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Name 2 AOPs that require 100% Chenin in Touraine

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  • Montlouis-sur-Loire (white only)
  • Chinon (all 3 colors)
  • Jasnières (white only)
  • Coteaux du Loir (all 3 colors)
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Grapes for Bourgueil, major city and which bank of the Loire river does it lie?

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Red/Rosé: Cab franc majority (+cab sauv)
City: Bourgueil is West of Tours
River: Right bank of Loire

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T or F? St Nicolas de Bourgueil requires the same cépage of grapes as Bourgueil. Located W of Bourgueil and N of Chinon (across the Loire river)

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  • True!

- Red/Rosé: Cab franc majority (+cab sauv)

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Grapes for Valençay?

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  • White: majority sauv blanc
  • Red/Rosé: gamay, pinot noir, côt (must have all 3 in blend)
  • Cher River
  • Only place in France to have 2 AOC (cheese & wine)!!
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Grapes for Cheverny?

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  • White: Min 50% combined sauv blanc+gris

- Red/Rosé: Min 50% pinot noir (min 85% combined pinot and gamay

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Can Cour-Cheverny make off-dry wines?

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Yes, off-dry wines with min 8 g/l may be produced; may not be chaptalized

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Grapes for Jasnières and the river that runs through it?

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  • 100% Chenin
  • dry, off-dry and sweet wines; chapt forbidden with wines +12 g/l RS
  • sub-region of Coteaux du Loir
  • Loir river
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Grapes for Coteaux du Loir?

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  • White: 100% Chenin
  • Red/Rosé: Min 50% pineau d’aunis
  • Red: (+gamay, cab f, cot)
  • Rosé: (+gamay, cot, grolleau)
  • one of the Loire’s northernmost appellations
  • vyds are protected by the Bercé forest to the north, while the adjacent valleys and hillsides face south, enjoying the Touraine climate
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Grapes for Coteaux du Vendômois?

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  • White: Chenin blanc majority (+chard)
  • Rosé Vin Gris: 100% pineau d’aunis
  • Red: Pineau d’Aunis majority (+ cab-franc, pn, gamay)
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What are the 100% Chenin white AOPs in Touraine (4)?

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  • Mountlouis-sur-Loire
  • Chinon
  • Jasnières
  • Coteaux du Loir
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What are 5 villages that can append its name to the Touraine AOP and what are the white grapes for each?

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  • Touraine Azay-le-Rideau: 100% Chenin (Rosé majority of Grolleau; does not make red wines)
  • Touraine Amboise: 100% Chenin
  • Touraine Mesland: Chenin majority, Rosé is Gamay majority, Red is Min 3 grapes (cab-franc, cot gamay, cab-sauv, p-noir)
  • Touraine Oisly: 100% sauv blanc (makes only white)
  • Touraine Chenonceaux: 100% sauv blanc (red mainly Côt and cab-franc; does not make rosé wines)
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Rivers in the following regions: Touraine Noble-Joué, Chinon, Jasnières

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  • Touraine Noble-Joué: Cher to the N and Indre to the S
  • Chinon: Vienne
  • Jasnières: Loir
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Montlouis-sur-Loire is sandwiched between which 2 rivers?

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  • Loire on the N (right bank)

- Cher on the S (left bank)

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Loir river runs through 3 AOPs in Touraine, what are they?

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Coteaux du Loir, Jasnières, Coteaux du Vendomois

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Which label for Touraine reds is for 100% hand-harvested Gamay grapes, and bottled immediately after harvest?

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Touraine ‘Premieur’

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Which Rosé-only AOP recreates a historical style of Vin Gris? And which 2 rivers run through it?

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  • Touraine Noble-Joué (min 40% pinot meunier (with pinot noir, pinot gris/malvoisie)
  • Cher River runs through the N and Indre to the S of it
17
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Vouvray is East of Tours, what is the min % of Chenin required?

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Min 95% chenin; max 5% orbois

18
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3 soil types in Chinon

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  • Varennes: sandy alluvial, gravel (located by the river – lighter, softer, fruity)
  • Tuffeau: soft limestone (located on the coteaux - fuller, +tannic, ageing)
  • Clay with flint, sand (located on the plateau)
19
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Only region in France to have 2 AOCs

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Valençay (cheese and wine)

20
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Loire AOPs that make a rosé Vin Gris (3)

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  • Coteaux du Vendômois
  • Touraine Noble-Joué (off-dry)
  • Châteaumeillant
21
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T or F? Boundary of Chinon appellation extended to the southwest along the south bank of the Vienne, to include eight more communes

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True!

22
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Are whites allowed in Chinon? What about in Bourgueil?

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Yes in Chinon, no in Bourgueil

23
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What are the three Huet single vineyards and their inaugural vintages?

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  • Haut Lieu (1928)
  • Le Mont (1957)
  • Clos du Borg (Inaug 53, purchased 63)
24
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What is the max RS for a Vouvray “Sec”?

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Sec: max 8g/l RS (Total acidity must be within 2 g/l of the total residual sugar.)

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