Mâconnais Flashcards
How many Grands Crus and/or Premiers Crus are there in Mâconnais?
No one.
However, the future possibility is nearer and nearer.
How many Villages are there in Mâconnais?
27, that qualify as Mâcon-Village.
Which are the most important grape varieties used here?
W: Chardonnay (~90% of the sub-regional production);
R: simple Gamay based wines, and a little PN.
Which are two important producers that had rise up the name of Mâconnais on the market?
Domaine Leflaive and Domaine des Héritiers du Comte Lafon, which historically went down to the Côte de Beaune. They made very distinctive single-vineyard white Chardonnays, strong and with style.
How are labelled the majority of Mâconnais wines?
Quite illegally, as Bourgogne Blanc.
Which are the communes part of the St-Véran appellation? When it was created this appellation? Where is situated that appellation? How is the soil composition here? How is the style of wine made? Made a comparison with those ones produce in Prissé and Davayé, just in the northern part of Pouilly-Fuissé.
How was sold the wine in the past?
North to south are Prissé, Davayé, Solutré-Pouilly, Chasselas, Leynes, St-Vérand, Chânes, St-Amour-Bellevue.
1971.
St-Véran appellation is situated south of the Mâconnais and north to Beaujolais.
Red, acidic, sandy soil, which gave relatively simpler and leaner wines, if compared with the luscious ones from the limestone areas of Prissé and Davayé.
As Beaujolais Blanc.
Named 2 villages that lies just right to Pouilly-Fuissé, which represent an alternative to them, even if they are available in a just short supply at the moment.
Pouilly-Vinzelles and Pouilly-Loché.
In the north of Mâconnais, which villages can offer keenly priced white Chardonnays?
Lugny, Uchizy, Chardonnay.
Which are 2 of the best Mâconnais Village, that give the name to the appellation that is centered on a strip of limestone that threads its way north to the region vaguely parallel to the main north-south A6 autoroute?
Viré-Clessé.
How is the topography in the district of Pouilly-Fuissé, southern part of Mâconnais?
Is a sudden tempest of wave-shaped limestone hills, rich in alkaline clay that Chardonnay vines love.
Which are the 4 communes of the Pouilly-Fuissé district? Which aspect they have?
• Vergisson: north aspect, that in long late vintages can give some of the most full-bodied wines;
• Solutré-Pouilly: shelters under the pale-pink Roche de Solutré, rising 493m (1,617 ft), has a northern exposure similar to Vergisson;
• Pouilly-Fuissé: twins communes, low-lying;
• Chaintré: with its south-facing exposure, the open hills of Chaintré may ripen a full two weeks before those on the north-facing slopes of Vergisson.
Which is the general style of Mâcon Chardonnay?
Due to the warmer climate and the heavier soils, based on limestone overlaid with clay or alluvial topsoil, potent, with character, rich, and the best examples are capable of sumptuous succulence with time. Some producers are now interesting in techniques that include choices regarding which oak to use, for how much time, which size, and as well lees-stirring. They represent a good value for money source of white Burgundian wines.
Mentioned some important producers that are situated on the west-slopes of aptly named La Roche Vineuse (situated just north to Pouilly-Fuissé district).
Olivier Merlin, Château de Beauregard, J-A Ferret, Robert Denogent.
Their intention is to achieve to Premier Cru status, by offer single vineyard wines.
