Let's Beaune Flashcards
What’s in between Meursault and SaintRomain?
What’s to the top left of Volnay?
Auxey-Durresses
Monthelie
Villages bordering Aloxe-Corton
Clockwise from bottom right:
Ladoix Serrigny
Chorey les Beaune
Pernand-Verglesses
What’s above/below Pommard
Beaune
Volnay
Premier Crus in Santenay that you should give a shit about
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
Three communes of Maranges
Known more for…
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
Which Grand Cru is Remilly super dooper close to?
Where do the hills of St. Aubin’s best Premier Crus face?
Chevalier Montrachet
South
Kick ass St Aubin Premier Crus
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
The names and portions of the Grand Crus in Chassagne
Half of Montrachet (called Le Montrachet on this side)
About half of Batard
All of Criots
Two of the soils in Cassagne and their significance. Examples of Crus with both soils
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)
Breakdown of Montrachet Grand Cru styles
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.
Which Puligny Premiers Crus could be considered Grand Cru level
Le Cailleret next to Montrachet (parcells actually added to Montrachet in 1939 and 1974)
Les Pucelles next to Bienvenues
What/where is Les Demoiselles?
A climat in Le Cailleret. Latour/Jadot’s holdings here were bumped up to Grand Cru status
Who is the largest holder of Montrachet AOP?
The Marquis de Laguiche family. 2 Hectares or 25%. Drouhin produces the wine
What does “rachet” mean?
Infertile
What is Cuvee la Cabotte?
A lieu-dit bottling by Bouchard Pere et Fils in Chevalier
What shitty happened at Leflaive recently? Who is the wine maker for Leflaive
Anne-Claud-Leflaive passed away. Brice de la Morandiere took over. Pierre Morey made the wines until 2008 when Eric Remy took over.
Which wines made in Blagny must be declared as Blagny AOP?
Red wines. White are declared as Puligny or Meursault depending on which commune they fall inside of
List of vineyards close to Volnay that amend their names to Volnay 1er cru when making red
Les Santenots du Milieu
Les Santenots Blancs
Les Plures
What does “tacheron” mean?
Vignerons who are paid to manage vineyards as sort of freelancers.
Who holds a monopole in Clos des Perrieres?
Vineyards surrounding Clos des Perrieres
Domain Albert Grivault. Homeboy is trying to bump it up to Grand Cru.
-Pierrieres Dessus (south/west/north west)
-Charmes Dessus
(East)
South to north from Puligny border list exceptional Meursault Premiers Crus
Les Perries east, Les Charmes west, Les Genevrieres north of Charmes
What are “deuxiemes crus”
Name a few important ones along with relevant information.
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)
Who owns Domain d’Auvenay and where is it located?
Lalou Bize-Leroy
Saint-Romain
Name a lieu dits of Les Gravieres Santennay
Noyer Bart, mentioned by Jules Lavalle (along with Clos de Tavannes) as tete de cuvee #2
Top vineyard of Santennay and a Producer
Clos de Tavannes
Pousse d Or from Volnay
Two producers from Santenay
Lucien Muzard
Roger Belland
difference between domain leflaive and Olivier leflaive
Olivier is Anne Claude’s cousin who started Negociant
What is Selection Massale?
Selection Massale is the French term for selecting the best vines in a vineyard and propagating them through cuttings
How many hectares of GC Montrachet in Chassagne
Criots Batard 1.6ha (all)
Le Montrachet 8ha
Batard Montrachet 12ha
Subsoil and top soil Chassagne
bathonian limestone subsoil
“topped with limestone debris
GC wholly in Puligny
Chevallier and Bienvenues
Style of Batard and Bienvenues, Chevalier
deeper soils, slighter incline
fatter and wider range of fruit
Chevalieris higher, lighter racy Style
Where is Les folatieres.
