Loire - Centre & Upper Loire

Question 1

Climate of Centre Loire?

Answer 1

Continental - large season swings
Hail and frost

Question 2

Where is frost a particular risk?

Answer 2

Quincy
Pouiily-Fumé

Question 3

What are the 4 main soil types of Centre/Upper Loire

Answer 3

Caillottes
Terrese Blanches
Silex
Sandy Gravel

Question 4

What is silex?

Answer 4

Flint with clay

Question 5

What are terres blanches

Answer 5

Kimmeridgean Marl - Oysters

Question 6

What are caillotes?

Answer 6

Portlandian Marl pebbles

Question 7

Primary white and red in Centre-Loire

Answer 7

Sauvignon Blanc
Pinot Noir

Question 8

What was the historical grape in Centre-Loire?

Answer 8

Chasselas

Question 9

Where is the 1st AOC to harvest in Centre-Loire?

Answer 9

Reuillly

Question 10

What AOC has 2 separate vineyard areas and the largest AOC to sit on both sides of the Arnon?

Answer 10

Reuilly

Question 11

Makes 100% white Chardonnay, 100% Pinot Noir reds and roses?

Answer 11

Sancerre
Menetou-Salon
Reuilly

Question 12

What borders both Arnon and Cher Rivers?

Answer 12

Reuilly

Question 13

What AOC lies on the Left (W) bank of the Cher (with a little on the right)

Answer 13

Quincy

Question 14

What are the AOCs that have Sauvignon Gris as a blending partner?

Answer 14

Quincy

Question 15

What was the most popular AOC region in the Middle Ages?

Answer 15

Quincy

Question 16

What soils are Quincy planted and where?

Answer 16

Plateau above the Cher in sand and gravel

Question 17

What is the main production of Quincy?

Answer 17

Dry White

Question 18

What has the highest elevation in the Loire?

Answer 18

Sancerre

Question 19

Where are the 50% steep gradients in Centre-Loire?

Answer 19

Sancerre

Question 20

What are the 3 soil types found in Sancerre?

Answer 20

Silex
Caillottes
Terres Blanches

Question 21

Where is 82% production white?

Answer 21

Sancerre

Question 22

Where is Pouilly-Fumé located?

Answer 22

Right Bank Loire

Question 23

What are the soils of Pouilly-Fumé?

Answer 23

Silex
Callottes
Terres Blanches
some sand

Question 24

What is SavBlanc called in Pouilly-Fumé?

Answer 24

Blanc-Fumé

Question 25

What is the term meaning smoked that refers to gunflint aromas on silex (flint-clay soils)

Answer 25

Fumé

Question 26

What does Pouilly-Fumé produce?

Answer 26

Only 100% SavBlanc dry whites

Question 27

What is the only AOC that uses Chasselas 100%

Answer 27

Pouilly-sur-Loire

Question 28

What area covers the same zone as Pouilly-Fumé?

Answer 28

Pouilly-sur-Loire

Question 29

What is the sister of Sancerre and where is it located?

Answer 29

Menetou-Salon West of Sancerre

Question 30

How many villages in Menetou-Salon?

Answer 30

10

Question 31

What is the terroir of Menetou-Salon?

Answer 31

Silex Caillottes Terres Blanches same as Sancerre

Question 32

Why is frost risk higher in Menetou-Salon?

Answer 32

Flatter land

Question 33

What AOC allows its 10 villages to append their name when making 100% of the grape comes from the village?

Answer 33

Menetou-Salon

Question 34

What can Menetou-Salon make?

Answer 34

White - 100% SavBlanc Red, rosé - 100% Pinot Noir

Question 35

What is Chaine des Puys?

Answer 35

Found in Upper Loire a chain of extinct volcanoes.

Question 36

What is a Puy?

Answer 36

Weather hills composed of magma

Question 37

What aroma of wines are produced in soils of silex?

Answer 37

Gunflint aromas

Question 38

What flavor of wines are produced in soils of caillottes?

Answer 38

Perfume that mature quickly

Question 39

What type of wines are produced in soils of terres blanches?

Answer 39

Power wines that age

Question 40

What AOCs dominate production?

Answer 40

Sancerre - 54% Pouilly-Fumé - 25%

Question 41

What 2 AOCs are on the Cher River?

Answer 41

Quincy Reuilly

Question 42

Which Centre-Loire has the most hilly area??

Answer 42

Sancerre

Question 43

What is the Upper Loire know as?

Answer 43

Auvergne

Question 44

What is the Eastern and most Southern sub-region in Loire Valley?

Answer 44

Upper Loire

Question 45

What is one of France's oldest wine growing areas?

Answer 45

St Purcain - Upper Loire

Question 46

Wine made from Pinot Noir in which appellations?

Answer 46

Sancerre AOC Menetou-Salon AOC Reuilly AOC

Question 47

Rosé made from Pinot Noir and/or Pinot Gris in which appellation?

Answer 47

Reuilly

Question 48

Which land form is Centre-Loire on?

Answer 48

Paris Basin