Southern Rhone Flashcards
What is the primary grape used in Beaucastel CDP blanc Vielles Vignes?
Roussanne
“Hommage a Jacques Perrin”
First vintage 1989, 350 cases produced, usually 60% mourvedre, most longevity, only in the best years
Which CDP grapes are permitted in the blend for all 3 blanc/gris/noir colors?
Grenache & Picpoul ( 2 versions of - Clairette + Clairette rose - also allowed )
Cotes du Rhone AOP accounts for what fraction of Rhone Valley wine production?
2/3
What is the single-commune appellation within Costieres de Nimes for the production of white wines only?
Clairette de Bellegarde AOC
Do the following AOCs produce white table wine -
Lirac, Tavel, Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Cotes du Vivarais, Vinsobres, Ventoux, Luberon, Grignan les Adhemar, Rasteau, Duche d’Uzes, Beaumes de Venise, Cairanne, CDR-V ‘Plan de Dieu’?
Lirac - Y, Tavel - N (rose only), Gigondas - N (rouge, rose), Vacqueryas - Y, Cotes du Vivarais - Y, Vinsobres - N (rouge only), Ventoux - Y, Luberon - Y, Grignan - Y, Rasteau - N (VDN all colors), Duche - Y, Beaumes - N (rouge only), Muscat de BdV (in all colors) Cairanne - Y, Plan de Dieux - N (rouge only)
Plan de Dieu
Uniform terroir - limestone cobbles over red clay; concentrated wines, “Plan de dieu” embossed on the label
In CDP what is ‘le rape” ?
min. 2% harvested grapes must be declassified or discarded, 42 hl/ha max yield
Which southern Rhone crus require min. 12.5% abv and min. 50% grenache?
Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Vinsobres Beaumes, Rasteau,
(Lirac, CDP also 12.5)
Permitted in CDP rouge or not … Cinsaut ? Carignan ? Vaccarese (brun argente) ? Counoise ? Fer ? Bourboulenc ? Marsanne ? Roussanne ? Picpoul ?
Cinsaut - Y, Carignan - N, Vaccarase - Y, Counoise - Y, Fer - N, Bourboulenc - Y, Marsanne - N, Roussanne - Y, Picpoul - Y
Which styles are the following AOCs… Coteaux de Die?
Clairette de Die MT ?
Clairette de Die MA (MD) ?
Cremant de Die ?
Blanc sec 100% clairette;
100% clairette - brut;
muscat demi-sec;
clairette, 10% aligote, 5-10% muscat, brut
Min. sugar for Muscat Beaumes de Venise?
100g/L (110 g/L prior to 2011)
Colors of Muscat Beaumes de Venise?
blanc, rose, rouge
Rasteau VDN - min. RS
45 g/L
What is the new name for Coteaux du Tricastin since 2010?
Grignan les Adhemar (Mme de Sevigne a Mme de Grignan - 30 year exchange)
True or False - Cotes du Rhone wines must contain a minimum 30% grenache unless the vineyard is located North of Montelimar?
TRUE - but they must include at least 1 principal variety (GSM)
of Cotes du Rhone Villages ?
22
What river forms the border between the S. Rhone and Provence?
Durance
max yields:
gigondas, vacqueyras, cairanne;
vinsobres, beaumes;
CDP
36 hl/ha;
38 hl/ha;
35 hl/ha (42 hl/ha including le rape)
“vielles vignes” - syrah and viognier; all others
20 yrs, 30 yrs
cotes du rhone villages (with sub zone) max yields
41 hl/ha
Cotes du Rhone max yield?
