Champagne cuvée ✅ Flashcards
(149 cards)
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
2
Q
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
3
Q
Name the prestige cuvee of:
Bruno Paillard?
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used
A
NPU= Nec Plus Ultra
🧭 Reims
🍇 Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
🎉1990
4
Q
Name the producer of the following:
Vieilles vignes de Cramant
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used
A
Larmandier-Bernier - RM
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🧭 From Cramant
🎉1990
5
Q
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
6
Q
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
7
Q
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
8
Q
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
9
Q
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
10
Q
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
11
Q
First vintage of:
Dom Perignon
A
- Blanc: 1921
- Rosé: 1959
-
Oenotheque: 1959
- replace by the cuvée P2 with the 1998 vintage
12
Q
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
13
Q
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
14
Q
Name the producer & first vintage of:
Champs Caïn
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used
A
Jacquesson Champagne
🧭 Single parcel in Avize
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 2002
15
Q
Name the producer of:
Quattro
A
Drappier
🧭 From Urville in Cotes des Bars
➙ 🍯 Produced as Extra brut
➙ 🍇 Blend of 4 cépages oubliés
* Arbanne
* Petit Meslier
* Blanc Vrai
* Chardonnay
16
Q
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
17
Q
Name the producer of:
Terres de Noël
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used
A
Jean Milan
NM
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🧭 From Oger
🎉 First vintage: 1985
18
Q
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
19
Q
Name the Head winemaker of Moet et Chandon
A
Benoit Gouez
20
Q
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
21
Q
What is the clos vineyard of:
Philliponat
- Where is it based,
- Precise the blend
- What makes it so special?
A
Clos des Goisses
- 🧭 5,5 Ha vineyard in Mareuil sur Aÿ
- 🍇 70% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
- 🍾 First single parcel champagne to be released in 1935
22
Q
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
23
Q
What is the mono-parcel of:
Egly-Ouriet
➙ First Vintage
➙ Variety used
A
Les Crayères
🧭 Based in Ambonnay
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: 1987
24
Q
What are the “cru vineyards” used for the Blend of Dom Perignon bottling?
A
8 grands cru of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay
- Aÿ
- Bouzy
- Verzenay
- Mailly
- Chouilly
- Cramant
- Avize
- Le Mesnil sur Oger
+ the legendary Hautvillers Premier Cru
25
# Name the producer of:
**Sir Winston Churchill**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Pol Roger**
🧭 *Based in Epernay*
🍇 Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **1975**
26
# What are the prestige cuvées of :
**Drappier**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
* **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*
27
# Mono-parcel of:
**Benoit Lahaye**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**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
28
# Name the producer of:
**Don Ruinart**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**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**
29
When did **Moet et Chandon** purchase the **Dom Perignon's brand**
**1937**
30
# What are the current vintage on the market of:
**Blanc des Millenaires**
* **1985**
* **1990**
* **1995**
* **2004**
* **2006**
* **2007**
➙ 🍾*Minimum 10 years in bottle prior degorgement*
➙ 🍇 *100% Chardonnay*
| Produced by Charles Heidsieck
31
# What are the prestiges bottling of:
**Taittinger**
* **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
32
# Name the producer of
**Cuvée Joséphine**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Joseph Perrier**
➙ 🧭 Based in Chalon en Champagne
🍇 Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **1982**
33
**'S de Salon**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
🍇 **Blanc de Blancs**: 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First Vintage **1911**
🧭 **Mesnil sur Oger**
34
# Name the prestige cuvée of:
**Diebolt Valliois**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Fleur de Passion**
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 **First vintage:** 1995
35
# Name the producer of:
**Cuvée Laetitia**
➙ *Variety used*
**Henri Billot**
➙ NV Champagne
🍇 100%Chardonnay
➙ 🍾 Blend from an old solera back to 1983.
