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Champagne cuvée ✅ Flashcards

1
Q

Name the producer of the following:

Grande Cuvée

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Billecart-Salmon
🧭 Aÿ

🍇 60% Pinot Noir + 40% Chardonnay

🎉 1982

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Name the producer of the following:

R. Lalou

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

G.H. Mumm
🧭 in Reims

🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 1966
➙ ⚠️Not produced from 1985 to 1998

Owned by Pernot Ricard group

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Name the prestige cuvee of:

Bruno Paillard?

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

NPU= Nec Plus Ultra

🧭 Reims
🍇 Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
🎉1990

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Name the producer of the following:

Vieilles vignes de Cramant

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Larmandier-Bernier - RM

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🧭 From Cramant
🎉1990

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5
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What is the mono parcel bottling of:

Claude Cazals

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Clos Cazals

🧭 3,5 Ha in Mesnil sur Oger
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 1995

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Name the prestige cuvee of:

Nicolas Feuillate

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Palme d’Or

➙ 🍇 50% Chardo, 50% P. Noir
➙ 🎉 First vintages:
* Brut: 1985
* Rosé: 1996

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Name the first vintage and the producer of:

Hemera
Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Henriot
🧭 Reims

➙ 🎉 2005
➙ 🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay

Replace Cuvée des Enchanteleurs
➙ Last vintage in 2000

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Name the prestige cuvées of:

Bollinger

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • La Grand Année:
    ➙ 🍇 70% Pinot Noir + 30% Chardo
    ➙ 🎉 1976
  • RD:
    ➙ 🍇 Wine from La Grande année cuvée with a late disgorgement
    ➙ 🎉 1952
  • VVF = Vielles Vignes Françaises
    ➙ 🍇 100% Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🎉1969
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Name the producer of:

Champagne Charlie

When was it produced?

A

Charles Heidsieck
➙ 🧭 From Reims

➙ 🎉 Produced between 1979 and 1985
➙ Created again in 2017 (from vin de réserve)
📖 For the celebratation of the 200 years from the birth of Charles Heidsieck

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10
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Name the 2 mono-parcels of:

Lamandier Bernier

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Vielles vignes de Cramant
➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1990
Terres de Vertus
➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1995

🍇 Both wines are 100% Chardonnay

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11
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First vintage of:

Dom Perignon

A
  • Blanc: 1921
  • Rosé: 1959
  • Oenotheque: 1959
    • replace by the cuvée P2 with the 1998 vintage
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12
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What are the prestiges cuvées of:

De Sousa

Where are grapes sourced from?

A
  • Umami Grand Cru:
    ➙ 🍇 70% Chardonnay from Avize Mesnil
    ➙ 🍇 30% Pinot Noir from Ambonnay, Aÿ
  • Cuvée des Caudalie:
    ➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay from Avize
  • Cuvée Caudalie Rosé:
    ➙ 🍇90% Chardonnay
    ➙ 🍇 + 10% Pinot Noir
  • 3A:
    ➙ 🍇 50% Chardonnay from Avize
    ➙ 🍇 25% Pinot Noir from Aÿ
    ➙ 🍇 25% Pinot Noir from Ambonnay
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Name the producer of:

Vielles Vignes Françaises

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Bollinger
➙ 🧭 Based in Aÿ

➙ 🍇 Pre-phylloxeric, ungrafted vines of Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1969

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Name the producer & first vintage of:

Champs Caïn

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Jacquesson Champagne

🧭 Single parcel in Avize
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 2002

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Name the producer of:

Quattro

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Drappier
🧭 From Urville in Cotes des Bars

➙ 🍯 Produced as Extra brut
➙ 🍇 Blend of 4 cépages oubliés
* Arbanne
* Petit Meslier
* Blanc Vrai
* Chardonnay

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Name the prestige cuvée of:

Henriot

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • Cuvée des Enchanteleurs:
    ➙ ⚠️ 🎉 Last vintage 2000 ⚠️
  • Hemera:
    ➙ 🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
    ➙ 🧭 First Vintage: 2005
    ➙ Lauched in 2018
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17
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Name the producer of:

