Savoie Flashcards
What is the climate of the savoie?
Continetal Climate moderated by Lake Bourget and Lake Geneva
What is the French name for Lake Geneva?
Lac Leman
What is the name of the mountain chartreuse is made om
Mount Granier
What is the most planted grape in the Savoie?
Jacquere
What are the main white grapes of the Savoie?
Jacquere Chardonnay Roussanne (bergeron) Altesse Chasselas
What are the main red grapes of the Savoie?
Mondeuse
Gamay
Pinot Noir
What is the cru of Chignin Bergeron in the Savoie known for?
Wines exclusively made from 100% Rousanne (bergeron)
What is Rousette a synonym for?
Altesse
Which 3 cru in Savoie mandate a minimum 80% Chasselas?
Marignan
Ripalle
Crepy
What varietal is produced excvlusively in the Rousette de Savoie AOP? Name two communes that may append their name.
Altesse (Rousette)
Frangy, Marestel, Monterminod, and Monthoux.
What are the 4 sub-zones that are allowed to attach their names to the Rousette de Savoie AOP?
Frangy
Marestal
Monterminood
Monthoux
What tye of wines are produced in the Seyssel AOP in Savoie?
Vin Tranquille Blanc (Sec and Demi-Sec): 100% Altesse
Varietal-Labeled Molette (Tranquille): 100% Molette
Blanc Sec: 4 g/l (max. 8 g/l if total acidity is within 2 g/l of residual sugar)
Blanc Demi-Sec: 15 g/l
Vin Mousseux Blanc: Molette, Altesse, Chasselas Vin Mousseux must include min. 75% Molette and min. 10% Altesse Second fermentation occurs in the bottle
Min. 9 months lees aging in the bottle
What is Bugey Cerdon?
What’s the RS of Green chartreuse
made from gamay and poulsard only
2 mo lees aging min + 3 atmospheres of pressure
40 g/L min R/S
220-240g/l
At what degree latitude is the Savoie
45.64
explain cremant de savoie
White only Minimum 40% Jacquère, additional 20% must be Jacquère or Altesse only, Maximum 20% red varieties
Traditional Method Secondary Fermentation
The wines must spend a min. 9 months on the lees prior to dégorgement
Min. 3.5 atmospheres of pressure
is not its own AOP but rather a sub-designate and style within Vin de Savoie AOP.
Principal Varieties: Aligoté, Altesse, Chardonnay, Jacquère, Mondeuse blanche, Gamay, Mondeuse, Pinot Noir (for Haute-Savoie department only, Chasselas and Molette are also permitted)
Accessory Varieties: Bia, Petite Sainte-Marie, Mondeuse Grise, Pinot Gris, Corbeau, Dousset, Hibou Noir
explain Bugey-Manicle and Bugey-Montagnieu
Bugey-Manicle
Blanc: 100% Chardonnay
Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
Bugey-Montagnieu
Rouge: 100% Mondeuse
Vin Mousseux/Pétillant Blanc:
Principal Varieties: Min. 70% combined Mondeuse, Chardonnay, and Altesse
Accessory Varieties: Gamay, Molette, Jacquère, and Pinot Noir
Saint-Jean-de-la-Porte & Arbin in savoie is a subzone for wines made of what, and in what syle?
Dry red wines of 100% Mondeuse.
Chignin-Bergeron makes what style of wine?
100% ROusanne
Name 5 sub-appellations of Vin de Savoie AOP
Chignin-Bergeron 100% ROusanne
Crepy Min. 80% Chasselas
Cruet Min. 80% Jacquère
Saint-Jean-de-la-Porte 100% Mondeuse
Arbin 100% Mondeuse
What is the minimum residual sugar in g/l of Bugey Cerdon?
40 g/l
Must weight range for Jura vin de paille? Aging? Three AOP’s it may be made in?
320-420 g/l
min 18 mo in barrel and 3 years total
Cotes de Jura / Arbois / l’Etoille
Frangy, Marestel, Monterminod, Monthoux are subzones of where? what syyle and grape do they make wine from?
Roussette de Savoie
Altesse (roussette) / still dry white
Name the two AOP’s that mandate 100% Altesse
Roussette de Savoie
Roussette du Bugey
What is Roussanne known as in Savoie?
Bergeron
where are the crus of Marignan, Ripaille, and Crépy? What kind of wine do they make?
all located along the southern shores of Lake Geneva—mandate a minimum 80% Chasselas.
AOP year of cremant de savoie and bugey?
2014 /2009
What three main lakes moderate the AOP’s of Savoie? What two are most important?
Lake Annecy, Lake Bourget (Seyssel AOP specifically), Lac Léman
Name a Savoie cru that makes sparkling wine?
Ayze
Blanc and Vin Mousseux/Pétillant Blanc: Min. 50% Gringet, plus a max. 30% each of Altesse and Roussette d’Ayze
What altitutde do most Savoie vineyards lie at? Which two are higher?
250-450m
Cerdon / Ayze
Wines labeled Ripaille / Marin / Marignan / and Crepy are made of what grape and in what style?
Dry still white made of chasselas
what famous spirit is made in saoie
chartreuse
What mountain range blocks cold northern air from Ayze?
Chablais mountains
name three GI of savoie that make monovarietal wines
ayze / st-jean-de la porte / chignin bergeron / arbin
name two native red grapes of savoie
Persan / mondeuse
what savoie sub-zone may make Cremant de savoie and what grapes are used?
Ayze - 40% Jacquere / most recent cremant appellation
In what one region would you find the isere river / rhone river / and lac leman?
savoie
Where are the best wines in Savoie historically made?
The southern “combe of svoie” on the shores of the isere
two most planted grapes in savoie
Jacquere / mondeuse
The village of Montagnieu is a cru for what two aops?
bugey and rousette de bugey
What influences vineyards in Bugey?
Rhone river / jura mountains
What did the treaty of Turin do?
Cede control of Savoir and Nice to france from italy in the 1800’s
Whatmountain is Ayze on?
Le Mole