51 hl/ha
Cotes du Rhone encépagement?
min. 30% grenache, min. 70% GSM,
min. 20% combined syrah, mourvedre (after 2022)
Cotes du Rhone min. abv
CDR-V
CDR-V subzone
11%,
12% for CDR-V,
12.5% for CDR-V with subzones
(Northern Rhone - all 10.5%)
muscardin is related to, high acid, low tannin and alcohol red grape?
mondeuse
marselan (bred in 1961) - usually < 10% allowed in many AOPs
cabernet sauv x grenache
% white varieties allowed in rouge vacqueyras, gigondas, rasteau, vinsobre, cote du rhone, CDRV
5%
Cairanne blanc allows, as opposed to Vacqueyras
includes picpoul and ugni blanc as accessories - not just clairette (min. 30%), grenache (min. 20%), marsanne & roussanne (min. 20%), viognier, bourbelenc
Vacqueyras vs. Gigondas
Gigondas - baby Chateauneuf - more controlled ripening to allow more hang time due to the dentelles (some vineyards at 1300 ft = spicy, fiery
VS
Vacqueyras - lower, flatter vineyards = fleshier, softer wines
Soils of Gigondas & Vacqueyras
limestone, sand, iron-rich red marl, pebbles
Rasteau VDN - all types of grenache?
‘rouge’ = 50% grenache noir
‘grenat and tuile’ = 75% grenache noir
‘blanc’ - grenache blanc and gris only
‘ambre’ - all grenaches
True or False - hand harvesting is mandatory in CDP?
True
CDR-V min. abv
12.5% (same as CDP, Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Cairanne, Rasteau, Vinsobres, Beaumes de Venise)
CDP min. abv;
Priorat min. abv
- 5% (highest in France);
13. 5%
What grape is used to make Ch. Rayas blanc?
Clairette + Grenache blanc
What grape is used for Beaucastel blanc ‘vielles vignes’
Roussanne
What are the communes of Chateauneuf du Pape
CDP, Orange, Bedarrides, Courthezon, Sorgues
What is the subsoil of Chateauneuf below the sands and galets roules?
clay
Who made the first estate-bottled CDP?
La Nerthe 1785
Who practices flash pasteurization in CDP?
Chateau Beaucastel
What AOP served as the entry point to France in the 1860s?
possibly Lirac
Syrah works well in which of the CDR-Villages?
Those to the north/northeast - Valreas, Saint-Maurice
Beaucastel facts
mourvedre cuttings from Domaine Tempier, biodynamic since ’74, sold on the ‘place de Bordeaux’ since 2009
Who partnered with the Perrin family to produce rose in Provence?
Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie - Miraval
CDP wines including all 13 (18) varieties?
Beaucastel, Clos des Papes
Who does whole cluster in CDP?
Rayas,
Henri Bonneau,
Domaine Charvin
‘Hommage a Jacques Perrin’
up to 60% mourvedre, inaugural vintage 1989
Who makes ‘Reserve des Celestins?’
Henri Bonneau
Who makes ‘Cuvee Laurence’?
Domaine du Pegau
Who makes ‘La Pialade’?
‘Pignan’?
Rayas - Cotes du Rhone
CDP young vines
Who makes ‘Cuvee Cornelia Constanza’? (100% grenache)
Domaine de la Solitude
Who makes ‘Sanctus Sanctorum’ and ‘Deus ex Machina’, and ‘La Combe des Fous’ (new oak)?
Clos Saint Jean, 100-yr-old grenache vines
Who makes ‘La Cuvee du Papee”
Clos du Mont Olivet
Who makes ‘La Plume du Peintre”
Domaine de la Mordoree
Who makes ‘Omnia’ and ‘Arioso’?
Rotem & Mounir Saouma (Lucien Le Moine) - long, long aging on the lees, concrete eggs and foudres, some single vineyards in amphora
Who helped to create the INAO in 1935?
Baron le Roy of Chateau Fortia
Young vine Rayas?
