Jura

Question 1

Where is Jura?

Answer 1

Mountainous area sandwiched between Bourgogne and Switzerland

Question 2

1. Jura’s wine growing area is known as the ______.
   It is about ___ miles in length.
2. What is the climate? Rainfall?
3. When the Alps rose, the Jura Mountains rose, and the ___ Graben formed.
4. Most vineyards are between ____ and __ feet in elevation

Answer 2

1. Revermont, 50 miles
2. Continental with Alpine influences. 39-59” avg a year
3. Saone
4. 720-1475 ft

Question 3

In Cote d’Or, base rock is about 80% limestone, 20% clay. What about Jura?

Answer 3

The reverse

Question 4

Chardonnay:

1. Produces how much of Jura white wine? And where does it go?
2. Soil preference?

Answer 4

1. 2/3, most goes into Cremant du Jura

2. Limestone

Question 5

Savagnin:

1. Ideal for what type of wine?
2. Soil preference?
3. Thin or thick skinned?

Answer 5

1. “Vin Jaune”, Jura’s long lived oxidative wine style. High acidity
2. Gray/blue marl
3. Thick (protects vs mildew and rot)

Question 6

Poulsard:

1. AKA…
2. what type of wine?
3. What percent of red grapes grown?
4. Easy or tough to grow?
5. Soil preference?

Answer 6

1. Ploussard (in the village of Pupillin)
2. Pale colored reds and roses, including sparkling Cremant du Jura Rose. Also part of blend for sweet Vin de Paiile
3. 40%
4. Tough (site sensitive and disease prone)
5. Gray/blue marl

Question 7

Pinot Noir:

1. What percent of red grapes grown?
2. Where is it grown in Jura?
3. What wines made?
4. Harvested first or last?

Answer 7

1. 37%
2. South
3. Mainly Macvin du Jura and Cremant du Jura. Some red wine
4. First (ripens dependably)

Question 8

Trousseau:

1. What percent of red grapes grown?
2. Soil preference?
3. Where is this grape also grown and its name?

Answer 8

1. 23%
2. War gravel, stony soils, red marl on south facing slopes
3. Portugal, Bastardo

Question 9

Savagnin:

1. Claim to fame?
2. Descended from?
3. What is the pink skinned aromatic variant of Savagnin? What is the pink skinned non aromatic variant?

Answer 9

1. Signature grape of Jura
2. Wild vines
3. Gewurztraminer, Savagnin Rose

Question 10

Top 5 grape plantings in Jura:

Answer 10

Chardonnay (43%), Savagnin (22%), Poulsard (14%), PN (13%), Trousseau (8%)

Question 11

1. 230-160 million years ago, where was Jura?
2. What was the sequence of rule for Jura starting with the Duchy of Burgundy?
   3, What were the decrees in 1732 and 1774?
3. What happened with the railway?
4. What was particularly devastating in the 19th century?

Answer 11

1. Underwater
2. Duchy of Burgundy (1384), Hapsburgs (1493) Austria->Spain, France (1678-)
3. Specifying limited list of approved grape varieties (but not really followed)
4. Decline as cheaper/powerful reds from south competed with Jura
5. Phylloxera (62% reduction). Downy and powdery mildew also bad

Question 12

1. What was Pierre Millardet?

2. Who did he team up with to pioneer grafting French vines on American rootstock?

Answer 12

1. Jura born botanist. Created the Bordeaux mixture to combat mildew.
2. Jules Emile Planchon

Question 13

1. Who was Charles Rouget?
2. Who was Alexis Arpin?
3. Role of Louis Pasteur?

Answer 13

1. Winegrower who published book on grapes grown in Jura in 1897, noting identical grapes with multiple synonyms
2. Winegrower, champion vs. wine fraud, helped to get Arboid AOC status in 1936
3. Born in Dole (heart of Jura in 1800s), discovered yeast caused fermentation

Question 14

Modern Jura production focuses on?

Why is viticulture in Jura tough?

