Regions Flashcards
The climate of Pays Nantais is:
Cool, wet maritime.
Four appellations for the grape Melon de Bourgogne:
Muscadet AOP, Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire AOP, Muscadet Côtes de Grandlieu AOP, and Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine AOP
Most Melon B wines are bottled under which appellation:
Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine AOP, which accounts for over 80% of Muscadet production.
Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine AOP soils are:
Gneiss, silica, clay, and granite.
Between the Pays Nantais and Touraine lies the Loire’s largest, most diverse region. Which is:
Anjou, although Anjou and Saumur are often considered collectively, Saumur is an eastern subregion of Anjou.
Anjou AOP makes:
Everything
Savennières AOP is in the ______ region, the soils are _____ and has two sub-appellations regarded as unofficial grand cru, ______.
Anjou, blue schist mixed with volcanic debris, Roche Aux Moines and Coulée de Serrant (monopole of Nicolas Joly)
What are the two sweet wine districts of Anjou?
Coteaux du Layon AOP and Coteaux de l’Aubance AOP
Within Coteaux du Layon, _____ and ____ are noteworthy for the high quality of their sweet wines.
Bonnezeaux AOP and Quarts de Chaume AOP
The wines of Chaume wines need to have a minimum of _____ residual sugar.
80 grams
While the Cab Franc based wines of Anjou AOP are good values, ____ a red wine only appellations provides better examples.
Anjou-Villages AOP
Saumur and Touraine have a similar soil of:
Soft tuffeau limestone soil
Eight surrounding villages of Champigny may produce the red wine _______
Saumur-Champigny, a light, bright; and elegant Cab Franc.
Within Touraine there are 3 AOPs that set the standard for classic Loire Cab Franc:
Chinon AOP, Bourgueil AOP, and Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil AOP.
Within Touraine the most important white wine district is _____, the other AOP similar style is ______.
Vouvray AOP, Montlouis-sur-Loire AOP
Vouvray may be produced in a range of sweetness levels:
Sec, sec-tendre (off-dry), Demi-sec, moelleux, and liqoreux.
Several outlying appellations exist in Touraine, the Coteaux du Loir AOP makes wines of all 3 colors. But chenin blanc bottled alone is _____
Jasnières AOP
Northeast of Coteaux du Loir is _____ and they specialize in ______
Coteaux du Vendômois AOP, dry rosé of 100% Pineau d’Aunis
To the south in Touraine is the appellation _____ and they make ____due to the proximity to Reuilly and Quincy to the east.
Valençay AOP, Sauvignon blanc and goat cheese! As well as Gamay, Pinot Noir and Côt
The two most famous Sauv Blanc appellations are in the Central Vineyards. They are _____
Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé
Sancerre’s soils are:
Silex, terres blanches, and caillottes
What is terres blanches?
A continuation of the same Kimmeridgian clay that extends into Chablis
What is caillotes?
A stony soil, littered with fossils
What is silex?
Silex has a higher proportion of flint, continuing into the communes of Pouilly-Fumé across the River from Sancerre.
The Pouilly-sur-Loire AOP, named after the central commune of Pouilly-Fumé, is reserved for whites produced from ______
Chasselas grape
Besides Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé name some other appellations in the Central Vineyards.
Menetou-Salon AOP (similar to Sancerre wines), Reuilly AOP, Quincy AOP, Coteaux du Giennois AOP all produce Sauv Blanc.
Quincy AOP in the Central Vineyards make both red and white wines.
False, white only
East of Touraine is the appellation ____ and they make wines from _____
Orléans AOP, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay.
Sister appellation of Orléans AOP is _____ and they make _____
Orléans-Cléry, Cab Franc
The soils in Touraine are:
Tuffeau, clay, varennes (sand and alluvial)
Chinon produces only red wines. True or false?
False: white and red
