Jura Flashcards
Where is Jura located
Bourgogne and Switzerland
What is the percentage of Jura wine that are exported
10%
What is Jura built their reputation on ?
white wine designed for long term aging
Famous people: what is Louis Pasteur famous for?
milk pasteurization, anthrax and rabies vaccination, ground breaking work on alcohol fermentation (identified yeast as the key factor)
What is Jura’s role in the Saone graben?
It represents the eastern uplift of the Saone graben
Who first chronicled viticulture in Jura?
Pliny the Elder
What is the wine known for in Jura?
white wine designed for long term aging.
Alexis Arpin
Championed the idea of an appellation of controlled origin for Arbois. His work set the stage for Arbois to be among the first to receive AOC approval in 1936.
Alexis Milardet
botanist and mycologist. The creator of the famou “bouille bordelaise” or “bordeaux Mixture” that was used to combat mildrew.
Together with botanist Jules Emile Planchon, the two pioneered the grafting of French vines onto American rootstock to protect the vines from phylloxera.
Jurrasic limestone explaination
The Jura lay under sea during the late Triassic through the Middle Jurrassic. Over these millennia layers of marl formed as sea creatures died, accumulated and compacted. Eventually the land emerged from the sea and the Saone graben formed.
The graben’s uplifts were separated by the ___.
Bresse plain
A blind valley is a deep narrow valley common to ___ landscape.
limestone
The Jura is sometimes described as a mirror image of the ___
Cote d’Or
How is the soil in Jura different from Cote d’Or?
the base rock in the Cote d’Or is comprised of about 80% limestone and 20% clay
Jura is the opposite.
Different soil types for different grapes.
red marl for ___.
gray/blue marl for ___.
Gravel is good for ___ and ___.
pure limestone with sea fossils are good for ___.
red grapes
Savagnin or Poulsard
Trousseau and Pinot Noir
Chardonnay
What is the climate of Jura?
semi-continental with very cold winter and warm summer.
What are the main white grapes in Jura?
Chardonnay and Savagnin
What are the main red grapes?
Poulsard, Pinot Nior, Trousseau
What are other synonyms of Chardonnay?
Melon d’Arbois, Melon a Queue Rouge and Gamay Blanc.
66% of white grape
42% of total wine acreage
What soil does chardonnay prefer?
limestone
What white grape is good for long lived oxidative wine?
Savagnin
Why is Savagnin good for long aged and long lived oxidative wine?
high acidity
What doe V m Jaume mean?
Yellow wine, refers to long aged and long lived oxidative wine of Savagnin in Jura
What soil does Savognin prefer?
gray/blue marl
What is another name for Poulsard?
Ploussard