The Southwest

Question 1

Bergerac AOC straddles what river?

What styles are produced there?

Answer 1

Dordogne

Red, White, and Rose

Question 2

Name 5 dessert wine AOC’s around Bergerac.

Answer 2

Haut Montravel
Cotes de Montravel
Saussignac
Montbazillac
Rosette

Question 3

What is made in Pecharmant AOC, and where is it located?

Answer 3

Red Bordeaux Blends, minimum 3 grapes, No Pet. Verdot, none of the other 4 may exceed 65% of the blend.

Next door to Bergerac, East

Question 4

Whats another AOC just like Bergerac AOC nearby?

Answer 4

Cotes de Duras AOC, where they also make whites, reds, and roses.

Question 5

Unlike Haut/Cotes de Montravel, the basic Montravel AOC makes these styles of wines.

Answer 5

dry red and white

Question 6

What AOC lies along Bordeaux’s South East border? Which 2 larger Bordeaux AOC’s flow right into it?

Answer 6

Cotes du Marmandais AOC

Entre Deux Mers AOC, North of the Garonne and Graves AOC, South of the Garonne.

Question 7

The Dropt river flows through South West France entering Bordeaux in which large AOC, feeding into which river?

Answer 7

Entre Deux Mers AOC, Garonne

Question 8

What large city is at the center of South Western France?

Answer 8

Toulouse

Question 9

What 2 AOC lie along the Lot river?

Answer 9

Cahors AOC and Marcillac AOC

Question 10

What is the minimum % of Malbec required for Cahors AOC? What is it called here?

What other grapes may be blended?

Answer 10

70%, Cot

Merlot and Tannat

Question 11

State the grape, minimum %, and styles of wine made under Marcillac AOC.

Answer 11

Fer Servadou, min 90%, red and rose

Question 12

Buzet AOC is where what 2 rivers meet?

Whats made there and from what grapes?

Answer 12

The Lot and Garonne, on the left bank of the Garonne.

Red, white, and rose- typical bordeaux varieties

Question 13

Following the Garonne river SE from Buzet AOC, whats the next AOC I hit?

What grapes and styles of wines are produced here?

Answer 13

Brulhois AOC

reds and roses from a minimum 50% combined Cab Franc, Merlot, and Tannat. all three must be used, none more than 70%

Question 14

What unique grape is showcased in the reds and roses of Fronton AOC? min %?

Answer 14

Negrette, min 50%

Question 15

What is unique about the sweet dessert wines of Montbazillac AOC?

Answer 15

They feature Muscadelle rather than SB or Semillon

Question 16

What color wine are we making in Jurancon AOC? With what 2 main grapes? Min %? Whats the style?

Answer 16

White wine. min 50% Gros Manseng and Petit Manseng.

for dry white gros manseng is preferred, but for sweet, petit manseng will lead

Question 17

What is passerillage? Name an AOC where its utilized.

Answer 17

Grapes are left on the vine to dry out.

sweet jurancon whites

Question 18

What is Method Gaillacoise?

Answer 18

Like Ancestrale, utilized in Gaillac AOC

Question 19

What are the principal white and red grapes for Gaillac AOC? min %?

Answer 19

Red and Rose: Duras, Fer, Prunelard, and Syrah (min 70%)

White: Len de l’El, Mauzac, Muscadelle (min 50%)

Question 20

Rouge Primeur in Gaillac AOC is what grape?

Answer 20

100% Gamay (Carbonic)

Question 21

Other than dry white, red, and rose. What styles are permitted in Gaillac AOC?

Answer 21

Doux, VT, Mousseaux (traditional and ancestrale)

Question 22

What region for spirit distillation lies to the West of Toulouse?

Answer 22

Armagnac

Question 23

What are 3 major differences in production and distillation between Armagnac and Cognac?

Answer 23

Armagnac is only distilled once, Cognac twice.

Continuous still for Armagnac, Pot Still for Cognac

Armagnac is a blend of grapes, Cognac is one grape.

Question 24

What are the 3 areas of production for Armagnac?

Answer 24

Haut, Bas, and Tenareze

Question 25

What is the only hybrid grape authorized for production under any French AOC? What is that AOC?

Answer 25

Baco Blanc, Armagnac AOC

Question 26

What are the 3 major grapes of Armagnac production?

Answer 26

Ugni Blanc
Colombard
Folle Blanche

Question 27

What are the 5 styles and age requirements of Armagnac?

Answer 27

Blanche Armagnac: bottled after 3 mo
VS/***: in barrel for 1-3 years
VSOP: in barrel for 4-9 years
XO/Hors d’Age: at least 10 years
Vintage dated: at least 10 years

Question 28

What winemaking technique was developed in the Madiran AOC during the 90’s? Why and by whom?

Answer 28

Micro-Oxygenation

Tannat is so tannic, the technique helped soften the blow in the wines.

Patrick Ducournau

Question 29

Whats the minimum % required and grape for a Madiran AOC wine?

Answer 29

minimum 50% Tannat

Question 30

What is Pacherenc du Vic Bilh? Grapes?

Answer 30

A sweet white produced from the same area as Madiran AOC. 45g/L

Courbu, Petit Courbu, Gros Manseng, Petit Manseng

Question 31

Whats getting made in Irouleguy AOC?

Styles-Grapes-Min %

Answer 31

Blanc: same 4 as Pacherenc but dry, at least 2 grapes present.

Rouge: Cab Franc and Tannat min 50% combined

Rose: Min 90% Cab Franc, Cab Sauv, and Tannat

Question 32

What AOC highlights the white grape Raffiat de Moncade? min %?

What are the reds and roses made from? min %?

Answer 32

Bearn AOC, min 50%

Tannat min 50%, with Cab Franc and Cab Sauv

Question 33

Clos Joliette and Dagueneau’s Jardins de Babylone hail from this AOC.

Answer 33

Jurancon AOC