People Flashcards
Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet
Created Bordeaux Mixture - copper-sulfate
worked with Planchon on grafting
Jura born
Émile Peynaud
Professor at UofB
Encouraged producers to make 2nd wines eg use fruit from young vines for 2nd label
d’Artagnan
Charles de Batz Castelmore
b. 1615
3 Muskateers was based on this
Domaine Berthomieu
Patrick Ducournau
Created micro-oxygenetion
Napoléon III
Was in power when 1855 classification was created in Bordeaux
Was Emperor when Savoie became part of France
Arnaud de Villeneuve
Created MUTAGE eg adding spirits to sweet wine to make more stable 400 years ago
Crown of Aragon
Patronilla of Aragon and
Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona
married 1137
King Louis XIV
Sun King when Canal du Midi was built 1643-1715
Pierre-Paul Riquet
Engineer for Canal du Midi
Philippe the Bold
Outlawed Gamay in Bourgogne
Domaine Eugène Meyer
1st French biodynamic wine
Bergholts, Alsace
Pope John XXII
Built summer home in Avignon 14th C
“Châteanuef-du-Pape”
Who controlled Roussillon in the Middle Ages
James 1 the Conqueror - King of Aragon
Issued edict to enforce the branding of Coste du Rhone with CDR for quality and fraud prevention?
King Louis XV
1737
Wine producer of Parellèle 45
Paul Jaboulet Ainé
Vicariate Uzés
1600s - a church admin entity famed for producing Coste du Rhône
Jules Émile Planchon
Created Grafting with Millardet
Jura born
Charles Rouget
Ampelographic Compendium - Jura Grapes 1897
Noted that same grapes had different names wrote on their history
Alexi Arpin
Campaigned against Fraud
Helped Arbois become one of 1st for AOC 1936
Arbois, Jura
Louis Pasteur
Paseurization
Fermentation - discover yeast made it
Dole, Jura
Victor Pulliat
Savoie
Used Chasselas as a baseline in 1800s to categorize grapes
Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry Plantangenet
King Henry 2
1st Golden Age of Bordeaux
CIVB
2010 Bordeaux org to move all producers to sustainability
Bituriges Vivisci
1st Bordeaux tribe
Benjamin Lewis
1841
Author ‘What Price Bordeaux?’
Classified principal grapes as Cabernet, Carmenere, Gros/Petit Verdot
Edouard Féret
1873
‘Bordeaux and Wines’
Malbec, Cab, Verdot, Syrah
Alsace biodynamic founder
Eugene Meyer
Clement V
From Bordeaux
Moved Pope to Avignon 1309
Who allowed the 1st bottles of wine to be sold in 1728
Louis XV
Guy Lussac
Measured ABV
Cabet Devaux
Measured sugar
Jules Chauvet
Carbonic Maceration
INAO tasting glass
Best taster
Natural wine movement
Rudolf Steiner
Biodynamic wine - Austrian - 1924
Demeter
German Biodynamic wine organization 1920s
Biodyvin
Biodynamic wine French 1975
Baron Pierre Le Roy de Boisaumarie
1900
President of the syndicate of Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Specific production zone and production standards
Maria Thun
Biodynamic wine - German
Joseph Capus
Helped create AOCs 1930s
Jean Antoine Chaptal
Create Chaptalization
Centre Ampelographie Alpine Pierre Galet
Works to preserve Savoie’s vine heritage
Pierre Galet
Founded CAAPG, ampelographer and ID grapevines in Savoie and other parts of France lobbied to get grapes registered
The original tribe of Savoie
Allobroges
Romans called their vines Vitis Allobrogica
Lac Léman
Lake Geneva
Who owned Savoie in the 16th C
Dutchy of Savoy
Ruled 1467 - 1477 - Dies while trying to conquer Alsace & Lorraine
Charles the Rash
Upon his death, Bourgogne and the Jura were subsumed by France.
Hospices de Beaune established under his rule which was the high point for in Burgundy’s prestige
Phillipe the Good
1419 - 1467
Burgundy Duke who tried to take control of France 1404-1419??
John the Fearless
Outlawed Gamay in Bourgogne in 1395
Phillipe the Bold - Duke of Bourgogne
Established by Philippe the Good in 1443 and does auctions for wine in 1859?
Hospices de Beaune
Allowed Gevrey and Chambertin to combine names in 1847 to help market value of Bourgogne wines?
King Louis-Philippe
One of the 1st COOPS to pay for grapes based on quality not quantity.
Caves des Vignerons de Bruxy
Montagny
Baume Abby
Jura
9th abbey in a blind valley near Château-Chalon
What is the Franche-Comte
County of Burgundy and Jura was once part
1st King of Provence
Louis XI
1481
Louis the Prudent
Who was King of France when Provence became part of France?
King Charles VII
1486
Charles the Affable
Provençal Poet who championed Occitan language with Mireille as his most famous work
Frederic Mistral
1830 - 1914
Created the Occitan dictionary
Lou Tressor dou Felibrdge
Only research center to focus on rose wines?
Centre du Rosé
Philipponnat’s Clos des Goisses
Single monopole in Champagne 1935
What is the name of the 100% Chardonnay from 1 village and is a mono-cru?
“S” Le Mensil Blanc de Blancs
Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin
Veuve (Widow) Clicqout invented riddling “remuage”
Alain Bouquet
A grape genome researcher @ INRA, the development of Bouquet and ResDur hybrids. Eliminates 96% of agrochemical sprays.
Pope Gregory VII
Pushed Pisa to take Cosica
Where was Napoléan born?
Ajaccio,, Corsica 1769
Who copyrighted the bottles for Provence?
Syndicate des Vins Côtes de Provence
Clovis
King of Franks
481 CE
Took over Gaul
Baptized in Reims
Charles Martel 8th century
Pushed the Moors back across the Pyrenees
Charles Martel 8th century
Pushed the Moors back across the Pyrenees
Charlemagne late 8th C
Last King of Franks before Frankish territory was getting fragmented.
Religious
Supported by the monastic network and Vatican in Rome
Frankish territory divided into
West of Rhône and Saône (Charles the Bold)
And two others.
Joan of Arc
Traveled to Chiron
Persuaded Charles VII to accept the French Crown and defy the English
King Henry IV
The Dutch to drain all marshes of France incl. Médoc in the 1600s.