Terres de Noël

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Jean Milan
NM

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🧭 From Oger
🎉 First vintage: 1985

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18
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Name the prestiges cuvées of:

Deutz

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • William Deutz:
    ➙ 🍇 Pinot Noir + Chardonnay and Meunier
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1959
  • Amour de Deutz:
    ➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1993
  • Hommage a William Deutz:
    ➙ Declined onto 2 single parcels created in 2012
    • La Cote Glaciaire
    • Meurtet
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19
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Name the Head winemaker of Moet et Chandon

A

Benoit Gouez

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20
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What are the prestiges cuvées of:

AR Lenoble

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • Cuvée Gentilhomme:
    ➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 First Vintage: 1996
  • Cuvée les Anventures:
    ➙ 🍇100% Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 Non Vintage
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21
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What is the clos vineyard of:

Philliponat

  1. Where is it based,
  2. Precise the blend
  3. What makes it so special?
A

Clos des Goisses

  1. 🧭 5,5 Ha vineyard in Mareuil sur Aÿ
  2. 🍇 70% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
  3. 🍾 First single parcel champagne to be released in 1935
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22
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Tête de cuvée of:

Ayala

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Perle d’Ayala
➙ Produced as Brut Nature

🧭 Based in Aÿ
🍇 80% Chardonnay + 20% Pinot Noir

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23
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What is the mono-parcel of:

Egly-Ouriet

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Les Crayères

🧭 Based in Ambonnay
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1987

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24
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What are the “cru vineyards” used for the Blend of Dom Perignon bottling?

A

8 grands cru of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay

  1. Aÿ
  2. Bouzy
  3. Verzenay
  4. Mailly
  5. Chouilly
  6. Cramant
  7. Avize
  8. Le Mesnil sur Oger

+ the legendary Hautvillers Premier Cru

Abbaye of Hautevilliers
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25
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Name the producer of:

Sir Winston Churchill

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Pol Roger
🧭 Based in Epernay

🍇 Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1975

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26
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What are the prestige cuvées of :

Drappier

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • La Grande Sendrée:
    🍇 Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
  • Charles de Gaulle:
    🍇 80% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
    🎉 First vintage: 1990
  • Quattro:
    🍇 Blend of old Champagne varieties:
    ➙ Petit Meslier, Arbanne, Blanc Vrai, Chardonnay
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27
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Mono-parcel of:

Benoit Lahaye

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Le Jardin de la Grosse Pierre

🧭 Based in Bouzy (RM)
🎉 First vintage: 2009
🍇 Field blend & co-fermentated
* Chardonnay
* Pinot Noir
* Meunier
* Arbanne
* Pinot Blanc
* Petit Meslier
* Gros Plant, Chasselas…

|The oldest vines was planted in 1923

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Name the producer of:

Don Ruinart

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Ruinart
🧭 Based in Reims
➙ Know as the oldest champagne house: created in 1729

  • Blanc de Blancs
    ➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1959
  • Rosé:
    ➙ 🍇 Based from the Blanc de Blancs + up to 15% Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1966
    ​
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29
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When did Moet et Chandon purchase the Dom Perignon’s brand

A

1937

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30
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What are the current vintage on the market of:

Blanc des Millenaires

A
  • 1985
  • 1990
  • 1995
  • 2004
  • 2006
  • 2007

➙ 🍾Minimum 10 years in bottle prior degorgement
➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay

Produced by Charles Heidsieck

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31
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What are the prestiges bottling of:

Taittinger

A
  • Comtes de Champagne
    ➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 1952
  • Comtes de Champagne Rosé
    ➙ 🍇 70% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 1973
  • Folies de la Marquetterie:
    ➙ 🍇 55% Pinot Noir + 45% Chardonnay
    ➙ Single vineyard
    ➙ 🎉2006
  • Domaine Evremont
    ➙ 🧭 Kent based estate - England
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage set for 2022
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Name the producer of

Cuvée Joséphine

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Joseph Perrier
➙ 🧭 Based in Chalon en Champagne

🍇 Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1982

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33
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‘S de Salon

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

🍇 Blanc de Blancs: 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First Vintage 1911
🧭 Mesnil sur Oger

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34
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Name the prestige cuvée of:

Diebolt Valliois

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Fleur de Passion

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1995

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Name the producer of:

Cuvée Laetitia

➙ Variety used

A

Henri Billot

➙ NV Champagne
🍇 100%Chardonnay
➙ 🍾 Blend from an old solera back to 1983.