Pignan
Rayas vineyards (3)
Le Couchant,
Le Levant,
Le Coeur
Duche d’Uzes - blanc, rose, rouge
West of Lirac & Tavel, North of Nimes;
40% viognier w/ grenache blanc,
50% grenache, 40% syrah
Cotes du Vivarais - blanc, rose, rouge
ARDECHE (west of Grignan) - 50% grenache blanc,
60-80% grenache, 40% syrah
Grignan les Adhemar - blanc, rose, rouge
30% viognier,
70% grenache & syrah
Ventoux - blanc, rose, rouge
South of CDP - bourboulenc, clairette, grenache, roussanne ….
carignan, cinsaut, G, S, M
Luberon - blanc, rose, rouge
North of Durance - bourboulenc, clairette, grenache, marsanne, roussanne, rolle (ugni & viognier allowed) …
G, S, M, cinsaut, carignan, marselan
Costieres de Nimes - blanc, rose, rouge
Grenache blanc, marsanne, roussanne, bourboulenc, macabeu, vermentino, clairette …
G, S, M, carignan, cinsaut, marselan
Clairette de Bellegarde - blanc
100% clairette
Are marsanne and roussanne allowed in CDP
roussanne
Only CDR commune may not produce white wines?
Chusclan
Southern Rhone appellation formerly considered part of the Languedoc?
Costieres de Nimes 2004
Vieux Telegraph all located in
La Crau
Soils of La Crau?
Molasses - red soils
Cuvee de Mon Aïeul, Reserve des Deux Freres
Pierre Usseglio
‘Modern’ producers?
Janasse, Clos Saint Jean
Which is higher density? En Ligne or Au Carre
En Ligne (Trellised - usually cordon de royat)
Au Carre are bush vines
First CDRV to be promoted to cru?
Gigondas 1971,
Vacqueyras 1990
VDN made in Cairanne would be labeled?
Rasteau
Proprietor of Chateau Rayas
Emmanuel Reynaud - 4th generation
Fonsalatte
Vaucluse
Ch. des Tours
Vacqueyras
Vieux Telegraph
Brunier
Who makes Cuvee Chaupin?
Janasse - 100% grenache, new oak
Roger Sabon’s brothers make
Clos du Mont Olivet, Chateau Chante Cigale
Jean Michel Cazes owns
Domaine Senechaux
Most plantings in S. Rhone (outside of CDR)
Ventoux
100% grenache wines in CDP
Rayas Reserve Rouge,
Cuvee Chaupin (Janasse),
Barbe Roque (Chapoutier),
Cornelia Costanza (Solitude),
Mon Aieul (Pierre Usseglio)
Other outside wines sold on the Place de Bordeaux?
Sena, Vin de Constance, Beaucastel, Opus one, Almaviva, Masseto
Departments of the S. Rhone
Ardeche, Drome, Gard, Vaucluse
White grapes of CDP
grenache, picpoul, clairette, bourboulenc, roussanne, picardan
brun argente is…
vaccarese
‘Lauses’ can be found where?
limestone gravels in Tavel
Roman Catholic name for the Avignon papacy
Babylonian captivity
Rolle is the major grape of what AOP white?
Luberon
How many AOCs on the left bank of the Rhone?
10/16
CDR-V west of the Rhone
Laudun,
Chusclan,
Sinargues,
St. Gervais
Which southern Rhone AOC specifically forbids carbonic maceration?
Cotes du Vivarais
Percent of rose produced in Gigondas
1%
‘Terrasses des Garrigues’ is located where?
Vacqueyras - brown clay soils, with Ouvez river running through it
Terre blanche’ vs. ‘Terre grise’ soils
soil types of Beaums de Venise - SE side of dentelles series of marls
The white and reds of CDP are cofermented - T or F
T
producer of Muscat de Beaumes de Venise
Vignerons de Beaumes de Venise
Hors d’Age Rasteau
released Sept 1, 5 years
min. vine age for Cairanne
5 years, Vielles Vignes may be used after 30 years (20 for syrah and viognier)
papal crest on bottle of CDP signifies
estate bottling
3 producers of Tavel
Dom. de la Mordoree,
Trinquevedelle,
l’Anglore
3 producers of Rasteau
Tardieu-Laurent,
Domaine des Escaravailles,
Domaine de Beaurenard
