FR: Cote de Beaune Flashcards
Corton Grand Cru
- communes
- name 3 lieux dit
- name 5 producers
W // Red (reds only for climat labelling)
COMMUNES: Ladoix-Serrigny, Aloxe Corton (75% share), Pernand-Vergelesses
LIEUX DIT: Clos du Roi, Les Bressanes, Les Renardes (all DRC plots)
DRC
Coche Dury
Domaine Leroy
Bonneau du Martray
Louis Jadot, Louis Latour (largest landowner), Bouchard
[Charlemagne (la Vougeraie only), Corton-Charlemagne (~70ha) are white only]
Epenots
- location/status
- sections
- producers
Pommard 1er Cru
* Les Petits Epenots: larger
* Les Grands Epenots (contains Clos de Citeaux)
* Clos des Epenots (Comte Armand monopole)
Comte Armand (Clos monopole)
de Montille (Grands)
Pierre Vincent Girardin (Grands)
Louis Latour
Joseph Voillot
Nicolas Rossignol
Clos des Epeneaux
Les Grands Epenots
Les Petits Epenots
Clos des Citeaux, Clos des Epeneaux (Comte Armand monopole) were JL Tete de Cuvees
Les Rugiens
- location/ranking
- sections/soils
- producers
Pommard Premier Cru [JL Tete de Cuvee. This is one of Pommard’s proposed Grand Cru’s (along with Epenots).
- Bas: Pommards greatest (only Clos des Epeneaux is competition).
- Haut: lacks the depth, flavor weight of the lower vyd
SOILS: clay limestone with high iron content
Dom. de montille
JM Boillot
Joseph Voillot
Pierre Girardin
[all in Bas-Rugien]
POMMARD
- lay of the land
- top 2 premier cru
- soils
Les Rugiens
Epenots (particularly Comte Armand’s Clos des Epeneaux climat)
- NE of the village: soils are stonier with a red clay/limestone mix. The wines are more muscular. Epenots, Les Pézerolles
- South: the soils are steeper, rockier and the vineyards more oriented to the SE. Rugiens
Volnay Les Cailleret(s)
- terrain
- climats (3)
- producers?
Volnay 1er Cru
* TERRAIN: S // SE-facing; marl and limestone on a gentle slope.
* SOILS: reddish brown, dense clay and stones. Very rocky.
* PRODUCERS: Marquis d’Angerville, Michel Lafarge, Henri Boillot, Louis Boillot
CLIMATS:
En Cailleret
Cailleret Dessus
Clos des 60 Ouvrees (Dom. de la Pousse d’Or monopole)
[Cail or Chail is gallic for stones / stony slope. 275M, facing just south of east]
En Champans
- location
- 3 producers
Volnay 1er Cru
* very stony, red-brown soil over Oxfordian limestone with some marl in the upper.. alluvial lower down
Marquis d’Angerville
Comtes Lafon
de Montille
JL Tete de Cuvee (along with Caillerets)
Pousse d’Or monopoles
Clos de l’Audignac
Clos de 60 Ouvrees (part of Caillerets)
Clos de la Bousse d’Or
[all in Volnay]
Volnay 1er Cru Monopoles
11 of 29 total premier crus
- Clos du Chateau des Ducs [Michel Lafarge]
- Clos de Ducs [Marquis d’Angerville]
- Bousse d’Or, Clos d’Audignac, 60 Ouvres [Pousse d’Or]
- Clos de la Barre [Jadot - not owned]
- Clos de la Cave des Ducs [Benjamin Leroux]
- Clos de la Chapelle [Maison Champy]
- Clos de la Rougeotte [Francois Buffet]
- Clos du Verseuil [Domaine Clerget]
- Frémiets ― Clos de la Rougeotte [Bouchard]
Name 5 Volnay 1er Cru’s
- Clos des Chênes
- Taillepieds [Dom. de Montille, Marquis d’Angerville, Bitouzet-Prieur]
- Caillerets
- Les Angles
- les Mitans
(some) monopoles: Clos de la Bousse d’Or, Clos de 60 Ouvres, Clos de Ducs, Clos du Chateau de Ducs
Les Santenots
- where
- producers
- soils
Volnay 1er Cru
