1. Rose d Anjou AOC 2. Cabernet d anjou AOC 3. Rose de Loire AOC

1. Off dry, Grolleau 7g/l 2. 10g/l cab/cab med sweet 3. Dry rose

Loire Flashcards by Ron Benitez

Pays Nantais AOCs

Muscadet
Muscadet corteaux de La loire
Muscadet serve et Maine
Muscadet cotes de Grandlieu

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7 DCG Muscadet sever et Maine

Goulaine
Gorges
Mouzillon Tillieres
Monnieres saint fiacre
Clisson
Chateau thebaud 
Le pallet

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Dutch influence

Supplier of wine to England
Influenced farmers to plant folle Blanche
Make brandewijn

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Primary white

Chenin blanc

Others- sauv blanc, Chardonnay, orbois/arbois

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Primary rose grapes

Grolleau

Sauvignon gris- “fie gris” used by haut poitou

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Anjou-saumur AOCs whole region

Anjou
Rose d Anjou (off dry)
Cabernet d Anjou (cab/cab)
Anjou villages (red only)
Rose de loire (covers touraine as well)
Cremant de loire

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Anjou-saumur AOCs

Savenniers
Savenniers roche aux monies
Coulee de serrant 
Anjou brissac
Saumur
Saumur champigny 
Anjou coteaux de La loire
Coteaux de aubance
Coteaux du layon 
Quarts de chaume 
Bonnezeaux

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Savenniers AOC

100% CB

Sweet permitted

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Savenniers roche aux monies

Lieu dit within savenniers
Lower yields, hand harvest, two passes, no chap
Can be sweet 30g/l

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Coulee de serrant AOC

Within Savennieres
Monople Nicolas joy
Two passes, low yield, biodynamic
Can be sweet

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Coteaux du Lyon 1er Cru Chaume

Sweet wines from CB
Hand picked, several passes
Late or noble 80g/l

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Quarts de Chaume Grand cru

Noble or passerillage
Layon river
85g/l

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Bonnezeaux

51g/l

Higher acid than other sweet wine regions

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Rose d Anjou AOC
Cabernet d anjou AOC
Rose de Loire AOC

Off dry, Grolleau 7g/l
10g/l cab/cab med sweet
Dry rose

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Saumur AOC

More mousseux than still
Traditional 9mo saumur brut
CB (100%), CF, 
Rose are dry
DGC Puy Norte Dam

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Anjou AOC

Mousseux/fines bulles
Dry white
Red
No Rose
Sp white
Sp rose
Gamay primer

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Mousseux

Less demanding production standard then cremant
No aging requirements
3 atm
Non cremant AOCs

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Petillant

Fizzy/semi sparkling

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Coteaux de Saumur AOC

Only Uses CB
Sweet or semi sweet
Over ripe or noble
34g/l

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Haut Poitou AOC

SB, CF
Continental
South facing
Sand, chalk, clay, flint

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Saumur champigny

Only red
CF (CS, Pineau)
Most important red AOC
Tuffeau
Igni “field of fire”

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Anjou coteaux de la Loire AOC

CB
Sweet to semi
North and south banks of the Loire

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Coteaux de Aubance

CB
34g/l
SGN if noble rot
Warmest of Anjou

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Coteaux du layon

CB
Sweet or semi
6 DCG - beaulieu sur layon, faye d Anjou, rablay sur Layon, rochefort sur loire, saint aubin de luigne, saint lambert du latty
Noble rot SGN label and a min 19% etoh

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Touraine soil types

Tuffeau - west, white chalk Argiles silex/perruches - flinty clay Aubuis- clay limestone Sedimentary deposits - sand gravel

Romorantin

Mineral, bees wax, honey, austere Exclusive to cour-cheverny Pinot teinturier x gouais blanc

Fie Gris

Sauvignon gris in the Loire

Touraine AOC whole region

White - SB Reds - CF (west of tours), cot (east) Rose - dry, no more than 70% single varieties Sparkling - small amount

Touraine DGC

``` Amboise Azay le rideau Chenonceaux Mesland Oisly ```

Touraine noble joule AOC

Only Rose Vin gris - PM, PN, PG Always dry

Rose de loire AOC

Dry only | Smallest production

Cremant de loire

All Touraine

Valencay AOC

Goat cheese Perruches soil Mostly SB and Gamay rose

Chinon AOC

Red wines, largest AOC by volume Tuffeau CF, can blend CS CB 100%

Bourgueil AOC

CF | Tuffeau

Tuffeau wines desc

Structure/complex | Spice plum

Gravel wines desc

Raspberry

Sandy soil wine desc

Light fruity

Gravel/limestone wine desc

Fuller body | Tannic

St nicolas de Bourgueil

CF Gravel Raspberry supple mouthfeel

Vouvray AOC

CB some orbois Some oceanic influences 60% mousseux and petillant 12 sur lie

Montlouis sur loire AOC

CB only Slate gravel 35% organic or terra vitis Majority sparkling

Cheverny AOC

SB, PN, Sauvignon gris Rivers- beuvron, bievre, cosson Warmer, 32% terra vitis

Cour-Cheverny AOC

Romorantin only | King Froncous ordered plantings

Orleans AOC

Pinot meunier | Chardonnay, Pinot gris

Orleans clery AOC

CF red only | Within Orleans AOC

Caillottes

Limestone rich portlandian marl pebbles

Terres blanches

Kimmerigean marl

Sancerre

100% SB, PN Silex, caillottes, blanches 50% grand in spots Lieu dit- chavignol, monts dammes

Pouilly fume

Flinty | Smoke

Pouilly sur loire

100% chasselas

Menteou salon

Wet stones 100% SB, PN Increase risk of front, flatter

Quincy AOC

Dry white wines SB, blend is Sauvignon gris | Cher river

Reuilly AOC

Two separate vineyards Arnon river Always frost to harvest in center loire 100% SB, PN

Anjou wine styles mix

Anjou AOC- dry white, red, semi sweet to sweet white, sparkling white and rose Haut pointou- Dry white, red, rose Saumur AOC - above no sweet

Anjou reds

Anjou villages Anjou brissac Saumur champigny

Anjou rose

Cabernet d Anjou | Rose d Anjou

Anjou sweet

``` Coteaux du layon - sweet and semi white Quarts de Chaume- sweet white Bonnezeaux- sweet white Anjou coteaux de La loire - sweet to semi Coteaux de l aubance - sweet to semi Savenniers - sweet, semi and dry white Savenniers roche aux monies - above Coulee de serrant- above Coteaux de samur- sweet, semi ```

Touraine wine styles mix

Touraine - dry white, red, rose. Sparkling white and rose Coteaux du vendomois above and both sweet Coteaux du loire above all

Touraine basics wines

``` Valencay red rose white Bourgueil red rose Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil red rose Cheverny red rose white Orleans red rose white ```

Touraine rose only

Touraine noble joue | Rose de Loire

Touraine sweet main

Vouvray white dry, sweet semi sparkling Montlouis sur loire above Cour Cheverny above Jasniers above

Center loire wine styles whites only

Pouilly fume Pouilly sur loire Quincy

Center loire mix wine styles

Sancerre dry white rose red Menetou salon above Reuilly above

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