Champagne - Prestige Cuvees Flashcards
Name 4 producers
who use no Oak
MVP-PM
Moet & Chandon
Veuve Clicquot
Pol Roger
Pommery
- *Mumm**
- (liqueur d’expedition is kept in oak)*
Name 6 producers
who ferment in 100% oak
- *Krug**
- all wines fermented in VERY OLD 205L barrels
- *Alfred Gratien**
- all wines fermented in 228L barrels;
- they are also experimenting with 300L barrels from local forests
- *Bollinger**
- all vintage wines made in VERY OLD 225L barrels
- NV wines are done in mainly stainless steel
- *Billecart Salmon**
- Clos St. Hillaire
- – fermented in 225L barrels
- Sous Bois
- *Veuve Fournay**
- Clos du Fauberg Notre-Dame
- – fermented in 4 year old 225L barrels
- *Ployez-Jacquemart**
- Liesse d’Harbonville
- – fermented in 225L barrels
- *Bruno Paillard**
- Nec Plus Ultra
- – fermented in old 205L barrels
- *Vilmart & Cie**
- all wines fermented in oak and spend min 10 months in barrel
- some sources indicate they might use some new oak…cannot confirm
- Coeur de Cuvée uses 228L barrels
Name 2 producers
who use New Oak
- *Jacques Selosse**
- all wines
- 100% fermented in oak with 10% in new oak
- mainly use 228L barriques, and 900L tonneau
- *Veuve Fournay**
- La Cuvée R
- – 100% new oak in 225L barrels
Name 3
Famous Champagnes that are
100% Pinot Meunier
Tarlant
La Vigne d’Or
Chartogne-Taillet
Les Barres
Egly-Ouriet
Les Vignes de Vrigny
Name 3
Famous Champagnes that are
100% Pinot Noir
Krug
Clos d’Ambonnay
Bollinger
Vielles Vignes Francaise
Nicolas Feuilliatte
Palmes d’Or Brut Rose
Billecarte-Salmon
Clos St. Hillaire
Egly-Ouriet
Les Crayeres
Jacquesson
Ay- Vauzelle Terme
Jacquesson
Dizy- Terre Rouges
Hebert Dauvergne
Fine Fleur de Bouzy
Paul Bara
Special Club Rosé
Name 3
Famous NM producers of
Reims
Reims = CLR-TV
“clear TV”
—–
Charles Heidsieck
Blanc de Millenaires
Louis Roederer
Cristal
Ruinart
Dom Ruinart
Taittinger
Comtes de Champagne
Les Follies de la Marquettiere
Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin
Grand Dame
Krug
All wines
Henriot
Cuvee de Enchateleurs
Jacquart
Brut de Nominee
Lanson
Noble Cuvee
Mumm
Cuvee R Lalou
Bruno Paillard
Nec-Plus-Ultra
Piper-Heidsieck
Cuvee Rare
Name 3
Famous NM producers of
Ay
- *GABB** = Ay
- “Gabby”*
—–
Gosset
Celebris
Ayala
Cuvee Perle d’Ayala
Billecarte-Salmon
(Mareuil-sur-Ay)
Grand Cuvee
Clos St. Hillaire
Bollinger
Grand Annee
RD
Vielle Vignes Francais (PN!)
De Meric
Catherine de Medici
Deutz
Cuvee William Deutz
Amour de Deutz
Name 3
Famous NM producers of
Epernay
Epernay = PoMP
“the POMP of Epernay”
—–
Pol Roger
Sir Winston Churchill
Moet & Chandon
Dom Perignon
Perrier Jouet
Belle Epoque
Boizel
Joyau de France
De Castellane
Cuvee Commodore
De Venogue
Louis XV
Alfred Gratien
Cuvee Paradis
Deutz
(Ay) - NM
“Billy D Deutz”
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Cuvee William Deutz (V)
“Billy D. Williams!”
Vintage Brut - Vintage Brut Rose
PN/Chard/PM (%?)
Amour de Deutz (V)
100% Chardonnay
First Vintge 1993
Ployez-Jacquemart
(Ludes) - NM
“The Ploy was to Lease a Harpoon?
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Liesse d’Harbonville (V)
70% Chard - 30% (PN + PM)
Hubert Dauvergne
(Bouzy) - RM
“Hubert’s Fine Flowers and Booze”
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Fine Fleur de Bouzy (?)
