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Jura and Savoie Flashcards

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Jura: What is a wine style vs. an AOC

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Wine style = Vin Jaune and Vin de Paille *

AOCs = Cremant du Jura *, Macvin du Jura *, Arbois, Cotes du Jura, Chateau-Chalon, L’Etoile

  • Chateau-Chalon produces only vin Jaune*
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What are the 6 Jura AOCs and their products?

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  1. Arbois (largest)
    - All 5 varieties grown, and all styles are made here
  2. Chateau-Chalon AOC
    - Vin Jaune
  3. L’Etoile AOC
    - Whites only produced, including Vin de Paille
    - Chard, Savagnin and Poulsard used
  4. Cotes du Jura AOC
    - All styles produced here
    - White and cremant mostly
  5. Macvin du Jura AOC
    - Macvin produced, all 5 vars permitted
    - Red & white styles made
  6. Cremant du Jura
    - Cremant made from all 5 vars
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What is Macvin du Jura and how is it made?

How is Macvin du Jura made?

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it is a fortified grape must

  • Macvin is mae by adding more (1/3 volume) to grape must
  • Marc is distilled Jura wine pomace, that spends a min 14 mths in barrel before it can be used.
  • The fortified slurry is pressed then aged for amin. of 10 mos; it is released with a 16-20% abv
  • All 5 varieties are permitted
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Jura: What is Vin de Paille?

How is Vin de Paille made?

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A wine made with air-dried grapes

  1. Unblemished Chard, Savagnin, Poulsard, and/or Trousseau picked
    - - left to dry for 6 weeks; traditionally on straw.
  2. Ferment starts with the concentrated grapes
  3. Wine is naturally sweet with an abv of 14/15 %
  4. Aged in barrel for 18 months; develops caramel, honey, prune, candied orange characteristics.
  5. Released only at least 3 years after vintage
  6. Sold in half bottles - 375ml
    * PN is NOT allowed for this wine*
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Jura: How is Vin Jaune made?

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  1. Produced soley from Savagnin
  2. After ferment, the wines transferred to old barrels; not temp controlled
  3. Wines left for 60 mos, in which time flor develops; flor protects against direct air contact.
  4. The finished wine cannot be bottled util 6yrs 3mths / or January (7 yrs) after harvest.
  5. Sold in 620 bottles called clavelin

Make the base wine, put in cask, leave space at top - so it is aged in the presence of oxygen.
Gets a yeasty film of flor, like fino sherry (chemical reaction between yeast and wine creating aldehides), giving briney, salty, olivy, fino character.

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What are the 5 permitted / dominant grapes in Jura and their use?

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  1. Chardonnay (Melon d’Arbois, Melon a Queue Rouge, Gamay Blanc) - most of Jura’s white crafter from Chard
  2. Savagnin Blanc - used for Vin Jaune and for other whites
  3. Poulsard (Ploussard) - pale reds, roses and cremant rose
  4. Pinot Noir - used in Macvin du Jura and Cremant du Jura
  5. Trousseau - identical to Portugals Bastardo grape
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Jura:
What do the terms Ouille and Sous Voile mean?

How do the wines differ?

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Ouille:

  • Without ullage / topped up
  • what most whites around the world are made
  • wine has been made reductively, with minimum oxygen exposure

Sous Voile:

  • Under flor / with ullage (space)
  • the wine can age for decades, the wine takkes on sherry characteristics.
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What is the role of flor in Jura winemaking?

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  1. Flor is used in making Vin Jaune
  2. This layer protects the wine from direct air contact
  3. The wine develops a distinct ‘sherry’ character
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What is the climate and growing conditions in Jura?

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  • Climate is Semi-Continental
  • very cold winters
  • very warm summers, cool summer nights
  • receives a lot of rain which creates disease pressure
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Where does Jura sit on the Saone Graben?

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Jura lies on the eastern side of the graben.

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What is the plain called that seperates Jura and Cote d’Or?

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The plain is called Bresse Plain

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What impact did Jura have on the Jurassic era?

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The Jurassic era takes its name from the Jura mountains, where the limestone-clay (marls) were first identified.

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Savoie:

What is the dominant grape in each AOC?

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  1. Vin de Savoie AOC
    - Blanc: Jacquere
    - Red: any reds
    - - Arbin/ St. Jean de la Porte = 100% Mondeuse Noire
    - Sparkling: L’Ayze -> 100 Gringet most often
  2. Cremant AOC
    - Jacquere and Altesse
  3. Roussette de Savoie AOC
    - Altesse
  4. Seyssel AOC
    - still Seyssel = 100% Altesse
    - sparkling = Altesse, Molette, Chasselas
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What are the principle red varieties and their syns and characteristics in Savoie?