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Name the producer of:

Clos Saint Hilaire

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Billecart-Salmon

🧭 1 Ha vineyard in Mareuil sur Aÿ
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1995

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37
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  1. Why the monk Dom Perignon was famous for?
  2. How did he change the Champagne wine industry?
A
  1. Monk of the Abbey of Hautvilliers (near Epernay)
  2. He develloped new winemaking technics in Champagne and mastered the blending process
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38
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What is the prestige cuvée of:

Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

🧭 Winery based in Reims

  • La Grande Dame:
    ➙ 🍇 60/65% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🎉 First vintages
  • Brut: 1969
  • Rosé: 1988
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39
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How many P3 bottling from Dom Perignon have been released since 1921?

➙ What is the meaning of P3, and how long are the wines aged in average?

A

Only 4 vintages all together:

  • 1970
  • 1971
  • 1982
  • 1983

P= Plenitude n°3
🍾 20 to 30 years of ageing in the cellar prior lauching

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40
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Prestige cuvee of:

Comte Audoin de Dampierre

Name the Variety

A

Prestige

🧭 Montagne de Reims in Chenay
🍇 100% Chardonnay

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What is the prestige bottling of:

De Meric

A

Catherine de Médicis

🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ NV bottling
🧭 Marne Valley in Aÿ

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42
Q

How many Dom Perignon Rosé vintage champagne were produced since its introduction in 1959?

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26 vintages released so far

1959, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1986 (the only rosé vintage where the white version was not produced), 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, 2006

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Name the producer of the following cuvée:

Fiacre:
➙ Variety used

Champagne

A

Chartogne-Taillet
🧭 RM In Merfy (Montagne de Reims)

🍇 60% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ NV bottling

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44
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What are te 2 single parcel bottling of the cuvée

Hommage à William Deutz

A
  • Meurtet:
    ➙ ❄️ The coolest site, more refined style
    ➙ 🧭 Southeast facing slope, higher altitude
  • Côte glaciaire
    ➙ ☀️ Warmest site, richer profile
    ➙ 🧭 South facing slope

🍇 Pinot Noir is the dominant variety in both wines

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Name the producer of:

Palmes d’Or

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Nicolas Feuillate
Chouilly - CM

🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage:
➙ Brut: 1985
➙ Rosé: 1996

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What are the prestige bottling of:

Champagne Mailly

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • L’échanson:
    ➙ 🍇 75% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
  • L’intemporelle:
    ➙ 🍇 60% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
    ➙ First vintages
    • Brut: 1990
    • Rosé: 2004

🧭 Based Mailly Champagne Grand Cru

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Name the producer of the following:

Fine fleur de Bouzy
➙ Variety used

A

Hubert Dauvergne

🧭 RM in Bouzy
➙ (Montagne de Reims)
🍇 100% Pinot Noir

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Whos producing the following?

Nec Plus Ultra

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Bruno Paillard
Based in Reims

➙ 🍇 Pinot Noir / Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1990

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49
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What is the prestige cuvee of:

Chartogne Taillet
Name the varieties

A

Fiacre

➙ NV bottling
➙ 🍇 60% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ 🧭 RM in Merfi: Montagne de Reims

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50
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What are the prestiges cuvees of:

Laurent Perrier

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • Grand Siecle:
    ➙ 🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1960
    ➙ NV cuvée
  • Alexandra Rosé:
    ➙ 🍇 80% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1982
    ➙ Vintage wine

🧭 Tours sur Marne

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Who is producing:

La Corne Bautray

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Jacquesson
🧭 Single parcel Champagne from Dizy
➙ Marne Valley

🍇 1 Ha of Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1995

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What is the producer of:

Cuvée Paradis
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Alfred Gratien

🧭 Epernay
🍇 Pinot Noir / Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1985

