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1
Q

What is a multiregional IGP in S France and which regions?

A

Méditerranée IGP
Shared with Rhone Valley, Provence and Corsica

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2
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Where can the set of regulations and production standards for each appellation be found?

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Cahier des Charges

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3
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Under continued wet conditions, Botrytis cinera will turn into….

A

Gray Rot

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4
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What is the most common training method in S France?

A

Gobelet

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5
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What wine making step adds toasty, bread dough aromatics to finished wine?

A

Sur lie aging

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6
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What are the 5 major rivers?

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Loire - longest
Seine
Garonne
Rhône
Dordogne

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7
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How many seasons does the Mediterranean climate have?

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2 seasons only

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8
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What are the major winds in France?

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Westeries
Mistral - North
South Wind
Tramontane / Cers
Marin / Autun - South

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9
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Name the estuary in Boredeaux?

A

Gironde Estuary

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10
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What French wine region was particularly ravaged during WW1?

A

Champagne

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11
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What is France’s largest AOC by value?

A

Champagne

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12
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When was it legal to sell a bottle of wine in France?

A

1728

Bottled wines were only sold at the abbey. All wines had to be shipped in barrels until 1728, when Louis XV issued royal decree and allowed the transport of champagne wines in baskets of 50 and 100 bottles

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13
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When did Europe’s mini Ice Age happen?

A

Middle Ages

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14
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What Alsace wine is least likely to be blended product?

A

Pinot Gris

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15
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In Alsace Pinot Vrai and Klevner refer to…

A

Pinot Blanc

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16
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What is Melon de Bourgogne know in Loire?

A

Muscadet

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17
Q

What is Chardonnay know in Bourgogne?

A

Beaunois

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18
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What is the minimum % for a variety to be listed on the label in Alsace?

A

100%

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19
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What logo would you expect to find on a bottle of biodynamic wine?

A

Demeter - Germany and oldest 1928
Biodyvin - France 1995

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20
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Cloudy cold wet weather at flowering can cause…

A

Coulure - poor fruit set

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21
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What was created to recognize different terroirs in Champagne?

A

Echelle des Crus

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22
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Champagne made only from white grapes?

A

Blanc de Blancs

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23
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Name for top bottling from a producer?

A

Prestige Cuvée

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24
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Champagne made only from black grapes?

A

Blanc Noir

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25
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Champagne made only from the fruit of one village?

A

Single-cru

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26
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A peer-review prestige cuvée?

A

Special Club

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27
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Champagnes that spend many years on their lees before disgorgement?

A

Late-Disgorged

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28
Q

Why is champagne blended?

A

Hedge against marginal climate

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29
Q

The Côte des Bar is largely planted to….

A

Pinot Noir

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30
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What is incorrect pairing:
1. Côte des Bar - Kimmeridgean
2. Côte des Blanc - Chalk
3. Vallée de la Marne Rive Guache & Droite - sand, marls, clays
4. Vitryat - Sands, marl, clays

A
  1. Vitryat is a bastion for CHALK
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31
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Méthode Champenois can be referred to as…when used outside of Champagne

A

Méthode Traditionnelle

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32
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What are the main types of sparkling wine in France?

A
  1. Champagne
  2. Crémant
  3. Mousseuc
  4. Pétillant
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33
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Which Beaujolais Cru is the highest, coolest and last place to harvest?

A

Chiroubles

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34
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in Beaujolais, hand-harvesting is

A

required for
Nouveau and
Beaujolais Cru AOCs

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35
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Jura, the eastern uplift of the Saône Graben has soils that

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Are the exact reverse of Bourgogne with 20% limestone and 80% clay

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36
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What does not match:
1. Sous Voile - with ullage
2. Ouillé - without ullage
3. Vin de Paille - yellow wine
4. Macvin - fortified grape must

A

3 Vin de Paille is known as “Straw Wine”

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37
Q

The Seyssel and Roussette de Savoie AOCs are crafted from…

A

Altesse

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37
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Crémant de Savoir is typically crafted from

A

Jacquère & Altesse

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38
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Machine harvest or hand picking:
1. Chablis
2. Cóte d’Or
3. Côte Chalonnaise
4. Mâconnais

A
  1. Chablis = Machine
  2. Cóte d’Or = Hand
  3. Côte Chalonnaise = Hand
  4. Mâconnais = Machine
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39
Q

T/F
most Maconnais and Chablis wines are fermented and matured in neutral vats?

