower whose grapes are vinified at a co-operative, but sells the wine under their own label.
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.
How many vintages of Krug’s Clos d’Ambonnay have been produced?
5
1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
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.
Clos de Goisses is located within what village?
Mareuil-sur-Aÿ
Who is the producer of the Champagne bottling ‘Vieilles Vignes Franchises’? what is the grape?
Bollinger; 100% Pinot Noir
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.
What was the inaugural vintage of Moët et Chandon’s ‘Dom Pérignon’?
1921 (first vintage was 1921, released in 1936)
Name 3 single vineyard Champagnes made by Jacques Selosse?
Les Carelles
La Côte Faron
Le Bout de Clos
What are Crayeres?
Large chalk quarries in Champagne. Used for storage.
What is the inaugural vinage of Dom Ruinart & Dom Ruinart Rosé?
1959, 1966
What is a Pupitre?
Standard A fram rack in Champagne.
How many bottles does a singel Pupitre rack hold?
120 bottles