Loire Flashcards
(127 cards)
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True or False: The Loire is France’s largest white wine producing area
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True
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What are fines bulles?
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Sparkling wines from the Loire
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Who brought viticulture to the Loire?
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The Romans
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What product did the Dutch use Loire wines to make?
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Brandeweijn - Burnt wine
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What does the word “liger” mean?
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Silt/ sediment, which refers to the silt of the Loire
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What’s the climate of the Pays Nantais?
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Maritime
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What’s the climate of the middle Loire?
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Maritime with continental influences
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What’s the climate of the centre-Loire?
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Continental
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What land form does the Pays Nantais lie within?
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Massif Armoricain
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What land form does the Anjou lie within?
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Massif Armoricain
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What land form does the Centre-Loire lie within?
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Paris Basin
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What land form does the Touraine lie within?
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Paris Basin
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What land form does the Upper-Loire lie within?
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Massif Central
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What’s the most widely planted grape variety in the Loire?
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Cabernet Franc
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What is the name of the IGP covering the whole Loire?
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IGP Val de Loire
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Which is the first Loire sub-region to experience bud break?
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Pays Nantais
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Which is the first Loire sub-region to harvest?
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Pays Nantais
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What are the two rivers that bisect the Pays Nantais?
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Sevre and Maine
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What soils predominate in the Pays Nantais
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Free draining, volcanic, igneous and metamorphic soils
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What is the principal grape of the Pays Nantais?
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Melon de Bourgogne
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True or False: Chardonnay is permitted in Muscadet AOC?
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True
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True or False: Chardonnay is permitted in Muscadet Sevre et Maine AOC?
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False - it must be 100% Melon de Bourgogne
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Which is physically the largest of the Muscadet AOCs?
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Muscadet AOC
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Which Muscadet AOC has the highest production volume?
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Muscadet Sevre et Maine AOC
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True or False: Muscadet AOC cannot make wine labelled "sur lie"
True
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How much of the production of Muscadet Sevre et Maine AOC is "sur lie"?
90%
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How many DGCs does Muscadet Sevre et Maine have?
9
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What are the Muscadet Sevre et Maine DGCs?
Chateau-Thebaud
Clisson
Gorges
Goulaine
Monnieres-Sainte-Fiacare
Mouzillon-Tillieres
Le Pallet
Vallet
La Haye-Fouassiere
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True or False: Muscadet Sevre et Maine DGCs can be labelled "sur lie"
False - the DGCs have longer sur lie ageing requirements
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Which Muscadet AOC is furthest from the sea?
Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire AOC
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Which Muscadet AOC is closest to the sea?
Muscadet cotes de Grandlieu AOC
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What is the requirement in Muscadet to be able to label the wine "sur lie"?
The wine must be bottled between 1 March and 31 December the year after the harvest
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What is the largest sub-zone the Loire
Anjou-Saumur
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What is tuffeau?
Turonian chalk found in the Loire
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What soils are found in the 'black Anjou"?
Dark Schists and sandstone from the Armoricain massif
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What soils are found in the "white Anjou"?
Tuffeau (chalk) from the Paris basin
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What is "La douceur Angevine"?
A description of the temperate climate around Anjou
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What's the primary white grape of Anjou Saumur
Chenin Blanc
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What style accounts for the greatest volume of production in Anjou Saumur
Rosé
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Which bank of the Loire accounts for the majority of the vineyard in Anjou Saumur
Left Bank
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What wine styles can be made under the Anjou AOC?
All (red, dry to sweet whites, mousseaux and cremant, Rosé still and sparkling)
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True or False. Pinot d'aunis is related to Pinot
False
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What is the primary wine style of Anjou AOC?
Red (from cabernets, Grolleau and Pinot d'Aunis)
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What style of wine is produced in Anjou Village AOC?
Red only from the Cabernets
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What style of wine does Anjou Brissac AOC produce?
Red only from the Cabernets
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What is the AOC that has the largest production of the Anjou Rosés?
Cabernet d' Anjou
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What's the minimum sweetness of Cabernet d' Anjou?
10 g/l
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What's the primary grape of Rosé d'Anjou
Grolleau Gris
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Is rosé d'Anjou sweeter or less sweet than Cabernet d'Anjou?
Less sweet (7g/l RS)
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What river influences the climate in the sweet wine AOCs of Anjou?
Layon
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What is the premier cru found in Coteaux du Layon AOC?
Chaume
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Can Coteaux du Layon AOC wines be labeled SGN?
Yes, if the grapes achieve 19% potential alcohol and have botrytis
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What is the only Grand Cru in the Loire?
Quarts de Chaume
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What direction do the slopes face in Quarts de Chaume?
South
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What style of wine is Anjou-Coteaux de la Loire?
Semi to sweet white from Chenin Blanc
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What does aoliean mean?
Wind blown - typically sands
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What style of wine is Coteaux de l'Aubance?
semi to sweet white from Chenin Blanc
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Which is the warmest of the Anjou AOCs?
Coteaux de l'Aubance
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What soils can be found in Quarts de Chaume?
Schists and Sandstone (black Anjou)
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What style of wine is Savennieres AOC?