100% Pinot Noir
*very little info available…
De Venoge
(Epernay) - NM
“Louis was very in Vogue”
V = XV
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- *Louis XV**
- Brut - Rose*
…very little info
Grand Vin de Princes
100% Chard
First vintage 1961
*discontinued after 1993
remade again in 2000
*No mention on their website…
Moet & Chandon
(Epernay) - NM
“If we can’t remember this one,
we are in BIG BIG trouble!”
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- *Dom Perignon** (V)
- Brut - Brut Rose*
*made from plots in each of the 17 Grand Crus
First vintage was 1921
- *Dom Perignon Cuvee Oenetheque** (V)
- Brut - Brut Rose*
Chard & PN (%?) - Both
First Vintage 1921
Last vintage 1996 (?)
Dom Perignon P2 (V)
{Plenitude 2}
Brut - Brut Rosé
(Blend ???)
First Vintage 1998
Perrier Jouet
(Epernay) - NM
Belle Epoque (V)
aka Fleur de Chamapgne
Brut - Brut Rose - Blanc de Blancs
*First Vintage 1964
Brut
50% Chard - 45% PN - 5% PM
Brut Rose
(%?)
Blanc de Blancs
100% Chardonnay
Nicolas Feuillatte
(Chouilly) - CM
“Nicky Palms Gold”
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- *Palmes d’Or** (V)
- Brut - Brut Rose*
Brut
50% PN - 50% Chard
-First Vintage 1985
Brut Rose
100% Pinot Noir
-First Vintage 1996
De Meric
(Ay) - NM
De Med = De Mer
“Catherine was a degenerate”
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Catherine de Medici (V)
50% PN - 50% Chard
Bruno Paillard
(Reims) - NM
“Bruno has an Ultra sized Neck”
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Nec-Plus-Ultra (V)
50 Chard - 50% PN (?)
First Vintage 1990
Henri Billiot
(Ambonnay) - RM
“Henry & Billy love Julie & Laetitia”
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Cuvee Laetitia (NV)
Mainly Chardonnay…
Cuvee Julie (NV*)
*Technically NV but the last two have been 100% from specific vintages (2004 & 2005 respectively). They have not been labeled that way though.
50% Chard - 50% PN
Pol Roger
(Epernay) - NM
“Sir Winston gave everyone a good Rogering”
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Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill (V)
Chard & PN (%?)
First Vintage 1975
Lanson
(Reims) - NM
“Isn’t Lancers Noble?”
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Noble Cuvee (V)
60-70% PN - 30-40% Chard
First Vintage 1979
Mumm
(Reims) - NM
“LL = MM”
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Cuvee R Lalou (V)
Chard & PN (&?)
First Vintage 1966
Made 1966-1985,
and then from 1998+
Boizel
(Epernay) - NM
“Boys sell Joy to French girls”
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Joyau du France (V)
typically 55-60% PN & 40-45% Chard
First vintage 1961
Ayala
(Ay) - NM
“Pearls are white, Ayala is light”
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Cuvee Perle d’Ayala (V)
80% Chard - 20% PN
Jacquesson
(Dizy) - NM
“AY!! Jackie is Dizzy Dizzy”
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Grand Vin Signature (V)
First Vintage 1981
(discontinued after 2002)
Now has 4 single terroir Champagnes:
- *Avize - Champ Cain** = (Chrd!) - (V)
- *Dizy - Corne Bautry** = (Chrd!) - (V)
- *Dizy -** Terre Rouge = (PN!) - (NV)
- *Ay - Vauzelle Terme** = (PN!) - (V)
Piper-Heidsieck
(Reims) - NM
“Piper is anything but Rare”
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Cuvee Rare (V)
70% Chard - 30% PN
First Vintage 1976
Louis Roederer
(Reims) - NM
“Do we really need one for this….?”
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- *Cristal** (V)
- Brut - Brut Rose*
~55% Pinot Noir - 45% Chard
-First Vintage 1876
(exclusively for Czar Alexander II).
-First Commercial Vintage 1945
-First Brut Rose Vintage 1974
Bonnaire
(Cramant) - RM
“Bonnie is Prestigious”
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Cuvee Prestige (NV)
100% Chardonnay
Canard Duchene
(Ludes) - NM
C=C - “Charles walks like a Duck”
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Charles VII (V)
Brut - Brut Rose
Blanc de Blancs - Blanc de Noirs
Brut
Grand Cuvee le Victorieux
~Celebrates the victor of the 100 years war~
Brut Rose
Grand Cuvee de la Rose
~Kingdom of the Rose (England) lays claim to the throne of France~
Blanc de Blanc
Grand Cuvee de Lys (Lillies)
~Joan of Arc saves France, the Kingdom of the Lillies~
Blanc de Noirs
Grand Cuvee de Beaute
~Charles VII presents the Castle of Beauty to his favorite mistress, Agnes Sorel~
Delamotte
(Les-Mesnil-sur-Oger) - NM
Salon-Les Mesnil (V)
100% Chardonnay
First Vintage 1905(?), 1911(…)
Nicolas Louis Delamotte
(*exists?)
