Loire AOC Flashcards by T Bray

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Muscadet AOC

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Covers entire Loire Region
Melon de Bourgogne usually 100%
Can add Chardonnay 10%
Flat terrain
20% of all Muscat (Dry)
NO SUR LEES on label

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Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire AOC

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Smallest / Furthest from Coast
100% Muscat (Dry)
On slopes N/S of Loire

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Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire Champtoceaux DGC

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2021 became DGC

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Muscadet Côtes de Grandlieu AOC

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100% Muscat (Dry)
Surround the Lac du Grand-Lieu
Ocean breezes chase away storm cloudes

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine AOC

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100% Melon de Bourgogne (Dry)
75% of all Muscadet production
9 DGC - none can put Sur Lie on bottle
90% sur lie

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Goulaine

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle

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Mouzillon-Tillières

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle

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Gorges

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle

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Clisson

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle

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Monnières-Saint-Fiacre

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle

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Château-Thébaud

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle

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Le Pallet

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle

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Le Haye-Fouassière

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle

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Vallet

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Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle

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Rules for Sur Lie

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Bottle between March 1 - Dec 31 a year after harvest

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Gros Plant du Pays Nantais AOC

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Folle Blanche - know as Gros. Plant in Loire
On Loire River
Dry
And can add sur lie

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What AOC overlaps Coteaux d’Ancenis AOC

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Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire

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Coteaux d’Ancenis AOC

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Pays Nantais
Gamay & PG

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Fief Vendéens AOC

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Pays Nantais
Chenin Blanc
Reds are PN based (80% red grapes)

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Most important location for sweet wines?

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Layon River

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Anjou AOC

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Covers entire subregion - white, red, sweet, semi sweet whites and white sparkling and rose sparkling
Chenin Blanc (can add C + SB)
Grolleau Gris
Cabernet Franc (100% red usually)
DOES NOT MAKE ROSÉ

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Anjou Gamay

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Anjou AOC
100% Gamay
Primeur and 3rd Thursday (like Beuajolais Nouveau)

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Rosé d’Anjou AOC

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Covers same as Anjou AOC
ONLY ROSE IN OFF DRY
7 g/l min

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Cabernet d’Anjou AOC

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Covers same area as Anjou AOC
Largest Production of Rosé
10 g/l sweetness
CF and CS

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Rosé de Loire AOC

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Covers all of Anjou-Saumur AND Torraine
DRY ONLY Rosé

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What AOC covers both Anjou-Saumur and Torraine

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Rosé de Loire AOC
Crémant de Loire AOC

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Crémant de Loire AOC

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Covers all of Anjou-Saumur AND Torraine
Traditional sparkling ONLY
9m lees
White or rose
CB and maybe C - W
CF
Vintage and non-vintage

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Savennières AOC

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100% Chenin Blanc
5 steep hills
Dry, semi and sweet wines
Slate, schist, volcantic rock aeolian soils
Savennières Roche AOC & Coulée de Serrent are within the boundaries

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Savennières Roche aux Moines AOC

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Lieu dit with in Savennières
Lower yields
Hand Harvest - 2 passes minimum
Can make semi / sweeet with botrytis 3 g/l
Monk’s Rock

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Coulée de Serrant AOC

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One Loire
IS A MONOPOL - Nicolas Joly
BioDy
Hand Harvest - 2 passes
Mostly Dry and Sweet

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Anjou Brissac AOC

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ONLY RED
CF, CS
Forest shelters from Ocean
Lower yields
Once was Anjou Village Brissac

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Saumur AOC

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Entire Saumur region
Dry whites, red, rose, sparkling white and rose
(W) - CB
(R) - CF
SPARKLING BIGGEST PRODUCTION
1 DGC

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Puy-Notre Dame DGC

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Saumur AOC DGC
RED ONLY
CAB FRANK
Borders Saumur Champigny

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Saumur Champigny AOC

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ONLY RED
(R) - CF, CS, Pineau d’Aunis
MOST IMPORTANT
Warm Zone
Tuffeau soils
8 Villages
Champigny = fields of fire

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Anjou-Coteaux de la Loire

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Semi-Sweet to Sweet
Chenin Blanc
Both banks of Loire
Plenty of Fog
34 g/l

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Coteaux de l’Aubance

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Semi-Sweet to Sweet
Chenin Blanc
Both banks of Loire
Plenty of Fog
34 g/l
Selection de Grains Noble can be added if Noble Rot
On Aubance N/S and protected by forest

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Coteaux du Layon 1st Cru Chaume DGC

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Chenin Blanc
Hand Picked
Sweet
Prestigious
DO NOT NEED NOBLE ROT
80 g/l

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Chaume Grand Cru AOC

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Sweet Chenin Blanc
Vines face south on Layon River
Can do Noble Rot or Passerillage
**SWEETEST WINES IN ANJOU **85 g/l

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Bonnezeaux AOC

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Sweet Chenin Blanc

51 g/l
2nd highest sugar content
More Acidity

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What is the sweetest wine in Anjou

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Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru AOC

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Saumur AOC Sparkling

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Produces more mousseux than still
white or rosé
Tradition / 9m lees
Chenin Blanc - W
CF - Rose

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Anjou AOC Sparkling

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Small amount of mousseux or Fine Bulles
Chenin Blanc & SB - W
Rosé from gris grapes eg Grolleau Gris, CF, CS,Gamay, Pineau d’Aunis

