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1
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What’s in between Meursault and SaintRomain?

What’s to the top left of Volnay?

A

Auxey-Durresses

Monthelie

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Villages bordering Aloxe-Corton

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Clockwise from bottom right:
Ladoix Serrigny
Chorey les Beaune
Pernand-Verglesses

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What’s above/below Pommard

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Beaune

Volnay

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4
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Premier Crus in Santenay that you should give a shit about

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Les Gravieres (named for gravel)
Clos de Tavannes (baddest motherfucker of them all)
Lacomme

all closer to Chassagne
Comme on the border, Tavannes below, Gravieres to the left of Tavannes

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5
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Three communes of Maranges

Known more for…

A 
Dezize
Cheilly
Sampigny
all with "Les-Maranges"
"Les" means "near"
More reds than whites
Maron in front of apartment, 
Desiesed
Shelly shell is there
Sam pushing pen into his knee
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Which Grand Cru is Remilly super dooper close to?

Where do the hills of St. Aubin’s best Premier Crus face?

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Chevalier Montrachet

South

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7
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Kick ass St Aubin Premier Crus

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En Remilly
Les Murgers des Dents de Chien
La Chateniere

All southwest of Gamay.
Chateniere a south facing strip nearest,
Murgers on the border of Puligny with En Remilly to its South

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The names and portions of the Grand Crus in Chassagne

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Half of Montrachet (called Le Montrachet on this side)
About half of Batard
All of Criots

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Two of the soils in Cassagne and their significance. Examples of Crus with both soils

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Limestone (white wine friendly)
The Grand Crus, as well as Blanchot Dessus
Red Clay (red friendly)
Clos St-Jean, Morgeot (a big ass commune with fifteen premier crus inside of it)

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10
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Breakdown of Montrachet Grand Cru styles

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Chevalier is precise
Batard is less elegant but still formidable
Criot/Bienvenues hold deeper soils and a fat style
Le Montrachet is golden droplets of perfect la tee da. Succulent and precise at the same time.

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11
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Which Puligny Premiers Crus could be considered Grand Cru level

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Le Cailleret next to Montrachet (parcells actually added to Montrachet in 1939 and 1974)
Les Pucelles next to Bienvenues

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12
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What/where is Les Demoiselles?

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A climat in Le Cailleret. Latour/Jadot’s holdings here were bumped up to Grand Cru status

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13
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Who is the largest holder of Montrachet AOP?

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The Marquis de Laguiche family. 2 Hectares or 25%. Drouhin produces the wine

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14
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What does “rachet” mean?

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Infertile

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15
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What is Cuvee la Cabotte?

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A lieu-dit bottling by Bouchard Pere et Fils in Chevalier

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16
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What shitty happened at Leflaive recently? Who is the wine maker for Leflaive

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Anne-Claud-Leflaive passed away. Brice de la Morandiere took over. Pierre Morey made the wines until 2008 when Eric Remy took over.

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17
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Which wines made in Blagny must be declared as Blagny AOP?

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Red wines. White are declared as Puligny or Meursault depending on which commune they fall inside of

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18
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List of vineyards close to Volnay that amend their names to Volnay 1er cru when making red

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Les Santenots du Milieu
Les Santenots Blancs
Les Plures

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19
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What does “tacheron” mean?

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Vignerons who are paid to manage vineyards as sort of freelancers.

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20
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Who holds a monopole in Clos des Perrieres?

Vineyards surrounding Clos des Perrieres

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Domain Albert Grivault. Homeboy is trying to bump it up to Grand Cru.

-Pierrieres Dessus (south/west/north west)
-Charmes Dessus
(East)

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21
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South to north from Puligny border list exceptional Meursault Premiers Crus

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Les Perries east, Les Charmes west, Les Genevrieres north of Charmes

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22
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What are “deuxiemes crus”

Name a few important ones along with relevant information.

A

Non Premiers Crus that still show exceptional quality.

  • Tillets (High above the slopes of genevries, Domain Roulot rocks it out)
  • Narvaux (just south of Tillets)
  • Clos de Barre (just north of Meursault, monopole of lafon)
  • Tesson (middle of the appelation, north east Tillets)
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23
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Who owns Domain d’Auvenay and where is it located?

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Lalou Bize-Leroy

Saint-Romain

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24
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Name a lieu dits of Les Gravieres Santennay

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Noyer Bart, mentioned by Jules Lavalle (along with Clos de Tavannes) as tete de cuvee #2

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25
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Top vineyard of Santennay and a Producer

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Clos de Tavannes

Pousse d Or from Volnay

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26
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Two producers from Santenay

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Lucien Muzard

Roger Belland

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27
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difference between domain leflaive and Olivier leflaive

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Olivier is Anne Claude’s cousin who started Negociant

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28
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What is Selection Massale?

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Selection Massale is the French term for selecting the best vines in a vineyard and propagating them through cuttings

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29
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How many hectares of GC Montrachet in Chassagne

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Criots Batard 1.6ha (all)
Le Montrachet 8ha
Batard Montrachet 12ha

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30
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Subsoil and top soil Chassagne

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bathonian limestone subsoil

“topped with limestone debris

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31
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GC wholly in Puligny

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Chevallier and Bienvenues

32
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Style of Batard and Bienvenues, Chevalier

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deeper soils, slighter incline
fatter and wider range of fruit
Chevalieris higher, lighter racy Style

33
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Where is Les folatieres.

