Touraine Flashcards
styles/encepagement of Valencay (Touraine)
Blanc: 70% Sauvignon Blanc, accessories Orbois, Chard, Sauv Gris
Rose: 30-60% Gamay
Rouge: 30-60% Gamay
percentage of Pinot Noir required for Cheverny rouge and rosé
60 to 84% Pinot Noir complementary 16 to 40% Gamay
Assemblage: Cheverny Blanc
60 to 84% Sauvignon blanc and Sauvignon Gris complementary varieties 16-40% combined Chardonnay, Chenin and Orbois
What is Touraine Noble Joué AOP?
40% Meunier rosé with complementary varieties minimum 20% Pinot Gris 10% Pinot Noir
AOPs of Touraine
Touraine
Touraine Noble-Joué (40% meunier)
Chinon
Bourgeuil
Saint Nicolas de Bourgeuil
Vouvray
Montlouis sur Loire
Cheverny (sauvignon Blanc/Pinot noir)
Cour-Cheverny
Jasnieres
Coteau du Loir
Coteaux du Vendomois
Valencay (70% Sauvignon Blanc)
Principal soil type of Vouvray
tuffeau (limestone)
Sits in Paris Basin
sand, clay, flint, alluvial terraces with deposits of gravel
In Loire Valley, Cabernet Franc is known locally as _____
Breton
Appellations of Touraine that permit sparkling wine production
Touraine AOP
Vouvray AOP
Montlouis sur Loire AOP
Jasnieres (Touraine) is physically surrounded by this AOP
Coteaux du Loir AOP (65% Pinot d’aunis (rouge)
100%chenin (Blanc)
What are the range of sweetness levels for Vouvray
Sec (max 8g/l, Total Acidity within 2g/l of RS)
Sec Tendre
Demi Sec
Moelleux
Liquoreux
What are Varennes
Sandy alluvial soiles in Chinon closest to the river Vienne
Tuffeau on slopes makes age worthy
Assemblage for Chinon Rouge and Rosé
Chinon Blanc:
(1937)
Cabernet Franc plus Max 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
Chinon Blanc: 100% Chenin Blanc
They may be 100% CF but not legally required
Min abv% Chinon Blanc and Rouge
Blanc 10%
Rouge/Rosé 10.5%
Chinon producers
Charles Joguet
Olga Raffault
Bernard Baudry
Communes of production for Chinon
Thizay
Anché
Avoine
Avon-les-Roches
Beaumont-en-Véron
Brizay
Candes Saint Martin
Riviere
Couziers
Cravant-Les-Coteaux
Crouzilles
Huismes
L’lle-Bouchard
Lerné
Chinon
Saint Germain sur-Vienne
Vin Mousseaux a fermentation unique is ancestral method for this AOP as of this year
Montlouis sur Loire 2020
Has to be sec 8g/l
9 months on lees
disgorged no dosage
100% Chenin Blanc
Who Produces Clos du Papillon (Savenierres)
Baumard
Domaine des Forges
Domaine du Closel
This river runs through Chinon
Vienne
How is Bourgueil and St. Nicolas de Bourgueil different?
St. Nicolas de Bourgueil has sandy soil
Sandy silty soils yield more delicate wines that need cooler fermentation and more gentle extraction
Domaine Huet owns this Tokaji producer
Kiralyudvar
This AOP in Loire valley is 100% Pineau d’Aunis (in Touraine)
Coteaux du Vendomois
Produces wines in all three styles, but specializes in dry Rosé
Blanc is Chenin Blanc, plus max. 20% Chardonnay
main soils of Chinon
Varrennes (alluvial sand)
Tuffeau (soft limestone).
Also Perruches! (Very stony, flinty clays combined with silica, perruches soils warm up quickly and are said to be why Sauvignon Blanc grown on them have a flinty taste.)
Touraine’s Largest and most important wine district: Vouvray (1936)
Blanc: 11%
Base wines for Vin Mousseux/Pétillant: 9.5%
Traditional Method and 12 mos on lees
Max Yields:
Blanc: 52 hl/ha
Vin Mousseux/Pétillant: 65 hl/ha
Touraine Noble-Joué AOP is this:
vin gris, a blend of Gris Meunier (Pinot Meunier), Malvoisie (Pinot Gris), and Pinot Noir.
A traditional style
What vintage in the last 10 years saw extreme hail damage in Vouvray?
2013
2017
2021
Touraine lies between these cities and these rivers
Saumur to Blois
Loire and Cher Rivers
Most planted white and red varieties of Touraine
Sauvignon Blanc 43% of plantings
Gamay 21% of plantings
These Five small quality denominations of Touraine emerged within the AOC, accounting for 7% of production
Touraine Oisly
Touraine Chenonceaux
Touraine Amboise
Touraine-Azay-Le-Rideau
Touraine-Mesland
Encepagement for Touraine Amboise
Blanc: 100% Chenin Blanc
Rosé: min. 70% Cot with Gamay
Rouge: 100% Cot
Encepagement for Touraine “Mesland”:
Blanc: Min. 60% Chenin Blanc, max. 30% Sauvignon Blanc, max. 15% Chardonnay (the amount of Chardonnay in the vineyard may not exceed the amount of Sauvignon Blanc)
Rosé: Min. 80% Gamay, plus Cot and Cabernet Franc
Rouge: Min. 60% Gamay, 10-30% Cot, 10-30% Cabernet Franc
Encepagement for Touraine “Azay-le-Rideau”
(Easy rider, chenin Blanc)
Blanc: 100% Chenin Blanc
Rosé: Min. 60% Grolleau; plus Cot, Gamay, and max. 10% combined Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon
Encepagement for Touraine “Oisly”:
(Feeling Wiley with sauvignon Blanc)
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Encepagement for Touraine “Chenonceaux”:
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rouge: min. 50% Cot with min. 10% Cabernet Franc
Soils of Touraine Mesland
Flinty sands
Max Yields and training systems for Saint Nicolas de Bourgeuil and Bourgeuil
55 hl/ha
Guyot Simple
Communes of Production for Bourgueil AOP
Benais, Bourgueil, La Chapelle-sur-Loire, Chouzé-sur-Loire, Ingrandes-de-Touraine, Restigné, Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil, Saint-Patrice
Which is bigger: Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil or Bourgeuil
Bourgeuil
(1220 ha)
Saint Nicolas
(1069)
difference in soil between Bourgueil and Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil
Bourgueil: tuffeau and clay, on hillside near the protective forest in the North
Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil: Sandy Gravel, contributes to easy drinking style