FR: Cote de Nuits Flashcards
CREMANT DE BOURGOGNE
- styles/assemblage
- allowed grapes (8)
- min atm/aging
Blanc/Rosé
ASSEMBLAGE: min. 30% CH / PG / PB / PN / max 20% Gamay
[aligote, melon, sacy also in encepagement]
MIN 4 atmospheres
AGEING: 9m on lees, 12m elevage
UPECB’s Cremant de Bourgogne Classifications
- varieties and aging for each
- max dosage for top level
Eminent:
- 2yrs on lees
- CH / PN / Ali / Gam
Grand Eminent:
- 3yrs on lees + 3m rest
- CH / PN; max 20% Gamay for rosé
- only 75% of press
- max 15g dosage
Camille Rodier
Co-founder of the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin - published classifications of the Cote d’Or’s vineyards in 1920 and again in 1948 that were very unashamedly just updates on Lavalle’s work
Bourgogne Passe-Tout-Grains
- styles/ assemblage
- grapes allowed (5)
Rosé/Rouge
Min. 30% Pinot
min. 15% Gamay
max. 15% mixed Chard, PG, PB
(Assemblage/encepagement - varieties must vinify together)
Historic name for
La Romanee-Conti
Clos de Cinq Journaux
“Walled vineyard of 5 journals”
[a journal was the measure of land a man + horse/plow could work in one day]
Largest landholder in the Cote d’Or?
Bouchard with ~130ha
[make 5 grand cru ..
Chevalier-Montrachet La Cabotte
Echezeaux En Orveau
Montrachet
Corton-Charlemagne
Corton La Corton]
Common vine training method in the Cote d’Or?
Single Guyot
(Cordon de Royat also prevalent)
[limited lignified growth limits frost vulnerability]
Typical Cote d’Or planting orientation & 3 exceptions
East-west (vines run up the hill)
* N-S exceptions: Clos de Lambrays, Clos de Tart, La Romanee
Cote d’Or vines per hectare
min. 9000 vines/ha
(1x1 spacing with 10k/ha is nearly universal)
The most recent Cote d’Or Grand Cru promotion?
La Grand Rue, 1992
* 1.65ha
* Domaine Lamarche
* Vosne-Romanee
Favored Burgundy cooperage
Francois Frères, local tonnellerie originally established in Saint-Romain
Traditional Burgundy barrel size
228-liter pièce
General elevation upper limit of the Cote d’Or’s côtes
400 - 500M
General grade of Cote d’Ors slopes
Grand crus -> generally 10% or less
* mild incline = slightly deeper soil, nutrient rich yet well-draining
Higher elevations can be steeper, up to 35%. Cote de Beaune is generally less steep but reaches higher elevations
Combe
Dry, transverse valley - carved during last ice age by erosion and snow melt.
* deep alluvial fans of pebbles/stone from erosion diversify soil
* enabler of hail and storms
Marsannay AOP
- villages
- the etc etc stuff
- major producers
W/R/R. 230ha
Marsannay-la-Cote, Chenôve, Couchey
* northernmost and newest (‘88)
* Clair-Dau re-introduced PN during a time of Gamay; their rosé was 1920’s economic boon. Successor Bruno Clair is best estate.
* Gamay was the most planted grape until 1960
Charles Audoin, Domaine Bart, Bruno Clair, Sylvain Pataille
Lieux-dit, but no premier crus
[limiting factor: Topsoil - the underlying rocks is the classic Jurassic format of Bajocian and Bathonian with a significant amount of calcaire a entroques - but the topsoil is an alluvial wash derived from the River Ouche]
Fixin AOP
- villages
- top 1er cru
- producers located here
W/R; Fixin + Brochon
* can also be released as CdN-Villages
Clos de la Perrières: top 1er cru & Lavalle tete de cuvee. Only source of Fixin 1er cru blanc. Domaine Joliet.
Rene Bouvier, Pierre Gelin
Gevrey-Chambertin AOP
- Grand crus / general elevation
- combe
Red (only); Gevrey + Brochon. The 1st to append the vineyard to the village name.
* 400ha + Grand Crus = largest AC in Cote d’Or
Sits in mouth of Combe de Lavaux
Grand Crus - lie at 260 - 300M:
1. Chambertin, 2. Chambertin Clos de Beze
3. Chapelle-Chambertin, 4. Charmes-Chambertin
5. Griottes-Chambertin, 6. Ruchottes-Chambertin
7. Mazoyeres-Chambertin 8. Latricieres-Chambertin
9. Mazis-Chambertin
Chambertin
- producers
- soils/elevation
- combe?
Grand Cru; Gevrey-Chambertin
JL Tete de Cuvee
12.90ha (+15.4ha of Beze)
Calcaires en troque from Bajocian period with whiter, marly soils upslope. Combe Grisard gives cool breezes. 260 - 300M.
- Armand Rousseau = largest holder
Domaine Leroy
Domaine Rossignol-Trapet
Pierre Damoy
Domaine Camus
Louis Latour
Bouchard
Domaine Dujac
Clos de Beze
- 3 producers?
Grand Cru; Gevrey-Chambertin
JL Tete de Cuvee; 15.4ha
Oldest climat in Burg - dates to 640AD
Pierre Damoy = largest holder
Drouhin-Laroze
Armand Rousseau
Domaine Bruno Clair
Domane Pierre Gelin
Domaine Jadot
Domaine Bart
Gevrey-Chambertin Grand Cru
- west of the D974
- east of the D974
- Chambertin
- Clos de Beze
- Mazis-Chambertin
- Ruchottes-Chambertin (steepest, highest @320M)
- Latricieres-Chambertin
275 - 300M. Thin rocky marl tinted red by iron oxide on lower slopes. Shallower soils, slightly higher grade
EAST
Chapelle-Chambertin
Griotte-Chambertin
Charmes-Chambertin
Mazoyeres-Chambertin
Gevrey-Chambertin Grand Cru’s that can label as each other
- Clos de Beze & Chambertin
- Mazoyeres & Charmes
two best premier cru in Gevrey-Chambertin?
Clos Saint-Jacques
Les Cazetiers
*both lie on the north hillside of the Combe de Lavaux. Steeper, more southerly aspect than the GC’s
* Rousseau’s CSJ sells for more than most GC’s
Les Cazetiers
Aside from Clos Saint-Jacques, most important Gevrey Premier Cru
* due east, sits in Combe Lavaux north hillside
* Faiveley, Henri Magnien, Bruno Clair, Armand Rousseau
Clos St-Jacques
- exposure
- producers (5)
- largest landholder?
Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru
* perfect south and east exposure
5 owners, each have holdings that run north to south:
1. Armand Rousseau (largest landholder)
2. Fourrier
3. Louis Jadot
4. Bruno Clair
5. Sylvie Esmonin
Name 5 Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru
- Aux Combottes [surrounded by GC’s - Clos de la Roche, Latricieres, Mazoyeres. Sits in a non-GC worthy depression]
- Les Cazetiers
- Clos St Jacques
- Lavaux St Jacques
- Estournelles
Name 5 producers based in Gevrey-Chambertin
Denis Bachelet
Lucien Boillot
Pierre Damoy
Drouhin-Laroze
Claude Dugat
Dugat-Py
Esmonin
Fourrier
Rossignol-Trapet
Armand Rousseau
Joseph Roty
Armand Rousseau
- grand cru (5)
- premier cru bottlings (3)
GRAND CRU
Chambertin
Clos de Beze
Mazy (note the sp)
Clos des Ruchottes
Charmes
PREMIER CRU
Clos st-Jacques, Cazetiers, Lavaut-St-Jacques
Morey-Saint-Denis AC
- Grand Cru (4)
- producers based here
Red/White; smallest village of the Nuits besides Vougeot ~150ha
WHITES: Chard, Pinot Blanc. Aligoté in Monts Luisants
Grand Crus: Clos St-Denis, Clos de Tart, Clos de la Roche, Clos des Lambrays
Dujac, Ponsot, Perrot-Minot, Guy Castagnier, Hubert Lignier, and Clos de Tart
Jules Lavalle Morey-St-Denis tete de cuvée
Clos de Tart
Clos de Lambrays
- ownership
The almost monopole - Domaine des Lambrays + Taupenot Merme’s ouvree
Owned by LVMH
Clos de la Roche
- 5 producers?