Large PC in Center of Puligny
Where is Champ Grain
Large PC above folatieres
Who bottles all 4 Puligny GC
Domain Leflaive
Name 3 premier crus in Chass with good red, character of wines
Clos St Jean
Morgeot
Name 4 high performing PC in Chass
Blanchot, just south of Criots
Caillaret in Center
Clos Pitois on border of Santenay
Also St Jean and Morgeot for reds
4 high performing PC Puligny
2 largest
Caillaret (NW) Pucelles (NE) Champ Canet and les Combettes bordering Muersault largest: Champ Gain les Folatieres
N to S St Aubin PC bordering Montrachets
Merges de dents de Chien
en Remilly
Combes au sud
Charmois
Meurault PC that bring the Meursault weight to the table
Porusot and Gouttes d’Or
Elegant Meursault PC
Perrieres, Charmes Dessus, Genevrieres
Describe Saint Romain
Cooler and higher elevation than Auxey
Essentially Haut Beaune
Better white
d’Auvenay based here, no Romain from them though
What is Clos de la Barre who makes
Monopole of Comtes Lafon in Muersault
What chaumes mean?
Scrubland, used sometimes as prefix for recently cleared vineyards
Name 4 deuxiemes crus of Muersault
Narvaux, Tillets, Chaumes des Narvaux, Clos de la Barre
Say things about Auxey-Duresses
Auxey is a valley between 2 hills
Cooler than d’Or proper So all PC face South
Where is Clos du Val Burgundy
inside Auxey duresses’ Climat du Val PC
Where is Maison Leroy located?
Auxey duresses
Beaune villages not permitted to release white
Pommard, Volnay, Blagny blanc must be Puligny or Meursault
2 best PC in Monthelie and what do they border
Champs fuillots andSurla Velle, bordering Volnays’ Clos de Chenes
More red than white here
3 weird naming PC bordering Volnay
following may be Volnay Santenos PC if red:
Santenots Milieu
Santenot dessus
Les Plures
CdNuits Analogy for Volnay in Guild guide
It is the Chambolle Musigny to pommard’s Geverey Chambertin
5 producers based in Volnay
Domaine de la Pousse d'Or Marquis d'Angerville Henri Boillot Hubert d'Montille Michel Lafarge
What do Volnay’s top PC have in Common
mostly to the south, on the hillside that turns into Monthelie to SW and Muersault to S
top PC West to east
Clos de Chenes
Taille Peds N of Chenes
Caillerets
Champans N of Cailleret
Soil change in Pommard from Volnay
Quickly turns to Iron rich Clay when you hit Rugiens PC
Cuvee and location of Armand
Made solely from Clos des Epeneaux Monopole (divided between Pommard’s Epenot/Petits Epenot PCs)
until they purchased some Volnay and Auxey Duresses
Top Pommard PC
Rugien Bas and lesser Rugiens Haut
Grands and Petite Epenots
Bouchard’s Beaune Monopole
Vigne L’Enfant Jesus
from Le Greves PC
Who Makes Vigne L’Enfant Jesus from where
Bouchard, Les Greves PC in Beaune
Name 2 Beaune PC
Le Greves right in middle
Le Clos de Mouches on border of Pommard (Drouhin’s blanc from Mouches is great)
Name a notable white bottling from Beaune
Drouhin’s Clos de Mouches Blanc
Where is Cote de Beaune, characteristics
Above Beaune village PC
light red and white
OMG how great is Chorey les Beaune like woah I can’t EVEN
IN OPPOSITE LAND IDIOT
What are best Savigny Les Beaune what do they have in common
Aux Serpentieres
Les Vergelesses
facing SE
Red focused
Aspect and Style of Corton Charlemagne
Western and Southwestern facing portions of the hill with more limestone
Named for Charlemagne, white wine for white beard story
Top Corton GC climats
Patch of east facing vineyards le Corton le Clos du Roi le Renard Bressandes " lower vineyards shouldn't be GC"
which GC is in Pernand Verglesses
en Charlemagne
Major Divide in Pernand Verglesses vineyard styles
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)
2 hills of pernand verglesses and major vineyards
Boise de noel, east facing PC with ile de Verglesses
fretille to north, legally only (pretty damn good) white
White only PC pernand verglesses
Sous Fretille
Clos Berthet
Village de Pernand
only domain to produce only GC
vines produced
majority owner
Bonneau du Martray in Pernand Verglesses
mostly Chard from Charlemagne
Stan Kroenke (of Screaming Eagle)
Which GC parcel dominates Ladoix
Le Rognet et Corton
GC monopole in Ladoix
Clos des Cortons Faively
two GC climats that are legally non existent but tolerated
Long-Depaquit GC La Moutonne
Clos de Cortons faively
