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Chinon AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Chinon AOP

  • Blanc
    • 100% Chenin Blanc
  • Rosé
    • Cabernet Franc, + max 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Rouge
    • Cabernet Franc, + max 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
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Chinon

Soils

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  • Varennes (alluvial sand)
  • Tuffeau (soft limestone)
  • Clay
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Touraine

AOPs for Red and Rosé ONLY

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  • Bourgueil
  • Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil

Both Enc: Cabernet Franc, + max 10% Cabernet Sauvignon

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Vouvray

Secondary grape

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Orbois

  • Enc: min 95% Chenin Blanc, max 5% Orbois
  • Ass: Chenin Blanc must be the majority of the blend
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Vouvray

Soils

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Tuffeau limestone

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Touraine AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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  • Blanc
    • Sauv Blanc, max. 20% Sauv Gris
    • (Until 2016 harvest, may be Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Orbois, max 20% Chardonnay, max. 20% Sauvignon Gris)
  • Rosé:
    • Cab Franc, Cot, Gamay, Grolleau, Grolleau Gris, Cab Sauv, Meunier, P Noir, P Gris, P d’Aunis
    • min 2 varieties, no variety may exceed 70% of the vineyard
  • Primeur Rosé: As for Rosé
  • Rouge:
    • P: min. 80% comb Cab Franc, Cot (min 50%); vineyards west of Tours have a min. 80% Cab Franc
    • A: Gamay, Cab Sauv, P Noir
  • Primeur Rouge: 100% Gamay
  • Varietal-Labeled Gamay: min. 85% Gamay, plus Cab Franc, Cab Sauv, Cot, P Noir
  • Vin Mousseux/Pétillant Blanc: min. 60% Chenin Blanc OR Orbois, Cab Franc, Grolleau, Grolleau Gris, Chard P d’Aunis, P Noir
  • Vin Mousseux/Pétillant Rosé: Cab Franc, Cab Sauv, Cot, Gamay, Grolleau, Grolleau Gris, P Meunier, P Noir, P Gris, Pd’Aunis
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Cheverny AOP

  • Styles
  • Assemblage
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Cheverny AOP

  • Blanc:
    • P: min 50% comb. Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Gris
    • C: min 16% comb. Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc, Orbois
  • Rosé & Rouge
    • (min 85% comb. Pinot Noir & Gamay)
    • P: min 50% Pinot Noir
    • C: min 16% Gamay
    • A: Cabernet Franc, Cot (Malbec)
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Cour-Cheverny AOP

  • Style
  • Grape
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Cour-Cheverny AOP

  • Blanc
    • 100% Romorantin
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Coteaux du Loir AOP

Styles and Encépagement

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Coteaux du Loir

  • Blanc
  • 100% Chenin Blanc
  • Rosé
  • min 65% Pineau d’Aunis, + (max 30% each): Cot, Gamay, Grolleau
  • Rouge
  • min 65% Pineau d’Aunis, + (max 30% each): Cabernet Franc, Cot, Gamay
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Jasnières AOP

  • Style
  • Grape
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Jasnières AOP

  • Blanc
    • 100% Chenin Blanc
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Coteaux du Vendômois AOP

Styles and Encépagement

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Coteaux du Vendômois AOP

  • Blanc
    • Chenin Blanc, plus max. 20% Chardonnay
  • Rosé (Vin Gris)
    • 100% Pineau d’Aunis
  • Rouge
    • Min. 50% Pineau d’Aunis, 10-40% Pinot Noir, 10-40% Cabernet Franc, ma. 20% Gamay
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Touraine

Subzones NE -SW

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  • Mesland
  • Oisly
  • Amboise
  • Chenonceaux
  • Azay-le-Rideau
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Touraine “Amboise”

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Touraine “Amboise”

  • Blanc: 100% Chenin Blanc
  • Rosé: Cab Franc, Cab Sauv, Cot, Gamay
  • Rouge: Cab Franc, Cab Sauv, Cot, Gamay
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Touraine “Mesland”

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Touraine “Mesland”

  • Blanc: min. 60% Chenin Blanc, max. 30% Sauv Blanc, max. 15% Chard
    • (amount of Chardonnay in the vineyard may not exceed the amount of Sauvignon Blanc)
  • Rosé: min. 80% Gamay, + Cot, Cab Franc
  • Rouge: min. 60% Gamay, 10-30% Cot, 10-30% Cab Franc (3 varieties req’d in blend)
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Touraine “Azay-le-Rideau”

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Touraine “Azay-le-Rideau”

  • Blanc: 100% Chenin Blanc
  • Rosé: min. 60% Grolleau; + Cot, Gamay, and max. 10% comb Cab Franc, Cab Sauv
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Touraine “Oisly”

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Touraine “Oisly”

Blanc: 100% Sauv Blanc

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Touraine “Chenonceaux”

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Touraine “Chenonceaux”

  • Blanc: 100% Sauv Blanc Blanc
  • Rouge: 50-65% Cot, 35-50% Cab Franc, + Gamay (no single grape may exceed 70%)
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Hand harvesting is required for what style of wines in Touraine?

