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


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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.
Blanc: min 95% Chenin Blanc, plus a max. 5% Orbois
Vin Mousseux/Pétillant

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Aging for Vouvray Pétillant/Mousseux

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Wines may not be released until 12 months after the date of tirage (no specifics on lees aging)

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What is the current varietal makeup of Touraine Blanc?

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Blanc: Sauvignon Blanc and max. 20% Sauvignon Gris

(Prior to 2016: Chenin Blanc dominant, plus Sauv Blanc, Orbois, max 20% Chardonnay or Sauvignon Gris.
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What styles and varietals are authorized for Touraine?

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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 Varieties: 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 Noir

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What are the five appending villages in Touraine?

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Amboise

Mesland

Oisly
Chenonceaux
Azay-le-Rideau

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

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Amboise and Mesland

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Which Touraine village authorizes white and rosé only?

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Azay-le-Rideau

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Which Touraine village authorizes white and red only?

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Chenonceaux

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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
Rosé: min. 70% Cot with Gamay
Rouge: 100% Cot

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

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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

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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: Min. 60% Grolleau; plus Cot, Gamay, and max. 10% combined Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon

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

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Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rouge: min. 50% Cot with min. 10% Cabernet Franc

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

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100% Sauvignon Blanc

21
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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: Principal Variety: Min. 65% Pineau d’Aunis
Accessory Varieties (Max. 30% each): Cot, Gamay, and Grolleau
Rouge: Principal Variety: Min. 65% Pineau d’Aunis
Accessory Varieties (Max. 30% each): Cabernet Franc, Cot, and Gamay

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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

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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

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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 are the styles and varietal of Cour-Cheverny.

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White: 100% Romorantin

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

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8 g/L

30
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What is the maximum RS in Sec Savennières?

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4 g/L (8 g/L if total acidity is within 2 g/L of RS)

31
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Where in Anjou is chaptalization permitted?

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Bonnezeaux AOP

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

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Coulée de Serrant

Roche aux Moines

Quarts de Chaumes
Savennières AOP-prohibited in wines of demi-sec or sweeter quality

Many other AOP’s for wine with RS

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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).
 Huet’s original vineyard, on Vouvray’s Première Côte. Limestone and clay (GS)
-Clos de Bourg: to the west, directly north of the town of Vouvray, shallower topsoil (1M), stony limestone (GS), 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). Stony limestone soils (GS)

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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

35
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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, 2015.

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

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Chidaine: Montlouis

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SINGLE VINEYARDS

-Clos du Breuil: clay and flint (locally known as 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. Over looks the river, NW facing. 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. Made in exceptional vinatages

-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
. Clay and limestone soils over tuffeau bedrock. Southeast exposition (GS).
-Le Bouchet: 50yo vines, also clay-limestone, generally demi-sec or moelleux. Clay and chalky limestone soils over tuffeau bedrock. Northern exposition (GS).

-Les Argiles: clay and limestone

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Taille Aux Loups: Winemaking and Viticulture

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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.

39
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Taille Aux Loups: Sparkling

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

40
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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)

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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)

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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).

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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)

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Domaine de Bellivière: Wines

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Jasnières
-Les Rosiers: Sourced from vines up to 50 years old. The name translates to “the rosebuds.”
-Calligramme: Sourced from vines over 50 years old. Aged 20 months in barrel.

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What is believed to have planted Vouvray’s first Chenin Blanc vines?

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Marmoutier Abbey
-founded in the 4th Century by Saint Martin
-Domaine Vigneau-Chevreau is associated with this estate

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