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Orléans AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Orléans

  • Blanc: min 60% Chardonnay, + Pinot Gris
  • Rosé: min 60% Meunier, + Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris
  • Rouge: 70-90% Meunier, + Pinot Noir
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Orléans-Cléry AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Orléans-Cléry

  • Rouge: 100% Cabernet Franc
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Sancerre AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Sancerre

  • Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • Rosé: 100% Pinot Noir
  • Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
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Pouilly-Fumé/Fumé de Pouilly AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Pouilly-Fumé, Fumé de Pouilly

  • Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • min alc 10.5%
  • max RS 4 g/l
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Pouilly-sur-Loire AOP

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  • Grapes
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Pouilly-sur-Loire

  • Blanc: 100% Chasselas
  • min pot alc 9.5%
  • max RS 4 g/l
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Menetou-Salon AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Menetou-Salon

  • Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Gris permitted for white wine but may not be replanted
  • Rosé: 100% Pinot Noir
  • Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
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Quincy AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Quincy

  • Blanc: Sauvignon Blanc, plus max 10% Sauvignon Gris
  • min pot alc 10.5%
  • max RS 4 g/l
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Reuilly AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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​Reuilly

  • Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • Rosé: Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris
  • Rouge: 100% Pinot Noir
  • max RS: Blanc/Rosé: 4 g/l , Rouge: 2.5 g/l
  • min pot alc: 10.5%
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Coteaux du Giennois AOP

  • Styles
  • Grapes
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Coteaux du Giennois

  • Blanc: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • Rosé: Pinot Noir, Gamay (neither may exceed 80%)
  • Rouge: Pinot Noir, Gamay (neither may exceed 80%)
  • min pot alc: 10%
  • max RS: Blanc/Rosé: 4g/l. Rouge: 2.5g/l
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Le Monts Damnes vineyard

  • Soil
  • Village
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Le Monts Damnes vineyard

  • Terres Blanches soils
  • giving broader wines
  • located outside Chavignol
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Le Chene Marchand vineyard

  • Soil
  • Village
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Le Chane Marchand

  • Caillots soils
  • giving finely etched wines
  • located outside Bue
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Producers experimenting with oak

Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé

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  • Alfonse Mellot
  • Henri Bourgeois
  • Didier Dagueneau
  • Vincent Pinard

All Sancerre except Dagueneau

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Sancerre

Area with Silex soils

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  • Menetreol sous Sancerre
  • Bands of silex run NW-SE in both Sancerre and Pouilly Fume
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Sancerre

Soil

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  • Terres Blanches - kimmeridgian clay
  • Caillottes - stony
  • Silex - flinty
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Central Vineyards

9 AOPs

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  • Orléans
  • Orléans-Cléry
  • Coteaux du Giennois
  • Pouilly-Fumé/Fumé de Pouilly
  • Pouilly-sur-Loire
  • Sancerre
  • Menetou-Salon
  • Quincy
  • Reuilly
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