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Champagne/Sparkling Flashcards

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What are the top grapes from Champagne?

A
  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir
  • PInot Meunier
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What are the important styles of Champagne?

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  • NV Champagne
  • Rose Champagne
  • Blanc de Blancs Champage
  • Blanc de Noirs Champagne
  • Vintage Champagne
  • Prestige Cuvee Champagne
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What are the 5 districts that make up Champagne?

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  • Aube
  • Cote de Blancs
  • Cote de Sezanne
  • Montagne de Reims
  • Valee de la Marne
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What does Chardonnay add to Champagne?

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  • Acidic
  • Light component
  • Doesn’t fully ripen so is not full bodied/low acid like most Chardonnays
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What does Pinot Noir add to Champagne?

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  • Body
  • Fruit
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What does Pinot Meunier contribute to Champagne?

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  • Descendant of Pinot Noir
  • Fruit
  • Acidity
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How does the soil of Champagne contribute to the wine?

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  • Chalk
  • White color reflects sunlight to help vines fully ripen
  • Distinct, crisp, chalky flavor
    • Contrasts acid and fruit
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Dosage

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  • liquer d’expeditioin to top the bottle off.
  • Still wine that may have sugar dissolved into it
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What are the sweetness levels of Champagne?

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  • Brut Nature
  • Extra Brut
  • Brut
  • Extra Dry or Extra Sec
  • Sec
  • Demi-Sec
  • Doux
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Brut Nature

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No sugar added - bone dry

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Extra Brut

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Minute amount of sugar added, very dry

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Brut

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  • Minimal amount of sugar added
  • dry
  • most popular
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Extra Dry or Extra Sec

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  • Some sugar added
  • Off-dry
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Sec

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  • Semisweet
  • literal translation of “sec” = dry
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Demi Sec

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  • Quite Sweet
  • Translates to semidry
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16
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Non Vintage (NV)

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  • Most common style - 80%
  • Cuvee - a blend of several component base wines
17
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Vintage Champagne

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  • Only the best of years
  • No blending
  • 2-3 times per decade
  • Expensive
18
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Blanc de Blancs and Blanc de Noirs

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  • Blanc de Blancs - light and crisp
  • Blanc de Noirs - fuller and richer
19
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Rose Champagne

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  • Blending a small amount of red wine into the cuvee
  • Or, allowing skins to stay in contact with grapes
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Prestige Cuvee

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  • Super premium sparkling wine
  • Very best
  • Showpiece
  • Examples:
    • Dom Perignon (Moet and Chandon)
    • Cristal (Louis Roederer)
21
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Names for Champagne bottle sizes

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  • Split
  • Imperial
  • Magnum Jeroboam
  • Rehoboam
  • Methuselah
  • Salmanazar
  • Balthazar
  • Nebuchadnezzar

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