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primeur/nouveau

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Touraine Mousseux

Min lees aging

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9 months on lees

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Is chaptalization permitted in Touraine?

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prohibited for wines with more than 18 g/l RS

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Romorantin is synonymous with what AOP

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  • Cour-Cheverny
  • 11 villages
  • 50 hectares
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Romorantin is a crossing of what grapes

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Pinot Noir x Gouais Blanc

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Major appellations for Pineau d’Aunis

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  • Coteaux du Vendumois (min 50%)
  • Coteaux du Loir
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Where do we find Vin Gris?

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  • Coteaux du Vendomois (Pineau d’Aunis)
  • Reuilly (Pinot Gris)
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What are the three soil types of Chinon AOP?

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Tuffeau
Clay
Varennes (alluvial sands)

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What styles are permitted in Bourgeuil and St. Nicolas de Bourgeuil?

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Red/Rosé only. Cabernet Franc plus max 10% Cabernet Sauvignon

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What styles are permitted in Chinon AOP?

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Red/Rosé: Cab Franc plus max 10% Cab Sauv
White: 100% Chenin Blanc

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What is the difference between Bourgeuil and St. Nicolas de Bourgeuil?

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More alluvial soils in St. Nicolas de Bourgeuil result in a correspondingly lighter style of wine.

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Vouvray is north or south of the river?

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North

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What is the major soil of Vouvray?

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Tuffeau limestone

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What are the varietal requirements for Vouvray?

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Chenin Blanc plus max 5% Orbois (Menu Pineau)
For assemblage, Chenin must constitute the majority.

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Aging for Vouvray Pétillant/Mousseux:

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Released no less than 12 months after tirage (no specifics on lees aging)

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What is the current varietal makeup of Touraine Blanc, and what changes are afoot?

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Blanc: Sauvignon Blanc and max. 20% Sauvignon Gris
Rosé (still and Mousseux): Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cot, Gamay, Grolleau, Grolleau Gris, Meunier, Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Pineau d’Aunis
Rouge:
Principal: Min. 40% Cot. Vineyards west of Tours have a min. 90% Cabernet Franc.
Accessory Varieties: Cabernet Franc, Gamay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir
Primeur/Nouveau: 100% Gamay
Varietal-Labeled Gamay: Min. 75% Gamay, plus Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cot, and Pinot Noir
Vin Mousseux/Pétillant Blanc: Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc, Grolleau, Grolleau Gris, Orbois, Pineau d’Aunis, Pinot Noi

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What styles and varietals are authorized for Touraine?

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Blanc: Sauvignon Blanc, plus max 20% Sauvignon Gris

Rosé/Primeur: Min 2 varieties, none may exceed 70%: Cab Franc, Cot, Gamay, Grolleau/Gris, Cab Sauv, Meunier, Pinot Noir/Gris, Pineau d’Aunis

Rouge/Primeur: min. 80% Cabernet Franc and Cot, plus Gamay, Cab Sauv, Pinot Noir (min. 80% Cab Franc west of Tours)
Gamay: min. 85% Gamay, plus Cab Franc, Cab Sauv, Cot, Pinot Noir

Vin Mousseux Blanc: min. 60% Chenin Blanc or Orbois, plus Cab Franc, Grolleau/Griss, Chard, Pineau d’Aunis, Pinot Noir

Vin Mousseux Rosé: Cab Franc, Cab Sauv, Cot, Gamay, Grolleau/Gris, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Pineau d’Aunis

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What are the five appending villages in Touraine?

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Amboise
Mesland
Oisly
Chenonceaux
Azay-le-Rideau

36
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Which two Touraine villages authorize red, white, and rosé?

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Amboise and Mesland

37
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Which Touraine village authorizes white and rosé only?

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Azay-le-Rideau

38
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Which Touraine village authorizes white and red only?

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Chenonceaux

39
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Which Touraine villages authorizes white only?

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Oisly

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What are the styles and varietal makeup of Touraine-Amboise?

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Blanc: 100% Chenin Blanc
Rouge/Rosé: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cot, Gamay

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What are the styles and varietal makeup of Touraine-Mesland?

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Blanc: Chenin Blanc, plus Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay
Rouge: min. 60% Gamay, 10-30% Cot, 10-30% Cabernet Franc
Rosé: Gamay, plus Cot and Cabernet Franc

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What are the styles and varietal makeup of Touraine-Azay-le-Rideau?

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Blanc: 100% Chenin Blanc
Rosé: Grolleau, plus Cot, Gamay, and Cab Franc/Cab Sauv

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What are the styles and varietal makeup of Touraine-Chenonceaux?

