Cote D'or Pinot Noir

Question 1

Pinot Noir Cote D’or

Answer 1

Tart to just ripe red fruit (red cherry, raspberry, cranberry)
Dry, medium body, elevated acidity

Question 2

Marsannay

Answer 2

whose reds have historically been among the lightest in the Côte de Nuits.

Question 3

Gevrey-Chambertin

Answer 3

Powerful and structured. Show darker fruits (Blackberry, Dark Cherry)

Question 4

Chambolle-Musigny

Answer 4

Silky charm, emphasizing elegance over power. Delicate, yet they retain great intensity.

Question 5

Morey-Saint-Denis

Answer 5

Meeting-point between the two more polarized styles of Gevrey-Chambertin and Chambolle-Musigny, containing elements of both

Question 6

Vosne-Romanée

Answer 6

finesse and purity, with a capacity for long, graceful aging

Question 7

Nuits-Saint-Georges

Answer 7

Sturdy and long-lived, tannic and muscular

Question 8

Beaune Premier Cru

Answer 8

Variable, solid but not as complex at cote de nuits

Question 9

Pommard

Answer 9

Fuller-bodied, weightier, more tannic wines. Pommard may see more new oak than other red wines of the Côte de Beaune.

Question 10

Volnay

Answer 10

Volnay tasting note accentuates elegance rather than power. It is the Chambolle-Musigny to Pommard’s Gevrey-Chambertin.

Question 11

Chassagne-Montrachet

Answer 11

The reds are generally lighter in body and they can be tannic.

Question 12

Mercurey

Answer 12

Mercurey is really a red wine village, producing the firmest and most muscular reds in the Côte Chalonnaise