Village Ranks And Crus Flashcards
For what is renowned the village of Montgueux, in the south (Aube department)?
The village of Montgueux may be viticulturally isolated but it produces one of Champagne’s more distinctive, and earliest-ripening, blending ingredients: sunny Chardonnay from a south-facing slope of chalk.
Which wines are sold under the appellation Coteaux Champenois?
For which wine is famous Bouzy village (Montagne de Reims district)? Which is its unique (for law, indeed is not permitted in no other part of the world, apart Champagne) aim?
The rare and comparatively tart still wines of the Champagne region, mostly light reds but occasionally whites, which tanks to their high acidity and light body are particularly adapt to dissolve carbon dioxide.
They are mainly produce in Bouzy (Bouzy Rouge) and Ambonnay (both, Grands Crus of Montaigne de Reims district), Äy and Cumières (situated in the Vallée de la Marne, of which the first one classified as a Grand Cru, whereas the second as Premier Cru).
The memorably named village of Bouzy is famous partly because a small quantity of still red wine is made there. Red is essential for tinting champagne rosé (and magically increasing its perceived value).
In Champagne, the marker of the quality of a terroir is not attached to an individual site as in Burgundy, but, rather crudely, to an entire village. Talking about village ranks, what is it the échelle des crus?
All Champagne-appellation villages are classified in a ranking known as the échelle (ladder) des crus, which gives the grapes of every commune a % rating.
Until this century an indicative grape price was agreed for the harvest as a whole:
1. A grower in one of the Grand Cru communes would be paid 100% of the price.
2. Premiers Crus would receive between 99% and 90%, according to their place on the ladder.
3. On down to 80% for some of the outlying areas.
However, nowadays the grape price is agreed on an individual basis between the grower and the producer, although the vineyard ratings may still apply.
Among champagnes made from region-wide blends, who has the highest average échelle des crus rating for their constituent wines?
Super-luxury “prestige” brands, such as Dom Pérignon, Roederer Cristal, Salon, Krug, Pol Roger’s Winston Churchill, Tattinger’s Comtes de Champagne.
What are Rosé des Riceys?
Briefly describe Rosé de Saignée method.
Rare, still, pink wine made in the commune of Riceys in the Aube département (southern point in Côte des Bar), the southern end of the champagne region. This dark, rose-coloured wine is made by careful saignée of Pinot Noir grapes, by only an handful of producers. It can be one of France’s more serious rosés. Like Champagne’s still red wine, Bouzy Rouge (see champenois, coteaux), part of its appeal may be its name.
French term meaning ‘bled’ for a winemaking technique which results in a rosé wine made by running off, or ‘bleeding’, a certain amount of free-run juice from just-crushed dark-skinned grapes after a short, prefermentation maceration. The aim of this may be primarily to produce a lightly pink wine, or to increase the proportion of phenolics and flavour compounds to juice, thereby effecting a form of concentration of the red wine which results from fermentation of the rest of the juice with the skins. The second operation has often been undertaken by ambitious producers of both red bordeaux and red burgundy.
How many Crus are there in Champagne?
320.
How many Grand Crus are there in Champagne?
17.
How many Premier Crus are there in Champagne?
42.
What is it Ratafia champenois?
Is an old, usually domestically produced wine-based apéritif made in the French countryside by drying grapes to a raisin-like state and then moistening and fermenting them in the spring. Ratafia champenois is self-explanatory but nowadays there are more profitable things to do with Champagne grapes.
The 17 GCs and the 41 PCs, altogether, in %, accounts for the:
30% of the total demarcated area.
Which are the 17 Grand Crus? From which districts come from the majority of?
- Montagne de Reims (9): Sillery, Puisieulx, Verzenay, Verzy, Mailly-Champagne, Louvois, Bouzy, Ambonnay, Beaumont-sur-Vesle;
- Côte des Blancs (6): Chouilly, Oiry, Cramant, Avize, Oger, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger;
- Vallée de la Marne: Tours-sur-Marne, Äy.