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Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rouge: Majority Cot + Cab Franc, plus Gamay, no grape may exceed 70%

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What is the style and varietal makeup of Touraine-Oisly?

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100% Sauvignon Blanc

45
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What is Touraine Noble-Joué?

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A rosé only appellation for min. 40% Pinot Meunier, min. 20% Pinot Gris, min. 10% Pinot Noir

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What are the styles and varietal makeup of Coteaux du Loir?

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Blanc: 100% Chenin Blanc
Rosé: min. 50% Pineau d’Aunis plus Cot, Gamay, Grolleau

47
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What and where is Jasnières AOP?

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A white-only AOP for 100% Chenin Blanc inside the Coteaux du Loir.

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What are the styles and varietal makeup of the Coteaux du Vendômois?

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Blanc: min. 50% Chenin Blanc, plus Chardonnay
Rouge: min. 50% Pineau d’Aunis plus Pinot Noir, Cab Franc, Gamay
Rosé: 100% Pineau d’Aunis

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Along what river would you find the Coteaux du Vendômois?

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The Loir River

50
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What are the styles and varietal requirements for Valençay AOP?

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Blanc: min. 50% Sauvignon Blanc plus Orbois, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Gris
Rouge: Gamay, Pinot Noir, Cot, plus Cab Franc
Rosé: Gamay, Pinot Noir, Cot, plus Cab Franc, Pineau d’Aunis
For red/rosé, all three principal varieties must be present

51
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What are the styles and varietal requirements for Cheverny?

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Blanc: 60-84% Sauvignon Blanc/Gris, 16-40% Chardonnay/Chenin Blanc/Orbois
Rouge: 60-84% Pinot Noir, 16-40% Gamay, max 10% Cab Franc/Cot
Rosé: 60-84% Pinot Noir, 16-40% Gamay, max 25% Cab Franc/Cot

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What is the maximum RS in Sec Vouvray and Cour-Cheverny?

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8 g/L

53
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What is the maximum RS in Sec Savennières?

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4 g/L

(8 g/L if TA is within 2 g/L of RS)

54
Q

Where in Anjou is chaptalization permitted?

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Bonnezeaux AOP

55
Q

Other than the sweet wine appellations, where is chaptalization prohibited?

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Coulée de Serrant
Roche aux Moines
Many other AOP’s for wine with RS

56
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Huet: Vineyards

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-Le Haut Lieu: top of the hill (100M) behind the Huet house; Turonian limestone bedrock, covered by brown clay & chalk (aubuis).
-Clos de Bourg: to the west, directly north of the town of Vouvray, shallower topsoil (1M), similarly high elevation
-Le Mont: directly east of the Huet cellars, lower in elevation, deep topsoil of green clay with lumps of flint (perrons - clay and flint together is perruches).

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Foreau: Vineyards

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-Les Perruches: named for the soil, to the east of Le Mont

-Les Ruettes: farther back from the river, clay over limestone

58
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Foreau: Cuvées

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Sparkling: Brut (NV and Vintage, 3-4 years on the lees) and Brut Réserve (RD, 4-8 years on the lees)
Sec, Demi-Sec, 

Moelleux: passerillé, 60-80g/L
Moelleux Réserve: botrytis, 120-200g/L, not produced in every vintage.

Goutte d’Or: super-concentrated, botrytized. Produced in 1947, 1990, 2011.

Réserve de Première Trie: passilerage. Only produced in 1989.

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Chidaine: Montlouis

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SINGLE VINEYARDS
-Clos du Breuil: perruches, NW facing, always dry
-Clos Habert: clay and fine flint, just upslope of CdB, usually demi-sec
-Les Bournais: named for the type of limestone, generally sec. Also produces Franc de Pied (planted 1999)
CUVÉES
-Les Choisilles: generally sec, named for black flint
-Les Tuffeaux: generally sec-tendre, named for limestone
-Les Lys: SGN
-Brut Méthode Traditionelle, non-dosé

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Chidaine: Vouvray

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SINGLE VINEYARDS
-Clos Baudoin: 70yo vines, en gobelet, clay and chalky limestone, always sec
-Le Bouchet: 50yo vines, also clay-limestone, generally demi-sec or moelleux
-Les Argiles: clay and limestone

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Taille Aux Loups: Winemaking and Viticulture (Jacky Blot)

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Generally organic (uncertified). Harvested in tries. In high rot years, fruit is harvested berry by berry and sorted again at the end of the row.
No chaptalization. Nearly all wines fermented in oak; from all neutral to 25-33% new on single vineyard or sweet cuvées.