36
# Name the producer of:
**Clos Saint Hilaire**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Billecart-Salmon**
🧭 1 Ha vineyard in Mareuil sur Aÿ
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🎉 **First vintage:** 1995
37
1. Why the monk **Dom Perignon** was famous for?
2. How did he change the Champagne wine industry?
1. **Monk of the Abbey of Hautvilliers** (near Epernay)
2. He develloped new winemaking technics in Champagne and mastered the **blending process**
38
# What is the prestige cuvée of:
**Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
🧭 Winery based in Reims
* **La Grande Dame**:
➙ 🍇 60/65% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ 🎉 *First vintages*
* **Brut**: 1969
* **Rosé**: 1988
39
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?
**Only 4 vintages all together:**
* 1970
* 1971
* 1982
* 1983
P= Plenitude n°3
🍾 20 to 30 years of ageing in the cellar prior lauching
40
# Prestige cuvee of:
**Comte Audoin de Dampierre**
Name the Variety
**Prestige**
🧭 Montagne de Reims in Chenay
🍇 100% Chardonnay
41
# What is the prestige bottling of:
**De Meric**
**Catherine de Médicis**
🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ NV bottling
🧭 Marne Valley in **Aÿ**
42
How many **Dom Perignon Rosé vintage champagne** were produced since its introduction in 1959?
**26 vintages released so far**
## Footnote
*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***
43
# Name the producer of the following cuvée:
**Fiacre:**
➙ *Variety used*
| *Champagne*
**Chartogne-Taillet**
🧭 RM In Merfy (*Montagne de Reims*)
🍇 60% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ NV bottling
44
# What are te 2 single parcel bottling of the cuvée
**Hommage à William Deutz**
* **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
45
# Name the producer of:
**Palmes d'Or**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Nicolas Feuillate**
*Chouilly - CM*
🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 **First vintage**:
➙ **Brut**: 1985
➙ **Rosé**: 1996
46
# What are the prestige bottling of:
**Champagne Mailly**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
* **L'échanson:**
➙ 🍇 75% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
* **L'intemporelle:**
➙ 🍇 60% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ First vintages
* **Brut:** 1990
* **Rosé:** 2004
| 🧭 Based Mailly Champagne Grand Cru
47
# Name the producer of the following:
**Fine fleur de Bouzy**
➙ *Variety used*
**Hubert Dauvergne**
🧭 RM in Bouzy
➙ *(Montagne de Reims)*
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
48
# Whos producing the following?
**Nec Plus Ultra**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Bruno Paillard**
*Based in Reims*
➙ 🍇 Pinot Noir / Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 **First vintage:** 1990
49
# What is the prestige cuvee of:
**Chartogne Taillet**
Name the varieties
**Fiacre**
➙ NV bottling
➙ 🍇 60% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ 🧭 RM in Merfi: *Montagne de Reims*
50
# What are the prestiges cuvees of:
**Laurent Perrier**
*Name:*
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
* **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
51
# Who is producing:
**La Corne Bautray**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Jacquesson**
🧭 Single parcel Champagne from **Dizy**
➙ *Marne Valley*
🍇 1 Ha of **Chardonnay**
🎉 **First vintage:** 1995
52
# What is the producer of:
**Cuvée Paradis**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Alfred Gratien**
🧭 Epernay
🍇 Pinot Noir / Chardonnay
🎉 **First vintage**: 1985
53
# What is the prestige Wine of:
**Gosset**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**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*
54
# What is the monoparcel bottling of:
**Cattier**
*Name:*
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**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
55
# Who’s producing:
**Fleur de Passion**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Diebolt Vallois**
🧭 Based in Cramant
➙ *Côte-des-Blancs*
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 **First vintage:** 1995
56
How many vintages of Dom Perignon have been produced since 1921, its first botling?