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Coteaux de Saumur AOC

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Only Chenin blanc
Semi-sweet to sweet
34 g/l
Hand Harvest

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Haut-Poitou

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SE Saumur
Sav Blanc & Sav Gris
R - CF, PN, G, M
Continental climate
Sand, chalk and flint rich sand

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Largest AOC in Torraine

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Torraine AOC

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Touraine AOC

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White, red, rose, white and rose sparkling
5 DGC
(W) - CB, SB
(R) - CF, Cot,Gamay
Usually SB for whites
Reds Cab Franc west of Tours
Côt East of Tours
Gamay done primeur

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Ambois

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Touraine DGC

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Azay-le-Rideau

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Touraine DGC

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Chenonceaux

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Touraine DGC

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Mesland

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Touraine DGC

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Oisly

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Touraine DGC

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Touraine Noble Joué AOC

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ONLY ROSE
Vin Gris - Meunier, PN, PG
Direct Press
ALWAYS DRY

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What is a wine made with 3 Pinots?

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Vin Gris

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Smallest rosé production of the 3 Rosé producers in Anjou?

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Rosé de Loire

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Valençay AOC

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Touraine
Shares a name with goat cheese
White, reds, Rosé
Perruches (flinty clay), chalk and sandy gravels
Mostly Sav Blanc
Red/Rose - Gamay

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Chinon AOC

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Touraine
Famous for Red
LARGEST LOIRE BY VOLUME
W/R/Rs
W - 100% Chenin Blanc
R/Rs - Cab Frank and CS allowed
ONE OF THE WARMEST REGIONS
River - sand/gravel
Slopes - Tuffeau
Elevation - Flint, clay, sand - ligher, great finesse

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Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil AOC

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Touraine
Red / Rosé ONLY
R - CF, CS
Same area as Bourgeil
Sand gravel - gravel wines- raspberry

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Bourgueil AOC

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Touraine
Red / Rosé ONLY
R - CF, CS
Same area as Bourgeil
“Gravel Wines” 60% Sandy gravel - raspberry
“Tuffeau Wines” - more structure and complex

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Vouvray AOC

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Touraine
ONLY WHITE
Chenin Blanc + ORBOIS
LARGEST PRODUCER IN MIDDLE LOIRE
Dry - semi/ / Sweet, Sparkling

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Montlouis-sur-Loire AOC

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Touraine
ONLY WHITE
Dry, Semi, Sweet, Sparkling
100% Chenin Blanc
35% Organic
35% TerraVitis
Most Mousseux and pétillant
Scattered in woods
3 rivers Beuvron, Cosson, Bievre
25% Organic / 32% Terra Vitis

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Cheverny AOC

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Touraine
W/R/Rs
W - SB
R - PINOT NOIR , Cot Gamay
Rs- Sauvignon Gris

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Cour-Cheverny AOC

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Touraine
Romorantin Grape
Dry to sweet
Entirely within Cheverney

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Orleans AOC

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Touraine
W/R/Rs
R/RS - Meunier
W - C, PG

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Orleans-Clery

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ONLY RED
ONLY CAB FRANK
Inside OrleansTouraine

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Touraine AOC Sparkling

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W/Rs sparkling
Wide area
9m lees
Traditional
Mousseux - Chenin Blanc

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Vouvray AOC Sparkling

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Touraine
Middle Loire largest producer of white
60% production is sparkling
Traditional method
12m
Chenin Blanc with Orbois

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Montlouis-sur-Loire AOC

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Touraine
ONLY CHENIN BLANC
Mousseux or pétillant
9m less

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Pétillant Originel

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Montlouis-sur-Loire specialty
Chenin Blanc must be hand harvested
1 Fermentation
NO DOSAGE
9m lees

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Fines Bulles

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Loire term for sparkling wines

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What are the primary reds and whites in Centre Loire?

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Reds almost all Pinot Noir
Whites Sav Blanc

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Sancerre AOC

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W - 100% SB
R/Rs - 100% PN
Hilliest / Highest Elevation in C-Loire
Soils
Argiles a Silex (clay with flint) - gunflint
Caillottes (Portlandian Marl) = perfume
Terres blanches (Kimmeridgean) - powerful / age worthy
High rainfall, steep slopes help run off

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Pouilly-Fumé AOC

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100% Sav Blanc
Called Blanc Fumé
Fumé = smokey
From flint clay soils (silex)

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Pouilly-sur-Loire AOC

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100% Chasselas
Same area as Pouilly Fumé

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Menetou-Salon AOC

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Famous for whites
100% Sav Blanc
Red/Rose - 100% Pinot Noir
Flatter area than Sancerre more wind and frost risk
10 villages can append name if 100% varietal

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Quincy AOC

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Banks of Cher
Only White - mainly Sav Blanc
SG. can minor blend
Sand and gravel

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Reuilly AOC

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Sits both sides of Arnon River
W/R/Rs
Dry mesoclimate so 1st to harvest in. Centre-Loire
W - 100% Sav Blanc
R - 100% Pinot Noir
Rs -PN &/or PG

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Anjou Villages

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RED ONLY
CF, CS
46 Villages authorized
Best terroirs for best reds

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What is the only AOC to make Chasselas

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Pouilly sur Loire AOC