90% Chard - 10% PN
*no mention anywhere…
Billecarte-Salmon
(Mareuil-sur-Ay) - NM
Grand Cuvée (V)
60% PN - 40% Chard
First vintage 1982
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Clos St. Hillaire (V)
100% Pinot Noir
fermented in 100% oak barriques
Taittinger
(Reims) - NM
“Got it!”
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- *Comtes de Champagnes** (V)
- Blanc de Blancs - Brut Rose*
*First Vintage 1952
Blanc de Blancs
100% Chardonnay
Brut Rose
70% PN - 30% Chard
Ruinart
(Reims) - NM
“Got it!”
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- *Dom Ruinart** (V)
- Blanc de Blancs - Brut Rose*
Blanc de Blancs
100% Chardonnay
-First Vintage 1959
Brut Rose
85% Chardonnay - 15% Pinot Noir
-First Vintage 1966
Bollinger
(Ay) - NM
“Can you think of a more French name than Bollinger”
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Grand Annee (V)
Brut - Brut Rose
66% PN - 34% Chard
- aged 2x longer than required
- ‘Vintage’ became Grand Anee in 1976
“RD” (V)
-typically 2/3 PN…
- aged 3x longer than required
- only made in the best vintages
-First “RD” vintage: 1961
Vielles Vignes Francaises (V)
100% PN
Made from 3 plots of ungrafted pre-phyloxerra vines:
- Chaudes Terres (Ay)
- Clos-St-Jacques (Ay)
- Croix Rouge (Bouzy)
- aged 2x legal mimimum
- First VVF vintage 1969 (?)
Comtes Audoin de Dampierre
(Chenay) - NM
“The Count is very Prestigous”
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Prestige (V)
100% Chardonnay
Gosset
(Ay) - NM
“Go Celebrate!”
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Celebris
Blanc de Blancs
Vintage Brut - Vintage Brut Rose
Blanc de Blancs (NV)
100% Chardonnay
_Vintage Brut_ (V) 66% Chard - 34% PN
Vintage Brut Rose (V)
Charles Heidsieck
(Reims) - NM
“Charlie is a Millionaire!”
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Blanc des Millenaires (V)
Blanc de Blancs Only!!
100% Chard
First Vintage 1983
Champagne Charlie (V)
*discontinued after 1985
Margaux’s favorite wine!!
Laurent-Perrier
(Tours-sur-Marne) - NM
I don’t really have on for this…
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Grande Siecle (MV)
Only produced from LP’s best vintage years.
~55% Chard - 45% PN
First Vintage 1959
Vilmart & Cie
(Rilly-la-Montagne) - RM
“Vilmart has Heart”
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Coeur de Cuvee (V)
80% Chard - 20% PN
Henriot
(Reims) - NM
“OH! Henri is very Enchanting!”
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Cuvee de Enchanteleurs (V)
Chard & PN (???%)
Paul Dethune
(Ambonnay) - RM
“Paul’s Death was Prestigious”
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Brut Prestige (NV?)
50% PN - 50% Chard
Chartogne-Taillet
(Merfy*) - RM
“We Charted out a Fiasco”
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Fiacre (V)
60% Chard - 40% PN
First Vintage 2002 (?)
*Merfy is just NW of Reims (not necesarily in any of the 5 regions…Montagne de Reims?)
**Terry Theise calls him the most exciting young producer in Champagne
Duval-Leroy
(Vertus) - NM
“Leroy is kind of Effeminate”
(funny because Leroy is a tough name)
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Femme de Champange (V)
89% Chard - 11% PN
First Vintage 1990
Guy Larmandier
(Cramant) - RM
“Guy Crams his Large Man Hole”
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Cramant Grand Cru Cuvee Prestige (V)
100% Chardonnay
Alfred Gratien
(Epernay) - NM
“Al is Gracious in Paradise”
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- *Cuvee Paradis** (NV)
- Brut - Rose*
Chard - PN (%?)