**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.
57
# Who is the winemaker of:
**AR Lenoble**
**Antoine Malassagne**
🧭 Based in Chouilly
➙ *Côte des Blancs*
58
* How was renamed **Dom Perignon "Oenotheque"**
* *What is it exactly?*
* **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**
59
# What are the prestige cuvées of:
**Jacquart**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
* **Cuvée Alpha** **NV**:
➙ 🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ 🎉 First vintage: 2005
* **Brut de Nominée:**
➙ produced from 1985 to 1990
| CM in Reims
60
# What is the producer of:
**Catherine de Medicis**
➙ *Variety used*
**De Meric**
*NM in Aÿ*
🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ *NV wine*
61
# What is the producer and the blend of:
**Cuvée les Aventures**
*Name:*
➙ *Variety used*
## Footnote
*Mention the varieties used there*
**AR Lenoble**
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🧭 House based in Chouilly
➙ *Côte des Blancs*
62
# What is the flagship wine of:
**Delamotte**
*Name the variety and the location of the winery*
**Nicolas Louis Delamotte**
🍇 90% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🧭 Le Mesnil sur Oger - Côte des Blancs
➙ *Sister house of Salon*
63
# What is the tete de cuvée of:
**Boizel**
* *Mention the first vintage produced and the main varieties?*
**Joyaux de France**
🧭 Epernay
🍇 65% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 **First vintage:** 1961
64
# Who’s producing:
**Terres de Vertus**
*Name:*
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Larmandier-Bernier**
* RM in Vertus
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 **First vintage** 1995
65
# What is the producer of the following:
**Cuvée Louis XV**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**De Venoge**
Epernay
🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 **First vintage:** 1994
66
# What is the producer of the following wine:
**Cuvée special Chétillons**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Pierre Peters**
*RM in Le Mesnil sur Oger*
🍇 100% Chardonnay
* **1971**: first release under "***Special Club***"
* **2000**: first time labelled as "***Chétillons**"*
67
# What champagne house produce:
**Cuvée Louise**
**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
# What is the producer of:
**Elisabeth Salmon Rosé**
*Name:*
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Billecart-Salmon**
*Based in Aÿ*
🍇 60% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ **First vintage:** 1988
69
# What is the prestige wine of:
**Jacques Selosse**
➙ Name the variety
**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
# Who is the producer of:
**La Grande Sendrée**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Drappier**
*Based in Urville - Aube*
🍇 Pinot Noir base + Chardonnay
* First vintages
➙ **Brut**: 1975
➙ **Rosé**: 1990
71
# Who is the producer for:
**Grand Vin des Princes**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**De Venoge**
🧭*Based in Epernay*
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: **1961**
➙ ⚠️ *Not produced between 1994 and 2000* ⚠️
72
Name the 3 first **single parcels champagne** cuvee in champagne
* **Philliponat Clos de Goisses**
➙ 🎉 1935
* **Cattier Clos du Moulin**
➙ 🎉 1951
* **Krug Clos du Mesnil**
➙ 🎉 1979
73
# Who’s producing the following:
**Cuvée sous bois**
*Name:*
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
| Champagne
**Boizel**
* 50% Pinot Noir + 40% Chardonnay + 10% Meunier
* *_First vintage_: 1990*
* *Fully vinified in oak casks*
74
Name the **4 single parcels** bottling of **Jacquesson** Champagne
* **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
# Name the producer of:
**Rare**
*Name:*
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Piper-Heidsieck**
🧭 Based in Reims
🍇 55% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage:
➙ **Brut:** 1976
➙ **Rose:** 2007
76
# What is the prestige cuvée of:
**Vilmart & Cie**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Coeur de Cuvée**
🧭 Based in Rilly-la-Montagne
🍇 80% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First Vintage: **1989**
77
# Name the producer of the following:
**Les Barres**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
| Champagne
🏠 **Chartogne-Taillet**
🧭 Based in Merfy
🍇 100% Meunier from ungrafted vines
🎉 First vintage: **2006**
78
# Name the prestige cuvée of:
**Canard-Duchene**
* **Charles VII**
🧭 Ludes
🍇 100% Chardonnay
79
# Name the prestige & iconic cuvées of:
**Berêche**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
* **Rive Gauche**
🍇 100% Meunier
🧭 Vallée de la Marne
* **Reflêt d'Antan NV**
🍇 1/3 each:
➙ Pinot Noir
➙ Chardonnay
➙ Meunier
80
# Name the Monoparcel cuvée of:
**Jean Milan**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Terres de Noël**
🧭 From Oger
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: **1985**
## Footnote
🎉
81
# Name the prestige cuvée of:
**Joseph Perrier**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Cuvée Josephine**
🧭 Chalon en Champagne
🍇 Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **1982**
82
# Name the producer of:
**La Grande Année**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Bollinger**
➙ 🧭 Aÿ
🍇 70% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First named **Grande Année** in 1976
➙ Renamed **La Grande Année** in 1997
83
# Give the date of the creation of:
**L'echelle des crus**
*AKA Champagne scale*
How many villages are there?
