Central Vineyards Flashcards
(17 cards)
Central Vineyards wine map
Sancerre wine style and grape
What is the soil
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé / Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
Terres Blanches
Caillottes
Silex
Pouilly-Fumé wine style and grape
What is the soil
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Kimmeridgian marl
Oxfordian limestone (caillottes)
Flint (silex)
Clay-siliceous soils
Who produces this wine
Didier Dagueneau
Wine style and grape of Pouilly-sur-Loire
Blanc: 100% Chasselas
Wine style and grape of Orléans-Cléry
Rouge: 100% Cabernet Franc
Wine style and grape of Orléans
White: Chardonnay
Rosé / Red: Pinot Meunier
Wine style and grape of Coteaux du Giennois
White: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé / Red: Pinot Noir & Gamay
Wine style and grape of Quincy
Blanc: Sauvignon Blanc, plus a max. 10% Sauvignon Gris
Wine style and grape of Reuilly
AOP established year
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé: Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris
Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
1937 - White only
Red and rosé wines added in 1961
Wine style and grape of Menetou-Salon
Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé / Red: 100% Pinot Noir
The southernmost and most remote Loire region
Côtes d’Auvergne
Wine style of the following four AOP:
Côtes du Forez
Côte Roannaise
Côtes d’Auvergne
Saint-Pourçain
Rosé & Red:
Côtes du Forez
Côte Roannaise
(These two are on the east, closer to Beaujolais)
White, rosé, red:
Côtes d’Auvergne
Saint-Pourçain
Wine style and grape of St-Pourçain
Blanc:
Chardonnay, Sacy (Tressalier), Sauvignon Blanc
Rosé: Gamay
Rouge: Gamay and Pinot Noir
Wine style and grape of Côtes d’Auvergne
Blanc: Chardonnay
Rosé / Rouge: Min. 50% Gamay plus Pinot Noir
Wine style and grape of Châteaumeillant
Rosé:
Min. 60% Gamay plus Pinot Noir and a max. 15% Pinot Gris
Rouge: Min. 60% Gamay plus Pinot Noir
Wine style and grape of Côte Roannaise
Rosé / Rouge
100% Gamay
