Rhone

Question 1

What percentage of Rhone wine production is accounted for by the Northern Rhone?

Answer 1

5%

Question 2

Where are the best vineyards situated in the Rhone?

Answer 2

on steep southern facing slopes close to the river

Question 3

What is the climate of the northern Rhone?

Answer 3

Continental with summers that are warm but not oppressive. Temperatures are noticeably warmer in the south

Question 4

What is the only permitted red grape in the northern Rhone?

Answer 4

Syrah

Question 5

Describe northern Rhone Syrah.

Answer 5

deeply colored, high levels of tannin with black fruit, black pepper and floral aromas. they develop gamey aromas with age.

Question 6

What wine is often blended or cofermented with Syrah in Cote Rotie

Answer 6

Viognier

Question 7

Describe the flavor profile of Viognier

Answer 7

Apricot, spice and floral aromaa. low acidity and high alcohol.

Question 8

What are the two white grapes other than Viognier used to make white wines of the northern Rhone.

Answer 8

Marsanne and Roussanne

Question 9

Why are Marsanne and Roussane perfect blending partners

Answer 9

Marsanne has richness and weight. Roussanne has acidity and perfumed fruit characteristic

Question 10

What is the most northernly AC of the Rhone valley?

Answer 10

Cote Rotie

Question 11

Name the 6 ACs of the nothern Rhone.

Answer 11

Cote Rotie, Cornas, Saint Joseph, Hermitage, Crozes- Hermitage, Condrieu

Question 12

Which Northern Rhone AC produces only white wine from Viognier?

Answer 12

Condrieu

Question 13

Which AC in the Northern Rhone produces the fullest bodied red wines most suitable for aging?

Answer 13

Hermitage

Question 14

Which AC in the northern Rhone produces the highest volume and has the least prestigious reputation?

Answer 14

Crozes-Hermitage

Question 15

Which is the most Southernly and warmest of the red wine ACs in the northern Rhone?

Answer 15

Cornas

Question 16

Which is the only AC where wine must be made from 100% Syrah with no white grapes blended

Answer 16

Cornas

Question 17

What is the generic appellation of the southern Rhone?

Answer 17

Cote du Rhone

Question 18

What is the climate of the Southern Rhone?

Answer 18

Mediterranean with mild winters and hot dry summers

Question 19

What grape dominates most of the red wines in the southern rhone

Answer 19

Grenache

Question 20

Describe the fruit aromas of grenache

Answer 20

spiced red fruit flavors

Question 21

What two varieties play the most important supporting role to grenache in the southern Rhone

Answer 21

Syrah and Mourvedre

Question 22

Desscribe the characteristics of Mourvedre? what type of climate does it need to ripen?

Answer 22

deeply colored, high tannin, gamey savoury aromas when very ripe. It must be planted in the hottest sites.

Question 23

You most often find cinsault in the production of what wine?

Answer 23

Blended with grenache in the production of fresh fruity rose.

Question 24

What are the 7 crus of the southern Rhone?

Answer 24

Cotes du rhone, Cotes du Rhone Villages, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Lirac, Tavel, Gigondas and Vacqueyras

Question 25

What type of wine is produced in Lirac and Tavel?

Answer 25

full-bodied, intensely flavored, rose

Question 26

What was the first wine region in France to have AC status?

Answer 26

Chateauneuf-du-Pape

Question 27

What is AC Tavel?

Answer 27

Rose

Question 28

What is the difference between Cotes du Rhone and Cotes du Rhone Villages?

Answer 28

Cotes du Rhones Villages has more stringent minimum alcohol levels and maxmum yields. A greater percentage must be made from Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre.