Jancis Flashcards
Diammonium Phosphate
Common yeast nutrient added during fermentation
Marcottage
French for ‘layering method of vine propagation in the vineyard’
Remuage
French for ‘riddling’
Handgerüttelt
German for ‘hand riddled’
Schillerwein
A rotling from Württemburg
Flaschengärung
Bottle-fermented sekt
Dekkera
French for ‘Brettanomyces’
Abfüller
German term for bottler or shipper who assumes the responsibility for the origin and quality of the wine
Name 4 countries Greywacke is found.
- S Africa’s Western Cape
- Russian River Valley
- Mosel, Ahr, Mittelrhein
- Hawke’s Bay, Marlborough, Waipara
Feinherb
half-dry, no legal definition
Autovinification
•AKA?
Designed to extract maximum color from red grapes, primarily used in the production of red port by automatic pumping over
•Developed in the 1960s
•AKA Ducellier system
Millerandage vs Coulure
- Millerandage - seedless berries due to poor fruit set
* Coulure - excessive shedding of ovaries, results in very few berries per bunch
Coupage
French for ‘blending’
AXR1 is a hybrid of what two species?
Rupestris and vinifera
Name 2 Vitis labrusca grapes.
- Concord
* Niagara
Délestage
French for ‘racking’
Engarrafado
“Bottled” in Portuguese
What is Manzoni Bianco?
A Riesling x Pinot Blanc crossing
Parral
Argentine for the overhead vine-training system
•AKA Tendone in Italy
Jahrgang
German for ‘vintage’
Name 3 effects ‘processing aids’ might be used for.
- Clarification
- Stabilization
- Fining
- Removal of off-flavors
Pigeage
French for ‘punching down’
Éraflage
French for ‘destemming’
Atypical Ageing
Heat and dry conditions immediately before and after veraison resulting in extreme water stress can lead to the development of this aroma/flavour defect
•Aromas/flavors: moth balls, wet towel, old furtniture varnish
•Particularly susceptible: Müller-Thurgau, Kerner, and Bacchus
Égrappage
French for ‘destemming’
Schneewein
Snow wine; used for an ice wine made from grapes gathered when snow covered the vineyards
Amelioration
To “improve,” typically to chaptalize, may include acidification or deacidification
Macroclimate vs Microcliamte vs Mesoclimate
- Macroclimate - area or region
- Mesoclimate - Site climate
- Microclimate - Specific to a vine or row of vines
Pierre Galet
Father of modern Ampelography based in Montpellier
What is RDI?
•When is it applied?
Regulated Deficit Irrigation
•Generally, the DROUGHT is applied between fruit set and a week or so after veraison
Ernte
German for ‘harvest’
Name 3 way to protect against frost.
- Wind Machines
- Helicopters
- Smudge Pots
- Lazo Machine (new; gas-powered burner towed behind a tractor that blows air out at 1000ºC)
- Aspersion
Name 3 hybrids grapes.
- Baco Noir
- Vidal Blanc
- De Chaunac
- Chambourcin
- Marechal Foch
- Leon Millot
Fertigation
The practice of mixing soluble fertilizers with irrigation water