A

True

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40
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T/F
Oak Maturation is common for Côte d’Or and Chalonnaise

A

True

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41
Q

New oak barrels represent 75% or more in Bourgogne? T/F

A

False - New oak only used 20-50% of the time

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42
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Which of the following is not a Chablis Grand Cru -
1. Vaudesir
2. Valmur
3. Bougros
4. Corton

A
  1. Corton
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43
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Which is an incorrect pairing:
1. Pommad - Village AOC
2. Chambolle-Musigny - Village AOC
3. Aloxe-Corton - Grand Cru AOC
4. Crément de Bourgogne - Regional AOC

A
  1. Aloxe-Corton is a village while Corton is a Grand Cru
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44
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Which of these does not pair:
1. St Bris - SavBlanc
2. Bouzeron - Aligote
3. Montagny - Chardonnay
4. Marsannay - Chardonnay

A
  1. Marsannay makes rosés so Pinot Gris or Pinot Noir (though Chardonnay is approved)
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45
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What is Bourgogne Passe-Tout-Grains?

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A blend of Pinot Noir and Gamay

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46
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What are the 3 Golden Ages of Bordeaux

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  1. Henry Plantagenet
  2. 1700s expansion
  3. Robert Parker, Emile Peynaud
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47
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What are warm soils?

A

Gravel and sand

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48
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What are cold soils?

A

Clay and limestone

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49
Q

What is the difference between moelleux and liquoreux?

A

Both are late harvest
moelleux is semi-sweet
Liqoureux is sweet (botrytis)

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50
Q

Right or left bank?
Margaux

A

Left

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51
Q

Right or left bank?
Saint Estephe

A

Left

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52
Q

Right or left bank?
Barsac

A

Right or left bank?

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53
Q

Right or left bank?
Cadillac

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Right

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54
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Which Bordeaux classification system ranks the wines not the châteaux?

A

Graves Classification

55
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T/F
Prior to 1956 the red Bordeaux blend has more Malbec (Cot)

A

True

56
Q

T/F
After 1956, red Bordeaux has more Merlot

A

True

57
Q

T/F
Petit Verdot has fallen out of favor and has disappeared from the Bordeaux blends.

A

False - adds spice to blends

58
Q

T/T
CabSav has replaced Cab Franc as the most widely planted of the Cabernets

A

True - 20% CabSav / 8% CabFranc

(Merlot 59%)

59
Q

Which Central Loire AOC does not craft white from SavBlanc?

A

Pouilly-sur-Loire

60
Q

What plain does the Upper Loire sit?

A

Limagne Plain

61
Q

Which grape is not used to craft rosé in Loire?

A

Romorantin

62
Q

Which of the following AOC is not in Touraine?
1. Chinon
2. Montlouis sur Loire
3. Coteaux du Loir
4. Menetou Salon

A
  1. Anjou Saumur
    4.Menetou Salon - Central Loire
63
Q

Which of the following Loire AOCs crafts sweet botryzied desert wines?
1. Touraine Noble Joue
2. Samur
3. Bonnezeaux
4. Anjou Brissac

A
  1. Bonnezeaux
64
Q

Which of the following in SW France is white?
Merille
Fer Servadou
Petit Manseng
Duras

A

Petit Manseng

65
Q

What SW grape of Basque Country Origin is similar to Cab Franc?

A

Fer Servadou

66
Q

What SW AOC most closely resembles Bordeaux wines?

A

Bergerac

67
Q

The only AOC in Provence to make more white than rosé

A

Cassis AOC

68
Q

Cassis AOC in Provence makes white wines from…

A

Marsanne (majority) + Clairette

69
Q

Year Pope Clement V moved to Avignon?

A

1309

70
Q

Hundred Years war?

A

1337 - 1453

71
Q

1st Bottles allowed?

A

1728

72
Q

Exposition date that lead to Bordeaux Classification

A

1855

73
Q

Year AOC went into effect?

A

1936

74
Q

30 years war years?

A

1618 - 1648

75
Q

Introduction of sparkling wine in Limoux?

A

1531

76
Q

Years of
1. Powdery Mildew
2. Phylloxera
3. Downy Mildew
4. Deep Freeze

A
  1. Powdery Mildew - 1852
  2. Phylloxera - 1865
  3. Downy Mildew - 1880
  4. Deep Freeze - 1956
77
Q

Chateau d’Yquem founded

A

1847

78
Q

Lledoner Pelut is a hairy leafed variant of…

A

Grenache

79
Q

The historic backbone of the Languedoc red blend is…

A

Carignan

80
Q

Which appellation is not in Languedoc
Collioure
Corbieres
Minervois
Saint Chinan

A

Collioure is located in Roussillon

81
Q

Which Vin Doux Naturel is produced in Roussillon?

