Loire Flashcards
Nantais
Muscadet
Muscadet Sevre et Maine
min 12% alc
dry, m alc, high acid, light body, drink your
melon blanc =80% production
Anjou-Samur
Climate:
- slightly warmer
- Protected from Mauges Hills in north
- stony soils
Appellations:
-Savennnieres (full body chenin, DRY, ability to age)
-Coteaux Du Layon (renowned for sweet late harvest chenin or botrytis from River layon)
>Quarts de chaume
>Bonnezeaux
-Anjou (dry cheninn, oak aged)
-cool, clay soil
>Cabernet D’anjou and Rose d’anjou
-Samur
-Sparkling chenin in traditional method
- some cab franc and rose
-Samur-Champigny
- cab franc (light body, fruity, drunk young)
Touraine
Climate: cooler, wetter, clay soil
Appellations:
-Bourgueil (cab franc)
-Saint-Nicolas-De-Bourgeuil (Cab Franc)
>light body, fruity, young =sandy soil
>fuller body, more tannin= south slope, clay and limestone
-Chinon (Cab Franc)
-Vouvray
>still and sparkling chenin, dry to sweet
>cool climate, clay soil
-Touraine IGP (sauv blanc)
Central Vineyards
-Menetou Salon (sauv blanc)
-Sancerre (sauv blanc)
>chalky, well drained stony soil
> Chavignol and Les Montes Damnes Village = age worthy
-Pouilly- Fume (Sauve Blanc)
>Chalky, well drained soil