Morey-St-Denis Grand Cru
16.9ha - biggest in Morey
Domaine Ponsot (considered to be the defining producer - own the biggest share and a chunk of the og climat)
Domaine Dujac
Domaine Armand Rousseau
Georges Lignier
Hubert Lignier
Domaine Amiot
Clos de Tart
- exposure/orientation
- ownership
Solidly east-facing/homogenous; vines run NORTH-SOUTH
* bought by Artemis Group in 2017. Has had only 4 owners since 1791. Mareys, Mommessins, JCB then Francois Pinault’s Artemis group
Monts Luisants
Morey-St-Denis Premier Cru
*top sector @ 340M: village
* middle @ 300-340M: premier cru
* bottom: part of Clos de la Roche
Dujac: white premier cru, Chard
Ponsot: Aligoté & rouge
Dom. des Monts Luisants
Chambolle-Musigny’s combe?
Combe de Chamboeuf
Marsannay producers + important Lieux Dit
Domaine Bart
Domaine Charles Audoin
Domaine Bruno Clair
Domaine Jean Fournier
Chateau de Marsannay
Domaine Sylvain Pataille
Clos de Jeu, Clos du Roy, and Longeroies
Montre-Cul, La Chapître
Cote Dijonnaise
Cote d’Or’s Grand Crus touching the D974 (3)
Charmes/Mazoyères
Chambertin
Clos de Vougeot
3 producers of Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Combottes.
What Grand Crus surround it?
Domaine Dujac
Domaine Leroy
Domaine Georges Lignier
Domaine Hubert Lignier
Clos de la Roche
Latricieres-Chambertin
Mazoyeres-Chambertin
5 producers based in Morey St Denis?
Domaine Dujac
Domaine Pierre Amiot
Domaine du Clos de Tart
Domaine Robert Groffier
Domaine des Lambrays
Domaine Georges Lignier
Domaine Hubert Lignier
Domaine Ponsot
Domaine Perrot-Minot
Domaine Taupenot-Merme
Cecile Tremblay
2 producers with both a Charmes- and a Mazoyères-Chambertin bottling?
Domaine Taupenot-Merme
Domaine Perrot-Minot
3 producers of Clos St-Denis?
Dujac
Bertagna
Drouhin
Ponsot
French word for clay?
Argile
French word for limestone?
Calcaire
Chambolle-Musigny AOP
- grapes/styles
- soils
- grand cru + top premier cru
RED ONLY
* SOILS: Chambolle has higher levels of active limestone than any other village. More calcaire, less argile.
Elevated levels of active limestone cause mild chlorosis. Chlorosis leads to pale leaves which leads to slightly paler colored wines with more emphasis on fragrance and lift.
- Bonnes Mares, Musigny, Les Amoureuses are
De Vogüé, Georges Roumier, Ghislaine Barthod, JF Mugnier
Bonnes Mares
- size / village
- soils
- 5 producers
1 Vogüé (2.67ha)
13.54ha; variable by area/producer (1.52ha sits in Morey)
- soils shift from denser red clays of Morey to high limestone of Chambolle
#2 Roumier (1.89ha)
#3 Bruno Clair (1.64ha)
#4 Drouhin-Laroze (1.49ha)
#5 Bart (1.03ha)
Others: Dujac, Mugnier, Goerges Lignier, Drouhin
Les Amoureuses
- owners
-
1 R. Groffier (1.07ha)
Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru
* lies just below Musigny
* top premier cru
#2 Drouhin (.59ha)
#3 Vogüé (.56ha)
#4 JF Mugnier (.53ha)
[Roumier is most expensive, Mugnier coming in 2nd, Vogue right up there too]
Musigny’s 3 lieux-dit?
Les (Grands) Musigny (5.9ha)
Les Petits Musigny (Vogue: 4.19ha)
La Combe de Orveaux (.77ha; Jacques Prieur)
Vogüé owns all of Petits and most of Grands - total 7.12ha
Musigny
- name 5 owners?
