France Champagne Prestige Cuvees

Question 1

Cuvee des Enchanteleurs

Answer 1

Henriot (Reims)
50/50 Chardonnay /Pinot Noir
Vintage 2000
CDC-Laurent Fresnet

Question 2

Cuvee R.Lalou

Answer 2

G.H Mumm (Reims)
50/50 Chard/Pinot Noir
10years lees raging
CdC- Didier Mariotti

Question 3

Noble Cuvee

Answer 3

Lanson (Reims)

CdC-Herve Dantan

Question 4

Fiacre

Answer 4

Chartogne-Taillet (Montagne de Reims)
60%Chard 40%PN
Alexandre Chartogne

Question 5

a) Cuvee William Deutz

b) Amour de Deutz

Answer 5

Deutz (AY)
a) 55% PN, 35% Chard, 10%PM

b) 100%Chard

CDC- Pierre- Hubert Geidermann

Question 6

Cuvee Perle d’Ayala

Answer 6

Ayala (AY)
80% Chard
20%PN
8 Yrs in bottle
Caroline Latrive- cellar master
2005 bought by Bollinger

Question 7

Elizabeth Salmon Rose

Answer 7

Billecart Salmon (Mareuil- sur-Ay)
No Malolactic
Small family owned house
2002
CDC -Francois Domi

Question 8

Nicolas Francois Billecart

Answer 8

Billecart Salmon (Mareuil-sur-Ay)
50/50 Chrd/PN
Named after founding father

Question 9

Coeur de Cuvee

Answer 9

Vilmart and Cie (Montagne de Reims)
80% Chard
20% PN
Organic viticulture
CDC- Laurent Champs
RM

Question 10

Joyau de France

Answer 10

Boizel (Epernay)
64% PN
35%Chard
One family, 5 generations
CDC- Christopher Roques Boizel

Question 11

Fleur de Passion

Answer 11

Diebolt- Vallois(Cramant)
100% Chard
40yr old vines
100% Grand Cru
CDC- Jacques Diebolt

Question 12

Vielles Vignes Francaises

Answer 12

Bollinger ( AY)
100%PN
Grand Cru sites, original planting ungrafted
2006
Provignage= densely planted
Worked by hand
CDC - Giles Descotes

Question 13

Grand Vin Signature

Answer 13

Jacquesson (Dizy)
3 Grand Cru
2 Premier cru
unfiltered
opposite of NV style in 2000 ditched the idea of NV and decided on expression over consistency
CDC - Jean Herve Chiquet, Laurent Chiquet
1981 first vintage

Question 14

Substance

Answer 14

Jacques Selosse (Avize)
100% Chardonnay
Low dosages
No Malolactic
Single Vineyard
Base grapes coming from 1987 vintage
CDC - Anselme Selosse
RM

Question 15

Cramant Grand Cru Cuvee Prestige

Answer 15

Larmandier ( Vertus)
100% Chardonnay
Grand Cru - Cremant
CDC -Guy Larmandier
RM

Question 16

a) Cuvee Laetitia

b) Cuvee Julie

Answer 16

Henri Billiot and Fils (Monatague de Reims in Ambonnay)
a) NV Chard dominant
b) NV 50/50 named after Laetitia daughter, no Malo
CDC- Laetitia Billiot daughter of Serge

Question 17

Femme de Champagne

Answer 17

Duval Leroy ( Vertus)
89% Chard
11% PN
Family owned
Known for pioneering sustainable development 
10yrs raging before release

Question 18

Grand Siècle

Answer 18

Laurent Perrier (Tours sur Marne)
Typically NV - first NV released in 1960!
Translates as the great century 
50/50
12 Grand Crus
5yrs lees aging

Question 19

Cuvee Josephine

Answer 19

Joseph Perrier (Chalons- en- Champagne)
CDC - Jean Claud Fourmon

Question 20

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 20

Drappier (Urville)
80% Chard
20%PN
aged 4 year on lees
still cultivate Arbane, Petit Meslier, Blanc Vrai
CDC - Yannick Desmarest

Question 21

Rare

Answer 21

Piper Heidsieck (Reims)
70% Chard
30% PN
CDC- Regis Camut
2002

Question 22

Nec- Plus Ultra

Answer 22

Bruno Paillard (Reims)
Translates- There is nothing beyond
10-12 yrs of lees's 
Family owned, Bruno was a grape broker before he turned winemaker
4 Northern GC vineyards

Question 23

Celebris

Answer 23

Gosset ( Epernay since 2010, formally AY)
Extra Brut
Pinot and Chardonnay varies widely with vintage

