Champange Flashcards
Récoltant Manipulant?
Name 2 producers
A grower-producer who makes Champagne from estate-grown fruit. 95% of the grapes must originate in the producer’s own vineyards.
(Chartogne-Taillet, Guy Lamandier, Selosse, Paul Bara)
Négociant Manipulant?
Name 2 producers
A house that purchases grapes and or base wines from growers and other smaller houses. Some NM houses own a significant portion of their own vineyards; others own none at all.
(Moët et Chandon, Louis Roederer, Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, Billecart-Salmon, Lanson, Taittinger, Pol Roger)
Name 2 NM producers that fall under the luxury conglomerate LVMH?
Moët et Chandon, Louis Roederer, Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, Billecart-Salmon, Lanson, Taittinger, Pol Roger,
Coopérative Manipulant?
Name a producer?
A growers’ co-operative that produces the wine under a single brand.
(Nicolas Feuillatte, Jacquart, Mailly)
Récoltant Coopérateur?
Name a producer?
A grower whose grapes are vinified at a co-operative, but sells the wine under his own label.
Société de Récoltants?
Name a producer?
A firm, not a co-operative, set up by a union of often related growers, who share resources to make their wines and collectively market several brands.
Négociant Distributeur?
A middleman company that distributes Champagne it did not make.
Marque d’Acheteur?
A buyer’s own brand, often a large supermarket chain or restaurant, that purchases Champagne and sells it under its own label.
Jeroboam
3L, 4 bottles, 20 glasses
Magnum
1.5L, 2 bottles, 10 glasses
Solomon
18L, 24 bottles, 121 glasses
Nebuchadnezzar
12L, 20 bottles, 101 glasses
Balthazar
12L, 16 bottles, 80 glasses
Salamanazar
9L, 12 bottles, 60 glasses
Methuselah
6L, 8 bottles, 40 glasses
Rehoboam
4.5L, 6 bottles, 30 glasses
discontinued in 1989
What did Louis XV contribute to the champagne advancement?
Removed restrictions on transportation bottles that had previously held back Champagne sales.
This moment marked the beginning of the modern Champagne trade.
Who introduced the modern wine bottle from England? (the stronger coal burning glass)
Kinelm Digby
What Champagne house produced the first brut style?
Pommery
What did Louis Pasteur contribute to the Champagne advancements?
His work elucidated the truth behind fermentation and the relationship between sugar and yeast.
How many communes (villages) produce Champagne?
357
What are the (5) departments of Champagne viticole?
Aube Aisne Marne Haut-Marne Seine-et-Marne
When was the CIVC established?
What does it stand for?
Why was it founded and what’s it function today?
regulatory body responsible for mediating relations between growers and producers, oversees the production methods and promotion of Champagne. The CIVC regulates the size of harvests, authorizes blocage and deblocage—respectively the reserve and release of wine stocks for use in future vintages
Comite Interprofessional du Vin de Champagne
To Mediate btw the larger Champagne houses and the # of small growers from whom they buy grapes
What parallel does Champagne align with?
48th