Rhone Flashcards
Benton
Concrete vessel
Inox
Stainless steal vessel
Demi-muids
Foundres
Cote roitie AOC
Red wine
Roasted slope
20% cofermented voignier
Condrieu AOC
Dry and sweet white
Viognier
45g/l rare wine
Chateau Grillet
Within condrieu
Viognier
Monopole (one of two outside Bourgogne)
Saint joseph
Dry white, red
Softer wines
10% cofermented
Marsanne/roussane
Cornas AOC
Granite amphitheater protection from wind
Burned earth
Syrah 100%
Saint peray AOC
Dry white, sparkling
Most southern but coldest in north
Marsanne/roussane
Hermitage AOC
Dry white, red, vin de paille
Marsanne roussane 15% cofermented
Syrah
Lieu dits
Crozes hermitage AOC
Same as hermitage
Clairette de die AOC
Sparkling white rose Muscat, clairette 96% production in the Diois Method 100% clairette Ancestral sweet muscat/clairette
Cremant de die
Sparkling white
Clairette
Coteaux de die
Dry white
Clairette
Chatillon-en-diois
Dry white red rose
Chardonnay aligote Gamay
Cotes du Rhone AOC
Dry white rose red
Bourboulenc, clairette Grenache blanc marsanne roussane Viognier Grenache Syrah Mourvèdre
South 60% min Grenache w/ two other primary
North one primary or more
Cotes du Rhone villages
Dry red rose white Same grapes as CDR Stricter rules than CDR 66% blend of primary, one must be Grenache 95% red production
Vinsobres AOC
Red wine
Grenache based
Rasteau AOC
Dry red, fortified white red rose Grenache blanc Grenache gris Grenache South facing amphitheater Marls, red clay, sand GSM
Cairanne AOC
Dry white red Clairette Grenache blanc roussane Clairette rose Grenache Grenache based wines Stony soil Half is exported internationally
Gigondas AOC
Rose and red
Whites-CDR +piquepoul and ugni blanc
Grenache
Limestone
Vacqueyras AOC
Dry white, rose and red CDR whites Clairette rose, Grenache blanc GSM, cinsaut Flesher and meater reds Warm, sand, limestone marl
Dentelles de montmirail
Foothills serve as a sun trap for 3 regions
Helps with cooling
Beaumes de venise
Red Same grapes as Gigondas Foothill of the dentelles wind break Marls, limestone clay Grenache is mandatory 60% must be GSM
Chateauneuf du pape AOC
Dry white, red
All the grapes 13 sanctioned (19 w/color variations)
Bourboulenc clairette Grenache blanc picardan piquepoul clairette rose Grenache gris piquepoul gris GSM cinsaut brun argente counoise muscardin piquepoul noir terret noir
Galets limestone sandstone clay
Least restrictive
Lirac AOC
Dry white red rose
Bourboulenc clairette Grenache blanc roussane
GSM cinsaut
Travel AOC
Rose only
Bourboulenc clairette Grenache blanc piquepoul blanc
Clairette rose Grenache gris piquepoul gris
GSM cinsaut piquepoul noir
9 sanction grapes ( 15 with color varieties)
Grenache must be in the blend and no more than 60% of primary in the blend
Rasteau AOC sweet
Fortified white rose red 45g/l 15% etoh Dry red Same as AOC Reductive, 90% Grenache blanc or gris Release May 1 after harvest Oxidation any Grenache 90% of blend March 1 of the 3year release Red grent (redec)or tuile(oxy) 75% all Grenache types and 90% of blend
Hors d age
5 years oxidation aging
Rancio
Taste of Rancio
Muscat de Beaumes de venise
Fortified all styles
100g/l 15% etoh
Muscat only
Reductive
Ventoux AOC
Dry white rose red Bourboulenc clairette Grenache blanc roussane GSM cinsaut Carignan Mont ventoux UNSECO biosphere reserve Largest production of the “other” AOCs Must blend 2 primary grapes
Luberon AOC
Dry white rose red Bourboulenc clairette Grenache blanc roussane marsanne vermentino GSM Part of Provence Wines more like this style 50% rose UNESCO
Costieres de Nimes
Dry whit red rose
90% red rose