62
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Taille Aux Loups: Sparkling

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Triple Zero: Methode Ancestrale (Pet Nat)
Brut Tradition: Methode Traditionelle

63
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Taille Aux Loups: Montlouis

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-Les Dix Arpents (entry level, 50yo vines, old oak)
-Rémus/Rémus Plus (sec, new-to-2yo barrels, 40yo vines v. 70yo vines for Plus)
-Clos Michet
-Clos Mosny
-Demi-sec
-Moelleux
-Cuvée des Loups 
-Romulus/Romulus Plus (up to 80yo vines)

64
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Taille Aux Loups: Vouvray

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-Les Caburoches (previously Champs Rougets, entry level, sec)
-Clos de la Bretonnière (new-to-2yo barrels)
-Clos de Venise (same oak as Brentonnière)

65
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Raffault: Wines

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-Champs-Chenin (white, all stainless)
-Les Barnabés (sand/gravel, stainless, vin de soif)
-Les Peuilles (clay/flint, fermented in stainless, aged in foudre for 6-8mos)
-Les Picasses (limestone, 50yo vines, fermented in stainless, aged in foudre for 12-14mos).

65
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Baudry: Wines

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-Chinon Blanc
-Les Graves (25-30yo vines on alluvial soils near the river, all stainless)
-La Domaine/Chinon Rouge (75% gravel, 25% limestone, 35yo vines, fermented in cement)
-Les Grézeaux (gravel, 60yo vines, fermented in cement, aged in 1-5yo wood)
-Clos Guillot (limestone, young vines, fermented and aged in oak)
-La Croix Boissée (previously Cuvée Signature, limstone, 35yo vines, fermented and aged in oak)
Progressively lower yields going down the lineup.

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Joguet: Top Wines

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All fermented/aged in 1-3yo barrels between 12-22mos.
-Clos de la Dioterie (north facing, clay/chalk, 90yo vines)
-Clos du Chêne Vert (upstream of Chinon, southwest aspect, clay/silica/limestone)
-Les Varennes du Grand Clos (clay/gravel over limestone)
-Les Varennes du Grand Clos Franc de Pied (planted 1982; pulled up in 2006 or 2007)

67
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What are the two types of soils generally found in Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil?

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Clay-Chalk
Sandy-Gravel

68
Q

What vintage in the 2010’s did Saint-Nicolas-deBourgueil suffer significant frost damage?

2011
2013
2016
2019

A

What vintage in the 2010’s did Saint-Nicolas-deBourgueil suffer significant frost damage?

2011
2013
2016 $$
2019

69
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Name the 3 soil types of Chinon:

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Alluvial terraces with sandy, silt, and gravels on lower flatter lands
Tuffeau with clay on Coteaux/Hillsides
Flint with sandy and clay on puys

70
Q

What are 3 challenges to Chinon rarely coming close to 55 hl/ha yield?

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Lack of water retention in soil
Frost
Hail

71
Q

What is the soil type and appellation of Le Clos de l’Olive, Le Chene Vert, La Croix Boissee?

A

Tuffeau, Chinon

72
Q

Name a producer that labels the bottling as such, for each Le Clos de l’Olive, Le Chene Vert, La Croix Boissee?

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Couly-Dutheil, Le Clos de l’Olive, Chinon
Charles Jouget, Le Chene Vert, Chinon
Bernard Baudry, La Croix Boissee, Chinon (and they do a Chenin Blanc too!)

73
Q

What is the encepagement for Vouvray?

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95% Chenin Blanc min., max 5% Orbois

74
Q

What is max RS for Vouvray sec?

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Max. 8 g/l RS and TA must be within 2 g/l of total RS

75
Q

60% of Vouvray production is what allowable style?

A

Sparkling

76
Q

Vouvray, Rochecorbon, and ___________ are examples of communes of production in Vouvray.

A

Chancay, Parcay-Meslay, Reugny, Tours, Vernou-sur-Brenne, Noizay- along with Vouvray, Rochecorbon

77
Q

2018 and 2020 were both (pick one: hot/cool) vintages, and better for what style Vouvray?

A

Hot; demi-sec

78
Q

2021 was a hot/cool vintage?

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Cool

79
Q

What are the legal parameters for “sec tendre” Vouvray?

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There are none, unofficial term used by winemakers that implies style between sec and demi-sec.

80
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Name 2 types of soil found in Vouvray:

A

Tuffeau Limestone

Perruches- clay and flint top soil found at the top of the Premieres Cotes which create most delicate and fine expression by way of thinner depth, allowing vines to reach limestone more easily and aspect gives excelle

81
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Name Huet’s 3 single vineyards, their established year and the name of their dessert wine:

A

Le Haut Lieu- 1928

Le Mont- 1957

Clos de Bourg- 1963

Cuvee Constance

82
Q

Which producer pre-dated Domaine Huet and allowed the Huets to use their winery as a part of the marriage of their children Gaston and Germaine?

A

Domaine Foreau

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