Red wines label Volnay, white wines label Meursault
* soils contain harder limestone, more iron, more clay - differing from most of Volnay and producing a richer style of wine
Les Santenots du Milieu = prime section of the vyd
- Comte Lafon
- Jacques Prieur (Clos des Santenots monopole)
- Arnaud Ente
Meursault 1er Cru RED
- what vineyards
Caillerets (part of Volnay’s)
Les Cras
* Volnay Santenots 1er Cru is in Meursault
Meursault’s “big three” premier crus
Les Charmes
Perrières
Genevrières
5 Meusault premier cru + producers
- Les Charmes (Comtes Lafon, Bitouzet-Prieur)
- Clos des Perrières (Albert Grivaux monopole)
- Genevrières (Comte Lafon, Latour-Giraud)
- Goutte d’Or (Comte Lafon, Arnaud Ente)
- Les Porusots (Comte Lafon)
- Les Santenots du Milieu (Comte Lafon)
- Perrières (Coche Dury, Comte Lafon)
- Sous le Dos d’Ane (Leflaive)
19 total
Domaine Coche-Dury
- village
- grand crus/premier cru bottlings
Meursault
* Corton-Charlemagne = only GC
* Meursault: Perrieres, Genevrieres, Caillerets, Chevalieres, Rougeots
* Puligny-Montrachet Enseignères
* RED: Volnay 1er, Monthelie, Auxey-Duresses
Le Montrachet
- size/location/slope
- soils
- name 3 producers
JL Tete de Cuvee EXTRA
* 3.99ha in Chassagne, 4.01ha in Puligny
* s & e; marly limestone
* 250 - 270M // 6 - 10%
PRODUCERS:
- Marquis de Laguiche (biggest share - Drouhin makes/markets the wine)
- Dom. Thénard
- Bouchard
- DRC
- Jacques Prieur
- Comte Lafon
etc
2016 multi-producer Montrachet
Winemaker: Dom. Leflaive
7 of 17 owners contributed:
Leflaive
DRC
Comte Lafon
Guy Amiot
Fleurot-Larose
Lamy-Pillot
Claudine Petijean
2016 frost so bad that they could only make a total of 683 bottles/ 2 barrels
Climats within Santenots (4)
- Les Santenots du Milieu
- Les Santenots Blancs
- Les Plures
[vineyards only make white Meursault 1er Cru. Reds are labelled Volnay Santenots Premier Cru] - (village-level) Les Santenots Dessous
Name 3 Meursault village lieux-dits
- Comte Lafon monopole Clos de la Barre (1er cru is Volnay monopole of Jadot)
- Les Narvaux
- Le Tesson
- Les Tillets
- Chaumes de Narvaux
Top 3 Puligny-Montrachet 1er crus
- Le Cailleret
- Les Demoiselles (Bruno Colin; majority within Chevalier-Montrachet + a little within 1er Cru Cailleret)
- Les Pucelles (Dom. Leflaive, Dom. Chartron)
* all border grand crus
Clavaillon (Leflaive)
Leflaive Grand Crus (4)
- Le Montrachet
- Chevalier-Montrachet
- Batard-Montrachet
- Bienvenues-Batard-Montrachet
4 AOPs in the Cote de Beaune dedicated to red wine?
Pommard AOP
Volnay AOP
Blagny AOP
Cote de Beaune-Villages AOP
Le Montrachet vs Montrachet
Chassagne is the smaller sector - 3.99ha
vs.
Puligny’s 4.01ha
Chassagne is generally referred to as “le Montrachet”
Burgundy’s wettest month?
May
Clos de Cinq Journaux
The historic name of the vineyard that would become Romanee-Conti
Charmes meaning (Burgundy)
Fallow scrubland
1st labelled climat in Burgundy?
Chambertin (1691)
What stream divides Pommard?
Dheune
Oldest negociant house in Burgundy?
Maison Champy, est 1720
What does the term “en friche” indicate?
That the vineyard land lay fallow for some time before replanting
Auxey-Duresses
- location/lay of the land
WHERE: Located in the St-Romain Valley, between Meursault and Volnay. Monthélie lies a mile to the east.