A

Large PC in Center of Puligny

34
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Where is Champ Grain

A

Large PC above folatieres

35
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Who bottles all 4 Puligny GC

A

Domain Leflaive

36
Q

Name 3 premier crus in Chass with good red, character of wines

A

Clos St Jean

Morgeot

37
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Name 4 high performing PC in Chass

A

Blanchot, just south of Criots
Caillaret in Center
Clos Pitois on border of Santenay
Also St Jean and Morgeot for reds

38
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4 high performing PC Puligny

2 largest

A 
Caillaret (NW) 
Pucelles (NE) 
Champ Canet and les Combettes bordering Muersault 
largest: Champ Gain
les Folatieres
39
Q

N to S St Aubin PC bordering Montrachets

A

Merges de dents de Chien
en Remilly
Combes au sud
Charmois

40
Q

Meurault PC that bring the Meursault weight to the table

A

Porusot and Gouttes d’Or

41
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Elegant Meursault PC

A

Perrieres, Charmes Dessus, Genevrieres

42
Q

Describe Saint Romain

A

Cooler and higher elevation than Auxey
Essentially Haut Beaune
Better white
d’Auvenay based here, no Romain from them though

43
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What is Clos de la Barre who makes

A

Monopole of Comtes Lafon in Muersault

44
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What chaumes mean?

A

Scrubland, used sometimes as prefix for recently cleared vineyards

45
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Name 4 deuxiemes crus of Muersault

A

Narvaux, Tillets, Chaumes des Narvaux, Clos de la Barre

46
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Say things about Auxey-Duresses

A

Auxey is a valley between 2 hills

Cooler than d’Or proper So all PC face South

47
Q

Where is Clos du Val Burgundy

A

inside Auxey duresses’ Climat du Val PC

48
Q

Where is Maison Leroy located?

A

Auxey duresses

49
Q

Beaune villages not permitted to release white

A

Pommard, Volnay, Blagny blanc must be Puligny or Meursault

50
Q

2 best PC in Monthelie and what do they border

A

Champs fuillots andSurla Velle, bordering Volnays’ Clos de Chenes
More red than white here

51
Q

3 weird naming PC bordering Volnay

A

following may be Volnay Santenos PC if red:
Santenots Milieu
Santenot dessus
Les Plures

52
Q

CdNuits Analogy for Volnay in Guild guide

A

It is the Chambolle Musigny to pommard’s Geverey Chambertin

53
Q

5 producers based in Volnay

A 
Domaine de la Pousse d'Or 
Marquis d'Angerville 
Henri Boillot
Hubert d'Montille
Michel Lafarge
54
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What do Volnay’s top PC have in Common

A

mostly to the south, on the hillside that turns into Monthelie to SW and Muersault to S

55
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top PC West to east

A

Clos de Chenes
Taille Peds N of Chenes
Caillerets
Champans N of Cailleret

56
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Soil change in Pommard from Volnay

A

Quickly turns to Iron rich Clay when you hit Rugiens PC

57
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Cuvee and location of Armand

A

Made solely from Clos des Epeneaux Monopole (divided between Pommard’s Epenot/Petits Epenot PCs)
until they purchased some Volnay and Auxey Duresses

58
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Top Pommard PC

A

Rugien Bas and lesser Rugiens Haut

Grands and Petite Epenots

59
Q

Bouchard’s Beaune Monopole

A

Vigne L’Enfant Jesus

from Le Greves PC

60
Q

Who Makes Vigne L’Enfant Jesus from where

A

Bouchard, Les Greves PC in Beaune

61
Q

Name 2 Beaune PC

A

Le Greves right in middle

Le Clos de Mouches on border of Pommard (Drouhin’s blanc from Mouches is great)

62
Q

Name a notable white bottling from Beaune

A

Drouhin’s Clos de Mouches Blanc

63
Q

Where is Cote de Beaune, characteristics

A

Above Beaune village PC

light red and white

64
Q

OMG how great is Chorey les Beaune like woah I can’t EVEN

A

IN OPPOSITE LAND IDIOT

65
Q

What are best Savigny Les Beaune what do they have in common

A

Aux Serpentieres
Les Vergelesses
facing SE
Red focused

66
Q

Aspect and Style of Corton Charlemagne

A

Western and Southwestern facing portions of the hill with more limestone
Named for Charlemagne, white wine for white beard story

67
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Top Corton GC climats

A 
Patch of east facing vineyards
le Corton 
le Clos du Roi 
le Renard 
Bressandes 
" lower vineyards shouldn't be GC"
68
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which GC is in Pernand Verglesses

A

en Charlemagne

69
Q

Major Divide in Pernand Verglesses vineyard styles

A

Bois de Noel hill which has ile de Verglesses PC produces mostly red (modest wines of tannic density)
fretille hill to north only produces blanc (by law)

70
Q

2 hills of pernand verglesses and major vineyards

A

Boise de noel, east facing PC with ile de Verglesses

fretille to north, legally only (pretty damn good) white

71
Q

White only PC pernand verglesses

A

Sous Fretille
Clos Berthet
Village de Pernand

72
Q

only domain to produce only GC
vines produced
majority owner

A

Bonneau du Martray in Pernand Verglesses
mostly Chard from Charlemagne
Stan Kroenke (of Screaming Eagle)

73
Q

Which GC parcel dominates Ladoix

A

Le Rognet et Corton

74
Q

GC monopole in Ladoix

A

Clos des Cortons Faively

75
Q

two GC climats that are legally non existent but tolerated

A

Long-Depaquit GC La Moutonne

Clos de Cortons faively

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