Rhone Valley

Question 1

CDP best vintages

Answer 1

10, 07 , 01, 00, 98

Question 2

CDP worst vintages

Answer 2

2002, 93 (north)

Question 3

Name all the appellations from North to South of the right bank in the southern Rhone

Answer 3

Right bank is the left side, the river flows down

• Cotes du Vivarais
• Lirac
• Tavel
• Costieres de Nimes

Question 4

Name all of the appellations on the left bank of the Rhone Valley

Answer 4

Left bank has the most apps, and it’s the right side

• Grignan-les-Adhemar
• Vinsobres
• Rasteau
• Cairanne
• Gigondas •Chateanuf du Pape
• Vaqueyras
• Beaumes de Venise
• Ventoux
• Luberon

Question 5

What are the VDN from the southern Rhone?

Answer 5

• Rasteau

* Muscat de Beaumes de Venice

Question 6

What’s the typical training system for vines in the Rhone and why?

Answer 6

•Gobelet, to protect the vines from the Mistral winds as opposed to guyout

Question 7

What’s the latitude of the Rhone valley?

Answer 7

•44-45

Equivalent to the Willamette Valley in OR

Question 8

What are the sparkling wines from the Rhone?

Answer 8

• Clairette de Die -Ancestral method

* Cremant de Die -traditional method

Question 9

Where’s the ardeche?

Answer 9

It’s an IGP zone in the middle Rhone , rigth on top of the Cote du vivarais AOC right bank left side

Question 10

Where’s Cairanne?

Answer 10

Southern Rhone, became a cru in 2016 used to be a cotes du Rhone village