France (Champagne) Flashcards
Arrange these Tete de Cuvees in order of price (lowest to highest):
a) Cuvee Nicolas Francois
b) Vielles Vignes Francais
c) Substance
d) Clos de Goisses
1) Billecart Cuvee Nicolas Francois
2) Philliponnat Clos de Goisses
3) Jacques Selosse Substance
4) Bollinger Vielles Vignes Francais
The Echelles des Crus rated this 1er cru as 99% prior to discontinuation?
Mareuil-sur-Ay (Valle de la Marne)
Tauxieres (Montagne de Reims)
Match the following Tete de Cuvees to producer?
a) Pelorus
b) Sea Spray
c) Annamaria Clementi
d) Kripta
e) Cuvee Clive
f) Le Reve
a) Cloudy Bay (Marlborough)
b) Sea Smoke (Central Coast)
c) Ca d’el Bosco (Franciacorta)
d) Agusti Torello Mata (Cava)
e) Graham Beck (Stellenbosch)
f) Domaine Carneros (Napa)
This champagne producer belongs to the “Primum Familiae Vini?”
Pol Roger
The capacity of a “marc” in liters? Per how many kg?
a) 2550
b) 4000
Match the RM to their respective hometown:
a) J. Lassalle
b) Marc Herbart
c) Pierre Gimmonet
d) A. Margaine
e) Cedric Bouchard
a) Chigny-les-Roses
b) Mareuil-sur-Ay
c) Cuis
d) Villers-Marmery
e) Celles-sur-Ource
The first vintage of “Clos du Mesnil?”
1979
The oldest house in Champagne?
Gosset
The first vintage of the following Tete de Cuvees:
a) Dom Ruinart
b) Krug Rose
c) Sir Winston Churchill
d) Les Chetillons
e) Cuvee Elisabeth Salmon
a) 1959
b) 1983
c) 1975
d)
e)
Name all permissable varieties in Champagne AOP.
Pinot Noir Chardonnay Meunier Pinot Blanc Pinot Gris Arbane Petit Meslier
What is the maximum press yield juice in L/Kg in Champagne AOP?
102L/160Kg
Name the plastic capsule that catches the sediment during remuage?
Bidule
The two types of chalk found in Champagne?
Belemnite
Micraster
Name three vintages in the 90s/00s that Salon was produced?
1997
1999
2002
Jerome Prévost produces “Les Béguines” from which village?
Gueux
A finished Champagne with a residual sugar of 20 g/L would be labeled with which of the following designations?
Sec
Which region contains the village of Aÿ?
Valle de la Marne
The permitted method(s) of dégorgement for Champagne.
Degorgement a la glace
Degorgement a la volee
The permitted method(s) of dégorgement for Champagne.
Degorgement a la glace
Degorgement a la volee
What country contains the Nyetimber and Ridgeview estates?
UK
A maximum _____ percent of the year’s total harvest may be sold as vintage Champagne.
80
The __________ were the first to bottle Champagne in much safer, coal-fired glass in the ________ century.
a) English
b) 17th
The oldest Champagne house still in existence? Founded in _________ as a ______________ producer?
a) Gosset
b) 1584, still wine
The oldest sparkling wine house in Champagne?
Ruinart (1729)
What is the “vin de cuvee” in Champagne?
The first 2000L from the press load
Name five major houses founded in the 18th century?
VCP Delamotte Ruinart Taittinger Moet et Chandon
What is the “vin de cuvee” in Champagne?
The first 2050L from the press load
The scientist from which chaptalization was branded? The culmination of his work occurred in this year?
a) Jean-Anton Chaptal
b) 1801
The scientist responsible for determining the exact amount of sugar to induce secondary fermentation without bursting the bottle?
Andre Francois
The first brut champagne to hit the market?
Pommery “Nature” (1874)
Champagne was first delimited by the French government in?
1908
True or false: Champagne is the only region in France that does not need to include AOP on the label?
True
Champagne was given AOP status in?
1936
The great WWI vintage of champagne?
1914
What is the CIVC? The year it came to be?
a) Comite Interprofessional du Vin de Champagne; A consortium of growers, producers, and shippers organized to protect the interests of Champagne during Nazi occupation in WWII; the mediator between larger houses and growers
b) 1941
The maximum amount of land that any firm can farm that is either rented or owned?
15%
The inaugural vintage of Dom Perignon?
1921
The INAO broadened the Champagne appellation in this year to help meet demand?
2009
A second crop often brought on by interruption of flowering from rain?
Bouvreux
The underground, limestone cellars in Champagne provide the perfect cellaring temp of?
53-54deg
Arrange the three prominent grapes of Champagne from most to least planted?
Pinot Noir
Chardonnay
Meunier
The dominant soil type of the Aube?
Clay
The four permitted pruning styles in Champagne?
Guyot (Double/Single)
Chablis
Cordon de Royat
Valle dela Marne
Name the prominent grape of each of Champagne’s five subregions?
Chardonnay - Cote des Blancs, Cote de Sizzane
Pinot Noir - Montagne de Reims, Aube
Meunier - Valle de la Marne
Name the 17 Grand Cru villages of Champagne?
Cote des Blancs: Avize Cremant Oger Les Mesnil Sur Oger Chouilly Oiry
Montagne de Reims: Ambonnay Puisieulx Sillery Beaumont-Sur-Vesle Verzenay Mailly-Champagne Verzy Louvois Bouzy
Valle de la Marne:
Ay
Tours-sur-Marne (GC for red)
The body that assigned village ratings in Champagne?
Echelle de Crus
The body that assigned village ratings in Champagne?