Question 24

Cuvee Paradis

Answer 24

Alfred Gratien (Epernay)
Chard and PN

Question 25

Champagne Charlie | Blanc de Millenaires

Answer 25

``` Charles Heidsieck ( Reims) Champagne Charlier discontinued after 1985 Inaugural vintage of Millenaires was 1983 100% Chardonnay ```

Question 26

a) Cuvée Les Aventures | b) Cuvée Gentilhomme

Answer 26

AR Lenoble (Chouilly) a) NV 100% Chard b) Vintage Chard

Question 27

Dom Perignon | Dom Pérignon Oenothèque

Answer 27

``` Moet and Chandon (Epernay) 1921 (Rose) 1959 Chard and PN 1998 P2- Plentitude ```

Question 28

Belle Epoque | Fleur de Champagne(USA)

Answer 28

``` Perrier -Jouet ( Epernay) 2002 will be the last of the USA Fleur de Champagne label Brut: 50% Chardonnay, 45% Pinot Noir, 5% Meunier ```

Question 29

Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill

Answer 29

``` Pol Roger(Épernay) Pinot Noir and Chardonnay ```

Question 30

Cuvee Louise

Answer 30

Pommery (Reims) Brut- 60% Chard and 40%PN Chalk Crayere cellar

Question 31

Cristal

Answer 31

``` Louis Roederer (Reims) (Brut and Brut Rosé) Cristal Brut: 55% Pinot Noir,45% Chardonnay (approx.) Cristal: 1876 (not available commercially until 1945) Cristal Rosé: 1974 ```

Question 32

Dom Ruinart

Answer 32

``` Ruinart (Reims) (Blanc de Blancs and Rosé) Rosé: 85% Chardonnay, 15% Pinot Noir Dom Ruinart: 1959, Dom Ruinart Rosé: 1966 ```

Question 33

Comtes de Champagne

Answer 33

Taittinger (Reims) (Blanc de Blancs and Rosé) "Taittinger Collection"Art work series -Rosé: 70% Pinot Noir,30%Chardonnay Collection: 50% Chardonnay 50% Pinot Noir Comtes: 1952

Question 34

La Grande Dame

Answer 34

Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin (Reims) (Brut and Brut Rosé) Brut: 60-65% Pinot Noir, 30-35% Chardonnay Brut: 1969, Rosé: 1988

Question 35

CM producer | "Palmes d'Or"

Answer 35

Nicolas Feuillatte (Chouilly) (Brut and Brut Rosé) 50% Pinot Noir, 50% Chardonnay Brut: 1985 Brut Rosé: 1996

Question 36

Monopole producer | "Venus"

Answer 36

Agrapart (RM, Avize) Brut Nature | (0.3 ha, Avize) 100% Chardonnay

Question 37

Monopole Producer "les Barres" "Les Orizeaux" "Les Alliees"

Answer 37

Chartogne-Taillet (RM, Merfy) "Les Barres" (ungrafted vines, Merfy) 100% Meunier "Les Orizeaux" (planted in 1961, grafted, Merfy) 100% PN "Les Alliées" (planted in 1969, Merfy) 100% Meunier

Question 38

Monopole Producer | "Les Crayeres"

Answer 38

Egly-Ouriet (RM, Ambonnay) | NV 100% Pinot Noir

Question 39

Monopole Producer "Dizy Corne Bautray" "Aÿ Vauzelle Terme" "Dizy Terres Rouges Rosé" "Avize Champ Cain"

Answer 39

Jacquesson "Corne Bautray": 100% Chardonnay "Vauzelle Terme": 100% Pinot Noir "Terres Rouges Rosé": 100% Pinot Noir "Champ Cain": 100% Chardonnay

Question 40

Monopole producer "Clos du Mesnil" "Clos d'Ambonnay"

Answer 40

Krug (NM, Reims) "Clos du Mesnil" (1.84 ha, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger) 100% Chard 1979 "Clos d'Ambonnay" (0.68 ha, Ambonnay) 100% PN 1995

Question 41

Monopole Producer | "Les Folies de la Marquetterie"

Answer 41

Taittinger (Pierry) NV 55% Chardonnay, 45% Pinot Noir First NV release in 2006

Question 42

Explain Prestige Cuvee?

Answer 42

Usually the first and most exclusive bottling of a House Tete du Cuvee only Only produced in the finest years

Question 43

What Champagne houses were the first to produce a Prestige Cuvee?

Answer 43

Roederer's Cristal( Alexander ll) 1878 | Moet and Chandon's Dom Perignon 1928

Question 44

Name 5 Prestige Cuvees that are Non Vintage?

Answer 44

Egly Ouriet- Les Crayeres Lanson- Rose Noble Cuvee Laurent Perrier- Grand Siecle (first 1960) Henriot Billiot- Cuvee Latetia/Cuvee Julie Taittinger - Les Folies de la Marquetterie