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Loire valley regional aoc’s

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Cremant de Loire

Rose de Loire

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Loire also known as

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Le Jardin de la france

Valley of the chateau

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Loire valley sub region aoc

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Tourraine

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What grand cru aoc vineyard in Loire

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Quarts de chaume

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What grand cru vineyard in Loire can use premiers cru

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Chaumes AOC

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3 types of aoc in Loire valley

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Regional
Sub regional
Village

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4 sub regions of the Loire valley

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Pays nantais
Anjou-saumur
Touraine
Central vineyards

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Vin de pays Loire valley

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Vin de pays de la Jardin de la france
Covers entire Loire valley
Mainly chard

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Climate Loire valley

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Ranges from temperate maritime on the Atlantic coastline in the western portion of the region to cool continental in the eastern reaches

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Top White grapes of the Loire

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Sav blanc

Chenin blanc

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Top red grapes of the Loire

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Cabernet franc

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Loire geography

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Follows the 600 mile long Loire river

From Atlantic to the centre of france

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Pays nantais sur lie bottling time

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6 - 9 months

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What appellations must muscadet sur lie be used in conjunction with

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Muscadet coteaux de la Loire aoc
Muscadet cotes de grandlieu aoc
Muscadet sevre at Maine aoc

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Muscadet appellations

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Muscadet aoc

Muscadet sur lie

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Pays nantais grape varieties

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Muscadet aka melon de Bourgogne

Folle Blanche

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Climate of pay nantais

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Maritime climate
Can be wet
Frost damage rare

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Soils of pays nantais

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Gneiss
Silica
Clay
Granite 
Shale
Well draining
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Muscadet aop wine style

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Neutral
Bone dry to dry
High in acid
Designed for youthful consumption
Seldom used appellation
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Pays nantais viticulture

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Vy lie on both banks of Loire river close to its mouth
Vy on rolling hills
Better vy planted in sevre et Maine subregion
Vines used to be goblet trained
Now trained on wires for machine picking

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Pays nantais winemaking

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Max alco for muscadet is 12.3%
Chaptilisation allowed
Traditionally fermented in casks now done in ss

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Sur lie

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Wines age on lees
Bottled directly off fine lees without filtering
Add complexity, richness and sometimes a slight sparkle

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Muscadet sevre set Maine sur lie aoc

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Wine bottled directly from cask or tank the from March to November following vintage
Wines spend winter on lees
Wine handled very little - retains delicacy and freshness
Lees contact characters

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Muscadet coteaux de la Loire

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Northerly appellation

Wines are leaner

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Muscadet grandlieu aop

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Newest appellation

Struggling to achieve good quality

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Hermine d’Or

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Unofficial label
Grapes from specific schist soil
Wines spend 18 months sure lie
3 subzones for muscadet sevre et Maine : clisson, le pallet and gorges

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3 new aop regions in pays nantais

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Gross plant du pays nantais - can be produced as sur lie wine
Coteaux d’ancenis
Fiefs vendeens

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Anjou saumur aoc’s

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Cremant de loire
Saumur mousseux
Anjou
Anjou-villages
Saumur
Saumur- champigny
Coteaux du layon
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Cremant de loire

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Sparkling wine from Chenin Blanc with chard and other varieties
Grapes may also come from tourraine

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Saumur mousseux

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Sparkling wines from Chenin blanc with Chardonnay and max 10% sav blanc
Best wine made by traditionelle method

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Anjou aoc

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Whites
Chenin blanc
Sav blanc
Over 50% production is rose
Reds from cab sav and cab franc
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Important city in Anjou saumur

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Angers

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Anjou saumur wine styles

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Red
White
Rose
SparklingSweet

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Savenniers aoc

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100% Chenin blanc
Small appellation
Low yields
Best wines have great ageing potential
North bank of loire
Some noble rot
Steep southern exposure
Late harvest Chenin used for full bodied dry whites
Aged characters are honey and smoky minerals
Wines austere when young due to high acid
2 best vineyards are unofficial grand cru

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2 best vineyards in savenniers

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Clos de la coulée de serrant aoc - 1 owner

La Roche aux Moines aoc - 3 owners

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3 Anjou saumur rose aoc’s

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Cabernet d’anjou
Rose d’anjou
Rose de loire

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Coteaux du layon aoc’s

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Bonnezeaux aoc
Quarts de Chaume aoc can be labelled grand cru
Coteaux du layon villages

