France Bordeaux Flashcards
Bordeaux AOP’s
Bordeaux AOP
Bordeaux Supérieur AOP
Cremant de Bordeaux AOP
Cotes de Bordeaux AOP
Entre deux Mers
Medoc
Graves
Right Bank
Climate in Bordeaux?
Maritime
Coastal Pine forest protect from N and W winds
Atlantic Ocean
Gironde estuary
Rain at harvest problematic
Wet spring and humidity create mould and rot problems in North but are great for botrytis in South
Springtime frost can lead to coulure and millerandage= Bordeaux mixture aids in ac=voiding fungal disease
Becomes more continental towards right bank
What is in Bordeaux Mixture?
Lime, Cooper sultfate and water
What are the generic Bordeaux AOP’s?
Bordeaux AOP
Bordeaux Supérieur AOP
Cremant de Bordeaux AOP
What are the Cotes de Bordeaux AOPs? 7
Cotes de Bordeaux AOP Premier Cotes de Bordeaux AOP Bourg AOP Cotes des Bourg AOP Bourgeais AOP Blaye AOP Cotes de Blaye AOP
What are the Entre-Deux-Mers AOP’s? 10
Entre-Deux-Mers AOP - Blanc (Sec)
Cadillac AOP- Blanc- (Liquoreux)
Graves de Vayres AOP- Rouge & Blanc (Sec)
Loupiac AOP Blanc (Liquoreux)
Côtes de Bordeaux-Saint-Macaire AOP-Blanc (Sec, Moelleux, and Liquoreux)
Sainte-Croix-du-Mont AOP -Blanc (Liquoreux)
Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux AOP - Rouge & Blanc (Sec, Moelleux, and Liquoreux)
Medoc AOP’s 9
Medoc AOP Haut Medoc AOP St Estephe AOP Pauillac AOP St Julien AOP Listrac-Medoc AOP Moulis AOP Moulis en Medoc AOP Margaux AOP
Graves AOP’s 6
Graves AOP Graves Supérieures AOP Pessac Leognans AOP Cerons AOP Barsac AOP Sauternes AOP
Right Bank AOP’s 10
Saint Emilion AOP Saint Emilion Grand Cru AOP Lussac St Emilion AOP Montagne St Emilion AOP Puisseguin St Emilion AOP St George St Emilion AOP Pomerol AOP Le Lande Pomerol AOP Canon AOP Canon Fronsac AOP
Bordeaux Classifications and revised dates?
1855 Classification of Bordeaux 1855 1973
Classification of Sauternes (1855) 1855 1855
Classification of Graves (1959) 1953 1959
Classification of St. Émilion (2012) 1955 2012
Cru Artisan Classification (2002) 2002 2012
1855 Premier Cru’s?
Château Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac Château Latour, Pauillac Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac: 1973 moved up from 2eme Château Margaux, Margaux (Margaux) Château Haut-Brion, Graves
1855 2eme
Deuxièmes Crus
Château Cos d’Estournel, Saint-Estèphe
Château Montrose, Saint-Estèphe
Château Pichon Longueville Baron, Pauillac
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, Pauillac
Château Léoville-Las Cases, Saint-Julien Château Léoville-Poyferré, Saint-Julien Château Léoville Barton, Saint-Julien Château Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, Saint-Julien
Château Rauzan-Ségla, Margaux (Margaux)
Château Rauzan-Gassies, Margaux (Margaux)
Château Durfort-Vivens, Margaux (Margaux)
Château Lascombes, Margaux (Margaux)
Château Brane-Cantenac, Margaux (Cantenac)
What are the 2 x 2eme from Pauillac?
Château Pichon Longueville Baron, Pauillac
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, Pauillac
What are the 2 x 2eme from Saint Estephe?
Château Cos d’Estournel, Saint-Estèphe
Château Montrose, Saint-Estèphe
What are the 5 x 2eme from Saint Julien?
Château Léoville-Las Cases, Saint-Julien Château Léoville-Poyferré, Saint-Julien Château Léoville Barton, Saint-Julien Château Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, Saint-Julien
What are the 4 x 2eme from Margaux?
Château Rauzan-Ségla, Margaux (Margaux)
Château Rauzan-Gassies, Margaux (Margaux)
Château Durfort-Vivens, Margaux (Margaux)
Château Lascombes, Margaux (Margaux)
What is the 1 x 2eme from Cantenac?
Château Brane-Cantenac, Margaux (Cantenac)
What are the 3 eme/Troisièmes Crus?
