France - Burgundy / Chablis Flashcards
What are the 4 Chablis AOPs?
Petit Chablis
Chablis
Chablis Premier Cru
Chablis Grand Cru
- only whites, exclusively Chardonnay
What are the 7 Grand Crus of Chablis?
Bougros
Les Preuses
Vaudésir
Les Grenouilles
Valmur
Les Clos
Blanchot
What is the min alcohol required for Petit Chablis?
9.5% abv - Petit Chablis
vs. 11% abv - Chablis Grand Cru
Name four notable premier cru vineyards of Chablis.
Mont de Milieu
Montee Tonnerre
Fourchaume
Montmains
- all have similar prized southern exposure
What is the min alcohol required for Chablis Grand Cru?
11% abv - Chablis Grand Cru
vs. 9.5% abv - Petit Chablis
What are the 2 grands crus that Vincent Dauvissat (Dauvissat-Camus) produces?
Les Clos
Les Preuses
Which premier cru bottling of Vincent Dauvissat’s, despite it’s much smaller price, is said to be at many times equal in quality to both of his grand cru bottlings (Les Clos and Les Preuses)?
La Fôret
Name three élevage (maturing) characteristics of Vincent Dauvissat’s wines that make them so rich, mineral-driven, and transparent.
- aged in 6-8 year-old french oak barrels
- no bâtonnage
- natural malo-lactic fermentation
Irancy AOP
- PN plus max comb 10% César, PG
- 7k vines/ha
- 52 hl/ha (form. 45, 2011)
- 180 g/l (171 g/l prior to 2011)
- 10.5% min abv
- June 30th following harvest
What is considered the unofficial 8th Grand Cru of Chablis?
La Moutonne
- Albert Bichot’s Domaine Long-Depaquit owns the vineyard in its entirety
- may now be labeled as Chablis Grand Cru without the need to refer to either Preuses or Vaudesir
Chablis 1er Cru
- 785 ha
- 40 climats grouped into 17 ‘major’ 1er Crus
- additions in 1978 + 1986
- can label under more recognizable, neighboring “major” 1er Cru
- from .5 ha (Côte de Cuisy) to over 100 ha (Vaillons, Fourchaume)
Name the 17 “Major” 1er Crus of Chablis.
(10 North right bank, 7 South left bank)
Left Bank (S) - restrained
Beauroy
Chaume de Talvat
Côte de Léchet
Côte de Jouan
Les Beauregards
*Montmains
Vau de Vay
*Vaillons
Vosgros
Vau Ligneau
Right Bank (N) - opulent, exotic
Berdiot
Côtes de Vaubarousse
Fourchaume
Les Forneaux
Mont de Mileau
*Montée de Tonnerre
Vaucoupin
Name five Top Chablis Producers.
Christian Moreau
William Fervre (oaky)
Jean-Paul and Benoit Droin (oaky)
Louis Michel
Jean Collet
Laurent Tribut
Gilbert Picq
Patrick Piuze
Dauvissat
Raveneau
Name 10 Chablis Left Bank 1er Crus.
Left Bank - restrained
Beauroy
Chaume de Talvat
Côte de Léchet
Côte de Jouan
Les Beauregards
*Montmains
Vau de Vay
*Vaillons
Vosgros
Vau Ligneau
Name 7 Chablis Right Bank 1er Crus.
Right Bank - opulent, exotic
Berdiot
Côtes de Vaubarousse
Fourchaume
Les Forneaux
Mont de Mileau
*Montée de Tonnerre
Vaucoupin
Name three producers of Montée de Tonnerre.
Raveneau
Patrick Piuze
Billaud-Simon
Union des Grands Crus de Chablis
- private organ.; members control half GC acreage
- blind tasting
- not released until Jan 1, 2nd year
- manual harvest, lutte rasionée, lower yield, higher planting dens. >8000 vines/ha
- not mandatory for AOP, but in charter of group
What is the size in ha of Grand Cru Chablis?
100 ha
(vs 785 ha 1er Cru Chablis)
Yonne
(Chablis and Grand Auxerrois)
Chablis
- northernmost + most production
- 17 communes (incl. Chablis)(exc. Beaujolais)
- 130 km NW of Cd’Or
- 1/5 Burgundy bottles bear name ‘Chablis’
Grand Auxerrois
- Vezelay, Irancy, Tonnerre, Joigny
- land surrounding Auxerre, capital of the Yonne
How many ha are there of 1er Cru Chablis?
785ha
(vs appx 100 ha GC)
- two sets of additions in 1978 and 1986
- 40 named climats overall, grouped into 17 “major” 1er Cru
A wine from the smaller, lesser known 1er Cru Côte de Bréchain is most likely to be labeled as what larger 1er Cru?
Montée de Tonnerre