Located in the valley of layon
Sweet wines
Fresh fruit character and high acidity, full bodies, high alco
Have several pickings

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7 coteaux du layon villages

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Faye-d'anjou
Rablay sur layon
Beaulieu sur layon
St.aubin de luige
St lambert du lattay
Rochefort sur loire 
Chaume (Chaume premier cru)
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Anjou saumur deets

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Vineyards to the west border with muscadet
Continental to maritime climate
Dampness of climate increase further to the west towards Atlantic
No extreme of temps in winter or summer
Most of best wines produced south of river

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Soil Anjou saumur

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Limestone/chalk
Tuffeau
Schist (west)

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Saumur aoc

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Eastern subregion of Anjou, around the town of saumur
White wines made from Chenin blanc and some chard
Range from dry to sweet
Red
No rose
Loire center for sparkling
Cab franc, cab sav and pineau d’aunties

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Saumur champigny aoc

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Best of local reds
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cellars are cut into banks of tuffeau

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Anjou aoc

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Covers red, white and Rose wines

Chenin , cab franc, grolleau

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Grolleau

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Found in the Loire Anjou
Workhorse
Large yeilds of thin acidic wines
Base for rose and sparkling

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Cabernet d’anjou aoc

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Highest quality
Always medium sweet in style
Made from cab franc and cab sav

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Rose d’Anjou

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Slightly sweet
Declining importance
Blend of grolleau, cab franc or gamay

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Rose de Loire aoc

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Always dry

Must be minimum 30% Cabernet grapes in blend

47
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Pineau de Loire

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Anjou wine

Local name for dry and sweet Chenin blanc wines

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Loire Chenin blanc

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Anjou
Slow to ripen
Maintains persistent high acidity
And some astringency from high levels of extract

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Soil savenniers

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Blue schist

Volcanic debris

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2 sweet wine aoc sin Anjou

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Coteaux de layon aoc

Coteaux de l’aubance aoc

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Tries

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Harvesting by making multiple passes through the vineyard
Mandatory in coteaux du layon and coteaux de l’aubance
Result is healthier grapes and pure late harvest flavors

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Chaume aoc

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80g/l residual sugar

Can be called premier cru

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Tuffeau

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Limestone soft soil
In saumur and vouvray
Full of marine creatures and very porous
Allows vines to create large root systems
Good drainage
High calcium content, grapes retain acidity as they ripen

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Climate touraine

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Continental

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Vouvray aoc

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Tuffeau limestone soil
Chenin blanc
Some orbois, menu pineau
Range of sweetness levels : sec, sec tendre, Demi-sec, moelleux and liqueroso
Method traditionelle sparkling: petillant or mousseux
Wines have good acidity, age well
Young wines - fresh apple, exotic fruit, smokey mineral and botrytis
8 communes

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Montlouis and Jasnieres aoc

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In touraine
Similar to vouvray
Orbois not permitted

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Touraine aoc

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Dry whites from Chenin,sav b, Sauvignon Gris

Reds and rose from gamay and cab franc, groslot, pineau d’unis beaujolais nouveau style gamay

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5 villages/sub zones in touraine aoc that can add their name to basic appellation

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Mesland whites like vouvray, red and rose from cab f and cab s
Azay-le-rideau whites like vouvray red and rose from cab f and cab s
Amboise whites like vouvray red and rose from cab franc and cab s
Oisly white from sav b
Chenonceau white from sav b

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Touraine noble joue AOP

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Vin Gris

Blend of pinot meunier (pinot meunier), malvoisie (pinot Gris) and Pinot noir

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Cheverny aoc

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White wines 65 to 84% sav blanc
Red wines from Pinot noir and gamay light reds
Lean whites, sav b

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Cour cheverny aoc

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Romorantin grape bottled as cour-cheverny

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Valency aoc

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In touraine
Sav b
Red and rose from gamay, Pinot noir and cot

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Coteaux de venomous aoc

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Dry roses of pineau d’aunis

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Chenin aoc

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Touraine
Red and rose from cab franc and up to 10% cab franc
Tuffeau more common on slopes heavier wines
clay and heavier wines
varennes soil found close to river vienne lighter wines
Use of old oak
Vins de tuffe
Whites from Chenin
Great reds of the Loire
Raspberry, green tobacco, silky tannin

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Bourgueil and st. Nicholas de bourgueil aoc

