Champagne Flashcards

1
Q

How many atmospheres of pressure in a regular bottle of champagne?

A

5-6

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2
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What was the first Rose released?

A

Ruinarts Oeil de Pedrix

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3
Q

What are the three zones of Champagne

A

Zone de l’elaboration
Zone de production
Zone parcellaire de production de raisins

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4
Q

What is the climate like in Champagne

A

Cool Continental

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5
Q

What does NM stand for

A

Negociant Manipulant

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6
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What does RM stand for

A

Recolant Manipulant

produces exclusively from their own vineyards

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7
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What does CM stand for

A

Cooperative de manipulation

Coop that sells wine made from its members grapes

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8
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What does SR stand for

A

Societe de recoltants

grou of growers who make champ from their own vines

normally family members

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9
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What are Negociant distributeurs?

A

merchant that buys bottles of finished champagne and markets it under their own name

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10
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What is MA

A

Marque auxilaire

brands like kroger, kirkland

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11
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What is the CIVC

A

Comite interporfessionnel du vin de Champagne

Clonal research project

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12
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What is the most planted grape in Champagne

A

Pinot Noir

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13
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What grape is the first bud break?

A

Chardonnay

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14
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What is the big grape of Cote de Blancs

A

Chardonnay

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15
Q

How many clones of Chardonnay are allowed

A

31

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16
Q

What are the other grapes allowed in Champagne

A

Arbanne
Fromenteau
Petit Meslier
Piont Blanc

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17
Q

What was the Echelle des Crus

A

classification of Champagne for 100 years
created in the 18th cen to formalized the prices of grapes for negociants

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18
Q

What was the price structure of Echelle des Crus

A

Grand Cru earns 100% of the price set by house/negociant
1er Cru 90-99%
All else 80-89%

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19
Q

Who created Prestige Cuvee concept

A

Laurence Venn, a UK markerting consultant

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20
Q

What was Prestige/Tete Cuvee a response too

A

Created as a response to the Great Depression

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21
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What was the first vintage of Prestige?

A

1921

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22
Q

When was the special club established

A

1971

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23
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What is the special club

A

a collection of growers marketing their wines to compete with larger negociants
Must pass a tasting panel
Bottles are shaped from the 1700s

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24
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How many wineries started the special club

A

12

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25
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Who are the three remainning from the 12 that founded the Special Club

A

Paul Bara
Gaston Chiquet
Pierre Gimonnet

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26
Q

How many subvillages in Montagne de Reims

A

94

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27
Q

What is the main grape of Montagne de Reims

A

Pinot Noir

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28
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What are the subdistricts of Montagne de Reims

A

Grand Montagne
Massif de Saint-Thierry
Monts de Berru
Ardre Valley
Vesle Valley
City of Reims

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29
Q

What is the most important subdistrict in Montagne Reims

A

Grande Montagne

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30
Q

What are the big grand crus in Grande Montagne

A

Ambonnay, Beaumont-sur-Vesle, Bouzy, Louvois, Mailly, Puisieux, Sillery, Tours-Sur-Marne, Verzenay, Verzy

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31
Q

Whats the Grand Cru in Vallee de la Marne

A

Ay

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32
Q

What is the big grape of Vallee de la Marne

A

Meunier

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33
Q

What are the Grand Crus in Cote des Blancs

A

Chouilly, Oiry, Cramant, Avize, Oger, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger

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34
Q

What are the sub regions of Cote des Blancs

A

Cotes des Blancs
Montgueux
Cote de Sezanne
Coteaux du Morin
Vitryat

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35
Q

Grand cru village of Montagne de Reims with the most plantings

A

Verzy

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36
Q

What is the best Lieu-dit in Couilly

A

Montaigu

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37
Q

Departments of Champagne

A

Aube
Aisne
Marne
Haute-Marne
Seine et Marne

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38
Q

What is fromenteau

A

Pinot Gris in Champagne

39
Q

This percentage of a years harvest may be sold as vintage champagne

A

Max 80%

40
Q

Aging for vintage and non vintage champagne

A

Non Vintage- 15 months
Vintage- 36 months

41
Q

P Cru villages in Champagne with a score of 99

A

Mareuil-sur-Ay (marne)
Tauxieres (Montagne)

42
Q

Sizes of Campagne bottles

MJMSBNS

A

Piccolo 187
demi 375
bottle 750
Magnum 1.5L
Jeroboam 3L
Rehoboam* 4.5L
Methusaleh 6L
Salamanthar 9L
Balthazar 12L
Nebuchadnezzar 15L
Solomon 18L