**1919**
319 villages are rated in total
84
# Name the producer of:
**La Grande Dame**
*Name:*
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Veuve Clicquot**
🧭 Based in Reims
🍇 60/65% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First Vintage:
➙ **Brut**: 1969
➙ **Rosé**: 1988
85
Name the **head winemaker** of **Dom Perignon**?
* **Since 1990**: Richard Geoffroy
* **Since 2019**: Vincent Chaperon
86
# Name the producer of:
**Comtes de Champagne**
*Name:*
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Taittinger**
🧭 Based in Reims
🍇 70% Pinot Noir + 30% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage:
➙ Blanc de Blancs: **1952**
➙ Rosé: **1973**:
87
# Name the producer of:
**Alexandra Rosé**
*Name:*
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Laurent Perrier**
🧭 Tours sur Marne
🍇 80% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: **1982**
➙ Vintage dated cuvée
88
# Name the producer of:
**Cuvée Gentilhomme**
*Name:*
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**AR Lenoble**
🧭 Based in Chouilly
🍇100% Chardonnay
➙ 🏠 Antoine Malassagne is winemaker since 1996
89
# Name the producer of:
**Le Jardin de la Grosse Pierre**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**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
# Name the following:
**Monoparcel of Duval Leroy**
**Clos de Bouveries**
🧭 In Vertus
🍇 100% Chardonnay
➙ Was the first champagne to use a *crown cap* like closure for release
91
# Name the producer of:
**William Deutz**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Deutz**
🧭 Based in Aÿ
🍇 Pinot Noir based + Chardonnay & Meunier
🎉 First vintage: **1959**
92
# Name the prestie cuvée of:
**Pommery**
➙ *Variety used*
**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
# Name the 2 prestige cuvees of:
**Charles Heidseick**
* **Champagne Charlie**
➙ Produced until 1995, then once again in 2017
* **Blanc des millenaires:**
➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1993
94
# Name the 2 prestige cuvees of:
**Henri Billiot**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
🧭 Based in Ambonnay
* **Cuvée Laetitia**
➙ 🍇 Based on Chardonnay
* **Cuvée Julie**
➙ 🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 First vintage: 1999
95
# Name the producer of:
**Vauzelle Terme** Champagne
**Jacquesson**
➙ 🧭 Based in Dizy
🍇 Pinot Noir parcel of Aÿ
🎉 First vintage:**1996**
96
# Name the producer of:
**Femme de Champagne**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Duval Leroy**
➙ 🧭 Based in Vertus
🍇 89% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **1990**
97
# Name the producer of:
**Grand Siècle**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Laurent Perrier**
➙ 🧭 Based in Tours sur Marne
🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1960
98
# Name the producer of:
**Armand de Brignac**
**Cattier**
➙ 🧭 Based in Chigny les Roses
🍇 Pinot Noir, Chardonnay + Meunier
🎉 First vintage: **2006**
➙ 🏠 *In partnership with Jay-Z*
99
Name the **newest high end prestige** cuvée of **Moet et Chandon**
**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.
100
# Name the producer of:
***Cuvée Julie***
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Henri Billot**
🧭 Based in Ambonnay
🍇 50% Chardonnay + 50% Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **1999**
101
# Name the producer of:
**Les Alliées**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
| Champagne
**Chartogne-Taillet**
🍇 100% Meunier
🧭 Vineyard located in Merfy
🎉 First vintage: **2008**
102
# Name the prestige cuvee of:
**Pol Roger**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Sir Winston Chirchill**
🧭 Based in Epernay
🍇 Base of Chardonnay & Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **1975**
103
# Name the producer of:
**Clos des Goisses**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Philliponat** (NM)
🧭 5,5 Ha in Mareuil sur Aÿ
🍇 70% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First Vintage: **1935**
