Loire Valley

Question 1

Major lieu-dites of Sancerre

Answer 1

Les Monts Damnés

Les culs de Beaujeu

La Grande Côte

Le Grand Chemarin

Le Chêne Marchand

Question 2

Eastern loire appellations (E to W)

Answer 2

Pouilly-Fumé

Sancerre

Menetou-Salon

Reuilly

Quincy

Question 3

Appellations of Anjou/Saumur

Answer 3

Clustered around city of Angers

Savennières
Quarts de Chaume
Bonnezeaux
Coteaux du Layons
Coteaux de l’Aubance

Question 4

Appellations of Touraine

Answer 4

Clustered around Tours

Chinon
Bourgueil
St.-Nicolas-de-Bourgeuil

Vouvray
Montlouis

Question 5

Savennieres AOC

Answer 5

Chemin Blanc
- densely flavor (quince, chamomile, honey, cream)
- volcanic schiest
- South facing slopes

Big producers: Domaine des Baumard, château d’épiré, chateau de chamboureau, Coulée de Serrant

Question 6

Sweet wins of Anjou-Saumur

Answer 6

Quarts de Chaume (smallest most prestigious)
Bonnezeaux
Coteaux du Layon
Coteaux de l’Aubance

All chenin blanc with botrytis cinerea

Question 7

Rosé of Anjou

Answer 7

Usually low in alcohol (12%)

10-15g sugar/litre

Primarily produced w/Grolleau

5 others allowed: Gamay, Cab Franc/Sauv, Côt (Malbec), Pineau d’Aunis

Rosé Cabernet d’Anjou is usually more sweet

Question 8

Reds of Touraine

Answer 8

Almost always 100% cab franc

Climate best of temperate Atlantic and extremes of continental east

Chinon, Bourgeuil, St Nicolas de Bourgeuil

Raspberry, Cassis, Violet, Green Peppercorn

Question 9

Vouvray’s sweetness scale

Answer 9

1) sec: less than 4 grams of sugar
2) sec tendre: ~8 grams (0.8%)
3) Demi sec/classic: 4-12 grams 0.4-1.2%
4) moelleux: 12-45 grams (1.2-4.5%)
5) doux: 45g +

Question 10

Vouvray and Montlouis

Answer 10

100 % chemin blanc

Extremely cold, often harvest in November to allow ripening

In colder years, more sparkling produced

Tuffeau soil: soft, porous white limestone

Question 11

Muscadet AOC

Answer 11

Made from melon de Bourgogne (melon B)

Soil type: granite, gneiss (porous granite), and schiest

NE of Nantes

Often «sur lie» which is a richer style

Question 12

Iconic Savennieres producers

Answer 12

Roches Aux Moines

Coulée de Serrant

Both have their own AOC

Question 13

Tuffeau Soil

Answer 13

Soft, porous white limestone

Mostly in vouvray and Saumur

Question 14

Saumur AOC

Answer 14

Tuffeau soil close to the river, sandier soils further from it

Sparkling (crémant de loire + Saumur brut) - crémant sees more aging

Can Franc and Chenin Blanc

Question 15

Saumur-Campigny AOC

Answer 15

Freshest, most fragrant expression of Cab Franc

As you move further south the soil turns from tuffeau to yellow sand

Iconic producer: Clos Rougcard

Question 16

Soil/style variance of Chinon/Boureuil/St Nicolas

Answer 16

St Nicolas is the lightest

Chinon is the most intense

St Nico is primarily sand but all have examples of gravel/limestone

Question 17

Vouvray Iconic Producer

Answer 17

Domaine Huet
1) Le Mont
2) Clos du Bourg
3) le Haut-Lieu

Question 18

Terroir of Sancerre

Answer 18

40% Limestone (Caillotes)

40% clay-limestone (terres blanches)

20% flint (Silex)