- Huge style - aged in oak
Joseph Perrier
(Chalons-sur-Marne) - NM
“Joseph & Josephine”
Ugly label: think JoJo is ugly…
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Cuvee Josephine (V)
Mainly Chardonnay…
*not much info available
Jacquart
(Reims) - NM
“Jack Nichlson has lots of Nominations”
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Brut de Nominee (NV)
50% Chard & 50% PN
Jacques Selosse
(Avize) - RM
Cuvee Substance (NV)
100% Chardonnay
*Solera for this wine was startd in 1986
Drappier
(Urville, Aube) - NM
“Charles de Gaul “Drops” Grand beats!”
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Grand Sendree (V)
Brut - Brut Rosé
Brut
55% PN - 45% Chard
Brut Rosé
90% PN - 10% Chard
Sendrée has an interesting history. A ferocious fire hit the Urville in the 1850s reducing the trees and shrubs to cinders. Afterwards the Drappiers planted a vineyard on the raised sloped above the village that became known as Les Cendrées (The Cinders).
The family did not start bottling vintages from the Grande Sendrée until 1974 by which time an error had been made in the registration of the title of the vineyard replacing the “c” for and “s”.
Charles de Gaule (V)
As it was chosen as the house to stock
General de Gaule’s private cellars
80% PN - 20% Chard
First Vintage 1990
De Castellane
(Epernay) - NM
“The Commodore Casts off”
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- *Cuvee Commodore** (V)
- Brut - Brut Rose*
Brut
70% PN - 30% Chard
Rose
80% PN - 20% Chard
First vintage 1961
Diebolt-Vallois
(Cramant) - NM
“Valiantly Die for Passion”
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Fleur de Passion (V)
100% Chardonnay
First Vintage 1995
AR Lenoble
(Chouilly) - NM
“The Noble Gentleman is Adventurous”
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Cuvee Gentlhomme (V)
100% Charonnay
Cuvee les Adventures (MV)
100% Chardonnay
(blend of the best vintages)
Pommery
(Epernay) - NM
“Louise has nice Pom Poms”
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- *Cuvee Louise** (V)
- Brut - Brut Rose*
Brut
60% Chard - 40% PN
Brut Rose
(???)
Who makes
Clos-St-Hillaire?
Billecarte-Salmon
(Mareuil-sur-Ay) - NM
(Vintage)
100% Pinot Noir
First Vintage 1986
Who makes
Les Folies de la Marquetterie?
Taittinger
(Reims) - NM
(Non-Vintage)
55% Chard - 45% PN
First Released 2006…(?)
This single-vineyard cuvée is produced exclusively from grapes grown at Les Folies, a Taittinger-owned vineyard with a south/southwest exposure in the heart of the Champagne winegrowing region. A green harvest ensures that the final harvest has optimum sweetness and aromatic maturity. Only wines from the first pressing are used and each plot is vinified in small volumes, with certain lots in large, old oak casks. Slow aging for five years in bottles brings the flavors of this Champagne to perfect harmony.
Who makes
Clos du Moulin?
“Moulin Rouge girls are Catty”
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Cattier
(Chigny-les-Roses) - NM
(Non-Vintage)
50% PN - 50% Chard
First made 1952
Who makes
Les Barres?
Chartogne-Taillet
(Merfy) - RM
(Vintage & Non-Vintage)
100% Pinot Meunier!!
*made from ungrafted vines
First made 2006 (?)
Name a producer of
Cuis 1er Cru
Pierre Gimmonet
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Cuis is in Cote de Blancs
Name a producer of
Vrigny 1er Cru
Egly Ouriet
(100% Pinot Meunier)
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Vrigny is in Montagne de Reims
Name a producer of
Cumières 1er Cru
Georges Laval
(Brut Nature)
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Cumières is in Vallée de la Marne
Name a producer of
Dizy 1er Cru
Jacquesson
(Dizy - Corne Beautry = 100% Chard)
(Dizy - Terre Rouge = 100% Pinot)
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Dizy is in Vallée de la Marne
Name a producer of
Vertus 1er Cru
Veuve Fourny & Fils
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Vertus is in Cote de Blancs
Name a producer of
Sillery Grand Cru
Francois Seconde
Name a producer of
Chouilly Grand Cru
Roland Champion
Name a producer of
Cramant Grand Cru
Larmandier-Bernier
Name a producer of
Avize Grand Cru
Jacquesson
(Avize - Champ Cain = 100% Chard)
