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Types and Styles of Champagne Flashcards

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NV

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  • Never-ending story through multiple vintages
  • Vintage/ Current product/ reserve wines= the blend
  • Typically they have a higher proportion of P/ Meunier as the grape matures faster
  • Usually higher in Dosage than vintage wines
  • Most producers biggest production
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Vintage

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  • Story of one growing season, only crafted in good vintages
  • Low production
  • Used to be the top wine of a house, until Tete De Cuvees
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Tete de Cuvee

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  • Uses only top quality fruit, usually vintage holdings
  • Old vines, special parcels or Grand Cru sites, lower yields, oak regiment, prolonged lees contact, and/ or extensive cellar aging
  • Can be put in special packaging and special bottles
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Blanc de Blancs

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  • White sparkling from white grapes
  • Can be light and lacey to more mouth filling and fuller bodied
  • Up until 1980 you could have Pinot Blanc, Pinot Meslier, Arbanne- no longer permitted
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Blanc de Noirs

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  • Made exclusively from black grapes
  • Usually carries a bit more tannin and a more overt expressive aroma
  • Powerful and fruity on the palate
  • Lower in acid than B de B
  • Common misanomer that not as long lived as 100% Chardonnay champagnes
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Late- Disgorged

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  • Champagne that has spent years (or decades) sur pointe
  • Mature without oxidation and are quite youthful and fresh when sent to market (despite age)
  • Depending on time spent on lees they have a short or long life span
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Rose

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  • Delicate tannic grip
  • Most are made by adding 8- 20% top quality red wine (Pinot Noir) to the base wine before prise de mousse
  • Some houses make a rose de saignee
  • Hardest part about crafting rose is balancing flavour and texture
  • Tannin is bitter and astringent, this can add to a wine, but also distract
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Special Club

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  • Formed In 1971 as “Club De Viticultures Champenois’- to set exacting standards of quality within the membership and delivers wines of character and distinction
  • 1999 changed its name to “Club Tresors De Champagne” and bottle their peer reviewed, prestige Cuvees as ‘special club’
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What are the rules of Special Club?

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  • Each member must make his or her champagne on their own premises, use their own grapes, only in outstanding years
  • Subject to 2 blind tastings conducted by a panel of oenologists and wine professionals; the first at the still wine stage (Cuvee); the second, sometime after a minimum of 3 years in bottle
  • Only after all this may the champagne be labelled as “Special Club”
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What design is the Special Club bottle based on?

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An 18th Century design

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How is a vintage rated on in Special Club?

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  • It’s rated via group consensus, not by individual opinion
  • The group gather and consider if the vintage is special enough
  • It’s so Each member makes a Cuvee for consideration
  • The review panel consists of enologists and a member of a winemaker panel serves as a judge
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How long are Special Club cuvees usually aged for?

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  • 3 years (at a minimum)
  • Because Of the age, a number Of vintages can represent ‘Current Release’ among Club Tresors
  • In the past all members used the same label (with different producer names)
  • Now they can use any individual label, but must use the signature bottle
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The disadvantage of Special Club Champagne?

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  • Orignally for Different Terroir
  • But they have effectively created a brand (the antithesis Of their original idea)
  • Some think that the Special Club have lost their way
  • Seems to be a common problem, rarely do they show the ‘crus’, the parcels of the blend; but express a vision worth a colourful proprietary name that, although unique camouflages their uniqueness
  • By building a brand the terroirists are replicating the work of the Negociants, thus losing their message and their competitive advantage
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How many members of Club Tresor are there?

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28

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“Solera” Champagnes?

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  • Some producers keep a single stainless steel tank or oak fudre of ‘perpetual reserve’
  • Not technically a ‘solera’ doesn’t undergo controlled oxidation, nor biologically aged like in Jerez
  • Added to based on each producers specific harvest parameters (ie best vintages, high acid vintages, etc)
  • Only a portion of this still wine Cuvee is put in bottle to undergo Prise De Mousse at any given time
  • The rest is maintained to assimilate and educate the new wine (when added) in order to keep a ‘perpetual reserve’
  • So Solera is actually overwhelmingly Reserve wine
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NM (Negociant- Manipulant)

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  • Producers who uses grapes purchased from others in the vinification process
  • They can also use their own fruit
  • All big champagne houses are NMs
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RM (Recoltant- Manipulant)

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  • Only Produces wine using estate grown grapes
  • Was originally not allowed to purchase any grapes, but current law allows 5% of their volume to others
  • Was alllowed to allow Chardonnay producers to purchase P/ Noir for Rose
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RC (Recoltant- Cooperateur)

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  • A grape grower with a Winemaking co-operative cellar
  • A RC brings his or her grapes to co-op which vinifies them
  • The RC then retrieves the final wine and sells it under his or her private label
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SR (Societe De Recoltants)

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  • Group Of growers who jointly Vinify and sell one communial or several communial brands
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CM (Cooperative De Manipulation)

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  • A co- operative cellar which vinifies the grapes of its member growers
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Champagne Paul Bara- Club De Tresors

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Bouzy, Ambonnay (Montagne de Reims)

