RM Producers Flashcards

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Where is Vilmart, and when was it established?

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Rilly-La-Montagne (Montagne de Reims), 1890

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Vilmart: House Style

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All wines spend time in oak (size and age varies, smaller barrels for vintage wine), minimum 10 months. No ML.

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Vilmart: Cuvees Produced

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Grand Réserve (70/30 PN/Chard)
Grand Cellier (70/30 Chard/PN)
Cuvee Rubis (Rose, 90% PN)
Grand Cellier Rubis (Vintage Rose, 60% PN)
Grand Cellier d’Or (Vintage, 80% Chard)
Coeur de Cuvee (Vintage, Prestige Cuvee, 80% Chard)

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Where is Pierre Péters, and what year was it established?

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Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, 1919

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In what villages does Pierre Péters own acreage?

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

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Pierre Péters: House Style

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100% Chardonnay except the rosé. Full ML. All wines raised in stainless steel tank.

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Pierre Péters: Wines Produced

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Cuvée de Réserve (stainless solera; 50% current vintage, 50% previous)

Réserve Oubliée (Cuvée de Réserve with one extra year in tank)

Cuvée Spéciale Les Chetillons (Single Vineyard)

Rosé for Albane (Rosé - Chard plus saignée PN)

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Inaugural Vintage for Cuvée Spéciale Les Chetillons

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1971

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Where is Egly-Ouriet, and when was it established?

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Ambonnay; 1950’s.

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Egly-Ouriet: House Style

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Pinot Noir dominant; powerful and intense. 8-10mos in barrique. ML is dependent on vintage.

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Egly-Ouriet: Wines Produced

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Tradition (70/30 PN/Chard)
VP Extra Brut (Vieillissiement Prolongé: 6 years on the lees, same blend as Tradition)
Vignes de Vrigny (100% Meunier)
Vintage: Brut, Brut Rosé
Les Crayères Vieilles Vignes NV (100% PN)

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Inaugural vintage of Les Crayères

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1989

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Where is Jacques Selosse, and when was it established?

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Avize, 1960

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14
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Founding date for Substance solera?

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1986

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15
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What are Brut Initial and Version Originale?

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Two cuvées of Selosse from Avize, Oger, and Cramant, NV.
Initial is lower slope vines from the 2000’s
Version Originale is upper slopes and older vintages


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16
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What are the lieu-dits of Jacques Selosse?

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La Côte Faron - PN, Ay
Les Carelles - Chard, Le Mesnil

Sous le Mont - PN, Mareuil

Bout du Clos - PN, Ambonnay

Les Chantereines - Chard, Avize

Chemin de Châlons - Chard, Cramant

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What was the original name of La Côte Faron?

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Contraste

18
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Selosse: House Style

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Ambient yeast fermentation. Fermentation in barrel (piece, fût, demi-muid). ML may or may not occur. Aged in solera. Supremely oxidative.

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Where is Pierre Gimmonet and what year was it established?

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Cuis, 1935

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What is unique about Gimmonet’s vineyard holdings?

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Average vine age is 35, much older than most, including 80 year old vines in the Terre des Buissons lieu-dit.

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Gimmonet: Wines produced

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Cuis 1er Cru Blanc de Blancs
Gastronome (bottled at lower pressure, 48mos on the lees)

Fleuron (72mos on the lees)

Oenophile (Extra Brut, 84mos on the lees)

Paradoxe (50/50 PN/Chard - only non-BdB)

Spécial Club

Spécial Club Millésime de Collection (Special Club in Magnums)

22
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Where is Gaston Chiquet, and when was it established?

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Dizy, Vallée de la Marne; 1935

23
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Gaston Chiquet: House Style

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No oak, full ML. High % Meunier (40%, plus 40% Chard and 20% PN)

24
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What is unique about Gaston Chiquet’s Blanc de Blancs d’Aÿ?

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In a village known for PN, it is the only BdB produced.

25
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Gaston Chiquet is credited with pioneering what movement?

A

RM

26
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Where is René Geoffroy, and when was it established?

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Cumières, 1970’s.