➙ first monoparcel champagne to be release
104
# Name the producer of:
**Amour de Deutz**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Deutz**
🧭 Based in Aÿ
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: **1993**
105
# Name the producer of:
**Substance**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**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
# Name the prestiges cuvées of:
**De Venoge**
* **Grand Vin des Princes**
➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 1961
⚠️ *not produced btw 1994 and 2000* ⚠️
* **Louis XV:**
➙ 🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 1994
107
# Name the prestige cuvée of:
**Hubert Dauvergne**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
| Champagne
**Fine fleur de Bouzy:**
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🧭 Located in Bouzy
108
# Name the producer of:
**L'Echanson**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Champagne Mailly**
🧭 Located within the Mailly-Champagne Grand Cru
🍇 75% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
109
Name the two 1er cru vineyards rating 99% on the Champagne scale?
- Tauxières
- Mareuil sur Aÿ
110
Name the first champagne house to introduced a non-cork closure to its champagne?
When and why?
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
Who is Bollinger's **chef de cave**?
* **Until 2013**: Mathieu Kauffmann
* **Since 2013**: Gilles Descôtes
112
# Name the producer of:
**Cuvée Belle Epoque**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Perrier-Jouet
🍇 50% Chardonnay
➙ + 45% Pinot Noir
➙ + 5% Meunier
🎉 First vintage: **1964**
113
# Name the producer of the following cuvée :
**Charles de Gaulle**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Drappier**
🧭 Based in Urville in Côte des Bars
🍇 80% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: **1990**
114
# Name the prestige cuvee of:
**Lanson**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Noble Cuvée**
➙ *Made as Blanc de Blancs & Rosé*
🍇 60% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **1979**
115
# Name the producer of:
**Les Crayères**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Egly-Ouriet**
➙ 🧭 Based in Ambonnay
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **1987**
116
# Name the prestige cuvée of:
**Billecart-Salmon**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Nicolas François Billecart**"
➙ 🍇 60% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 *1955*
**Grande Cuvée**
➙ 🍇60% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 *1982*
**Elisabeth Salmon Rosé**
➙ 🍇 58% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 *1988*
117
# Name the producer of:
**Blanc des Millenaires**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**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
118
# Name the prestige cuvée of:
**Perrier-Jouet**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Belle Epoque**:
➙ 🍇 50% Chardonnay + 45% Pinot Noir + Meunier
➙ 🎉 First vintage: **1964**
**Fleur de Champagne:**
⚠️ US Market only ⚠️
➙ Last released in 2002
119
# Name the prestige cuvée of:
**Alfred Gratien**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Cuvée Paradis** NV
➙ *Made as Brut and Rosé*
🍇 Blend of: Pinot Noir & Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: **1985**
120
When did **Dom Perignon** changed name from **Oenotheque to P2**?
* Last vintage of **Oenotheque** in 1996
* First made of P2 in 1998
➙ *lauch in 2017*
121
# Name the prestige cuvee of:
**Ruinart**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
* **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
# Name the prestige cuvee of:
**Duval Leroy**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Femme de Champagne**
🧭 Based in Vertus
🍇 89% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **1990**
123
In what **vintage** did Dom Perignon only produced a **rosé version**?