Château Calon-Ségur, Saint-Estèphe
Château Lagrange, Saint-Julien
Château Langoa Barton, Saint-Julien
Château Malescot-Saint-Exupéry, Margaux
Château Ferrière, Margaux (Margaux)
Château Marquis d’Alesme Becker, Margaux (Margaux)
Château Desmirail, Margaux (Cantenac)
Château Kirwan, Margaux (Cantenac)
Château d’Issan, Margaux (Cantenac)
Château Boyd-Cantenac, Margaux (Cantenac)
Château Cantenac-Brown, Margaux (Cantenac)
Château Palmer, Margaux (Cantenac)
Château Giscours, Margaux (Labarde)
Château La Lagune, Haut-Medoc (Ludon)
Château Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac
second wine?
Carruades de Lafite
Château Latour, Pauillac second wine?
Les Forts de Latour
Château Margaux, Margaux (Margaux) second wine?
Pavillon Rouge
Château Haut-Brion, Graves second wine?
RED- Le Clarence de Haut-Brion
(as of 2007, previously Château Bahans Haut-Brion
WHITE - Le Clarence de Haut-Brion
(as of 2007, previously Château Bahans Haut-Brion
Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac second wine?
Petit Mouton
Explain St-Estèphe AOP ?
Northern most commune in the Haut Medoc
Full bodied red with higher proportion or Merlot
Highly clay content amongst the gravel
No First growths
Château Cos d’Estournel 2eme and known as a Super Second! (not a second wine)
Explain Pauillac AOP?
Classic Claret
structured and long lived wines
Gravel top soil is at its deepest point within Haut Medoc
Lafite, Latour and Mouton represent the pinnacle
Explain St-Julien AOP?
Produces less wine than other communes but good quality
Elegant styles
No first growths
5x 2emes
Château Léoville Las Cases and Château Ducru-Beaucaillou both considered ‘Super second growths’
Explain Listrac-Médoc AOP and Moulis-en-Médoc AOP ?
Both produce good value for money
No classified growths
Château Chasse-Spleen in Moulis is the most well known
Explain Margaux AOP ?
largest commune appellation
Great diversity of soil types
Thin sandy gravel over limestone
Wines are described as feminine, with an emphasis on floral bouquet, exotic character and finesse.
Explain Graves AOP?
Longer history than the Medoc with wines successful whilst the Medoc was still disease ridden swamp land
1663 already being exported to England
Similar gravel and clay but sandier toward the south
Unlike Haut Medoc both red and white may be labelled as as Graves AOP
Apart from Haut Brian Graves wines were classified in 1953
What is Boulbenes?
A mixture of sand, gravel and light clay local known as Boulbenes in Bordeaux
Apart from Haut Brion when were Grave wine first classified?
1953 with 6 additional wines in
1959
When was Pessac-Léognan AOP established?
1987 all cru Classe are located here
What are the 5 villages of Margaux AOP?
CALMS
Cantenac Arsac Larbarde Margaux Soussans
Botrytis cinerea is known as what in Bordeaux?
pourriture noble
Graves Supérieur AOP are what type of wines?
Sweet white wines
Cérons, Barsac, and Sauternes are what type of wines?
Sweet wine wines with botrytis
Sauternes lies at the conflux of what rivers?
Ciron and Garonne
Explain the climatic factors affecting the Sauternes region?
cool morning mists blow off the Ciron and encounter the warmer waters of the Garonne, producing autumn afternoon humidity perfect for incubating the Botrytis spores. The noble rot is fickle, however, and does not attack grapes evenly, requiring the producer to pick the grapes individually, in separate trips through the vineyard
What years does Ch.d’Yquem not produce a vintage?
1992 or 1974
“Y” (“Ygrec”) is bottled under what classification?
Bordeaux or Bordeaux Supérieur
What are the 5 villages of Sauternes AOP?
FBBPS
Sauternes, Barsac, Bommes Fargues, Preignac,
Barsac wines can be sold as Barsac AOP or Sauternes AOP true or false?
True
Sauternes cannot be sold as Barsac AOP
Finished wines of Barsac and Sautneres must have a min of ? RS
45gm/L min must weight = 221gm/L
with mod-high % new Oak for up to 2 years
Who makes Crème de Tête?
Ch Gilette
aged 10 years in concrete vats
The oldest cultivated vineyards in Bordeaux are found where?
AOPs of Bourg and Côtes de Bourg
Dry white styles from Côtes de Blaye AOP uniquely contain what varieties?
Colombard and Ugni Blanc
Loupiac, Ste-Croix-du-Mont, and Cadillac produces what styles of wine?
Sweet white wines that may or may not be affected by botrytis
Entre-Deux-Mers AOP a land between two seas produces what style of wine?
Dry white wines exclusively
may use the geographical designation Haut-Benauge