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What is the prestige Wine of:

Gosset

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Celebris

🍇Styles:
* Blanc de Blancs NV
* Extra-brut Vintage
* Rosé Vintage

➙ 🍇 Pinot Noir / Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1988

Gosset was originally based in Aÿ, moved to Epernay in 2010

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What is the monoparcel bottling of:

Cattier

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Clos du Moulin

🧭 Represents 0.2 Ha in Ludes - Montagne de Reims
🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1951
➙ NV since its first release

NM in Chigny les Roses

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55
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Who’s producing:

Fleur de Passion

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Diebolt Vallois
🧭 Based in Cramant
➙ Côte-des-Blancs

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1995

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56
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How many vintages of Dom Perignon have been produced since 1921, its first botling?

A

42 vintages in total

1921, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1934, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2009.

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Who is the winemaker of:

AR Lenoble

A

Antoine Malassagne

🧭 Based in Chouilly
➙ Côte des Blancs

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  • How was renamed Dom Perignon “Oenotheque”
  • What is it exactly?
A
  • P2 = seconde plenitude.
  • Same base wine than a vintage Dom Perignon, but displaying a longer ageing. It’s about 15-16 years on the lees rather than 7 years for the straight vintage
  • First P2 launched: 1998 vintage
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What are the prestige cuvées of:

Jacquart
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • Cuvée Alpha NV:
    ➙ 🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 2005
  • Brut de Nominée:
    ➙ produced from 1985 to 1990

CM in Reims

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What is the producer of:

Catherine de Medicis

➙ Variety used

A

De Meric
NM in Aÿ

🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ NV wine

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What is the producer and the blend of:

Cuvée les Aventures
Name:
➙ Variety used

Mention the varieties used there

A

AR Lenoble

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🧭 House based in Chouilly
➙ Côte des Blancs

62
Q

What is the flagship wine of:

Delamotte

Name the variety and the location of the winery

A

Nicolas Louis Delamotte

🍇 90% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🧭 Le Mesnil sur Oger - Côte des Blancs
➙ Sister house of Salon

63
Q

What is the tete de cuvée of:

Boizel

  • Mention the first vintage produced and the main varieties?
A

Joyaux de France

🧭 Epernay
🍇 65% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1961

64
Q

Who’s producing:

Terres de Vertus

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Larmandier-Bernier

  • RM in Vertus
    🍇 100% Chardonnay
    🎉 First vintage 1995
65
Q

What is the producer of the following:

Cuvée Louis XV

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

De Venoge
Epernay

🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1994

66
Q

What is the producer of the following wine:

Cuvée special Chétillons

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Pierre Peters
RM in Le Mesnil sur Oger

🍇 100% Chardonnay
* 1971: first release under “Special Club”
* 2000: first time labelled as “Chétillons”

67
Q

What champagne house produce:

Cuvée Louise

A

Pommery
Based in Reims

🍇 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir blend
➙ Created to pay a tribute to her first owner
* Madame Louise Pommery
➙ Know as the first prestige cuvée to reduce sugar in its liqueur d’expédition
* Created the brut style

68
Q

What is the producer of:

Elisabeth Salmon Rosé

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Billecart-Salmon
Based in Aÿ

🍇 60% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ First vintage: 1988

69
Q

What is the prestige wine of:

Jacques Selosse

➙ Name the variety

A

Substance NV

  • RM in Avize
  • 🍇 100% Chardonnay
  • Solera blend wine (started in 1980’s)
  • The original name was Origine
    • ​Its has change in 1998 for copyright
70
Q

Who is the producer of:

La Grande Sendrée

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Drappier
Based in Urville - Aube

🍇 Pinot Noir base + Chardonnay
* First vintages
➙ Brut: 1975
➙ Rosé: 1990

71
Q

Who is the producer for:

Grand Vin des Princes

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

De Venoge
🧭Based in Epernay

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1961
➙ ⚠️ Not produced between 1994 and 2000 ⚠️