**1986**
124
# Name the producer of:
**Grand Vin Signature**
| Champagne
**Jacquesson**
🍇 Pinot Noir & Chardo from Grand cru vineyards
➙ 🎉 Produced from 1981 to 2002
125
# Name the producer of:
**Folie de la Marquetterie**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Taittinger**
🍇 55% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🧭 Single estate bottling
🎉 First vintage: **2006**
126
# Name the producer of:
**L'intemporelle**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Champagne Mailly**
🍇 60% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 Brut: **1990**
🎉 Rosé: **2004**
127
# Name the prestige cuvee of:
**Roederrer**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Cristal**
➙ 🎉 *first made in 1876 - not commercially available until 1945*
➙ 🎉 Rosé: 1974
🍇 55% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
128
# Name the clos vineyard of:
**Billecart Salmon**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Clos Saint Hillaire**
🧭 1 Ha in Mareuil sur Aÿ
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🎉 FIrst vintage: **1995**
129
# Name the producer of:
**Venus**
➙ *Variety used*
**Agrapart & Fils**
*Venus is the name of the horse working this specific vineyard*
🧭 0,3 Ha in Avize
🍇 100% Chardonnay
130
# Name the producer of:
**Clos du Mesnil**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Krug**
🍇 100% Chardonnay
🧭 1,84 Ha in Mesnil sur Oger
🎉 First vintage: **1979**
131
# Name the proudcer of:
**Celebris**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Gosset**
*Based in Epernay*
🍇 Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
➙ The blend can change slighly every vintages
🎉 First vintage: **1988**
132
# Name the prestige cuvée of:
**Piper Heidsieck**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Rare:**
➙ 🍇 55% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ 1976, 1979, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2013
➙ First ever **Rare rose**: 2007 & 2008
133
Name the **head winemaker** of ****?
**Stephen Leroux**
134
# Name the mono-parcel champagnes of:
**Tarlant**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
* **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
# Name the mono-parcels of:
**Chartogne-Taillet**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
* **Les Barres**:
➙ 🍇100% ungrafted Meunier
➙ 🎉 2006
* **Les Orizeaux**
➙ 🍇 100% Pinot Noir
➙ 🎉 2007
* **Les Alliées**
➙ 🍇 100% Meunier
➙ 🎉 2008
| 🧭 Based in Merfy
136
How many **P2 / Oenotheque** cuvée have been release by Dom Perignon since 1921?
**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
# Name the presitge cuvee of:
**G.H. Mumm**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Cuvée René Lalou**
🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: **1966**
➙ *Not produced beteween 1985 to 1998*
138
# Name the producer of:
**Les Orizeaux**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Chartogne Taillet**
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🧭 Located in Merfy 1er Cru
🎉 First vintage: **2007**
➙ *Produced as Non Vintage*
139
# Name the 2 mono-parcels of:
**Krug**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
* **Clos du Mesnil**:
➙ 🍇 100% Chardonnay
➙ 🎉 1979
➙ 🧭 1,84 Ha
* **Clos d'Ambonnay**:
➙ 🍇 100% Pinot Noir
➙ 🎉 1995
➙ 🧭 0,68 Ha
140
What was the last vintage of **Cuvée des Enchanteleurs** to be produced?
**2000**
🏠 Henriot - Reims
🎉 Replaced by **Hemera** in 2005
➙ 🍾 Aged for 12 years on the Lees
141
# Name the producer of the following cuvee:
**RD**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Bollinger**
➙ Base of **La Grande Année** Champagne with extended period of aging on the lees
🍇 70% Pinot Noir +30% Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: **1952**
142
# Name the mono-parcel of=
**Pierre Peters**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**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
# Name the prodocer of:
**Noble Cuvée**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Lanson**
🍇 60% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
➙ *Made as Brut Blanc de Blancs & Rosé*
🎉 First vintage: **1979**
144
# Name the producer of:
**Cuvée Alpha**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Jacquart Champagne**
🍇 50% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **2005**
145
# Name the proudcer of:
**Clos d'Ambonnay**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Krug**
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
🧭 0,68 Ha in Ambonnay
🎉 First vintage: **1995**
146
# What is the first vintage of:
**Nicolas François-Billecart**
🎉 **1955**
🏠 Billecart-Salmon
🍇 60% Pinot Noir + 40% Chardonnay
147
# Name the producer of:
**Clos du Moulin**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Cattier**
🧭 2.2 ha in Ludes
🍇 50% Pinot Noir + Chardonnay
🎉 First vintage: 1952
➙ *Non vintage wines*
148
# Name the proudcer of:
**Coeur de Cuvée**
➙ *First Vintage*
➙ *Variety used*
**Vilmart & Cie**
🍇 80% Chardonnay + Pinot Noir
🎉 First vintage: **1989**
149
# What is the newest vintage of:
**Champagne Charlie**
**2017**
*Made by Charles Heidsieck*
📖 Celebration of the bi-centenarian from the birth of the founder of the winery.
| written in 2023
