Loire AOC Flashcards
Muscadet AOC
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
Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire AOC
Smallest / Furthest from Coast
100% Muscat (Dry)
On slopes N/S of Loire
Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire Champtoceaux DGC
2021 became DGC
Muscadet Côtes de Grandlieu AOC
100% Muscat (Dry)
Surround the Lac du Grand-Lieu
Ocean breezes chase away storm cloudes
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine AOC
100% Melon de Bourgogne (Dry)
75% of all Muscadet production
9 DGC - none can put Sur Lie on bottle
90% sur lie
Goulaine
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle
Mouzillon-Tillières
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle
Gorges
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle
Clisson
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle
Monnières-Saint-Fiacre
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle
Château-Thébaud
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle
Le Pallet
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle
Le Haye-Fouassière
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle
Vallet
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine DGC
Have longer Sur Lie aging requirements
Cannot put Sur Lie on bottle
Rules for Sur Lie
Bottle between March 1 - Dec 31 a year after harvest
Gros Plant du Pays Nantais AOC
Folle Blanche - know as Gros. Plant in Loire
On Loire River
Dry
And can add sur lie
What AOC overlaps Coteaux d’Ancenis AOC
Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire
Coteaux d’Ancenis AOC
Pays Nantais
Gamay & PG
Fief Vendéens AOC
Pays Nantais
Chenin Blanc
Reds are PN based (80% red grapes)
Most important location for sweet wines?
Layon River
Anjou AOC
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
Anjou Gamay
Anjou AOC
100% Gamay
Primeur and 3rd Thursday (like Beuajolais Nouveau)
Rosé d’Anjou AOC
Covers same as Anjou AOC
ONLY ROSE IN OFF DRY
7 g/l min
Cabernet d’Anjou AOC
Covers same area as Anjou AOC
Largest Production of Rosé
10 g/l sweetness
CF and CS
Rosé de Loire AOC
Covers all of Anjou-Saumur AND Torraine
DRY ONLY Rosé
What AOC covers both Anjou-Saumur and Torraine
Rosé de Loire AOC
Crémant de Loire AOC
Crémant de Loire AOC
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
Savennières AOC
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
Savennières Roche aux Moines AOC
Lieu dit with in Savennières
Lower yields
Hand Harvest - 2 passes minimum
Can make semi / sweeet with botrytis 3 g/l
Monk’s Rock
Coulée de Serrant AOC
One Loire
IS A MONOPOL - Nicolas Joly
BioDy
Hand Harvest - 2 passes
Mostly Dry and Sweet
Anjou Brissac AOC
ONLY RED
CF, CS
Forest shelters from Ocean
Lower yields
Once was Anjou Village Brissac