A

Muscat de Riversaltes

82
Q

What style of each VDN
1. Grenat
2. Rimage
3. Ambre
4. Tuile
5. Hor d’Age

A
  1. Grenat- Reductive red
  2. Rimage - Reductive Red
  3. Ambre - Oxidative White
  4. Tuile - Oxidative red
  5. Hor d’Age - 5 year oxidated red or white
83
Q

Which is not a DCG in Roussillon?
Caramany
Tautavel
Maury
Lesquerde

A

Maury AOC in Roussillon

84
Q

2nd Largest AOC in France

A

Cotes du Rhone

85
Q

Most vines in S Rhone are trained?

A

Gobelet

86
Q

Admin entity in Rhone during the1600s that allowed Coste du Rhone

A

Vicariate of Uzes

87
Q

What Rhone Valley AOC makes still and sparkling wines from Marsanne and Roussanne

A

Saint Peray

88
Q

Which pairing is incorrect
Tavel - Rose only
Cornas - Red only
Hermitage - Red and White
CDR - Red only

A

CDR Can make dry white red rose

89
Q

Abymes de Myans

A

1248

90
Q

When was Savoie 1st annexed by France?

A

1792

91
Q

When was Savoie last given to France under Napolean III

A

1860

92
Q

How much grafting does Savoie do for France?

A

20% total - 30m pa

93
Q

Name the towns that sit above the Abymes landslide

A

Apremont and Abymes

94
Q

Barique size in
1. Bordeaux
2. Bourgogne

A
  1. 225L
  2. 228L
95
Q

When did the Romans defeat Gaul?

A

52 BCE
In Alesia near Chablis

96
Q

Roman city in Bourgogne?

A

Autun

97
Q

What German tribe arrived in Bourgogne in 450 CE

A

Burgondes and area became known as Burgundia

98
Q

Phylloxera hit Bourgogne in what year?

A

1875

99
Q

Year Bourgogne’s boundaries were legally defined?

A

1930

100
Q

AOC legislation ?

A

1936

101
Q

The first official classification of Bourgogne vineyards was in…

A

1861

102
Q

Average size of a Burgundy vineyard?

A

16.1ac / 6.5 HA

103
Q

Coops (Cave de..), negociants and estates in Bourgogne?

A

16 Cave de…
266 negociants (52% sold via)
3,577 estates
15.5m cases annually

104
Q

Small DCG of Bourgogne consisting of 6 communes and is red only

A

Côtes du Couchois

105
Q

Auxerrois AOC that uses Cesar?

A

Irancy

106
Q

What is the unofficial climat in Chablis?

A

Moutonne

107
Q

Name a single site Lieu-Dit from the Regional Bourgogne AOC

A

Le Vaucrain

108
Q

How many climats does Corton have?

A

28 climats
Clos de la Vigne au Saint - most famous

109
Q

What can Bourgogne Rosé be called?

A

Clairet

110
Q

Largest climat in Chablis

A

Les Clos

111
Q

What is the most common farming method in Bourgogne?

A

Lutte raisonée - “reasoned struggle” min chemicals

112
Q

Year France gained control of Franche-Comté?

A

1678

113
Q

Where is cork grown in Provence?

A

Massif des Maures

114
Q

1st Provence AOC?

A

Cassis

115
Q

When did Provence become part of France

A

1486

116
Q

What road did the Romans build to link Italy to Spain via France?

A

Via Domitia

117
Q

When did the Canal Midi open?

A

1681

118
Q

What was the 2nd Canal for S France?

A

Canal Lateral de la Garonne
1856

119
Q

When did the rail lines open between Paris, Lyon and Marseillie

A

1855

120
Q

What region was 1st to replant American rootstock after phylloxera hit?

A

Languedoc

121
Q

Where and when was the 1st French wine Coop founded?

A

1905
Maraussan Coop in Languedoc

122
Q

How many coops in Languedoc?

A

150

123
Q

When were Languedoc and Roussillon officially joined?

A

1972

124
Q

What canal links Toulouse to Bordeaux?

A

Canal de la Garonne

125
Q

% Organic in Languedoc

A

38%

126
Q

How many departments does Languedoc cover?

A

4
Lozere
Gard
Herault
Aude

127
Q

When was the Paris Decree?

A

1577

128
Q

What does Loire mean?

A

Roman “Liger” means silt or sedimentation

129
Q

What training is used exclusively for Meunier in Champagne?

A

Vallée de la Marne

130
Q

What training is required for Grand Cru and Premier Cru in Champagne?

A

Cordon or Chablis Only

131
Q

What is the rootstock for Chalky Soils?

A

41B

132
Q

When were the specific cold periods in Champagne?

A

1650
1770
1850

133
Q

What region has the most Coops?

A

Champagne

134
Q

Largest AOC

A

Champagne AOC

135
Q

Corsica became France in…

A

1768

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