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  1. Mondeuse Noire
    - late to ripen, rarely exceeds 11% alc, but has great structure and character, age worthy
  2. Gamay
    - Plantings in decline
  3. Pinot Noir
  4. Persan
    - coming back
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What are the principle white varieties and their syn and characteristics in Savoie?

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  1. Jacuere
    - hardy, high yeilding; chaptalisation required to up sugar levels
  2. Altese
  3. Chasselas
  4. Roussane (Bergeron)
  5. Chardonnay
    - plantings in decline
  6. Molette
    - used in Seyssel sparkling
  7. Gringet
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How does the Alpine cliate affect viticulture in Savoie?

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  • No months ave. temp exceed 10 C
  • As altitude increases, temp increases as does wind speed
  • Growing season is short, cool and bookended by frost
  • Majority of annual precipitation falls as snow
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What is the name of the grape indigenous to Jura and known for making almost red wines?

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Poulsard

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What is the most widely planted grape in Jura?

What are its syns?

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Chardonnay

Melon d’Arbois
Melon a Queue Rouge
Gamay Blanc

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What is a clavelin?

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A 620 ml bottle used in Jura for Vin Jaune

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What Jura AOC produces only Vin Jaune?

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Chateau-Chalon AOC

21
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What is ullage?

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headspace in a bottle or a barrel

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What does ouille mean on a bottle of Jura wine?

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The wine has been made reductively, with minimum oxygen exposure

23
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What is the main grape used in Cremant du Jura?

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Chardonnay

24
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What Jura AOC grows onl Saviagnin Blanc?

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Chateau-Chalon AOC

25
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Jura:
A Vin Jaune labelled

“vin de Garde”

is intended for :

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Cellaring

26
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What two Jura AOCs represent styles of wine rather tan geographic locations?

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Macvin du Jura AOC

Cremant du Jura AOC

27
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What Jura native created the Bordeaux Misture for treating mildew and pioneered the grafting of French vines onto Ameican rootstock?

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Alexis Millardet

28
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What three Jura AOCs produce Vin de Paille?

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Arbois AOC
L’Etoile AOC
Cotes du Jura AOC

29
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Jura:

What was Louis Pasteur’s contribution to winemaking?

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discovered that a microbe he named yeast is responsible for fermentation

30
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What does the term
Sous Voile
signify on a bottle of Jura wine?

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The wine has been made with controlled exposure to oxygen under a surface layer (or veil) of yeast

31
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What is the sole grape used in the production of the Jura’s vin Jaune?

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Savagnin Blanc

32
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What are the styles of ine made in the Vin de Savoie AOC?

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Red
White
Rose
Sparkling

33
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Waht wine stayle is most associated with the Savoie village L’Ayze?

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Sparkling Vin de Savoie

34
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What grape is most associated with the Savoie villages of Arbin and St Jean de la Porte?

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Mondeuse Noire

35
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What is Savoie’s largest wine district?

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Chambery

36
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What grape variety(ies) is/are used in the Savoie Seyssel AOC?

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Still wines must be 100% Altesse

Sparkling wines must include 10% Altesse; Molette and Chasselas make up the balance

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Savoie: What grape variety(ies) is/are used in the Roussette de Savoie AOC?

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Altesse

38
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What grape variety is most associated with the Savoie village of Chignin?

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Bergeron

39
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What Savoie wine district is known for red wines?

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Bouges Mountain / Combe de Savoie

40
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What grape variety is most associated with the Savoie villages of Crepy, Marignan, Marin and Ripaille?

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Chasselas

41
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What is a sysonym for Roussane in Savoie?

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Bergeron

42
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What is the primary grape variety used in Vin de Savoie AOC sparkling wine?

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Gringet

43
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Does Savoie make more red or white wine?

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white

44
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The Savoie crus of Apremont and Abymes are found in what wine district?

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Chambery

45
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What is Savoie’s most widely planted grape variety?

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Jacquere

46
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What are the two most important red grapes of Savoie?

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Mondeuse Noire and Gamay

47
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What is the climate of Savoie?

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Alpine

48
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What are the primary grape varieties used in the Creamant de Savoie AOC?

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Jacquere

Altesse

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