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What region(s) does the SW occupy?

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Nouvelle-Aquitane
Occitanie
Aquitaine Basin

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How many appellations in the SW?

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~30

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Describe the climate?

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Overall Continental
Berserac - Maritime influences
Tarn - Mari/Med influences
Pyranees - Mari/ Alpine influences

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Eastern vineyards are impacted by…

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Massif Central

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What is the Dordogne/Bergerac subregion know as?

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Périgord

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Top 2 production areas?

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Bergerac (22%)
Cahors (12%)

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What is most similar to Bordeaux?

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Dordogne / Bergerac

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Principal white grape in Dordogne / Bergerac?

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Sauvignon Blanc

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What does Bergerac AOC produce?

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White, red, rosé

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What is the primary rules for Bergerac AOC?

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2 grapes at least 50%

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What AOC makes red and semi-sweet wines in Dordogne/Bergerac?

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Côtes de Bergerac
NO DRY WHITES

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What wine is sweeter than Sauternes?

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Monbazillac

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What are the sweetness requirements for Monbazillac

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Sweet white - 4.5%
SGN - 8.5%

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What AOC only makes sweet whites and Selection de Grains?

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Monbazillac

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What Dordogne’s AOCs that only makes sweet white with Noble Rot?

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Saussignac
Monbazillac

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What is the largest desert wine AOC in France?

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Monbazillac

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What are the rules for Monbazillac

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Hand Harvest
Late harvest or Noble Rot
80% from primary grape
12% ABV min

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What is the minimum Sweetness for Saussignac?

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6.8%
Can be late harvest or Noble Rot

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Soils of Bergerac

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Clay and Limestone

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What river flows through Bergerac?

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Dordogne

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Where is Dordogne/Berserac located?

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West of Entre-des-Mer and Right Bank

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Primary white grape in Garonne, Tarn, Lot

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Len de l’El for dry and sweet whites

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Primary white grape for sparkling in Gaillac?

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Mauzac Blanc

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Primary Gris Grape in Garonne, Tarn, Lot?

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Mauzac Rose

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Primary Red Grape in Garonne, Tarn, Lot
Côt
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Primary red grape in Gaillac
Fer Servadou - "Braucol"
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Where is Nègrette found as primary grape?
Fronton
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Who makes 40%-100% Nègrette wines?
Fronton
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What are the soils of Fronton?
Boulbènes - sandy clays
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What does Gaillac produce?
white, red, rosé, sweet white, VTs, sparkling white and rosé
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What AOC uses Syrah?
Gaillac
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What AOC uses Duras?
Gaillac
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What AOC in Garonne, Tarn, Lot only produces red wines?
Cahors from Côt
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What is Côt know in Cahors?
Auxerrois
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Where do you find the "Black Wines"
Cahors
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What is the limestone plataeu called in Cahors?
Causses Plateau
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What river runs through Cahors?
Lot
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What river runs through Gaillac
Tarn
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What "prickly" wine can be made either CO2 captured during MLF or CO2 added after MLF?
Blanc Sec Perlé (Gaillac - Len de l'El or Mauzac)
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Who makes a primeur style white?
Gaillac
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Who makes a primeur style red from 100% Gamay?
Gaillac Primeur
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What is a dry white blended with Mauzac and Mauzac Rose, Muscadelle and Len de l"El?
Gaillac Blanc Sec
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Methode Ancestral made from Mauzac Blanc and Mauzac Rose?
Gaillac Sparkling - Methode Ancestral
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What is the traditional method sparkling made from Len de l'El and Mauzac?
Gaillac Sparkling - Methode Traditionalle
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What is a red blending of at least 2 Duras, Syrah and Fer Servadou?
Gaillac Rouge
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What is a rosé blending of at least 2 Duras, Syrah and Fer Servadou?
Gaillac Rosé
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A sweet Mazauc & Len de l’El with 4.5% rs?
Gaillac Doux
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A VT made from Len de l'El and Ondenc via passerillage or Noble Rot?
Gaillac Vendages Tardives
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Which rivers flow around Fronton
Tarn and Garrone
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What area is know for the Mansengs?
Pyrenees
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What is the AOC who only makes reds with Tanat as the base?
Madiran
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Where would you find pebbled-studded limestone rich clay and silt soils with some iron?
Madiran
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What is also made within the Madiran AOC?
Béarn AOC
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What AOC makes dry and sweet whites in the same area a Madiran?
Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh
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What does the label Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh indicate?
Sweet wine 4.5%
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How are Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh dry whites labeled?
Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh Sec
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How are sweet whites from Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh made?
Passerillage 4.5% rs
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What are the grapes for Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh?
Gros Manseng Petite Manseng Courbu Petit Courbu
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What river and which bank does Madiran and Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh sit?
Adour Left Bank
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What does Jurançon produce?
Dry, semi-sweet, sweet, VT whites
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When a label is Jurançon what style?
Sweet 94.0%
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Primary grapes of Jurançon?
Gros Manseng Petit Manseng
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What rivers are Jurançon between
Gave d'Oloron Gave de Pau
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What is the SW most AOC and what does it produce?
Irouléguy white, red, rosé
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What is the only French Basque AOC?
Irouléguy
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Where are the vineyards of Irouléguy located.
Steep slopes sheltered from N and W winds High acidity
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What must be contained in Irouléguy reds?
Tanant or CabFranc
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What are the white grapes of Irouléguy
Gros Manseng Petite Manseng Courbu Petit Courbu
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What river runs through Irouléguy?
Nive
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A wine only from Gros or Petite Manseng, passerillage with 2 minimum passing. Harvest after Nov 2- 2 year aging
Jurançon Vendanges Tardives
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What is the most produced grape in the SW
Merlot
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What sweet wines do not use Noble Rot?
Jurançon Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh
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France’s 2nd largest IGP?
Côtes du Gascogne (Pay d'Oc #1)
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What IGP produces 75% dry white?
Côtes du Gascogne
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What AOC has the same production zone as Côtes du Gascogne?
Armagnac
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Gallet stones found in Jurançon are called.....
Poudingues
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How much Côt does Cahors require?
70%
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Cahors can add what other grapes to Côt
Tannat Merlot
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How much Tanat is required in Madiran?
>50%
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What is methode gaillacoise?
Gaillac term for Ancestral Method for sparkling
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What are the 3 sparkling wines from Gaillac?
Gaillac Methode Ancestrale Traditional Blanc Sec Perlé
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What is Liquoreux?
Sweet wines from Noble Rot
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Majority of Irouléguey production is what?
Red

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