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T or F? Sancerre has the highest output in wine volume in all of Central Vineyards

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True!

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3 famous steep vineyards in the Chavignol village in Sancerre

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  • La Grande Côte
  • Les Mont Damnes
  • Les Culs de Beaujeu
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3 types of soils in Sancerre and which type extends into Chablis?

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  • Terres Blanches: same kimmeridgian clay that extends into Chablis
  • Caillottes: stony soil littered with fossils
  • Silex: soil with a high proportion of flint
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Pouilly-Fumé AOP has the same production area as which other AOP? What is the grape in this AOP?

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Pouilly-sur-Loire (grape: Chasselas)

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2nd French AOP? (1st is CDP)

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Quincy (1936)

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Central Vineyard AOPs producing only white (3)

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  • Pouilly-Fumé
  • Pouilly-sur-Loire (chasselas)
  • Quincy
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Central Vineyard AOPs making all 3 colors (5)

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  • Sancerre
  • Reuilly
  • Menetou-Salon
  • Coteaux du Giennois
  • Orléans
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Sole Central Vineyard AOP producing only red

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  • Orléans-Clery (100% cabernet franc)
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Central Vineyards AOP that requires Pinot Noir for reds (5)

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  • Sancerre
  • Reuilly
  • Menetou-Salon
  • Châteaumeillant (min 60% pn + gamay)
  • Coteaux du Giennois (pn + gamay-neither may exceed 80%)
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Name the sole Central Vineyards AOP that requires Pinot Meunier

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Orléans (red, rosé)

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T or F? Pouilly-Fumé is made of 100% sauv blanc

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True!

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Quincy is the 2nd in all France to receive an AOP after CDP, what is the cépage?

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Min 90% sauv blanc, max 10% sauv gris

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Which AOP is directly across from Sancerre? Which bank of the river does Sancerre lie on?

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  • Sancerre is directly west of Pouilly Fumé/Pouilly-sur-Loire
  • Sancerre on left bank of Loire river
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Quincy is North of which other AOP?

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Reuilly

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Reuilly makes all 3 colors, grapes for each?

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  • White: 100% sauv blanc
  • Red: 100% pinot noir
  • Rosé: Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris
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Menetou-Salon makes all 3 colors, grapes for each?

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  • White: 100% sauv blanc

- Red/Rosé: 100% pinot noir

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Coteaux du Giennois makes all 3 colors, grapes for each?

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  • White: 100% sauv blanc

- Red/Rosé: pinot noir and gamay (max 80% each)

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Orléans makes all 3 colors, grapes for each?

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  • White: min 60% chard + pinot gris
  • Red: 70-90% pinot meunier + pinot noir
  • Rosé: min 60% pinot meunier + pinot noir/gris
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Central Vineyards AOP that require 100% sauv blanc for its whites (5)

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  • Reuilly
  • Menetou-Salon
  • Coteaux du Giennois
  • Pouilly-Fumé
  • Sancerre
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Grape in Orléans-Clery

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100% cab franc (red only)

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Where is Châteaumillant?

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Central Vineyards

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Synonym of the Sacy grape?

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Grapes for Cotes du Forez, Cote Roannaise?

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100% Gamay (red/rosé only)

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Grapes for Châteaumeillant?

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  • Vin Gris: min 60% gamay + pinot noir (max 15% pinot gris)

- Red: min 60% gamay + pinot noir

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Grapes for St.Pourçain?
- White: 50-80% chardonnay, 20-40% sacy (tresallier), max 10% SB - Red: 40-70% gamay, 25-60% pinot noir - Rosé: 100% gamay
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Grapes for Cote d'Auvergne?
- White: 100% chardonnay | - Red/Rosé: min 50% pinot noir, plus gamay
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Southernmost AOP in Loire?
Cotes du Forez
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Loire AOPs that make a rosé Vin Gris (3)
- Coteaux du Vendômois - Touraine Noble-Joué (off-dry) - Châteaumeillant
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Chêne Marchand, La Pouissie are vineyards in which Sancerre village?
Bué
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Which AOP is the most central in all of France (almost dead center in the country)?
St Pourçain
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All 3 colors for Sancerre, what are the grapes and % for each?
- White: 100% sauv blanc | - Red/Rosé: 100% pinot noir
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All 3 colors for Reuilly, what are the grapes and % for each?
- White: 100% sauv blanc - Red: 100% pinot noir - Rosé: pinot noir+gris
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All 3 colors for Menetou-Salon, what are the grapes and % for each?
- White: 100% sauv blanc | - Red/Rosé: 100% pinot noir
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All 3 colors for Coteaux du Giennois, what are the grapes and % for each?
- White: 100% sauv blanc | - Red/Rosé: pinot noir+gamay (max 80% each grape)
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All 3 colors for Orléans, what are the grapes and % for each?
- White: min 60% chard (+pinot gris) - Red: 70-90% pineau meunier (+pinot noir) - Rosé: min 60% pineau meunier (+pinot gris, noir)
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2 AOPs in the Central Vineyards on Cher River
Reuilly and Quincy
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Name 3 lieu-dits of Sancerre
- Clos Neore - Mont Damnes - Guigne Chevres - Les Romains - Le Paradis - La Grande Cote
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Appellations in Loire that makes wine in all 3 colors and requires 100% of a grape (2)
- Sancerre | - Menetou-Salon (Sauvignon Gris planted before 31 July, 2009 permitted for white wine, but may not be replanted)

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