43
Q

What is bouvreaux

A

When rain interrupts flowering, so there is a second crop after the first harvest

second crop is high acid

44
Q

Minimum potential alcohol for champange base wines

A

9%

45
Q

Max RS Champange base wines

A

10g/l

46
Q

Sugar levels for champagne

A

Brut Nature- 0-3
Extra Brut 3-6
Brut 6-12
Extra Dry 12-17
Dry
Demi sec

47
Q

Champagne press is called

A

Cocquard

48
Q

First prodcution of Cristal

A

1945

1876 for the Czar

49
Q

Amount of sugar required to create 6 atmospheres of pressure

A

24 g/l

50
Q

Where is Meunier planted in GC of Valley of Marne

A

Ay 3%

51
Q

What is Marc de Champagne

A

Brandy made with pomace of Champagne grapes

52
Q

Soil types on Champagne

A

Belemnite- high limestone content
Micraster- found on valley
Clay- found in Aube, over kimmeridgian

53
Q

Avoid these champagne vintages

A

2001
2003

54
Q

Rivers of Champagne

A

Marne
Seine
Aube

55
Q

Training methods in Champagne

A

Cordon de Royat
Chablis
Vallee de la Marne
Guyot

56
Q

How many bottles on a gyropallett

A

504

57
Q

What is MCR in Champagne production?

A

Mout concentre et rectifie

Concentrated and rectified grape must, preferred by many smaller growers for the dosage, instead of the traditional liqueur d’expédition.

58
Q

Who invented the gyropallett

A

1968 by Jacques Ducion and Caude Cazals

59
Q

Who invented chaptalization

A

Jean Antoine Chaptal

60
Q

Only AOC/AOP that does not need to include Appellation Contrôlée (or Protégée) on the label.

A

Chamapgne

61
Q

The caves of Champagne provide a storage environment of ____ degrees for millions of bottles

A

53-54

62
Q

When was “Les bleus de ville” outlawed in Champagne? Champenoise have a long history of relying on recycled Parisian garbage to fertilize their vineyards, blue plastic bags

A

1998

63
Q

Bollinger top wines

Ay

A

La Grande Annee (tete)
RD
Grande Annee Rose
VV FRrancaise
Special Cuvee NV

64
Q

What is the most recent vintage of Krug Clos d’Ambonnay

A

2006

95,96,98,00,02,06

65
Q

What grape is Krugs Clos d’Ambonnay made from

A

Blanc de Noirs

66
Q

What is Krugs Clos du Mesnil made from

A

Blanc de Blancs

67
Q

What was the first vintage of Salon Le-Mesnil-Sur-Oger

A

1905

68
Q

What is unique about Jacques Selosse Substance

A

Grand Cru wine made via Solera that was started in 1987

69
Q

What is unique about Vilmart & Cie

A

They only make wine from their vines, in Rilly (Montagne)

70
Q

What is Bollingers Coteaux Champenois production

A

Coteaux Enfant

still wine

71
Q

Charles Heidsieck Tete

Reims

A

Champagne Charlie (Discont.)
Blanc des Millenaires

72
Q

Dieblolt Vallois Tete de Cuvee

Cramant

A

Fleur de Passion

73
Q

Drappier Tete de Cuvee

Urville

A

Charles de Gaulle

74
Q

Deuval Leroy Tete de Cuvee

Vertus

A

Femme de Champagne

75
Q

Gosset Tete de Cuvee

Epernay

A

Celebris

76
Q

Delamotte Tete de Cuvee

Mesnil Oger

A

Nicolas Louis Delamotte

77
Q

Deutz Tete de Cuvee

Ay

A

Cuvee William Deutz

78
Q

Moet and Chandon Tete de Cuvee

A

MCIII

79
Q

Business partners of Salon

A

Delamotte

80
Q

First comercial Tete de Cuvee

A

Dom Perignon 1921

81
Q

First biodynamic producer of Champagne

A

Fleury 1992

82
Q

Who owns Salon and Delamotte

A

Laurent Perrier

83
Q

Who makes Ace of Spades

A

Armand de Brignac

& Jay Z

84
Q

Salosse Demi Sec

A

Exquisme

Avize

84
Q

Henriot Tete de Cuvee

A

Hemera

85
Q

Which Agrapart bottling has 6 of the 7 grapes

A

Complantee

86
Q

This producer has a bottling of all 7 grapes

A

Nombre d’Or by Aubry

87
Q

What is Ratafia Champenois, and name a producer

A

Eau de Vie made from Champagne grapes and fortifed with Brandy

Champagne Dumangin

88
Q

Mumm Champagne Tete de Cuvee

A

Cuvee R. Lalou

89
Q

First Brut Champagne

A

Pommery ‘Nature’

1874

90
Q

Best Champagne vintages of the 2000s

A

2000
2012
2015
2018

91
Q

Billecart Sallmon Tete de Cuvees

A

Nicolas Francois Billecart
Grand Cuvee
Elizabeth Salmon Rose

92
Q

Laurent Perrier Vintage Rose Tete de Cuvee

A

Alexandra

93
Q

First vintage of Dom Ruinart

A

1959