Loire Producers Flashcards
Three Producers who frequently produce Hermine d’Or worthy wines
Jo Landron, Domaine de la Louvetrie (Cuvée Hermine d’Or)
Luneau-Papin (Pierres Blances)
Guy Bossard, Domaine de l’Ecu (Gneiss, Orthogneiss, Granite)
Cru Communaux Bottlings
Clisson: Pepière
Gorges: André-Michel Brégeon
Le Pallet: Vignerons du Pallet
Nicholas Joly: Wines
Les Vieux Clos (Les Clos Sacrés in USA, formerly Becherelle), sourced from four separate plots, essentially AOC Savennieres.
Clos de la Bergerie, sourced from Roches-aux-Moines.
Clos de la Coulée de Serrant
What is Château Pierre-Bise named for?
The local name for the volcanic spilite (fine grained, of basaltic origin) in the vineyards (particularly Rouannières)
Pierre-Bise: Dry Whites
Anjou Haut de la Garde (single vineyard across the river from CdS and RaM; contains Les Rayelles, source for the Coteaux du Layon)
Savennières Clos le Grand Beaupréau (within Moulin de Beaupréau)
Roche aux Moines (since 2005)
Pierre-Bise: Sweet Whites
Les Rayelles (Rochefort, high elevation plot within Haut de la Garde)
Les Rouannières (in Beaulieu, mostly pierre-bise soil)
Clos de la Soucherie (Beaulieu, carboniferous rock and pierre-carré [aka phthanite: compacted silica])
L’Anclaie (Beaulieu, schist and phthanite)
Chaume
Quarts de Chaume
What is Clos de Coulaine?
A Savennières vineyard rented by Claude Papin and Joëlle Chevalier Papin of Pierre-Bise; rented vines are bottled under the Papin-Chevalier label.
Pierre-Bise: Reds
Anjou Gamay
Rouge Schiste
Rouge Spilite
Baumard: Savennières
Clos du Papillon (schist, plus other igneous and metamorphic rocks)
Clos Ste Yves (sometimes marketed as straight Domaine es Baumard). Also schist.
Trie Spéciale (only made in favorable vintages from Clos Ste Yves fruit)
What is Baumard Vert de l’Or?
The wines made from 1ha of Verdelho in the Clos Ste Yves vineyard (Savennières).
Ist vintages: 1986 for sec, 1999 for moelleux.
Pulled up in 2007.
Baumard: Sweet Wines
Quarts de Chaume: made via cryoselection (freezing the crop until the less-ripe berries are frozen, then pressing).
Carte d’Or (entry level, from purchased fruit from St. Lambert)
Clos Ste Catherine (cuvée of fruit from Clos Ste Catherine [Rochefort] and Bourg Chevreau. All domaine fruit.
Cuvée Le Paon (old vine selection, in good vintages)
What is vignes hautes et larges?
A planting system unique to Baumard: 3M between rows, 80cm between vines in a row, trained up to 2M high. Illegal as of 2014 for Quarts de Chaume.
Roche Neuves: Viticulture and Winemaking
Biodynamic. No effeuillage.
Generally whole cluster and indigenous yeasts, small sulphur at bottling.
Roche Neuves: Wines
RED
Terres Chaudes: 35-45yo vines, from Dares and Les Poyeux, all Tuffeau limestone, all cement and large old oak.
La Marginale: mostly Les Poyeux, Turonian limestone, south facing slope.
Franc de Pied: en gobelet, sandy soil. V. rare, and expensive.
Les Mémoires: 120yo vines, some grafted, some ownrooted. Destemmed.
WHITE
L’Insolite: 90yo vines on clay-limestone, sandstone, flint, 1 and 2yo oak
Clos Romans: single vineyard, high density plantings, on limestone
Clos de l’Echelier: red and white. Clay soils. Younger vines.
Clos Rougeard: WInes
Brézé: Saumur Blanc
Les Poyeux: 45yo vines, sandy soils, one year old barrels for 18-24mos.
Le Bourg: 1ha plot of 70yo vines, aged in new oak.
Huet: Vineyards
Le Haut Lieu: top of the hill (100M) behind the Huet house; Turonian limestone bedrock, covered by brown clay & chalk (aubuis).
Clos de Bourg: to the west, directly north of the town of Vouvray, shallower topsoil (1M), similarly high elevation
Le Mont: directly east of the Huet cellars, lower in elevation, deep topsoil of green clay with lumps of flint (perrons - clay and flint together is perruches).