Loire Flashcards
Pays Nantais AOCs
Muscadet
Muscadet corteaux de La loire
Muscadet serve et Maine
Muscadet cotes de Grandlieu
7 DCG Muscadet sever et Maine
Goulaine Gorges Mouzillon Tillieres Monnieres saint fiacre Clisson Chateau thebaud Le pallet
Dutch influence
Supplier of wine to England
Influenced farmers to plant folle Blanche
Make brandewijn
Primary white
Chenin blanc
Others- sauv blanc, Chardonnay, orbois/arbois
Primary rose grapes
Grolleau
Sauvignon gris- “fie gris” used by haut poitou
Anjou-saumur AOCs whole region
Anjou Rose d Anjou (off dry) Cabernet d Anjou (cab/cab) Anjou villages (red only) Rose de loire (covers touraine as well) Cremant de loire
Anjou-saumur AOCs
Savenniers Savenniers roche aux monies Coulee de serrant Anjou brissac Saumur Saumur champigny Anjou coteaux de La loire Coteaux de aubance Coteaux du layon Quarts de chaume Bonnezeaux
Savenniers AOC
100% CB
Sweet permitted
Savenniers roche aux monies
Lieu dit within savenniers
Lower yields, hand harvest, two passes, no chap
Can be sweet 30g/l
Coulee de serrant AOC
Within Savennieres
Monople Nicolas joy
Two passes, low yield, biodynamic
Can be sweet
Coteaux du Lyon 1er Cru Chaume
Sweet wines from CB
Hand picked, several passes
Late or noble 80g/l
Quarts de Chaume Grand cru
Noble or passerillage
Layon river
85g/l
Bonnezeaux
51g/l
Higher acid than other sweet wine regions
- Rose d Anjou AOC
- Cabernet d anjou AOC
- Rose de Loire AOC
- Off dry, Grolleau 7g/l
- 10g/l cab/cab med sweet
- Dry rose
Saumur AOC
More mousseux than still Traditional 9mo saumur brut CB (100%), CF, Rose are dry DGC Puy Norte Dam
Anjou AOC
Mousseux/fines bulles Dry white Red No Rose Sp white Sp rose Gamay primer
Mousseux
Less demanding production standard then cremant
No aging requirements
3 atm
Non cremant AOCs
Petillant
Fizzy/semi sparkling
Coteaux de Saumur AOC
Only Uses CB
Sweet or semi sweet
Over ripe or noble
34g/l
Haut Poitou AOC
SB, CF
Continental
South facing
Sand, chalk, clay, flint
Saumur champigny
Only red CF (CS, Pineau) Most important red AOC Tuffeau Igni “field of fire”
Anjou coteaux de la Loire AOC
CB
Sweet to semi
North and south banks of the Loire
Coteaux de Aubance
CB
34g/l
SGN if noble rot
Warmest of Anjou
Coteaux du layon
CB
Sweet or semi
6 DCG - beaulieu sur layon, faye d Anjou, rablay sur Layon, rochefort sur loire, saint aubin de luigne, saint lambert du latty
Noble rot SGN label and a min 19% etoh
Touraine soil types
Tuffeau - west, white chalk
Argiles silex/perruches - flinty clay
Aubuis- clay limestone
Sedimentary deposits - sand gravel