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What are the primary grapes for Fief Vendéens AOC?

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Chenin Blanc
Pinot Noir (80%)

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Most important location for sweet wines?

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Layon River

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What AOC in Anjou covers the entire region makes most styles of wine, but not ROSÉ

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Anjou AOC

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What is the largest IGP in France by area?

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Val de Loire

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What are the primary grapes of Anjou AOC?

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Chenin Blanc (+ C or SB)

Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Sav
Gamay

S: Grolleaus

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What can be added to Anjou AOC white wines along with Chenin Blanc?

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Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc

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What is 100% Gamay released primeur 3rd week in November called in Anjou AOC?

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Anjou Gamay

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What are Anjou rosés called and what style?

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Rosé d’Anjou
ONLY OFF DRY 7 g/l

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What is the largest production of Rosé in Anjou?

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Cabernet d’Anjou AOC

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What is Cabernet d’Anjou AOC made and what style?

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Cabernet Franc and CabSav rosés
Medium Sweet

at 10 g/l sweetness

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What rosé AOC covers both Anjou-Saumur and Torraine?

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Rosé de Loire AOC

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What style is Rosé de Loire AOC?

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Dry

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What sparkling AOC covers both Anjou-Saumur and Torraine?

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Crémant de Loire AOC

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How can Crémant de Loire AOC be made?

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White or rosé. traditional method, 9m on lees and can be vintage or non-vintage

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What are the primary grapes of Crémant de Loire AOC?

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(W) - Chenin Blanc + Chardonnay
(Rs) - Cabernet Franc

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What are the soils of Savennières AOC?

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Slate, schist, volcanic rock aeolian soils

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What are 2 AOCs that are within Savennières AOC boundaries?

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Savennières Roche AOC
Coulée de Serrent AOC

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What is the lieu dit within Savennières?

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Savennières Roche AOC

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What is the only monopole in Loire ?

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Coulée de Serrent

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What is the outlying zone in Loire that is still considered part of Anjou-Saumur?

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Haut-Poitou

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Where does Tourraine get its name?

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Tours

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What subregional AOC of middle Loire does not make Rosé?

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Anjou AOC- but make rose sparkling

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What are the geological formations around Savennières?

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5 Steep South Facing Hills

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What is the only grape in Savennières AOC?

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100% Chenin Blanc - famous for dry, and also semi-sweet, sweet