72
Q

Name the 3 first single parcels champagne cuvee in champagne

A
  • Philliponat Clos de Goisses
    ➙ 🎉 1935
  • Cattier Clos du Moulin
    ➙ 🎉 1951
  • Krug Clos du Mesnil
    ➙ 🎉 1979
73
Q

Who’s producing the following:

Cuvée sous bois

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

Champagne

A

Boizel

  • 50% Pinot Noir + 40% Chardonnay + 10% Meunier
  • First vintage: 1990
  • Fully vinified in oak casks
74
Q

Name the 4 single parcels bottling of Jacquesson Champagne

A
  • La Corne de Bautray:
    ➙ 🍇 Chardonnay
    ➙ 🧭 1 Ha in Dizy
    ➙ 🎉 1995
  • Vauzelle Terme:
    ➙ 🍇 Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🧭 30 acres in Aÿ
    ➙ 🎉 1996
  • Champs Cain:
    ➙ 🍇 Chardonnay
    ➙ 🧭 1.3 Ha in Avize
    ➙ 🎉 2002
  • Terre Rouge Rosé:
    ➙ 🍇Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🧭1,35 Ha
    ➙ 🎉 2002
75
Q

Name the producer of:

Rare

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Piper-Heidsieck
🧭 Based in Reims

🍇 55% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir

🎉 First vintage:
➙ Brut: 1976
➙ Rose: 2007

76
Q

What is the prestige cuvée of:

Vilmart & Cie

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Coeur de Cuvée

🧭 Based in Rilly-la-Montagne
🍇 80% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First Vintage: 1989

77
Q

Name the producer of the following:

Les Barres

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

Champagne

A

🏠 Chartogne-Taillet

🧭 Based in Merfy
🍇 100% Meunier from ungrafted vines
🎉 First vintage: 2006

78
Q

Name the prestige cuvée of:

Canard-Duchene

A
  • Charles VII
    🧭 Ludes
    🍇 100% Chardonnay
79
Q

Name the prestige & iconic cuvées of:

Berêche

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • Rive Gauche
    🍇 100% Meunier
    🧭 Vallée de la Marne
  • Reflêt d’Antan NV
    🍇 1/3 each:
    ➙ Pinot Noir
    ➙ Chardonnay
    ➙ Meunier
80
Q

Name the Monoparcel cuvée of:

Jean Milan

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Terres de Noël

🧭 From Oger
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1985

🎉

81
Q

Name the prestige cuvée of:

Joseph Perrier

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Cuvée Josephine

🧭 Chalon en Champagne
🍇 Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1982

82
Q

Name the producer of:

La Grande Année

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Bollinger
➙ 🧭 Aÿ

🍇 70% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First named Grande Année in 1976
➙ Renamed La Grande Année in 1997

83
Q

Give the date of the creation of:

L’echelle des crus
AKA Champagne scale

How many villages are there?

A

1919

319 villages are rated in total

84
Q

Name the producer of:

La Grande Dame

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Veuve Clicquot

🧭 Based in Reims
🍇 60/65% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First Vintage:
➙ Brut: 1969
➙ Rosé: 1988

85
Q

Name the head winemaker of Dom Perignon?

A
  • Since 1990: Richard Geoffroy
  • Since 2019: Vincent Chaperon
Vincent Chaperon
86
Q

Name the producer of:

Comtes de Champagne

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Taittinger

🧭 Based in Reims
🍇 70% Pinot Noir + 30% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage:
➙ Blanc de Blancs: 1952
➙ Rosé: 1973:

87
Q

Name the producer of:

Alexandra Rosé

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Laurent Perrier
🧭 Tours sur Marne

🍇 80% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1982
➙ Vintage dated cuvée

88
Q

Name the producer of:

Cuvée Gentilhomme

Name:
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

AR Lenoble
🧭 Based in Chouilly

🍇100% Chardonnay
➙ 🏠 Antoine Malassagne is winemaker since 1996

89
Q

Name the producer of:

Le Jardin de la Grosse Pierre

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Benoit Lahaye
➙ 🧭 RM in Bouzy

🍇 Field blend / and co-fermentation of:
* Chardonnay
* Pinot Noir
* Meunier
* Arbanne
* Pinot Blanc
* Petit Meslier
* Gros Plant & Chasselas
➙ The oldest vine was planted in 1923
🎉 First vintage: 2009