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Champagne Roland Champion- Club De Tresors

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Chouilly (Cote Des Blancs), Nerneuil (Rive Droite)

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Champagne Charlier et Fils- Club De Tresors

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Chatillon- sur- Marne (Rive Droite)

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Champagne Gaston Chiquet- Club De Tresors

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Dizy, Ay, Mareuil- sur- Ay, Hautvillers ( Grand Vallee), Crugny, Nanteuil- la- Foret (Val de Reims)

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Champagne Dumenil- Club De Tresors

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Chigny- les- Roses, Rilly- la- Montagne, Ludes (Montagne de Reims)

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Champagne Forget- Chemin- Club De Tresors

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Mailly, Verzenay, Ludes, Taissy (Montagne de Reims), Pevy (Massif de Saint Thierry), Tresion, Faverolles (Val de Reims), Vandieres, Verneuil (Rive Droite), Port- a- Binson (part of Mareuil le- Port, Rive Gauche)

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Champagne Fresnet- Juillet: Club De Tresors

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Verzy (Montagne de Reims), Bisseuil (Grand Vallee)

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Champagne Pierre Gimonnet et Fils: Club De Tresors

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Cramant, Chouilly, Oger, Cuis, Vertus (Cote des Blancs)

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Champagne J.M Goulard: Club De Tresors

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Prouilly, Pevy, Hermonville (Massif de Saint- Thierry), Voigny (Bar sur Arbois)

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Champagne Henri Goutorbe: Club De Tresors

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Ay, Mareuil- sur- Ay, Mutigny, Bisseuil, Avenay Val d’Or, Cumieres, Hautvillers (Grand Vallee), Gye- sur- Seine (Barsequanais), Cote de Sezanne

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Champagne Grongnet: Club De Tresors

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Etoges (Val du Petit Morin)

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Champagne Marc Hebrart: Club De Tresors

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Avenay Val d’Or, Ay, Mareuil- sur- Ay, Avize, Dizi, Bisseuil, Hautvillers (Grand Vallee), Avize, Oiry, Chouilly (Cotes des Blancs)

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Champagne Hervieux Dumez: Club De Tresors

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Sacy, Chamery, Mery (Val de Reims)

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Champagne Vincent Joudart: Club De Tresors

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Ferebrianges (Val du Petit Morin)

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Champagne Juillet- Lallement: Club De Tresors

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Verzy, Sillery (Montagne de Reims)

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Champagne Larmandier Pere Et Fils: Club De Tresors

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Cramant, Cuis, Chouilly (Cote des Blancs)

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Champagne J. Lassalle: Club De Tresors

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Chigny- les- Roses (Montagne de Reims)

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Champagne Joseph Loriot- Pagel: Club De Tresors

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Festigny, Mareuil- le- Port, Nesles- le- Repons, Le Breuil (Rive Gauche); Avize, Cramant, Oger (Cote des Blancs)

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Champagne A. Margaine: Club De Tresors

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Villers- Marmery (Montagne de Reims)

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Champagne Remy Massin et Fils: Club De Tresors

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Ville- sur- Arce, Landreville (Barsequanais)

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Champagne Jose Michel et Fils: Club De Tresors

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Moussy, Brugny (Sud Epernay), Saint- Agnan (Conde), Brasles (Vallee de la Marne Ouest)

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Champagne Mousse Fils: Club De Tresors

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Cuisles (once merged with Chatillon, independent commune as of 2006), Jonquery, Chatillon, Vandieres (all Rive Droite)

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Champagne Mouzon- Leroux et Fils: Club De Tresors

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Verzy (Montagne de Reims)

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Champagne Nomine- Renard: Club De Tresors

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Etoges, Villevenard (Val du Petit Morin), Allemant, Broyes (Cote de Sezanne), Charly (Marne Ouest), Passy- Grigny (Rive Droite)

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Champagne Salmon: Club De Tresors

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Chaumuzy (Vallee d’Ardre)

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Champagne Sanchez- Le Guedard: Club De Tresors

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Damery (Rive Droite), Cumieres, Oger (Cote Des Blancs)

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Champagne Vazart- Coquart et Fils: Club De Tresors

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Chouilly (Cote Des Blancs)

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Champagne Pertois Moriset: Club De Tresors

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Le Mesnil (Cote Des Blancs), Sezannais

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RM (Recoltant Manipulant)

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  • Only produces wine using estate grown grapes
  • Was Originally not allowed to purchase any grapes, but current law allows 5% of their volume to others
  • Was allowed to allow chardonnay producers to purchase P/N for Rose
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RC (Recoltant Cooperateur)

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  • A grape grower with a winemaking co-operative cellar
  • A RC brings his or her grapes to co-op which vinifies them
  • The RC then retrieves the final wine and sells it under his or her private label
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MA (Marque Auxillaire, Marque d’Acheteur, or Marque Autorisee)

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  • Private label registered by and individual, group or society (restaurant wine store, supermarket, etc)
  • This private label could be any of the types of producers listed above
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ND (Negotiant Distributeur)

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  • Wine buyer who purchases finished wines and gives them his or her own private label

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