General Champagne Flashcards
Producers who bottle Piccolo Champagne
Moet
Deutz
Mumm
Feuillate
Departments of Champagne (5)
Aube
Aisne
Marne
Haute-Marne
Seine et Marne
How many producing communes in Champagne
319 villages
What is a Marc
4000 Kg goes into a coquard that gets pressed
produces 2550 liters
What is fromenteau
Pinot Gris in champagne
this percentage of a year’s harvest may be sold as vintage champagne
Max 80%
Addition of liqueur d’expedition may not lead to an increase in volume of this
1.12% per 1% increase in alcohol during second ferment
Volume of wine percentage =
1.266 x alcohol percent increase +.0666 x sugar increase
Max planting density in Champagne
2.5 sq. meters per vine
Elevage for non vintage/vintage Champagne
Non Vintage 15 mos (Cant be disgorged until after 12 months)
Vintage 36 mos
Encepagement Rosé de Riceys
100% Pinot Noir Rosé
10% abv
sizes of champagne formats small to large
Piccolo 187
demi 375
bottle 750
Magnum 1.5L
Jeroboam 3L
Rehoboam* 4.5L (discontinued 89)
Methusaleh 6L
Salamanthar 9L
Balthazar 12L
Nebuchadnezzar 15L
Solomon 18L
Sovereign
Primat
Melchizedek
*discontinued in 89
What is bouvreaux
When rain interrupts flowering, so there is a second crop after first harvest producing high acid second crop
What is ratrousse
Using a pitchfork to move grapes to center of press
Alfred Gratien (Epernay) tete
Cuvee Paradis NV (1985)
Brut, Brut Rosé
Chard/PN
minimum potential alcohol for champagne base wines
9%
Max RS Champagne (base wines)
10g/l
Oldest Champagne houses
1522 Philipponnat (still wine house)
1542 Gosset (still wine house)
1729 Ruinart (Champagne house)
1874 Pommery first brut
First commercial tete de cuvée
1921 Dom Perignon
Coteaux Champenois:
1974
90% or greater: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Meunier, Arbane, Petit Meslier, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris
Maximum 10%: Voltis
Rebeche (Champagne) used for this and may account for this % of the total
for distillate and must account for 0-10% of total
Chartogne-Taillet 100% Meunier
(Merfy)
“Les Bar”
Also “Rive Gauche” from Bereche
100% Arbane from Moutard
“Cepage Arbane Vielles Vignes”
Champagne Press is called
Cocquard
When was eschelle des crus abolished?(Champagne)
2010
Amount of sugar required to create 6 atmospheres of pressure
24 g/l
Who makes Ace of Spades
Armand de Brignac