90
Q

Name the following:

Monoparcel of Duval Leroy

A

Clos de Bouveries
🧭 In Vertus
🍇 100% Chardonnay
➙ Was the first champagne to use a crown cap like closure for release

91
Q

Name the producer of:

William Deutz
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Deutz
🧭 Based in Aÿ

🍇 Pinot Noir based + Chardonnay & Meunier
🎉 First vintage: 1959

92
Q

Name the prestie cuvée of:

Pommery

➙ Variety used

A

Cuvée Louise
🧭 Based in Reims

🍇 60% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir

🍯 2004: First release as Extra Brut.
➙ Madame Louise Pommery was the first to release Brut wine in 1874

93
Q

Name the 2 prestige cuvees of:

Charles Heidseick

A
  • Champagne Charlie
    ➙ Produced until 1995, then once again in 2017
  • Blanc des millenaires:
    ➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1993
94
Q

Name the 2 prestige cuvees of:

Henri Billiot

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

🧭 Based in Ambonnay

  • Cuvée Laetitia
    ➙ 🍇 Based on Chardonnay
  • Cuvée Julie
    ➙ 🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1999
95
Q

Name the producer of:

Vauzelle Terme Champagne

A

Jacquesson
➙ 🧭 Based in Dizy

🍇 Pinot Noir parcel of Aÿ
🎉 First vintage:1996

96
Q

Name the producer of:

Femme de Champagne

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Duval Leroy
➙ 🧭 Based in Vertus

🍇 89% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1990

97
Q

Name the producer of:

Grand Siècle

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Laurent Perrier
➙ 🧭 Based in Tours sur Marne

🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1960

98
Q

Name the producer of:

Armand de Brignac

A

Cattier
➙ 🧭 Based in Chigny les Roses

🍇 Pinot Noir, Chardonnay + Meunier
🎉 First vintage: 2006
➙ 🏠 In partnership with Jay-Z

99
Q

Name the newest high end prestige cuvée of Moet et Chandon

A

MC111

Esprit du Siecle

  • Based of 2003 vintage (1/3)
    • Reserve wine from 2002, 2000, 1998 (kept in large oak vat)
    • vintage Champagne aged on their lees in bottle of 1999, 1998, 1993.
www.vivino.com
100
Q

Name the producer of:

Cuvée Julie

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Henri Billot
🧭 Based in Ambonnay

🍇 50% Chardonnay + 50% Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1999

101
Q

Name the producer of:

Les Alliées

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

Champagne

A

Chartogne-Taillet

🍇 100% Meunier
🧭 Vineyard located in Merfy
🎉 First vintage: 2008

102
Q

Name the prestige cuvee of:

Pol Roger

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Sir Winston Chirchill
🧭 Based in Epernay
🍇 Base of Chardonnay & Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1975

103
Q

Name the producer of:

Clos des Goisses

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Philliponat (NM)

🧭 5,5 Ha in Mareuil sur Aÿ
🍇 70% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First Vintage: 1935
➙ first monoparcel champagne to be release

104
Q

Name the producer of:

Amour de Deutz

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Deutz
🧭 Based in Aÿ

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1993

105
Q

Name the producer of:

Substance

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Jacques Selosse
➙ 🧭 Located in Avize

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🪵 Based wines are aged in a solera since the 1980’s
➙ 🎉 First name: Origine
➙ Changed for Substance in 1998

106
Q

Name the prestiges cuvées of:

De Venoge

A
  • Grand Vin des Princes
    ➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 1961
    ⚠️ not produced btw 1994 and 2000 ⚠️
  • Louis XV:
    ➙ 🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 1994
107
Q

Name the prestige cuvée of:

Hubert Dauvergne

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

Champagne

A

Fine fleur de Bouzy:

🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🧭 Located in Bouzy

108
Q

Name the producer of:

L’Echanson

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Champagne Mailly

🧭 Located within the Mailly-Champagne Grand Cru
🍇 75% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay

109
Q

Name the two 1er cru vineyards rating 99% on the Champagne scale?

