French Vocab Flashcards
Trellis
Palissage
To prune
Tailler
Bud break
Débourrement
Flowering
Floraison
Bud trimming
Ébourgeonnage
Desuckering
Épamprage
Removal of earth at base of vine
Déchausser
Berry set
Nouaison
Stopping of vegetative growth
Aoûtement
When berries change colour and soften, signalling the onset of ripening
Veraison
Official start date of harvest (decreed by Prefect of the Gironde)
Ban des Vendanges
Official start date of harvest (decreed by Prefect of the Gironde)
Ban des Vendanges
The vine
La Vigne
Layering
Marcottage/Provignage
Juice setting
Débourbage
Noble Rot
Pourriture Noble
Vine planting ‘in crowd’
En foule
Lees stirring
Bâtonnage
Sweet/desert wine description
Liquoreux
Semi-sweet wines description
Moelleux
Process of arresting fermentation by adding neutral grape spirit
Mutage
Direct press Rosé
Rosé de Presse
Rosé ‘bleeding method’
Rosé de Saignée
Rosé via rapid soak
Cuvaison Rapide
Tradition Method
Méthode Traditionnelle/méthode champenoise
Punching down
Pigeage
Pump-over
Remontage
Rack and Return
Délestage
Free run wine
Vin de goutte
Wine following press
Vin de presse
Second alcoholic fermentation (champagne)
Prise de Mousse
Bottling (champagne)
Tirage
Wine cellar where the Méthode Traditionnelle bottles are stored on their side during second ferment
Crayère
Strips of wood separating each bottle in crayère (also method)
Lattes, sur lattes
Riddling
Remuage
“A” shaped racks
Pupitres
Disgorgement
Dégorgement
Traditional method of disgorgement
A la volée (i.e. Dégorgement à la volée)
Process of filling bigger than 750ml bottles in traditional method
Transversage
Shape of champagne cork after release from bottle
Juponé
Older peg shape of champagne cork
Chevillé
Prestige bottling of champagne House
Tête de Cuvée
NM
Négociant-Manipulant
RM
Récoltant-Manipulant
RC
Récoltant-Coopérateur
SR
Société de Récoltants
CM
Coopérative de Manipulation
MA
Marque Auxiliaire, Marque d’Acheteur, ou Marque Autorisée
ND
Négociant-Distributeur
CIVC
Comité Interprofessional du Vin de Champagne
BIVB
Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne
INAO
Institut National des Appellations d’Origine
Mineral found in sandy soils composed of weathered feldspars in Beaujolais
Arêne/gorrhe
Broken yellow limestone in Beaujolais i.e. ‘Golden Stones’
Pierres Dorées
Oak tree
Chêne
Verb describing pinot-like character of Moulin-a-Vent Beaujolais
Pinoter i.e les vins pinotent
‘Rotted rocks’ i.e. decomposed schist found in soils of Morgon
Roches pourries
Descriptor for transformation of Morgon wines over time i.e. earthy notes and forest floor
Morgonner i.e. un vin morgonne
‘Green horns’ soil i.e. when decomposed diorite forms blue-green hue in Bouilly
Cornes vertes
Blue Marls
Marnes bleues
Method of ageing oxidatively in Jura and under flor
Avec ‘ullage’ i.e. ‘Sous Voile’
Method without oxidative ageing in Jura
Ouillé
620mL bottle used for Vin Jaune
Clavelin
Straw wine
Vin de Paille
Fortified must in Jura
Macvin (de Jura)
‘Locally’
Sur place
White chalk soil found in Anjou
Tuffeau
Fizzy
Pétillant
‘Fine bubbles’
Fines bulles
Flint and clay soil (Touraine)
Perruche
Limestone and clay soil (Touraine)
Aubuis
Gravels
Gravières
Marl rich in oyster fossils (Centre Loire)
Terres Blanches
Little limestone pebbles (Centre Loire)
Caillottes
Flint (Centre Loire)
Silex
Stages (i.e. when Chateaux sell off wine in stages)
Tranches
Iron-rich clay subsoil and the clay-sand conglomerates found in it (Fronton)
Rougets and boulbènes
Iron-rich limestone soils in Mercillac
Les rougiers
‘Tawny sands’ (Saint-Mont)
Sables fauves
Limestone soils in Languedoc
Garrigue
DGC
Dénominations géographiques complémentaires
VDN
Vins Doux Naturels (AOC)
Glass jars used in oxidative production of VDN
Bonbonnes
CDR
Côtes du Rhône
Trellising used in Northern Rhône
Échalas
Pebbles in Southern Rhône
Galets
Red sandstone
Grès rouge
Southern Rhône Crus of the north
Septentrionnaux
Southern Rhône Crus of the south
Méridionaux
White VDNs of Rasteau (Southern Rhône) produced in reductive style
‘Blanc’
White VDNs of Rasteau (Southern Rhône) produced in oxidative style
Ambré
Red VDNs of Rasteau (Southern Rhône) produced in reductive style
Grenat
Red VDNs of Rasteau (Southern Rhône) produced in oxidative style
Tuilé
Wines of Rasteau that have undergone 5 years of oxidative ageing
Hors d’âge
Wines of Rasteau that have undergone 12 months of oxidative ageing in barrel or bonbonnes outside in sun
Rancio
Concrete (tank)
Béton
Stainless steel (tank)
Inox
Large wooden barrel
Foudre
Descriptor of deep salmon colour found in Southern Rhône Rosés
Œil de perdrix
Mix of resinous scrub
Maquis
Provençal wines - light and early drinking
Vins de Soif
Provençal wines for keeping
Vins de Gastronomie/vins de garde
Signature wine bottle of Provence
Flûte à corset (skittle)
