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French terms Flashcards

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AOC

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  • Appellation dórigine controlee
  • Controls varieties, planting density, allowed vine training, max yields, min alc, ageing length, when can wines be sold)
  • Based the idea of terroir
  • From 2009, variety labelling also allowed
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Croupes

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Gravel hills of Left Bank Bordeaux

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Graves Superieures AOC

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  • Late harvested and/or botrytised ONLY
  • 40 hL/ha
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Cotes de Bordeaux

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  • Created in 2009 for reds and whites
  • For Right Bank regions
  • Blaye, Cadillac, Castillon and Francs
  • ie. “Blaye Cotes de Bordeaux”
  • Max yield less than that of Bordeaux Superieure AOC
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Minor sweet wine appellations of Bordeaux (4)

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  • All around 40hL/ha yield cap
    1. Graves Superieures AOC
    2. Saint-Croix-du-Mont AOC
    3. Loupiac AOC
    4. Premieres Cotes de Bordeaux AOC
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Crus Bourgeois du Medoc classification (3)

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  • Initially rewarded to estates just one level below Cru Classé
  • In 2010 revised to awarding to wines instead, lasts for five years once rewarded
    1. Cru Bourgeos
    2. Cru Bourgeois Superieur
    3. Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel
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41B

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High pH tolerant rootstock - good for limestone soil. Common in Chablis

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420A

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Low vigour + high pH tolerant rootstock, often seen in Chablis

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Chablis vine training system

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Double Guyot replacement cane VSP

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Bouzeron

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Aligote only

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Cordon de Royat

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  • Common training system in Burgundy
  • Limits vigour and thus yield
  • Lots of wood and can harbour disease
  • Now moving towards Poussard Royat
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Poussard-Guyot

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  • Gentler smaller cut pruning method to combat trunk diseases
  • gaining popularity in Burgundy
  • Keeps sap channels the same year to year
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Acidification in Burgundy

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Allowed to acidify or deacidify up to +1.5-2%

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Piece

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228L Burgundy barrels

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Remontage

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Pumping over

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Pigeage

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Punching down

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Burgundy classification

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  1. Regional/generic appellation - eg. Hautes Cotes de Beaune AOC - 52% total production
  2. Village appellation - eg. Chambolle-Musigny - 47% total production
  3. Premier Cru - eg. Les Amoureuses - not legally recognised, included in village level
  4. Grand Cru - eg. Le Musigny - 1% total production
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George Duboeuf

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  • Father of Beaujolais Nouveau
  • Negociant and producer
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Vendange tardive

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Late harvest in France

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Selection de grains nobles

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Botrytised berries of noble Alsatian varieties

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Flute

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Bottle shape for Alsace wines

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Tuffeau

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White marine compact soil Loire is famous for

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Fercal

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  • Rootstock for high lime content
  • Wildly used in the Loire
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Riparia Gloire de Montpellier

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  • Rootstock for high lime content
  • Widely used in the Loire
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Échalas

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  • Vine training method tied to one or two poles
  • Common in northern Rhone crus exposed to the Mistral
  • Either single or double guyot
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Vin de Paille

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Vine hang dried sweet wines

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Demi muids

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300-600L barrels, common in the Rhone

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Dentelles de Montmirail

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Mountains northeast of southern Rhone

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Tramontane

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Cool, dry wine coming blowing from the north-west for 200 days a year in the Languedoc

30
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Quality-focused Languedoc PDOs

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  • Minervois La Livinieres AOC
  • Faugeres AOC
  • Terrasses du Larzac AOC, eg. La Peira
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Rolle

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Vermentino in Languedoc

32
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Two archetypes of rosé production in Provence

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  1. Hand harvest & pressing whole bunches
  2. Machine harvest & short maceration/hold in press
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Tibouren

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Floral berry-like black variety native to Provence

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Counoise

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  • Thick skin variety with high rotundone native to south France
  • Principal variety in Coteaux Varois en Provence AOC and Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence AOC - both red AOCs
  • Also an allowed variety in Chateau-du-Pape
35
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Voluntary code of Cahors

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Quality and price indication:
1. Tradition - inexpensive, 70-85% Malbec with the rest Tannat
2. Prestige - mid priced
3. Speciale - premium, 100% Malbec on the highest plateau

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Föhn

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Drying winds from the Pyrenees, affecting Juracon and Madiran in spring and autumn helping with the high rainfall

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Tannat

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  • Mid-ripening variety native to the Madiran
  • Prone to botrytis
  • High vigour
38
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Passerillage

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Sweet wine production method that uses grapes dried on vine

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