A
  • Tauxières
  • Mareuil sur Aÿ
110
Q

Name the first champagne house to introduced a non-cork closure to its champagne?

When and why?

A

Duval Leroy in 2009.

When they lauched their new “Clos des Bouveries” vintage (2005), they introduced this new “crown-cap” like closure made by Alcan call Maestro

It avoid cork taints

111
Q

Who is Bollinger’s chef de cave?

A
  • Until 2013: Mathieu Kauffmann
  • Since 2013: Gilles Descôtes
112
Q

Name the producer of:

Cuvée Belle Epoque

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

**Perrier-Jouet

🍇 50% Chardonnay
➙ + 45% Pinot Noir
➙ + 5% Meunier
🎉 First vintage: 1964

113
Q

Name the producer of the following cuvée :

Charles de Gaulle

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Drappier

🧭 Based in Urville in Côte des Bars
🍇 80% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1990

114
Q

Name the prestige cuvee of:

Lanson

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Noble Cuvée
➙ Made as Blanc de Blancs & Rosé

🍇 60% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1979

115
Q

Name the producer of:

Les Crayères

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Egly-Ouriet
➙ 🧭 Based in Ambonnay

🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1987

116
Q

Name the prestige cuvée of:

Billecart-Salmon

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Nicolas François Billecart”
➙ 🍇 60% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 1955

Grande Cuvée
➙ 🍇60% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 1982

Elisabeth Salmon Rosé
➙ 🍇 58% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 1988

117
Q

Name the producer of:

Blanc des Millenaires

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Charles Heidsieck

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1983

➙ 🍾 Aged for a minimum of 10 years on the lees
➙ Released: 1983, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2004, 2006, 2007

https://www.foliowine.com
118
Q

Name the prestige cuvée of:

Perrier-Jouet

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Belle Epoque:
➙ 🍇 50% Chardonnay + 45% Pinot Noir + Meunier
➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1964

Fleur de Champagne:
⚠️ US Market only ⚠️
➙ Last released in 2002

119
Q

Name the prestige cuvée of:

Alfred Gratien

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Cuvée Paradis NV
➙ Made as Brut and Rosé

🍇 Blend of: Pinot Noir & Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1985

120
Q

When did Dom Perignon changed name from Oenotheque to P2?

A
  • Last vintage of Oenotheque in 1996
  • First made of P2 in 1998
    ➙ lauch in 2017
121
Q

Name the prestige cuvee of:

Ruinart

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • Don Ruinart
    ➙ 🍇 Blanc de Blancs
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1959
  • Don Ruinart Rosé
    ➙ 🍇 Based of Blanc de Blancs + up to 15% of Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1966
122
Q

Name the prestige cuvee of:

Duval Leroy

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Femme de Champagne

🧭 Based in Vertus
🍇 89% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1990

123
Q

In what vintage did Dom Perignon only produced a rosé version?

A

1986

124
Q

Name the producer of:

Grand Vin Signature

Champagne

A

Jacquesson

🍇 Pinot Noir & Chardo from Grand cru vineyards
➙ 🎉 Produced from 1981 to 2002

125
Q

Name the producer of:

Folie de la Marquetterie

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Taittinger

🍇 55% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🧭 Single estate bottling
🎉 First vintage: 2006

126
Q

Name the producer of:

L’intemporelle

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Champagne Mailly

🍇 60% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 Brut: 1990
🎉 Rosé: 2004

127
Q

Name the prestige cuvee of:

Roederrer

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Cristal
➙ 🎉 first made in 1876 - not commercially available until 1945
➙ 🎉 Rosé: 1974

🍇 55% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay

128
Q

Name the clos vineyard of:

Billecart Salmon

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Clos Saint Hillaire

🧭 1 Ha in Mareuil sur Aÿ
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🎉 FIrst vintage: 1995

129
Q

Name the producer of:

Venus

➙ Variety used

A

Agrapart & Fils
Venus is the name of the horse working this specific vineyard
🧭 0,3 Ha in Avize

🍇 100% Chardonnay

130
Q

Name the producer of:

Clos du Mesnil

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Krug

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🧭 1,84 Ha in Mesnil sur Oger
🎉 First vintage: 1979

131
Q

Name the proudcer of:

Celebris

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Gosset
Based in Epernay

🍇 Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ The blend can change slighly every vintages
🎉 First vintage: 1988

132
Q

Name the prestige cuvée of:

Piper Heidsieck

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Rare:
➙ 🍇 55% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ 1976, 1979, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2013

➙ First ever Rare rose: 2007 & 2008

133
Q

Name the head winemaker of **?

