Touraine COPY Flashcards
What are the three soil types of Chinon AOP?
Yellow Tuffeau - Turonian limestone formed 90 mill years ago along the riverbanks (higher elevation than the banks)
Clay - formed during the Senoian period 85-66 million years ago found in the plateaus and hillhocks
Varennes (alluvial sands) - along the banks of the Vienne
What styles are permitted in Bourgeuil and St. Nicolas de Bourgeuil?
Red/Rosé only. Cabernet Franc plus max 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
What styles are permitted in Chinon AOP?
White: 100% Chenin Blanc
Red/Rosé: Cab Franc plus max 10% Cab Sauv
What is the difference between Bourgeuil and St. Nicolas de Bourgeuil?
More alluvial soils in St. Nicolas de Bourgeuil result in a correspondingly lighter style of wine.
Vouvray is north or south of the river?
North
What is the major soil of Vouvray?
Tuffeau limestone
What are the varietal requirements for Vouvray?
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
Aging for Vouvray Pétillant/Mousseux
Wines may not be released until 12 months after the date of tirage (no specifics on lees aging)
What is the current varietal makeup of Touraine Blanc?
Blanc: Sauvignon Blanc and max. 20% Sauvignon Gris
(Prior to 2016: Chenin Blanc dominant, plus Sauv Blanc, Orbois, max 20% Chardonnay or Sauvignon Gris. )
What styles and varietals are authorized for Touraine?
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
What are the five appending villages in Touraine from West to East?
Rider (Azay-le-Rideau) and Amber (Amboise) love Chenin (Chenonceaux) because it is mysterious (mesland) and oily (Oisly).
Azay-le-Rideau
Amboise
Chenonceaux
Mesland
Oisly
Which two Touraine villages authorize red, white, and rosé?
Amber (Amboise) and Meshell (Mesland) throw back and drink white, rosé and red.
Amboise and Mesland
Which Touraine village authorizes white and rosé only?
Rider (Azay-le-Rideau) is a bitch and only drinks white and rosé.
Azay-le-Rideau
Which Touraine village authorizes white and red only?
Chenaya (Chenonceaux) only drinks red and white.
Chenonceaux
Which Touraine villages authorizes white only?
Ollie (Oisly) is a white dude who likes white wine.
Oisly
What are the styles and varietal makeup of Touraine-Amboise?
Blanc: 100% Chenin Blanc
Rosé: min. 70% Cot with Gamay
Rouge: 100% Cot
What are the styles and varietal makeup of 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
What are the styles and varietal makeup of Touraine-Azay-le-Rideau?
Blanc: 100% Chenin Blanc
Rosé: Min. 60% Grolleau; plus Cot, Gamay, and max. 10% combined Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon
What are the styles and varietal makeup of Touraine-Chenonceaux?
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rouge: min. 50% Cot with min. 10% Cabernet Franc
What is the style and varietal makeup of Touraine-Oisly?
100% Sauvignon Blanc
What is Touraine Noble-Joué?
A rosé only appellation for min. 40% Pinot Meunier, min. 20% Pinot Gris, min. 10% Pinot Noir
What are the styles and varietal makeup of Coteaux du Loir?
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
What and where is Jasnières AOP?
A white-only AOP for 100% Chenin Blanc inside the Coteaux du Loir.
What are the styles and varietal makeup of the Coteaux du Vendômois?
Blanc: min. 50% Chenin Blanc, plus Chardonnay
Rouge: min. 50% Pineau d’Aunis, plus Pinot Noir, Cab Franc, Gamay
Rosé: 100% Pineau d’Aunis
Along what river would you find the Coteaux du Vendômois?
The Loir River
What are the styles and varietal requirements for Valençay AOP?
Blanc: min. 50% Sauvignon Blanc plus Orbois, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Gris
Rouge: Principal Varieties: 30-60% Gamay, min. 10% Pinot Noir, min. 10% Cot
Accessory Variety: Max. 20% Cabernet Franc
Rosé: Principal Varieties: 30-60% Gamay, min. 10% Pinot Noir, min. 10% Cot (Malbec)
Accessory Varieties: Max. 20% Cabernet Franc, max. 30% Pineau d’Aunis
For red/rosé, all three principal varieties must be present
What are the styles and varietal requirements for Cheverny?
Blanc: 60-84% Sauvignon Blanc/Gris, 16-40% Chardonnay/Chenin Blanc/Orbois
Rouge: 60-84% Pinot Noir, 16-40% Gamay, max 5% Cot
Rosé: 60-84% Pinot Noir, 16-40% Gamay, max 5% Cot
What are the styles and varietal of Cour-Cheverny.