1 Vogue (7.12ha), #2 JF Mugnier (1.13ha), #3 Jacques Prieur (.77ha)
10.86ha split by 11 domaines
* 8 to 15% slope; uniform comblanchien limestone. Siltier, oolitic in upper slope
* topsoil is clay-rich with lots of small stones, great drainage
* 3 lieux dit: Petits, Les, and Le Combe d’Orveaux
Roumier, Leroy, Drouhin, Vougeraie, Jadot, Faiveley, Tawse, Drouhin-Laroze
Name 5 Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru
Les Amoureuses
Aux Beaux Bruns (N-S vines)
Le Combe d’Orveau
Les Cras
Les Fuées
Jacques-Frederic Mugnier
- location
- Grand Crus
- top premiers
- monopole
Chateau de Chambolle- Musigny, since 1863
- Musigny Grand Cru (top wine)
- Bonnes Mares Grand Cru
- Chambolle 1er Cru Les Amoureuses
- Chambolle 1er Cru Fuées
- NSG 1er Cru Clos de la Marèchale (monopole)
3 most important vineyards in Chambolle-Musigny + 3 producers with vines in each?
Musigny Grand Cru
Bonnes Mares Grand Cru
Premier Cru Les Amoureuses
J-F Mugnier
Comte Georges de Vogüé
Domaines Roumier
Comte Georges de Vogüé
- location
- top holdings
Chambolle-Musigny
* Top bottling: Musigny Vieilles Vignes
* Holdings: Bonnes Mares, Amoureuses, Musigny - Rouge, blanc
* Musigny Blanc: none made from 1993 - 2015; sold as Bourgogne Blanc until new plantings were ready
Georges Roumier
- location
- top holdings
Chambolle-Musigny
* Musigny, Bonnes Mares, Echezeaux
* Amoureuses, Cras, Combottes, Clos de la Boussiere (monopole)
Clos de Vougeot AOP
Red/White (for commune, no gc)
3ha of village, 12ha of Premier Cru, 51ha of Grand Cru
82 owners
More commonly seen lieux-dits:
- Le Grand and Petit Maupertui
- En Musigni
Vosne-Romanée Grand Crus (6)
- La Romanée (Comte Liger-Belair)
- La Grande Rue (Lamarche)
- La Tache (DRC)
- La Romanee-Conti (DRC)
- Richebourg
- Echezeaux
La Grand Rue
- ownership
Lamarche
* 1.65ha. Promoted to Grand Cru in 1992, effective with 1991 vintage
La Romanée
- size
- owner
- grade
- orientation
Comte Liger-Belair
* 0.85ha = smallest AC in France
* above RC with 17 - 20% grade (JM says 12%??)
* NORTH-SOUTH orientation. Prevents erosion.
Only Liger-Belair since 2005 - before that, the vineyard was farmed/vinified by Domaine Forey then the juice would go to Bouchard for elevage/marketing.
La Tache
Domaine de la Romanee Conti. ~$5500 on release.
~6ha on southern end of Vosne. La Grand Rue is only GC Neighbor. Aux Malconsorts separates it from NSG.
[“a la tache” - to do piece work. A tâcheron is paid annually by the surface area, not by the hour. DRC monopole since 1933 when Liger-Belair lost their holding in auction. DRC applied to have most of Les Gaudichots merged with La Tache in 1932.]
La Romanée-Conti
- historic name
- release price
DRC
Formerly “Cloux des Cinq Journaux”
* 1.8ha. Most expensive red wine on release (~$21k)
* 10 - 15% grade, perfect easterly exposure
* last Grand Cru to replant after phylloxera in 1947. No wine made in 1947 to 1951.
Richebourg
- lieux-dits (2)
- 5 producers
Lieux-dits:
- Les Verroilles ou Richebourg
- Les Richebourgs
* only difference is the most slight orientation of Verroilles to north
- DRC
- Dom. Leroy
- Gros Frère & Soeur
- Anne Gros
- A-F Gros
- Thibault Liger-Belair
- Hudelot Noëllat
- Grivot
- Mongeard Mugneret
- Meo Camuzet
- Clos Frantin (Albert Bichot)
Romanee-St-Vivant
- 5 owners?
