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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
Covers all of Anjou-Saumur AND Torraine DRY ONLY Rosé
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What AOC covers both Anjou-Saumur and Torraine
Rosé de Loire AOC Crémant de Loire AOC
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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
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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
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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
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Coulée de Serrant AOC
One Loire IS A MONOPOL - Nicolas Joly BioDy Hand Harvest - 2 passes Mostly Dry and Sweet
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Anjou Brissac AOC
ONLY RED CF, CS Forest shelters from Ocean Lower yields Once was Anjou Village Brissac
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Saumur AOC
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
Saumur AOC DGC RED ONLY CAB FRANK Borders Saumur Champigny
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Saumur Champigny AOC
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
Semi-Sweet to Sweet Chenin Blanc Both banks of Loire Plenty of Fog 34 g/l
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Coteaux de l'Aubance
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
Chenin Blanc Hand Picked Sweet Prestigious DO NOT NEED NOBLE ROT 80 g/l
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Chaume Grand Cru AOC
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
Sweet Chenin Blanc 51 g/l 2nd highest sugar content More Acidity
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What is the sweetest wine in Anjou
Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru AOC
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Saumur AOC Sparkling
Produces more mousseux than still white or rosé Tradition / 9m lees Chenin Blanc - W CF - Rose
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Anjou AOC Sparkling
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
Only Chenin blanc Semi-sweet to sweet 34 g/l Hand Harvest
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Haut-Poitou
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
Torraine AOC
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Touraine AOC
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
Touraine DGC
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Azay-le-Rideau
Touraine DGC
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Chenonceaux
Touraine DGC
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Mesland
Touraine DGC
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Oisly
Touraine DGC
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Touraine Noble Joué AOC
ONLY ROSE Vin Gris - Meunier, PN, PG Direct Press ALWAYS DRY
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What is a wine made with 3 Pinots?
Vin Gris
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Smallest rosé production of the 3 Rosé producers in Anjou?
Rosé de Loire
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Valençay AOC
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
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
Touraine Red / Rosé ONLY R - CF, CS Same area as Bourgeil Sand gravel - gravel wines- raspberry
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Bourgueil AOC
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
Touraine ONLY WHITE Chenin Blanc + ORBOIS LARGEST PRODUCER IN MIDDLE LOIRE Dry - semi/ / Sweet, Sparkling
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Montlouis-sur-Loire AOC
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
Touraine W/R/Rs W - SB R - PINOT NOIR , Cot Gamay Rs- Sauvignon Gris
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Cour-Cheverny AOC
Touraine Romorantin Grape Dry to sweet Entirely within Cheverney
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Orleans AOC
Touraine W/R/Rs R/RS - Meunier W - C, PG
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Orleans-Clery
ONLY RED ONLY CAB FRANK Inside OrleansTouraine
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Touraine AOC Sparkling
W/Rs sparkling Wide area 9m lees Traditional Mousseux - Chenin Blanc
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Vouvray AOC Sparkling
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
Touraine ONLY CHENIN BLANC Mousseux or pétillant 9m less
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Pétillant Originel
Montlouis-sur-Loire specialty Chenin Blanc must be hand harvested 1 Fermentation NO DOSAGE 9m lees
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Fines Bulles
Loire term for sparkling wines
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What are the primary reds and whites in Centre Loire?
Reds almost all Pinot Noir Whites Sav Blanc
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Sancerre AOC
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
100% Sav Blanc Called Blanc Fumé Fumé = smokey From flint clay soils (silex)
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Pouilly-sur-Loire AOC
100% Chasselas Same area as Pouilly Fumé
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Menetou-Salon AOC
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
Banks of Cher Only White - mainly Sav Blanc SG. can minor blend Sand and gravel
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Reuilly AOC
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
RED ONLY CF, CS 46 Villages authorized Best terroirs for best reds
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What is the only AOC to make Chasselas
Pouilly sur Loire AOC

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