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R. Geoffroy: House Style

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Fermented in oak, no ML. Pinot Noir is the backbone of production.

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What is unique about Geoffroy’s NV cuvées?

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Most are the product of a single vintage.

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Geoffroy: Wines Produced

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Expression (50% Meunier, 40% PN, 10% Chard)

Empreinte (69% PN, 19% Chard, 12% Meunier)
Volupté (60% PN, 40% Chard)

Rosé de Saignée (100% PN, deeper in color)

Blanc de Rosé (60% PN, 40% Chard, saignée, lighter and fresher)

Millésime Extra Brut (?) (70% Chard, 30% PN)

Coteaux Champenois Rouge (100% PN from Cumières)

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Agrapart wines produced.

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7 crus (7 different villages, 100% Chard)
Terroirs (Grand cru villages of Avize, Oger, Cramant and Oiry, 100% Chard)
Complantée (PN, PM, Pinot Blanc, Arbane, Petit Meslier, Chard all from La Fosse in Avize)
Mineral (vintage, 2 vineyards in Avize and Cramant, 40 yr old vines,100% Chard)
Venus (vintage, 100% Chard from La Fosse in Avize)
L’Avizoise (vintage, 100% chard, comes from 2 vineyards, 50 year old vines)
Expression (champagne produced from only grapes, no yeast, sugar and dosage)

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Bereche wines produced. Where is Bereche located?

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Located in Ludes
Brut Reserve (70% base year, 1/3 Chard, PN, PM
Les Beaux Regards (100% Chard, from two lieux-dits in Ludes called Les Beaux Regards (planted in 1902) and Le Clos)
Rive Gauche (100% PM from Mareuil-le Port, 50 year old vines)
Campania Remensis Rosé (2/3 PN, 1/3 Chard, from Ormes)
Le Cran (50/50 Chard/PN from best sites in Ludes)
Rilly la Montagne (100% PN, 36 year old vines)
Mailly
Ambonnay
Reflet d’Antan (Perpetual Reserve, equal parts, PN ,PM, Chard, oldest wine 1985)

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Frederic Savart Wines. Where is he located?

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Ecueil
L’Ouverture (100% PN from Ecueil)
L’Accompile (PN/Chard)
L’Année (vintage, PN/Chard, vinified in barrel, no malo)
Expression (vintage, brut nature, PN from Ecuiel, 60 yr old vines)
Expression Rosé (small % of red wine added)
Le Mont des Chretiens (Chard, single vineyard in Ecueil, 600 liter oak barrels)

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Chartogne Taillet wines

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Cuvée Sainte-Anne
Rosé
Les Barres (ungrafted meunier)
Orizeaux (PN)
Heurtebise (Chardonnay)
Les Alliées (PM, grafted vines, lighter and fruiter than Les Barres)
Les Couarres (60% PN, 40% Chard)
Couarres Chateau (100% PN)

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Cedric Bouchard Wines. Where is he located?

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Located in Landreville in Cotes de Bar
all stainles, lower atm of pressure, min amt of time on lees
Cote de Val Vilaine (PN, released earlier than the others)
Cote de Bechalin (PN, riper and exotic)
Presles (PN, 10 diff root stock, very fruity)
Les Ursules (PN, original vineyard, most complex of the blanc de noirs)
Le Haute Lemble (s facing parcel, Chard, warm site, powerful ripeness and structure, needs time)
La Boloree (Pinot Blanc, more herbal)
Le Creux d’ Enfer (rosé of PN, elegant and refined, foot stomped, macerated on the skins)

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Jacques Lassaigne wines. Where is he located?

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Montgueux
all parcels vinified separately, indigenous yeasts, portion fermented in barrel
Les Vignes de Montgueux (Chard, lush and full bodied)
Blanc de Blancs (40-50 year old vines from 3 lieux-dits, 100% Chard, brut nature, racy and brisk)
La Colline Inspirée (Chard, barrel fermented, mango and tropical citrus)
Le Cotet (Chardonnay, single vineyard Le Cotet, racy and vivid)
Clos Sainte-Sophie (vinified in an array of barrels, some Burgundy, Jura, Saagnin and Cognac, complex and layered)