Answer 14

Shift from red to white wines, esp cremant (29%)

Long cold winters, steep slops, risk of too much rain

Question 15

1. Typical soils in Jura are:
2. Vineyard orientation?
3. What pest is an issue for Savagnin and Trousseau?
4. What training method is most common?

Answer 15

1. Clay-limestone marls
2. Some on south or SW facing foothills, others on slops of limestone hills to the west
3. Esca trunk disease (bacterial infection from pruning wounds)
4. Guyot (to minimize pruning cuts)

Question 16

Vin Jaune:

1. Must be made from:
2. AOCs for Vin Jaune
3. After white grape fermentation, wine is matured in old barrels with ____
4. Aged for minimum of:
5. What does the developing flor impart?
6. Minimum time after vintage VJ can be sold?
7. By law, what is VJ bottled in?

Answer 16

1. Savagnin (white)
2. Arbois, L’Etoile, Cotes du Jura, Chateau Chalon
3. Ullage )head space) (allowed O2 exposure and surface yeast to develop)
4. 60 months!
5. Sherry like traits
6. 6 years, 3 months
7. 620 ml “Clavelin”

Question 17

Sous Voile:

1. Stands for…
2. May be labelled as…
3. Grapes?

Answer 17

1. “Under the Veil”- Removed early from barrel, less time to develop flor traits
2. Tradition
3. Savagnin, Chardonnay, or blend of the two

Question 18

Ouille

1. How is it aged?
2. Wine made this way in Arbois are often labelled as?

Answer 18

1. Barrel full (no headspace)

2. Nature

Question 19

Vin de Paille:

1. Claim to fame?
2. What grapes? What is NOT allowed?
3. Grape clusters dried for minimum of ___ weeks, the pressed/dermented between ___
4. Minimum barrel age time? Release time?
5. Bottle size?

Answer 19

1. The sweet wine of Jura “straw wine”
2. Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard. NO PN!
3. 6 weeks, Dec-Feb
4. 18 months in barrel, 36 months
5. 375 ml

Question 20

Macvin:

1. What is it?
2. If it is fortified, what is it fortified with?
3. Aged for minimum of…
4. Grapes used? Style of wine?
5. Typical alcohol content?

Answer 20

1. Fortified grape must
2. “Marc”- made from Jura wine, BA for 14 months
3. 10 months in barrel?
4. All 5 grapes can be used. Can be red, white, rose.
5. 16-22%

Question 21

Cotes du Jura AOC:

1. Size and volume?
2. Grapes?

Answer 21

1. 2nd largest after Arbois

2. All five

Question 22

Arbois AOC:

1. Size and volume?
2. Soil types?
3. Red or white dominant?
4. Which DGC can append its name to Arbois on label?

Answer 22

1. Largest AOC in Jura
2. More red marl and clay
3. Red
4. Pupillin

Question 23

Chateau-Chalon AOC:

1. Wine types?
2. Wine made of other grape types must be labeled as..
3. What is “vin de garde?

Answer 23

1. Vin Jaune only
2. Cotes du Jura
3. “wine for cellaring” (Vin Jaune rarely appears on label

Question 24

L’Etoile AOC:

1. Wine styles?
2. Permitted grapes

Answer 24

1. Whites only (dry, Vin de Paille (even if red grapes used), Vin Jaune)
2. Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard

Question 25

Macvin du Jura AOC: 1. What is used for white Macvin? 2. What is used for red Macvin?

Answer 25

1. Chardonnay | 2. PN, Poulsard, Trousseau

Question 26

Cremant du Jura AOC: 1. Minimum aging on lees? 2. Grapes permitted? 3. Most Cremant du Jura is ___ and ___% Chardonnay 4. AOC law: white Cremant must be at least __% which 3 grapes? 5. Rose Cremant du Jura must contain __% of ___

Answer 26

1. 9 months (like all Cremant AOCs) 2. All 5, plus Pinot Gris 3. white, 100% 4. 70% Chardonnay, PN, and/or Trousseau 5. 50%, red varieties/Pinot Gris

Question 27

Jura production AOC top 3:

Answer 27

1. Arbois (31%) 2. Cotes du Jura (30%) 3 Cremant du Jura (29%)