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Jura Flashcards

1
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Where is Jura?

A

Mountainous area sandwiched between Bourgogne and Switzerland

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  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
A
  1. Revermont, 50 miles
  2. Continental with Alpine influences. 39-59” avg a year
  3. Saone
  4. 720-1475 ft
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In Cote d’Or, base rock is about 80% limestone, 20% clay. What about Jura?

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The reverse

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Chardonnay:

  1. Produces how much of Jura white wine? And where does it go?
  2. Soil preference?
A
  1. 2/3, most goes into Cremant du Jura

2. Limestone

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Savagnin:

  1. Ideal for what type of wine?
  2. Soil preference?
  3. Thin or thick skinned?
A
  1. “Vin Jaune”, Jura’s long lived oxidative wine style. High acidity
  2. Gray/blue marl
  3. Thick (protects vs mildew and rot)
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Poulsard:

  1. AKA…
  2. what type of wine?
  3. What percent of red grapes grown?
  4. Easy or tough to grow?
  5. Soil preference?
A
  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
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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?
A
  1. 37%
  2. South
  3. Mainly Macvin du Jura and Cremant du Jura. Some red wine
  4. First (ripens dependably)
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Trousseau:

  1. What percent of red grapes grown?
  2. Soil preference?
  3. Where is this grape also grown and its name?
A
  1. 23%
  2. War gravel, stony soils, red marl on south facing slopes
  3. Portugal, Bastardo
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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?
A
  1. Signature grape of Jura
  2. Wild vines
  3. Gewurztraminer, Savagnin Rose
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Top 5 grape plantings in Jura:

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

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  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?
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  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
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  1. What was Pierre Millardet?

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

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  1. Jura born botanist. Created the Bordeaux mixture to combat mildew.
  2. Jules Emile Planchon
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  1. Who was Charles Rouget?
  2. Who was Alexis Arpin?
  3. Role of Louis Pasteur?
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  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
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Modern Jura production focuses on?

Why is viticulture in Jura tough?

A

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

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

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  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?
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  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)
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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?
A
  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”
17
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Sous Voile:

  1. Stands for…
  2. May be labelled as…
  3. Grapes?
A
  1. “Under the Veil”- Removed early from barrel, less time to develop flor traits
  2. Tradition
  3. Savagnin, Chardonnay, or blend of the two
18
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Ouille

  1. How is it aged?
  2. Wine made this way in Arbois are often labelled as?
A
  1. Barrel full (no headspace)

2. Nature

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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?
A
  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
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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?
A
  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%
21
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Cotes du Jura AOC:

  1. Size and volume?
  2. Grapes?
A
  1. 2nd largest after Arbois

2. All five

22
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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?
A
  1. Largest AOC in Jura
  2. More red marl and clay
  3. Red
  4. Pupillin
23
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Chateau-Chalon AOC:

  1. Wine types?
  2. Wine made of other grape types must be labeled as..
  3. What is “vin de garde?
A
  1. Vin Jaune only
  2. Cotes du Jura
  3. “wine for cellaring” (Vin Jaune rarely appears on label
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L’Etoile AOC:

  1. Wine styles?
  2. Permitted grapes
A
  1. Whites only (dry, Vin de Paille (even if red grapes used), Vin Jaune)
  2. Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard
25
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Macvin du Jura AOC:

  1. What is used for white Macvin?
  2. What is used for red Macvin?
A
  1. Chardonnay

2. PN, Poulsard, Trousseau

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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 ___
A
  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
27
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Jura production AOC top 3:

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

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