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Pays Nantais Major AOPs

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  • Muscadet AOP
  • Muscadet Sevre et Maine AOP [80% of production]
  • Muscadet Coteaux De Loire AOP
  • Muscadet Cotes de Grandlieu AOP
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Anjour-Samur Major AOPs

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  • Anjou Villages AOP-Saumur AOP
  • Savennieres AOP
  • Coteaux du Layon
  • Coteaux de l’Aubance AOP
  • Bonnezeaux AOP [sub cdl]
  • Quarts-deChaume AOP [sub cdl]
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Touraine Major AOPs

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  • Chinon AOP
  • Bourgueil AOP
  • St-Nicolas-De-Bourgueil AOP
  • Vouvray AOP
  • Montlois Sur Loire AOP
  • Touraine AOP
  • Cheverny
  • Jasnieres AOP
  • Coteaux du Loir AOP
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Central Vineyards Major AOPs

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  • Sancerre AOP
  • Pouilly-Fume AOP
  • Pouilly-Sur Loire AOP
  • Mentou-Salon AOP
  • Quincy AOP
  • Orleans AOP
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Rose de Loire Grapes/Style

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-30% Cabernet Sauvignon or Cabernet Franc-dry

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Cabernet d’Anjou Grapes/Style

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-Cabernet Sauvignon/Franc blend-medium-sweet

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Rose d’Anjou Grapes/Style

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-mainly Grolleau grape-less sweet style

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Sancerre Rose’ Grapes/Style

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-Pinot Noir-dry, delicate fruit

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Pays Nantais Soils

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-Gravel(“gneiss”) and Sand over Schist and Granite

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Muscadet “Sur Lie” Laws/Requirements

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  • spends winter on Lees,
  • must originate from one of 3 qualifying regions
  • bottled unfiltered off lees between March 1/Nov 30 year following harvest
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Anjou-Saumur Grapes/Vinification

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  • Chenin Blanc, Cab Franc, Grolleau
  • 45% production is Rose’
  • dry, off dry, sweet versions of Chenin
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Anjou-Villages Grapes/Vinification

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  • Cabernet Franc

- Dry Red Wines

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Saumur Grapes/Vinification

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  • Chenin Blanc
  • Cabernet Franc
  • known for sparklers from Chenin Blanc
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Savennieres Soils

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Blue Schist & Volcanic Debris

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Savennieres Location/Topography

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  • North bank of Loire River

- Steep, south facing hills

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Savennieres Grapes/Vinification

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100% Chenin Blanc

Dry White Wines

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Savennieres Sub-Appellation[Grand Crus]

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  • Roche aux Moines AOP

- Coulee De Serrant AOP[a Nicolas Joly monopole]

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Coteaux du Layon Grapes/Style

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  • 100% Chenin Blanc

- Late harvest botrytis affected grapes, Sweet Wines

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Bonnezeaux/Quarts-de-Chaume Location/info

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  • Subzones of Coteaux du Layon

- South of Loire River on bank of Layon River [humid conditions]

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Touraine Soils

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-Tuffeau (soft limestone)

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Chinon Soils

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tuffeau, clay, and varennes

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Chinon Grapes/Vinification

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  • Cab Franc = Reds+Rose,

- White[Chenin Blanc]

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Bourgueil/St-Nicolas-De-Bourgueil Grapes/Style

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Cabernet Franc [up to 10% Cab Sav]

reds/rose’

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Vouvray Soils

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Tuffeau

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Vouvray Grapes/Style

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  • 100% Chenin Blanc
  • Sparkling, sec(dry), sec-tendre (off-dry), demi-sec (semi-sweet), moelleux, and liquereux
  • Sparkling are method traditionalle & petillant (semi sparkling) or mousseaux (sparkling)
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Montlois Sur Loire AOP Grapes/Style

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-similiar to Vouvray [Chenin Blanc, range of sweetness]

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Touraine Grapes/Style

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  • Whites: Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Gris [max 20%]
  • Reds: Gamay, Groslot, Pinea d’Aunis, Cabernet Franc
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Conteaux du Loir Grapes/Style

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reds: Pineau d’Aunis [a.k.a Chenin Noir]
whites: from Chenin

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Jasnieres Grapes/Style

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100% Chenin, similar to Vouvray

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Sancerre Soils

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  • silex
  • terres blanches
  • caillottes[same as Kimmeridgian Clay]
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Pouilly-Sur Loire Grapes/Styles

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-whites from Chasselas

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Pouilly-Fume Soils

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-Silex [w/ higher % flint] hence “flintiness”

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Quincy Grapes/Info

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  • White Wine Only. Sauvignon Blanc [10% Sauvignon Gris]

- 2nd AOP in France!

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Touraine Producers White

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  • Domaine Huet Vouvray [all styles]

- Jackie Blot in Montlouis

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Central Vineyards Producers

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  • Domaine Hippolyte Reverdy Sancerre
  • Domaine Didier Dagueneau Silex [Pouilly-Fumé]
  • Domaine Auchere
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Anjou-Saumur Producers

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  • Château des Fesles [Bonnezeaux]

- Domaine des Baumard [Quarts du Chaume, Savinerres]]

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Touraine Producers Red [Chinon]

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  • Chateau De La Grille Chinon

- Domaine De La Perriére Chinon

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