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1
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What is the primary grape used in Beaucastel CDP blanc Vielles Vignes?

A

Roussanne

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“Hommage a Jacques Perrin”

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First vintage 1989, 350 cases produced, usually 60% mourvedre, most longevity, only in the best years

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Which CDP grapes are permitted in the blend for all 3 blanc/gris/noir colors?

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Grenache & Picpoul ( 2 versions of - Clairette + Clairette rose - also allowed )

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Cotes du Rhone AOP accounts for what fraction of Rhone Valley wine production?

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2/3

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What is the single-commune appellation within Costieres de Nimes for the production of white wines only?

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Clairette de Bellegarde AOC

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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’?
A 
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)
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Plan de Dieu

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Uniform terroir - limestone cobbles over red clay; concentrated wines, “Plan de dieu” embossed on the label

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In CDP what is ‘le rape” ?

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min. 2% harvested grapes must be declassified or discarded, 42 hl/ha max yield

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Which southern Rhone crus require min. 12.5% abv and min. 50% grenache?

A 
Gigondas, 
Vacqueyras, 
Vinsobres 
Beaumes, 
Rasteau,

(Lirac, CDP also 12.5)

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Permitted in CDP rouge or not … Cinsaut ? Carignan ? Vaccarese (brun argente) ? Counoise ? Fer ? Bourboulenc ? Marsanne ? Roussanne ? Picpoul ?

A 
Cinsaut - Y, 
Carignan - N, 
Vaccarase - Y,
Counoise - Y, 
Fer - N, 
Bourboulenc - Y, 
Marsanne - N, 
Roussanne - Y, 
Picpoul - Y
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Which styles are the following AOCs… Coteaux de Die?

Clairette de Die MT ?

Clairette de Die MA (MD) ?

Cremant de Die ?

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Blanc sec 100% clairette;

100% clairette - brut;

muscat demi-sec;

clairette, 10% aligote, 5-10% muscat, brut

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Min. sugar for Muscat Beaumes de Venise?

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100g/L (110 g/L prior to 2011)

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Colors of Muscat Beaumes de Venise?

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blanc, rose, rouge

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Rasteau VDN - min. RS

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45 g/L

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What is the new name for Coteaux du Tricastin since 2010?

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Grignan les Adhemar (Mme de Sevigne a Mme de Grignan - 30 year exchange)

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True or False - Cotes du Rhone wines must contain a minimum 30% grenache unless the vineyard is located North of Montelimar?

A

TRUE - but they must include at least 1 principal variety (GSM)

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17
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of Cotes du Rhone Villages ?

A

22

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18
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What river forms the border between the S. Rhone and Provence?

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Durance

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max yields:

gigondas, vacqueyras, cairanne;

vinsobres, beaumes;

CDP

A

36 hl/ha;
38 hl/ha;
35 hl/ha (42 hl/ha including le rape)

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“vielles vignes” - syrah and viognier; all others

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20 yrs, 30 yrs

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cotes du rhone villages (with sub zone) max yields

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41 hl/ha

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Cotes du Rhone max yield?

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51 hl/ha

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Cotes du Rhone encépagement?

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min. 30% grenache, min. 70% GSM,

min. 20% combined syrah, mourvedre (after 2022)

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Cotes du Rhone min. abv
CDR-V
CDR-V subzone

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11%,
12% for CDR-V,
12.5% for CDR-V with subzones

(Northern Rhone - all 10.5%)

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25
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muscardin is related to, high acid, low tannin and alcohol red grape?

A

mondeuse

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marselan (bred in 1961) - usually < 10% allowed in many AOPs

A

cabernet sauv x grenache

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% white varieties allowed in rouge vacqueyras, gigondas, rasteau, vinsobre, cote du rhone, CDRV

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5%

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Cairanne blanc allows, as opposed to Vacqueyras

A

includes picpoul and ugni blanc as accessories - not just clairette (min. 30%), grenache (min. 20%), marsanne & roussanne (min. 20%), viognier, bourbelenc

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Vacqueyras vs. Gigondas

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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

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Soils of Gigondas & Vacqueyras

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limestone, sand, iron-rich red marl, pebbles

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Rasteau VDN - all types of grenache?

