Burgundy Flashcards
(45 cards)
What are the Classic wines of Burgundy?
Chardonnay and Pinot Noir
Also Gamay and Aligote
What are classic dishes of Burgundy?
Escargots à la Bourgogne (green sauce made with butter, parsley, wine, shallots) Boeuf Bourguignon, and Coq au Vin are just three of the famous regional dishes. Hearty meals these, but top chefs have updated their cuisine to appeal to modern day tastes, and as a result, there are 29 restaurants with the renowned Michelin stars, and three with three stars within Burgundy.
Escargots and Jambon Persillé (ham and parsley terrine suspended in gelatine)
With prime ingredients – beef from the Charolais cattle seen grazing in the lush pastures throughout the region, esteemed chickens from Bourg-en-Bresse, wild mushrooms, snails, pigeons, quails, boar, venison and freshwater fish, patés, terrines, cheeses and sausages.
Super Creamy cheeses like Chaource and Epoisses (pungent often paired with Trappist Beer or Saunternes).
Cassis, a blackcurrant liqueur, used for the aperitif Kir, and desserts, is a regional speciality. Mustard is synonymous with Dijon. The mustard powder is mixed with ‘verjus’ – the juice of newly pressed grapes – or slightly fermented white wine and is used extensively in cooking, creating the ‘Dijonnaise’ dishes.
The excellence of the cuisine goes back through history and remains at the forefront of life today. With the wide variety of the ingredients available, and the frequent use of red wine, some of the finest food in the world arrives on the Burgundian table.
Describe Burgundy region
Simple and rustic, very fragmented, smaller avg domaines ~18.5 acres (7.5 ha).
This fragmentation is a drawback to their wine making it unpredictable.
The 5 main wine growing areas: Chablis, Côte d’Or, Cote Chalonnaise, Maconnais & Beaujolais.
Name some of the large key Negociants in Burgundy? A
Bouchard Pere et Fils Joseph Drouhin Faively Louis Hadot Louis Latour
In Beajoulais Georges Duboeuf
Name the key regions in Burgundy going from North to South
Chablis Vezelien Cote de Nuits Cote de Beaune Cote Chalonnaise Couchois Maconnais (Pouilly-Fuisse, Macon-Villages, Macon) Beaujolais
Biodynamic Viticulture?
Burgundy was one Frances first bastions of biodynamic viticulture
Which regions are in Cote D’Or?
Cote de Nuits & Cote de Beaune
Forms the core of Burgundy.
Describe the terrain of Cote D’Or?
Faces East with a Bias to the South
Hautes-Cotes to the left is broken plateau with abrupt scraps and protruding fault lines. Subject to lower temperatures and exposure it puts harvest a wk behind Cote d’Or.
In exceptionally hot years like 2005, 2009 the Hautes-Cotes like cooler corners if Côte d’Or can produce exceptional wine.
Describe the soil in the Côte d’Or
Skeletal and normal calcareous brown earth
Skeletal and normal gley calcareous brown earth
Brown Earth and Rendzinas
Rock beneath the soil is marlstone, limestone, loess
What are the best communes in Hautes-Cotes de Beaune?
Nantoux, Exhevronne, La Rochepot, Meloisey
What are the best communes if Hautes-Cotes de Nuits?
Red wines dominate Marey les Fussey Mangy-les-Villers Villars-Fontaine Bevy
How many Grand Crus of Cotes d’Or?
There are 31 most are in Cotes de Nuits Each Grand Cru has it's own appellation. The best are "Le" Musigny (CN - Pinot (peacock tail)) Corton (CB- Pinot) Le Montrachet (CB - chard) Chambertin (CN- Pinot)
What are the Premier Crus of Cotes d’Or
635 in Burgundy region Chambolle-Musigny (CN) Charmes (CB) Perrieres in Meursault (CB) Rugiens in Pommard (CB) Lea Amoureuses in Chambolle-Musigny (CN) Clos St Jacques in Gevrey-Chambertin (CN)
What is Appellation Communale?
It’s the 3rd Rank of Classification
Known as Village Wines
What is wine Bourgogne?
The 4th class of wine
What wine is Chassagne- Montrachet known for?
White Burgundy
Chardonnay
Dry, golden white wine scented with flowers and sometimes hazelnuts
Cotes de Beaune:Meursault
Heartland of best white Burgundy
Red wine villages Volnay & Pommard
Grand Cru Montrachet
Chardonnay with more scent, brighter gold, longer flavour, more succulence
Limestone soil, east exposure with angle so sun gets into the rows at 9pm in summer.
Expensive
Puligny-Montrachet vs Meursault
Puligny tends to be more delicate and refined than Meursault - the higher water table here is higher and hard to dig cellars deep enough for a 2nd winter in cask.
Meursault has no Grand Cru but a high even standard over a large area.
Les Perrieres, upper parts of Genevrieres, and Les Charmes offer a stern challenge to Puligny’s best premier crus.
What wine is Cote de Nuits know for?
Pinot Noir
Name 2 of the best Grand Cru in Cote de Nuits - Nuits St
Georges.
La Grande Rue and La Tache produce some of the most highly prized and most expensive wines in the world.
Are machines used to harvest the grapes of the vineyards in the Côte d’Or.
Not on the upper slopes, the grapes are too valuable esp above Nuit St Georges. It is customary (de rigueur) to harvest them in small containers so as not to bruise the grapes.
Where are the Grand Crus in Cote de Nuit - Nuits-St-Georges.
On the Eastern side by Vosne - Romanee and Vougeot.
The 4 most famous of Vosne's Domaine de la Romanee-Conti's La Tache Romanee-Conti Richebourg
Describe the vineyards of Cote Chalonnaise.
Higher altitude than Cote de Beaune, later harvest, precarious ripening process.
Rully to the North makes more white than red. Brisk, high in acid, poor vintages used for Cremante de Bourgogne.
Mercurey best know appellation makes 2/3rds of Cote Chalonnaise red. 30+ premiers crus.
Givry the smallest - mostly red.
Montagny incl Buxy. The whites are fuller more like Cote de Beaune than the leaner Rully.
Bouzeron small village north of Rully - only appellation for a single village Aligote in Burgundy.