Usually dry but can make semi to sweet
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What soils are found in Savennieres?
Slate, schist, volcanic rock and aeolian sand
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What is the famous lieu-dit found within the Savennieres AOC?
Savennieres Roche au Moines AOC
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What is the monopole found within Savennieres AOC?
Couleé de Serrant AOC
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What is the predominant style of Saumur AOC?
Mousseux
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What sub-area of the Loire is the largest producer of fine bulles?
Saumur
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What is the primary grape of Saumur Mousseaux Rosé
Cabernet Franc
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Which is the most important red wine AOC in Anjou-Saumur?
Saumur-Champigny AOC
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What is the predominant soil in saumur-champigny AOC?
Tuffeau
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Which grape dominates in the western side of Touraine?
Cabernet Franc
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Which grape dominates in the centre of the Touraine?
Chenin Blanc
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Which grape dominates the eastern side of Touraine?
Sauvignon Blanc
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What is perruches?
Flinty clay - Agriles a silex
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What is the soil type of Vouvray, Montlouis and eastern Touraine?
perruches (flinty clay) = Silex
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What is the predominant soil type of western Touraine?
Tuffeau
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What's the primary gape of Cour-Cheverny AOC?
Romorantin
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What are the secondary grapes of Touraine?
Chardonnay and Orbois
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True or False: Touraine produces more red wine than white?
True - red wine production > 50%
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What's the most common sub-soil in the Touraine AOC?
Tuffeau
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What's the primary grape of Touraine AOC Mousseaux wines?
Chenin Blanc
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What is the primary grape of Touraine AOC reds grown east of Tours?
Côt
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What is the primary grape of Touraine AOC reds grown west of Tours?
Cabernet Franc
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True or false: Touraine AOC Rosé wines are typically blends
True: No grape can account for >70% of the blend
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What's the primary wine style of Touraine AOC?
Dry white. c. 60% of production
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What style of wine is Touraine Noble Joué AOC?
Vin Gris (rosé). Red wine made by white wine making techniques
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What are the grapes used to make Touraine Noble Joué AOC?
Meunier, Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris
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True or false: Touraine Noble Joué must be made by Saingeé method
False. Generally made by direct press, but Meunier can have a short maceration
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What style of wine is a "gravel wine" in Bourgueil
Lighter, raspberry fruit
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What style of wine is a "tuffeau wine" in Bourgueil
More structured, spicy and complex
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What bank of the Loire can Bourgueil and St Nicolas de Bourgueil be found?
Right
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What's the predominant soil type in St Nicolas the Bourgueil?
Sandy Gravel
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True or False: both Bourgueil AOCs can produce white and Rosé wines
False. They're both red and rosé only
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True or False:Chinonl AOCs produces red, white and Rosé wines
True. Whites are permitted from Chenin Blanc
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What's the primary river of the Chinon AOC?
Vienne
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What soils are found in Chinon closest to the river?
Sand and gravel
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What soils are found on the slopes in Chinon?
Tuffeau
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What soils are found at the highest elevations in Chinon?
soils and flint/ clay
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What bank of the Loire can Vouvray be found?
Right bank
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What bank of the Loire can Montlouis be found?
Left bank
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What is the most important wine style found in Vouvray AOC?
fines bulles (Mousseaux and pétillant)
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What are perruches?
Flinty-clay
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Are are aubuis?
chalky-clay
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What is petillant originel?
Fines Bulles wines made by not addition (including sugar or yeast), one fermentation and 9 months on the lees before being bottled without dosage.
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How many eastern Touraine AOCs are on the right bank of the Loire?
5 - all of them
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What river is Valencay found on?
Cher
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What's the primary grape of Valencay?
Sauvignon Blanc
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What is the primary red grape of Chevernay AOC?
Pinot Noir
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True or false. Cour-Cheverny AOC produces mainly sweet wines.
False. The wines are mainly dry, but semi and sweet wines are permitted
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What is the primary white grape of Orleans AOC?
Chardonnay
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What is the primary red grape of Orleans AOC?
Meunier
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What is the primary grape of Orleans-Clery AOC?
Cabernet Franc
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What rosé has the smallest production out of the 3 rosés of the Loire rosés?
Rosé de Loire
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What style of wine is Rosé de Loire?
Dry rosé
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What is the climate of the centre Loire?
Continental
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What are Caillottes?
Pebbles of limestone rich portlandian Marl
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What is Terre blanche?
Kimmeridgean marl rich in oyster fossils
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What is silex?
clay with flint
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What is the historical grape of the centre Loire?
Chassalas
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What are the three soil types found in Sancerre AOC?
Cailottes
Silex
Terre Blanche
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Which is hillier Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé?
Sancerre
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What bank of the Loire can Pouilly-Fumé be found?
Right
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What is the only grape permitted in Pouilly-sur-Loire?
Chassalas
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What river runs through Quincy AOC?
Cher
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What is the primary grape of Quincy AOC?
Sauvignon Blanc
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What style of wine does Reuilly AOC produce?
Red, white and rosé
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What is the primary red grape of Reuilly AOC?
Pinot Noir
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What is the primary white grape of Reuilly AOC?
Sauvignon Blanc