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‘rouge’ = 50% grenache noir

‘grenat and tuile’ = 75% grenache noir

‘blanc’ - grenache blanc and gris only

‘ambre’ - all grenaches

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True or False - hand harvesting is mandatory in CDP?

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True

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CDR-V min. abv

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12.5% (same as CDP, Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Cairanne, Rasteau, Vinsobres, Beaumes de Venise)

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CDP min. abv;

Priorat min. abv

A
  1. 5% (highest in France);

13. 5%

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What grape is used to make Ch. Rayas blanc?

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Clairette + Grenache blanc

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What grape is used for Beaucastel blanc ‘vielles vignes’

A

Roussanne

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What are the communes of Chateauneuf du Pape

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CDP, 
Orange, 
Bedarrides, 
Courthezon, 
Sorgues
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What is the subsoil of Chateauneuf below the sands and galets roules?

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clay

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Who made the first estate-bottled CDP?

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La Nerthe 1785

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40
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Who practices flash pasteurization in CDP?

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Chateau Beaucastel

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41
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What AOP served as the entry point to France in the 1860s?

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possibly Lirac

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Syrah works well in which of the CDR-Villages?

A

Those to the north/northeast - Valreas, Saint-Maurice

43
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Beaucastel facts

A

mourvedre cuttings from Domaine Tempier, biodynamic since ’74, sold on the ‘place de Bordeaux’ since 2009

44
Q

Who partnered with the Perrin family to produce rose in Provence?

A

Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie - Miraval

45
Q

CDP wines including all 13 (18) varieties?

A

Beaucastel, Clos des Papes

46
Q

Who does whole cluster in CDP?

A

Rayas,
Henri Bonneau,
Domaine Charvin

47
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‘Hommage a Jacques Perrin’

A

up to 60% mourvedre, inaugural vintage 1989

48
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Who makes ‘Reserve des Celestins?’

A

Henri Bonneau

49
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Who makes ‘Cuvee Laurence’?

A

Domaine du Pegau

50
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Who makes ‘La Pialade’?

‘Pignan’?

A

Rayas - Cotes du Rhone

CDP young vines

51
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Who makes ‘Cuvee Cornelia Constanza’? (100% grenache)

A

Domaine de la Solitude

52
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Who makes ‘Sanctus Sanctorum’ and ‘Deus ex Machina’, and ‘La Combe des Fous’ (new oak)?

A

Clos Saint Jean, 100-yr-old grenache vines

53
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Who makes ‘La Cuvee du Papee”

A

Clos du Mont Olivet

54
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Who makes ‘La Plume du Peintre”

A

Domaine de la Mordoree

55
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Who makes ‘Omnia’ and ‘Arioso’?

A

Rotem & Mounir Saouma (Lucien Le Moine) - long, long aging on the lees, concrete eggs and foudres, some single vineyards in amphora

56
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Who helped to create the INAO in 1935?

A

Baron le Roy of Chateau Fortia

57
Q

Young vine Rayas?

A

Pignan

58
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Rayas vineyards (3)

A

Le Couchant,
Le Levant,
Le Coeur

59
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Duche d’Uzes - blanc, rose, rouge

A

West of Lirac & Tavel, North of Nimes;

40% viognier w/ grenache blanc,

50% grenache, 40% syrah

60
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Cotes du Vivarais - blanc, rose, rouge

A

ARDECHE (west of Grignan) - 50% grenache blanc,

60-80% grenache, 40% syrah

61
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Grignan les Adhemar - blanc, rose, rouge

A

30% viognier,

70% grenache & syrah

62
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Ventoux - blanc, rose, rouge

A

South of CDP - bourboulenc, clairette, grenache, roussanne ….

carignan, cinsaut, G, S, M

63
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Luberon - blanc, rose, rouge

A

North of Durance - bourboulenc, clairette, grenache, marsanne, roussanne, rolle (ugni & viognier allowed) …

G, S, M, cinsaut, carignan, marselan

64
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Costieres de Nimes - blanc, rose, rouge

A

Grenache blanc, marsanne, roussanne, bourboulenc, macabeu, vermentino, clairette …

G, S, M, carignan, cinsaut, marselan

65
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Clairette de Bellegarde - blanc

A

100% clairette

66
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Are marsanne and roussanne allowed in CDP

A

roussanne

67
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Only CDR commune may not produce white wines?

A

Chusclan

68
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Southern Rhone appellation formerly considered part of the Languedoc?

A

Costieres de Nimes 2004

69
Q

Vieux Telegraph all located in

A

La Crau

70
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Soils of La Crau?

A

Molasses - red soils

71
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Cuvee de Mon Aïeul, Reserve des Deux Freres

A

Pierre Usseglio

72
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‘Modern’ producers?

A

Janasse, Clos Saint Jean

73
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Which is higher density? En Ligne or Au Carre

A

En Ligne (Trellised - usually cordon de royat)

Au Carre are bush vines

74
Q

First CDRV to be promoted to cru?

A

Gigondas 1971,

Vacqueyras 1990

75
Q

VDN made in Cairanne would be labeled?

A

Rasteau

76
Q

Proprietor of Chateau Rayas

A

Emmanuel Reynaud - 4th generation

77
Q

Fonsalatte

A

Vaucluse

78
Q

Ch. des Tours

A

Vacqueyras

79
Q

Vieux Telegraph

A

Brunier

80
Q

Who makes Cuvee Chaupin?

A

Janasse - 100% grenache, new oak

81
Q

Roger Sabon’s brothers make

A

Clos du Mont Olivet, Chateau Chante Cigale

82
Q

Jean Michel Cazes owns

A

Domaine Senechaux

83
Q

Most plantings in S. Rhone (outside of CDR)

A

Ventoux

84
Q

100% grenache wines in CDP

A

Rayas Reserve Rouge,

Cuvee Chaupin (Janasse),

Barbe Roque (Chapoutier),

Cornelia Costanza (Solitude),

Mon Aieul (Pierre Usseglio)

85
Q

Other outside wines sold on the Place de Bordeaux?

A 
Sena, 
Vin de Constance, 
Beaucastel, 
Opus one, 
Almaviva, 
Masseto
86
Q

Departments of the S. Rhone

A

Ardeche, Drome, Gard, Vaucluse

87
Q

White grapes of CDP

A 
grenache, 
picpoul, 
clairette, 
bourboulenc, 
roussanne, 
picardan
88
Q

brun argente is…

A

vaccarese

89
Q

‘Lauses’ can be found where?

A

limestone gravels in Tavel

90
Q

Roman Catholic name for the Avignon papacy

A

Babylonian captivity

91
Q

Rolle is the major grape of what AOP white?

A

Luberon

92
Q

How many AOCs on the left bank of the Rhone?

A

10/16

93
Q

CDR-V west of the Rhone

A

Laudun,
Chusclan,
Sinargues,
St. Gervais

94
Q

Which southern Rhone AOC specifically forbids carbonic maceration?

A

Cotes du Vivarais

95
Q

Percent of rose produced in Gigondas

A

1%

96
Q

‘Terrasses des Garrigues’ is located where?

A

Vacqueyras - brown clay soils, with Ouvez river running through it

97
Q

Terre blanche’ vs. ‘Terre grise’ soils

A

soil types of Beaums de Venise - SE side of dentelles series of marls

98
Q

The white and reds of CDP are cofermented - T or F

A

T

99
Q

producer of Muscat de Beaumes de Venise

A

Vignerons de Beaumes de Venise

100
Q

Hors d’Age Rasteau

A

released Sept 1, 5 years

101
Q

min. vine age for Cairanne

A

5 years, Vielles Vignes may be used after 30 years (20 for syrah and viognier)

102
Q

papal crest on bottle of CDP signifies

A

estate bottling

103
Q

3 producers of Tavel

A

Dom. de la Mordoree,
Trinquevedelle,
l’Anglore

104
Q

3 producers of Rasteau

A

Tardieu-Laurent,
Domaine des Escaravailles,
Domaine de Beaurenard

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