Loire Producers Flashcards
Who makes Cuvee Constance?
What is the wine?
Domaine Huet: a botrytised, hand-picked dessert wine from 3 estate vineyards.
Who produces wine from Clos Naudin? What appellation?
Phillippe Foreau in Vourvray
What domain in Vouvray also possess the Kiralyudvar estate in Hungary?
Domaine Huet
Who produces Cuvée Granit?
Guy Bossard
Who produces Asteroide?
Didier Dagueneau
Who produces Clos la Néore “Noir-a”
Edmond Vatan
Who produces Clos du Bourg?
Domaine Huet
Huet three most notable vineyards?
—Le Haut Lieu (above the cellars)
—Le Mont (most concentrated)
—Clos du Bourg (favorite of the famous winemaker Noël Pinguet and the first of his conversions to biodynamic viticulture in the late 1980s.)
Who pioneered seriously low yields and experimentation with oak for Sauvignon Blanc in Loire?
Name three producers who followed his experiments?
Didier Dagueneau in Pouilly-Fumé
—Vince Pinard, Henri Bourgeois, and Alphonse Mellot
Who in Saumur produces Les Poyeux?
Clos Rougeard
What are the three Huet single vineyards and their inaugural vintages?
Haut Lieu (1928), Le Mont (1957), Clos du Borg (Inaug 53, purchased 63)
In what appellation is Moulin Touchais?
What is the style of wine?
Coteaux du Layon, sweet white
Chateau de Fesles is a prominent producer in which AOP?
Bonnezeaux
Name two producers of Quarts de Chaume?
Domaines Des Baumard and Chateau Pierre-Bise
Producer with Monopole AOP of Loire?
What is the AOP?
Coullee de Serrant, Nicholas Joly