Echelle de Crus
The terms for the reserve and the release of wines stocks for use in future vintages?
Blocage
Deblocage
The name for the code assigned to each producer in Champagne?
Matriculation number
Define the following:
a) CM
b) RC
c) SR
d) ND
e) MA
a) Cooperative Manipulant - grower’s co-op that produces wine under a single brand
b) Recoltant Cooperateur - a grower whose grapes are vinified at a cooperative but sells the wine under his own label
c) Societe de Recoltants - a firm, not a co-op, set up by a union of often related growers who share resources to make their wines and collectively market several brands
d) Negociant Distributeur - a middleman company that distributes champagnes it did not make
e) Marque d’Acheteur - a buyer’s own brand, often a supermarket chain or restaurant, that purchases champagne and sells it under its own label
What is the “vin de taille?”
The following 500L of press wine after the vin de cuvee (first 2050L)
What is the “Rebeche?”
The third pressing of between 1-10% that is destined for distillation
The settling of press juice?
Debourage
The base wine of Champagne is known as?
Vin de Clairs
The base wines typically remain in barrel/stainless until when?
February/March of the year following harvest
The base wines typically remain in barrel/stainless until when?
February/March of the year following harvest
The blending of base wines before bottling and the addition of liqueur de tirage?
Assemblage
The components of the liqueur de tirage?
Yeast
Sugar
Still wine
*Fining Agents
What is the “Prisse de Mousse?”
Secondary fermentation
Typical rise in alcohol from secondary fermentation?
1.2-1.3%
The breakdown of dead yeast cells to form lees?
Autolysis
Minimum lees aging for non-vintage wines?
12mos
After assemblage, wines are typically?
Cold-stabilized
Historical process of shaking the bottle to prevent sediment from sticking to the bottle during degorgement?
Pointage
The French term for riddling?
Remuage
Traditional tool used for riddling? The modern approach (how many bottles per?)?
a) Pupitre
b) Gyropalette (504btls)
Remuage typically took how many weeks to complete? The gyropalette takes?
a) 8 weeks
b) 1 week
Two permissible methods of degorgement in Champagne? Explain each?
a) Degorgement a la glace - dipping the neck in a freezing brine solution
b) Degorgement a la volee - same principle but w/o freezing (traditional)
Dosage is also known as?
Liqueur d’Expedition
Define the sweetness level ranges for all styles of champagne?
Brut Nature - 0-3g/l Extra Brut - 0-6g/l Brut - 0-12g/l Extra Dry - 12-17g/l Sec - 17-32g/l Demi-Sec - 32-50g/l Doux - 50+g/l
The wire cage on a Champagne bottle?
Musulet
Required cellaring time for NV and vintage styles of Champagne?
a) 15mos
b) 36mos
The transfer method (transvasage) is permitted for which bottle sizes in Champagne?
187ml (Piccolo); 3000ml Jeroboam) and above
Two names for an 18L bottle?
Melchior
Solomon
List all Champagne bottle sizes (names/volume)
187ml - Piccolo 375ml - Demi 750ml - Bottle 1500ml (1.5L) - Magnum 3000ml (3L) - Jeroboam 6000ml (6L) - Methusaleh 9000ml (9L) - Salamanzar 12000ml (12L) - Balthazar 15000ml (15L) - Nebuchadnezzar 18000ml (18L) - Solomon/Melchior
Vintage requirements for vintage champagne?
100%
Name some of the more traditional practices employed for Prestige Cuvees?
Hand riddling
Cork finishing during second fermentation
Barrel fermentation
Hand harvesting
Prestige cuvees may be what in style?
Blanc des Blancs
Blanc des Noirs
Rose
Clos de Goisses was first released in this year?
1935
The Special Club debuted in this year? Also known as? Requirements for wines?
a) 1971
b) Club Tresors
c) Estate bottled, vintage-dated
List the hometown of each of the following RM:
a) Gaston-Chiquet
b) Pierre Gimonnet
c) Henri Goutorbe
d) Marc Herbrart
e) J.Lassalle
f) A. Margaine
g) Mousse Fils
a) Dizy (MdR)
b) Cuis (CdB)
c) Ay (VdlM)
d) Mareuil-sur-Ay
e) Chigny-les-Roses (MdR)
f) Villers-Marmery (MdR)
g) Cuisles
Name the two still AOPs in Champagne and what each specializes in?
a) Coteaux Champenois (still red, white, rose)
b) Rose de Riceys (100% PN rose from Lec Riceys (village in the Aube)
Name the seven AOP regions for cremant wines?
Cremant de Loire Cremant de Bourgogne Cremant de Alsace Cremant de Die Cremant de Jura Cremant de Bordeaux Cremant de Limoux
What are fully sparkling wines labeled as in Cremant AOPs? Lightly sparkling wines?
a) Mousseux
b) Petillant
Permissable grapes for Blanquette de Limoux wines? What method? Where is the appellation?
a) Marzac, Chardonnay, Chenin
b) Traditional
c) Languedoc
England’s premiere sparkling region? Located where? Top two producers?
a) White Cliffs of Dover
b) Sussex
c) Nyetimber, Ridgeview
Methode Ancestrale is also know as? A region that still use this method for sparkling production?
a) Methode Rurale
b) Bugey Cerdon
What is an autoclave?
Pressurized, enamel-lined tank
Most German Sekt is produced by these two processes?
a) Tank Method
b) Continuous Method (where liqueur de tirage is continuously added across several tanks allowing more lees to accumulate and more autolyzed flavors)
How many villages in the Champagne AOP are designated as Grand Cru?
17
Crémant wines must spend a minimum _____ months on the lees prior to release.
9