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Where can Monk's Rock be found?
Savennières Roche aux Moines a famous lieu0dix
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Who owns Coulée de Serrant?
Nicolas Joly Biodynamic monopol
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What does Coulée de Serrant produce?
Mostly dry and sweet Chenin Blancs
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What is an only red CabFranc and CabSav AOC that recently became an AOC in Anjou from Village?
Anjou Brissac
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Who has the largest production of sparkling wines
Saumur AOC 1 DCG
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What is the only DGC in Saumur AOC?
Puy-Notre Dame DGC
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Where is Anjou-Saumur located?
Western part of Middle Loire
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What is the climate of Anjou-Saumur?
Martime with Continental influences
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What geological feature splits Anjou-Saumur?
Massif Armoricain / Paris Basin
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What are the western soils of Anjou-Saumur?
"BLACK ANJOU" - Dark Schists & Sandstone
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What are the eastern soils of Anjou-Saumur?
"WHITE ANJOU" White Chalk (Tuffeau)
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What soils make sparkling quality in Anjou-Saumur?
Limestone gives high acidity
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What styles are the reds in Anjou-Saumur?
Planted on sand so light and fruity
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What white and red dominate Anjou-Saumur?
Chenin Blanc CabFranc
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What is Fié Gris and where is it found?
Sauvignon Gris in Haut-Poitou white wines
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What are Grolleau Gris used for?
Sparkling and rosé
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What are the 2 primary red grapes
CabFranc and Grolleau Noir
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What territory does Rosé d'Anjou AOC cover?
Same as Anjou all of the subregion
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What are does Cabernet d'Anjou AOC cover?
All the subregion same as Anjou and Rosé d'Anjou
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What are the grapes of Cabernet d'Anjou AOC and sweetness level?
CabFranc / CabSav 1% min reisdual sugar
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What Anjou subregion AOC only does red?
Anjou Brissac Anjou Villages
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What area does Anjou Villages cover?
Most but not all of Anjou subregion
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How many communes in Anjou Villages?
46 - but no name on label
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What are the permitted grapes of Anjou Villages?
CabFranc / CabSav
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What rose covers Anjou-Saumur and Touraine?
Rosé de Loire
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What style is Rosé de Loire?
Dry
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What requirements are different for Anjou Brissac versus Anjou Village?
1st both red only Lower yields for Brissac
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What does Puy-Notre Dame DCG produce?
CabFranc
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What does Saumur-Champigny AOC produce?
Only Red CabFranc/CabSav / Pineau d'Aunis
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What has the warmest conditions which means it produces richer reds than most of Loire?
Saumur-Champigny AOC
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What are the soils of Saumur-Champigny AOC?
Tuffeau - gives soft elegant tannins and freshness
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How may villages are in Saumur-Champigny AOC ?
8
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What does Champigny mean?
Latin from campus igni "FIELDS OF FIRE"
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What is the warmest of the Anjou AOCs?
Coteaux de l'Aubance
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What AOC lies on both North and South of the Aubance River?
Coteaux de l'Aubance
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What does Coteaux de l'Aubance produce?
Chenin Blan semi-sweet to sweet Includes SdGN 3.4% residual sugar
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What is the only Grand Cru in Layon?
Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru
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What is the style of Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru?
Sweet
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What style is Coteaux du Layon 1et Cru Chaume?
Sweet
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What river is Bonnezeaux on and what does it make?
Layon Sweet Chenin Blanc
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What is the production difference between Savennières Roche and Savennières?
Roche is lower yields, hand picked only (2 tris), NO Chapatalization
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What can Savennières Roche make
100% Chenin Blanc - famous for dry white, can make semi-sweet, sweet years when Botrytis happens (3% min. sugar)
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How is the monopole Coulée Serrant AOC farmed?
Biodynamically - low yields, hand harvested (2 tris)
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What are the grapes of Coulée Serrant AOC??
100% Chenin - mostly dry, some semi/sweet wines
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How many DCGs does Coteaux du Layon have?
6 communal DGCs 7 DGCs in total (bc Chaume Premier Cru is a DGC as well)
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What is the legal difference between 1er Cru Chaume and Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru?
1er Cru Chaume is only a DCG of Coteaux du Layon
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1er Cru Chaume production?
Chenin Blanc - hand pick - Sweet 8% min can be either botrytized or not
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Where can grapes be botrytized or passerillage on the Layon?
Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru AOC
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Rank sweetness levels 1er Cru Chaume Quarts Bonnezeaux
Quarts is the sweetest 8.5% 1er Cru Chaujme - 8.0% Bonnezeaux is the least sweet 5.1%
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What is considered to have the higher acidity of all the sweet wines in Anjou-Saumur?
Bonnezeaux
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Main grape of Rosé d'Anjou AOC
Grolleau leads - blend Cf/CS, Pineau
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What is the smallest production rose in Anjou-Saumur?
Rose de Loire
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What is the sweetest rose in Anjou-Saumur?
Cabernet d'Anjou
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What is the driest rose in Anjou-Saumur?
Rose de Loire (dry style only)
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What is sparkling Saumur referred to?
Saumur Brut
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What is Fines Bulles?
Loire's sparkling wine term
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What are the standard Cremant rules?
white or rose - 9m on. lees made traditional method - Chenin Blanc lead for white with Grolleau Gris and CabFran for rose
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How are Anjou Sparkling AOC made?
Whites Mousseux with Chenin Blanc / Chardonnay and SavBlanc Roses made from red / gris grapes
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How many regions produces Cremant in France?
8 Loire Alsace Bourogone Limoux Bordeaux Jura Savoie Die
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What are sparkling wines made from non-Cremant AOCs called
Vouvray Mousseux
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What is the difference between cremant and mousseux?
Moussex has less restrictions like no aging. 3atms
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What is pètillant?
Means less fizzy only 1-2.5 atm "semi-sparklng"
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What is Pet-Nat
Methode Ancestrale
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What are sparkling wines that either are partially fermented must 1. chilled and bottled for light bubbles or 2. bottled with yeast and disgorged after 2-3m for light bubbles?
Petillant Naturel
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Who is the largest producer in Anjou?
Cabernet d'Anjou 60% Rose d'Anjou 19%
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Who is the largest producer in Saumur?
Saumur AOC.- 59% Saumur-Champigny - 37%
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Rosé made from Grolleau?
Rosé d'Anjou
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Rosé made from CabFranc and CabSav
Cabernet d'Anjou

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