- DRC
- Dom. Leroy
- Louis Latour
- Jean-Jacques Confuron
- Poisot
[lower position on the slope = deeper topsoil, more clay. Sits below Richebourg and La Romanee, across from the village itself]
ECHEZEAUX
- lieux-dit
- ownership
Flagey-Echezeaux. 37.69ha
11 Lieux-Dits and a lot of variability in quality of the land.
DRC
Mongeard Mugneret
Emmanuel Rouget
Gros Frere et Souers
Domaine Lamarche
Vosne-Romanee Premier Cru - name 5?
Les Beaux Monts
[Dom. Leroy (12.5k), Michel Noellat, Daniel Rion]
Aux Brûlées
[Dom. d’Eugenie, Meo-Camuzet, Michel Gros]
Clos des Reas
[Michel Gros monopole]
Aux Malconsorts
[Dom. du Clos Frantin (Bichot), Dujac, Dom. de Montille, Sylvain Cathiard, Lamarche]
Les Suchots
[Confuron-Cotetidot, Michel Noellat, Prieure-Roch, de l’Arlot]
Aux Reignots
[Liger Belair]
Cros Parantoux
- current ownership
- Jayer vintages
- ownership
Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru
1.01ha - Emmanuel Rouget, Meo-Camuzet
Sits upslope from Richebourg.
- Henri Jayer 1978 to 2001. He replanted in the 50’s. Etienne Camuzet grew Jerusalem artichokes here during the war.
- Meo’s 1st vintage was 1985
5 Vosne-Romanee-based producers
Arnoux-Lachaux
Jean-Yves Bizot
Sylvain Cathiard
Domaine d’Eugenie
Rene Engel
Jean Grivot
Domaine Forey
Domaine Leroy
Domaine Lamarche
All of the Gros’ - Michel, Anne, Gros Frere
Meo-Camuzet
Liger-Belair
Cote d’Or’s largest monopole?
Clos de la Marechale
J-F Mugnier - Monopole
Premeaux
* southernmost premier cru in Nuits and the largest monopole.. 9.55ha
What is the only Vosne-Romanée premier cru to NOT touch a grand cru?
Michel Gros’ Clos de Reas
Nuits-Saint-Georges AOP
- 3 best premier cru
- name 5 producers based here
Red/White
NSG + Premeaux Prissey
* 41 Premier crus: grouped into north (Aux), south (Les) and in Premeaux
* Les Saint-Georges, Les Cailles, Les Vaucrains = best premiers
Henri Gouge
Domaine de l’Arlot
Jean Charles Boisset
Robert Chevillon
Maison Faiveley
Thibault Liger-Belair (cousin of Comte)
Domaine Prieure-Roch
Name 5 Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru
Aux Boudots
[Leroy, Meo Camuzet, Jean Grivot]
Les Cailles
[Chevillon]
Clos Arlot
[Dom. de l’Arlot monopole - AXA Millisimes]
Les St-Georges
[Thibault Liger-Belair, Henri Gouges]
Les Vaucrains
[Henri Gouges, Chevillon]
Cotes de Nuits Villages AC
- COMMUNES: Fixin, Brochon, Premeaux-Prissey, Corgoloin, Comblanchien
- White: Chard, Pinot Blanc
- Red: Pinot Noir
Monopole premier cru’s in Vosne
- Clos des Reas (Michel Gros)
- Clos de la Fontaine (Mugneret-Gibourg)
Monopole premier cru’s in NSG
- Clos des Porrets (Henri Gouge)
2 Clos de la Marchale (Mugnier) - Clos des Forets (Arlot)
Burgundy vintages since 2017
2017: great vintage, high yields
2018: ripe year, great vintage
2019: very warm, concentrated vitnage
2020: warm, dry high quality
2021: frost, mildew, botrytis, rain
2022: good to excellent, classic
2023: good. Generous yields.
2024: challenging weather - very low yields. Heavy rain, frost, hail and continued disease pressure.
Chablis avg 25hl/ha