W // R - 1er Crus are almost entirely Pinot
Saint-Romain
- location/terrain
NO PREMIER CRUS (along with Chorey-les-Beaune)
TERRAIN: notably higher than the rest of the Cote d’Or - 350M to 450M
[a very climate change-friendly village. Higher elevations and location in a side valley - it isn’t as fully exposed to south and east]
Puligny-Montrachet’s 4 Grand Cru
Le Montrachet (shared)
Bâtard-Montrachet (shared)
Chevalier Montrachet
Bienvenues-Batard-Montrachet
3 producers of Bienvenues-Batard-Montrachet?
Leflaive
Ramonet
Jacques Carillon
Paul Pernot
de la Vougeraie
PYCM
Puligny-Montrachet’s highest Grand Cru site?
Chevalier-Montrachet, around 300M
3 producers of Chevalier-Montrachet?
Leroy Domaine d’Auvenay
Domaine Leflaive
Etienne Sauzet
Ramonet
PYCM
What villages CANNOT produce Cote de Beaune-Villages?
Volnay, Pommard
Beaune, Aloxe- Corton
[+ Cote de Beaune area]
Jules Lavalle’s 1855 Meursault Tete de Cuvee
Santenots de Milieu
(Comtes Lafon is the single majority owner)
Chassagne-Montrachet
- terrain/lay of the land
- grand crus
- name 3 premier cru
- 3 producers
W // R (better suited for Pinot
- SOILS: N - softer limestone, better for Chard. S - harder marlstone and reddish gravel.. better for PN
- GRAND CRUs: Montrachet (the “le” part), almost 1/2 of Batard-Montrachet, all of Criots-Batard-Montrachet
- PREMIER CRUs: Vergers, En Remilly, La Maltroie. Morgeot, Clos St-Jean
Caroline Morey
Jean-Marc Pillot
Bruno Colin // Philippe Colin
Vincent Dancer
Meursault
- terrain/lay of the land
- top 1er Crus
- name 5 producers based here
W // R
TERRAIN: sits at opening of St-Romain Valley. Gentle slope reaching 300M.
TOP 1er CRUs: Les Charmes, Perrières, Genevrières
others.. Porusot, Goutte d’Or
Coche Dury
Comte Lafon
PYCM
Guy Roulot
Remi Jobard
[19 1er crus take up 25% of land. Lower water table = more cellar space, which many attribute to the wood framed style]
Puligny-Montrachet
- terrain/lay of the land
- grand crus
- top premier cru
- producers based here
GRAND CRUs: Montrachet, Batard Montrachet (share w Chassagne), all of Bienvenues-Batard and Chevalier-Montrachet
TOP 1ER CRUs: Le Cailleret, Les Demoiselles, Les Pucelles. Le Cailleret, Les Pucelles (all adjoining GC’s)
Jacques Carillon / Francois Carillon
Jean Chartron
Domaine Leflaive
Benoit Ente
Etienne Sauzet
Monthélie
- terrain/lay of the land
W // R - reds dominate
WHERE: located in Auxey Valley, east of St-Romain and Auxey-Duressses
Saint-Aubin
- terrain/lay of the land
W (75%) // R
WHERE: tucked away in the hills behind Chassagne-Montrachet
Marc Colin
Hubert Lamy
Henri Prudhon
Santenay
- terrain/lay of the land
- important 1er cru/lieux-dit
TERRAIN: slopes shift and hillsides face nearly all due south. Located just east of Mont de Sene, CDB’s highest point
JL’s Tete de Cuvee #2: Clos de Tavannes, Noyer-Bart…. both lieux-dits within the modern premier cru Les Gravières.
Savigny-les-Beaune
- terrain/lay of the land
- producers based here
Located in a sub-Valley formed by the Rhoin River
Chandon de Briailles
Simon Bize
Camus-Bruchon
Chanterives
Volnay-based producers
PRODUCERS:
Marquis d’Angerville
Hubert de Montille
Michel Lafarge
Henri Boillot
Domaine de la Pousse d’Or
Bitouzet-Prier
Montrachet owners - name 5
Marquis de Laguiche
Bouchard
DRC
Jacques Prieur
Comte Lafon
Ramonet
Marc Colin
Domaine Leflaive
etc etc
17 total. Marquis de Laguiche owns largest share.
