Mâconnais and Beaujolais Flashcards
What is the only region making more white wine than Mâconnais
Chablis
Where is the village of Chardonnay?
Mâconnais
Where can you find varietally labeled Gamay outside of Beaujolais?
Mâcon AOP
How much of Mâcon AOP production carries Mâcon-Villages? Or more specific commune?
85%
Can red wine be labeled Mâcon AOP?
NO only white
Does wine from Mâconnais usually see oak?
no
5 village AOPs of Mâconnais? What grape is used?
- Viré-Clessé
- St-Véran
- Pouilly-Fuissé
- Pouilly-Loché
- Pouilly-Vinzelles
Chard only
What two large limestone escarpments define the landscape of Mâconnais
- Rock of Solutré
- Vergisson
What percentage of cultivated area in Beaujolais is Gamay? What other grapes are there?
95% gamay
-there is some chard and pinot noir
What colors made in Beaujolais AOP?
white, rose, red
Soil and mountains in Northern Beaujolais?
- monts de Beaujolais
- granite hillsides
10 Crus of Beaujolais N-S
- Saint Amour
- Juliénas
- Chénas
- Moulin-à-Vent
- Fleurie
- Chiroubles
- Morgon
- Regnié
- Brouilly
- Côte de Brouilly
Saint Julien Charged Money For Checking Morgan’s Really Bad Cold
Describe style - Saint Amour
most northerly of the Beaujolais crus
- adjacent to Saint-Véran AOP
- only cru located entirely within Saône-et-Loire dépt.
- lighter and less concentrated expression of cru Beaujolais.
Describe style - Juliénas
-maybe the most ancient region - roots in the Roman era
(Julius Caesar)
-south-facing, higher granitic hillsides of Mont Bessay in the west
-lower-elevation vineyards further east, with alluvial sand and clay
- range of elevation (230-430 meters)
- varied soils
- can be unpredictable
- generally greater depth and fuller body than Saint-Amour.
- 1/3 production from cooperative
- -La Cave des Producteurs de Juliénas
- more exciting from domaines
- -Pascal Granger
- -Domaine du Clos du Fie
Describe style - Chénas
- smallest of the ten crus
- style similar to Moulin-à-Vent
- fuller in body, more tannic, and better with a few years of bottle age
**producers in Chénas can bottle as either Chénas AOP or Moulin-à-Vent AOP.
Describe style - Moulin-à-Vent
-dark, surprisingly tannic
named for a historic windmill
-longest-lived, most full-bodied, and most tannic Beaujolais cru
-may see a noticeable amount of new oak, warranted by the greater power and concentration of the cru.
-soft, pink granitic soil (gore) on gently contoured, east-facing slopes
-heightened presence of manganese stunts growth and naturally limits yields.
Producers
- négociant Georges Duboeuf
- Louis Jadot’s Château des Jacques
- Potel-Aviron
Describe style - Fleurie
- soil - pink granite
- steeper slopes of the Mont la Madone- to nearly 450 meters in elevation.
- lieux-dits of Poncié and la Roilette, more like Moulin a vent (opposite typical Fleurie)
- light, elegant, floral and fragrant.
Producers include
- Coudert’s Clos de la Roilette
- Domaine de la Chapelle des Bois
- Domaine Chignard
*1/3 wine from - La Cave des Producteurs des Grands Vins de Fleurie (oldest coop in Beaujolais)
Describe style - Chiroubles
- lightest cru, soft, ephemeral
- light sandy soil
- highest-elevation cru (250-450 m)
- coolest cru
- too tart in cold vintage
-best drunk in its extreme youth
Describe style - Morgon
- second-largest cru in Beaujolais.
- sprawls over the Côte du Py and surrounding hillsides.
- roche pourrie—“rotten rock,” mixture of iron-rich schist and basalt streaked with manganese—is predominant
- also granitic, alluvial, and clay soils
- full-bodied expression of Gamay
- some of the highest potential alcohol levels
Best producers
-Marcel Lapierre, Jean Foillard, Jean-Paul Thevénet, and Guy Bréton—Kermit Lynch’s “gang of four,”
Describe style - Regnié
-appellation status -1988
-small cru
-pink granite hillsides
average elevation of 350 meters
-southeasterly aspects - early-ripening appellation.
-aromatic and lively
-middle ground in terms of structure, more fruity though
Describe style - Brouilly, Côte de Brouilly
- Brouilly is the largest Beaujolais cru
- accounts for over 20% of Beaujolais cru production
- lower flanks of the Mont Brouilly
- Côte de Brouilly
- higher and steeper hillsides of Mont Brouilly
- much smaller cru than its neighbor, Brouilly
- less granite near the surface
- more schist and grey-blue diorite rock
- more definition than wines from lower elevations
Top producer of CdB - Château Thivin
Best pairing for traditional Lyonnaise fare like andouillette sausages and salade Lyonnaise?
Slightly chilled glass of Gamay
Min alcohol for cru Beauj
10.5%
10% for standard Beaujolais, 10.5 for superiore
Best pairing for traditional Lyonnaise fare like andouillette sausages and salade Lyonnaise?
Slightly chilled glass of Gamay
Best pairing for traditional Lyonnaise fare like andouillette sausages and salade Lyonnaise?
Slightly chilled glass of Gamay
Three Beaujolais crus that are the fruitiest:
- Chiroubles
- Régnié
- Brouilly
Three Beaujolais crus that are still fruity, but with a little more structure, maybe elegance:
- Saint-Amour
- Chénas
- Fleurie
Four Beaujolais crus that are a little more structured:
- Juilénas
- Moulin-à-Vent
- Morgon
- Côte de Brouilly
- Largest Cru of Beaujolais
- Smallest Cru of Beaujolais
- Highest/Coldest Cru of Beaujolais
- Northernmost Cru of Beaujolais
- Most structured Cru of Beaujolais
- Largest - Côte de Brouilly
- Smallest - Chénas
- Highest/Coldest - Chiroubles
- Northernmost - Saint-Amour
- Most structured - Moulin-à-Vent
Gang of Four
Jean Foillard
Marcel Lapierre
Jean-Paul Thévenet
Guy Breton
Gang of Four:
Who was inspiration?
Jean Foillard
Marcel Lapierre
Jean-Paul Thévenet
Guy Breton
-inspired by Jules Chauvet
