Loire Valley

Question 1

France’s longest river

Answer 1

Loire

Question 2

French term for the refreshing vigor of Loire wines

Answer 2

Nervocite

Question 3

Parent grape of Sauvignon Blanc & Chenin Blanc

Answer 3

Savagnin

Question 4

Savagnin is the parent of what two Loire Valley grape varieties?

Answer 4

Sauvignon Blanc

Chenin Blanc

Question 5

Dominant grape of Rose d’Anjou

Answer 5

Grolleau

Question 6

What is Gros Plant?

Answer 6

A wine in the Muscadet region made from Folle Blanche

Question 7

What is Kimmeridgian limestone?

Answer 7

Limestone and clay embedded with sea fossils

Question 8

Soils of Sancerre

Answer 8

Chalky limestone & flint

Question 9

What is Portlandian limestone?

Answer 9

Very hard, durable limestone without clay or sea fossils

Question 10

What is terres blanches?

Answer 10

Chalk on top of clay

Question 11

What is les caillottes?

Answer 11

Gravel intermixed with limestone

Question 12

What is silex?

Answer 12

A flint rock of microcrystalline quartz

Formed from the remains of sponge skeletons that were once scattered over the ocean floor

Question 13

Name five lieux-dits of Sancerre

Answer 13

Les Monts Damnes
Les Culs de Beaujeu
La Grande Cote
Le Grand Chemarin
Le Chene Marchand

Question 14

Name five top producers of Sancerre

Answer 14

Francois Cotat
Pascal Cotat
Dme Vacheron
Lucien Crochet
Pascal Jolivet

Question 15

Red Sancerre is 100% ____________

Answer 15

Pinot Noir

Question 16

Town of Pouilly-Fume

Answer 16

Pouilly-sur-Loire

Question 17

The soils of Pouilly have more __________ and _________ than Sancerre

Answer 17

Limestone

Flint