France 🇫🇷 Flashcards
Bordeaux Climate
Bordeaux is an area located in the eastern side in France. It’s has low rain fall in Jan to March but it’s starts to pick up in April till August then sleeps from September to November.
Temperature
Jan to March
It’s to Cold
April to August
It’s to hot
September to November
It slowly goes back cold
What is Chateau?
It’s refer to a grand building, but instead to an estate or producer. It’s also indicates that the wine has been made from grapes grow on the produce’s land, rather than being made from bought-in grapes 🍇
What is Grand Cru classé?
This is the labelling used to as an indication of great quality wine that are matured for many year in the bottle or even decades in the bottle.
Explain what is Cru Bourgeois?
This is labelling term that they use in Medoc instead of grand cru but they do not command the same high prices as the chateaux, though they can be very good too outstanding in quality with long ageing.
What’s the climate in Northern Rhône?
It is one of the warmest regions in France with the average 17 degrees daily with an experience of few beautiful sunny weather conditions.
CĂ´te RĂ´tie AOC
Is in the far north of the Northern Rhône and represents the northern limit of where Syrah will successfully ripped and stony. It’s located on a steep slope.
Hermitage AOC
This is another appellation know as Hermitage AOC located further south of RhĂ´ne one steep south-facing hill makes up the entire Hermitage appellation.
What do we call old vine in France?
They are called vieilles vignes.
What grapes do we grow in Chablis?
It only Chardonnay.
In France at an area area called Alsace what is the terminology that describes late harvest?
It’s Vandanges.
What’s does Vin du pays?
It’s means wine of origin, specific area.
What is Sauternes?
It’s a sweet wine made from concentrated grapes located right at Sauternes AOC a sub region of Bordeaux.