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Touraine
Red and rose from cab f and 10% cab sav 
Sand and limestone soils - bourgueil
St.ndb - lighter alluvial soil
No whites
Use of oak
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Varennes soil

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Sandy alluvial

Found near river vienne a loire tributary

67
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Climate central vineyards

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Cool continental
Severe winters
Hot short summer
Summer hail, spring frosts

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Silex soils

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Found in Pouilly fume
Higher proportion of flint
Gun flint character can be applied to the wines

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Terre Blanche

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Kimmeridgian continuation from Chablis

Sancerre

70
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Caillottes

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Sancerre

Stony soil littered with fossils

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Sancerre aoc

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Sav b
Finest dry wines of the Loire
Limestone -Kimmeridgian, silex and caillotes soils,
Reds and rose from Pinot noir 25% of production
Pungent, herbaceous, mineral laden, complex, lengthy finish
High acid
Use ss
Central vineyards

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Pouilly fume aoc

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Limestone and silex soils
Dry whites sav b similar to Sancerre 
Gru flint character 
Didier dagueneau
Ss but often cask aged - less herbaceous characters
No reds
Central vineyards
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Pouilly sur Loire aoc

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Central vineyards
Small size like Pouilly fume
Dry whites from chasselas and sav b

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Menetou salon aoc

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Dry whites from sav b similar to Sancerre
Reds and rose from Pinot noir and gamay
Kimmeridgian soils
Central vineyards

75
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Reuilly aoc,

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Dry whites from sav b
Reds from Pinot noir
Rose from Pinot Gris - vins Gris
Central vineyards

76
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Quincy aoc

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Central vineyards

Dry whites sav b

77
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Coteaux du giennois aop

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Dry whites from sav b
Red and rose blends of Pinot noir and gamay
Central vineyards

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Orleans aop

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Red, white and rose
Pinot meunier and chard
Central vineyards

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Orleans-clery aop

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Red wines from cab sav

Central vineyard

80
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Top producer of muscadet

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Pepiere

81
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Top producer of savenniers

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Domaine de baumard

Nicholas joly

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Top producer of vouvray

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Huet

Foreau

83
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Top producer of Pouilly fume

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Didier dagueneau

84
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Top producer of Sancerre

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Alphonse mellot

Pascal cotat

85
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Top producer of chinon

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Charles joguet

Philippe alliet

86
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Top producer of bourgueil

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Yannick amirault

87
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Top producer of cd layon

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Chateau Pierre bise

88
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Top producer cd layon/ quarts de charmes

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Domaine des baumard

89
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Top producer of bonnezeaux

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Chateau de fesles

90
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Top producer of vouvray

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Foreau

Huet

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Cotes du forez aop

Cote roannaise aop

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Gamay similar to lighter styles of Beaujolais

92
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Chateaumeillant aop

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Reds and rose mainly from gamay

93
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Cotes d’auverge aop, st.pourcain aop

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Red white rose

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2 good white vintages Loire

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2009 Chenin 95 points good ripe vintage, sav b can be alcholic 85 points
2005 Chenin 93 points sav b 92 points warm dry season, good harvest weather, low yields, concentrated balanced styles…..superb dessert wines

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2 good red wine vintages Loire

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2009 cab franc 93 points ripe vintage, good fruit, decent tannin structure for aging
2005 92 points cab franc dry season, good harvest conditions, low yields concentrated ba balanced wines, reds aging well.

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Identify a sparkling wine AOC of the Loire

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Cremant de Loire

Saumur mousseux

97
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Synonym for Muscat in the Loire

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Melon de Bourgogne

98
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Best area and sub region for growing Muscat in the Loire

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Pays nantais

Muscadet sevre et Maine

99
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What grapes does Pouilly sur Loire use

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Chasselas

100
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Grape of vouvray and sub region using this grape

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Chenin blanc

Mont Louis and Jasnieres

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Where are coulée de serrant and la Roche aix moins located

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Savenniers in Anjou saumur

102
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Kimmeridgian soil

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Limestone, Terres blanches, made of compressed sea creatures

Oyster shell

103
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Silex soil

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Flint
Dark stone
Gun smoke flavor

104
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Caillotes soil

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Fossils and stones

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Tuffeau

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Limestone

106
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2 wines from different loire AOCs for cab franc

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Chinon

Bourgueil

107
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2 AOCs for bot wines from the loire

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Quarts de charmes

Bonnezeaux de layon

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