A

Stephen Leroux

134
Q

Name the mono-parcel champagnes of:

Tarlant

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • La Vigne d’Or:
    ➙ 🍇 Meunier
    ➙ 🎉 1999
  • La Vigne d’Antan:
    ➙ 🍇 Ungrafted Chardo:nnay
    ➙ 🎉1999
  • La Vigne Royale:
    ➙ 🍇 Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🎉 2003
  • Cuvée Louis NV:
    ➙ 🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🎉 1982
135
Q

Name the mono-parcels of:

Chartogne-Taillet

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • Les Barres:
    ➙ 🍇100% ungrafted Meunier
    ➙ 🎉 2006
  • Les Orizeaux
    ➙ 🍇 100% Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🎉 2007
  • Les Alliées
    ➙ 🍇 100% Meunier
    ➙ 🎉 2008

🧭 Based in Merfy

136
Q

How many P2 / Oenotheque cuvée have been release by Dom Perignon since 1921?

A

24 released so far

1959, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 (lauched in 2017)

P2: 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004

137
Q

Name the presitge cuvee of:

G.H. Mumm

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Cuvée René Lalou

🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1966
➙ Not produced beteween 1985 to 1998

138
Q

Name the producer of:

Les Orizeaux

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Chartogne Taillet

🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🧭 Located in Merfy 1er Cru
🎉 First vintage: 2007
➙ Produced as Non Vintage

139
Q

Name the 2 mono-parcels of:

Krug

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A
  • Clos du Mesnil:
    ➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay
    ➙ 🎉 1979
    ➙ 🧭 1,84 Ha
  • Clos d’Ambonnay:
    ➙ 🍇 100% Pinot Noir
    ➙ 🎉 1995
    ➙ 🧭 0,68 Ha
140
Q

What was the last vintage of Cuvée des Enchanteleurs to be produced?

A

2000

🏠 Henriot - Reims
🎉 Replaced by Hemera in 2005
➙ 🍾 Aged for 12 years on the Lees

141
Q

Name the producer of the following cuvee:

RD

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Bollinger

➙ Base of La Grande Année Champagne with extended period of aging on the lees
🍇 70% Pinot Noir +30% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1952

142
Q

Name the mono-parcel of=

Pierre Peters

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Cuvée Special (Chétillons)

🍇 100% Chardonnay
🧭 From Mesnil-sur-Oger

🎉 First vintage: 1971
➙ Release under Special Club
➙ Since 2000: included the name of the parcel Les Chétillons

143
Q

Name the prodocer of:

Noble Cuvée

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Lanson

🍇 60% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ Made as Brut Blanc de Blancs & Rosé
🎉 First vintage: 1979

144
Q

Name the producer of:

Cuvée Alpha

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Jacquart Champagne

🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 2005

145
Q

Name the proudcer of:

Clos d’Ambonnay

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Krug

🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🧭 0,68 Ha in Ambonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1995

146
Q

What is the first vintage of:

Nicolas François-Billecart

A

🎉 1955
🏠 Billecart-Salmon
🍇 60% Pinot Noir + 40% Chardonnay

147
Q

Name the producer of:

Clos du Moulin

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Cattier

🧭 2.2 ha in Ludes
🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1952
➙ Non vintage wines

148
Q

Name the proudcer of:

Coeur de Cuvée

➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used

A

Vilmart & Cie

🍇 80% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1989

149
Q

What is the newest vintage of:

Champagne Charlie

A

2017

Made by Charles Heidsieck
📖 Celebration of the bi-centenarian from the birth of the founder of the winery.

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