White: 100% Romorantin
What is the maximum RS in Sec Vouvray and Cour-Cheverny?
Vouvray: 4g/l (8 g/L if total acidity must be within 2 g/l of the total residual sugar.)
Cour-Chevery: 4g/l
Sec with 13.5% abv: 6 g/l
What is the maximum RS in Sec Savennières?
4 g/L (8 g/L if total acidity is within 2 g/L of RS)
Where in Anjou is chaptalization permitted?
Bonnezeaux AOP
Other than the sweet wine appellations, where is chaptalization prohibited?
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
Huet: Vineyards
-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)
Foreau: Vineyards
-Les Perruches: named for the soil, to the east of Le Mont
-Les Ruettes: farther back from the river, clay over limestone
Foreau: Cuvées
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.
Chidaine: Montlouis
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
Chidaine: Vouvray
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
Taille Aux Loups: Winemaking and Viticulture
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.
Taille Aux Loups: Sparkling
Triple Zero: Methode Ancestrale (Pet Nat)
Brut Tradition: Methode Traditionelle
Taille Aux Loups: Montlouis
-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)
Taille Aux Loups: Vouvray
-Les Caburoches (previously Champs Rougets, entry level, sec)
-Clos de la Bretonnière (new-to-2yo barrels)
-Clos de Venise (same oak as Brentonnière)
Raffault: Wines
-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).
Baudry: Wines
-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.
Joguet: Top Wines
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)
Domaine de Bellivière: Wines
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.
What is believed to have planted Vouvray’s first Chenin Blanc vines?
Marmoutier Abbey
-founded in the 4th Century by Saint Martin
-Domaine Vigneau-Chevreau is associated with this estate
Where do you find the soil millarges? What is it?
Chinon
-a sandier form of yellow tuffeau
What is the soil type in Bourgeuil and St. Nicolas de Bourgeuil?
St Nicolas de Bourgeuil:
silty gravel, sand and gravel and tuffeau.
Borgeuil:
Sand and pebbles (gravel) closest to the river
Tuffeau limestone on the slopes
Gravel = lighter wines
tuffeau = sturdier wines
Where is the vienne river?
Tributary of the Loire River
Chinon stradles this tributary.
What departments does Touraine cover?
Sarthe
Indre-et-Loire
Loir-et-Cher
Indre
Where is the Cher River?
Touraine
-tributary of the Loire
Where is the Indre river?
Loire Valley
Triubtary of the loire river
Touraine Azay-le-Rideau sits in b/w these two rivers
Where will you find the following soil types?
Perruches, Aubuis, Aeolian sands
Perruches: soils where clay and siliceous conglomerates meet (clay/flint).
-Azay-le-Rideau
-Amboise
-Chenonceaux
-Vouvray
Aubuis: warm, permeable clay-limestone soils.
-Azay-le-Rideau
-Amboise
Aeolian sands: more or less clayey sand soils.
-Azay-le-Rideau
Where do you find Sologne sands?
Touraine-Oisly
Name 3 rivers that affect Vouvray?
Loire
Cisse
Brenne
What grapes in Vouvray are destined for sparkling?
-from the deeper, clay-rich topsoils
-create a cooler, damper environment
-the grapes take longer to ripen and may not attain the same level of ripeness as those on the côtes
Why are grapes from the cotes in Vouvray destined for fine still wine?
-topsoil is clay/flint with touffeau limestone below
-thinner topsoil on the cotes, vines can reach limestone more easily
-better sun exposure so grapes can achieve ripeness more easily
What is max rs for Vouvray sec, demi-sec, moelleux and doux?
Sec: max. 8 g/l (Total acidity must be within 2 g/l of the total residual sugar.)
Demi-sec: 9-18 g/l
Moelleux: 18-45 g/l
Doux: 45+ g/l
Montlouis-sur-Loire sits between which 2 rivers?
Loire
Cher
What are the communes of production for Vouvray from West to East?
I am touring (Tours) with the Corbyns (Rochecourbon) the city of vouvray (vouvray). We will go to a a park (Parçay-Meslay) on the river Brenne (Vernou-sur-Brenne) and we take our chances (Chançay) and be noisy (Noizay).
Tours
Rochecorbon
Vouvray
Parçlay-Meslay
Veroun-sur-Brenne
Chançay
Noizay
What is Vin Mousseux á Fermentation Unique?
Pet nat, one time fermentation, aged 9 months on the lees.
Styles authorized for Cour-Cheverny.
Blanc
Sec
Moelleux
Min RS levels of Cour Cheverny.
Sec: max. 4 g/l
Sec with 13.5% abv: 6 g/l
Moelleux: 20-45 g/l
What river does Jansnieres lie on?
Loir
-tributary of the Loire
