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Are still rosé wines allowed for Saumur AOP?

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Yes
Prior to 2016, rosé from the region was formerly designated as Cabernet de Saumur AOP.

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Can Anjou wines be bottled as Saumur AOP?

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No - many Saumur wines may be bottled as Anjou AOP, but not vice versa

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Can the subzones of Sèvre-et-Maine be labeled sur lie?

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No, the min length of aging for each subzone precludes the use of sur lie

(Le Pallet - on lees til April 2 of 2nd year
Gorges and Clisson: on lees til November 1 of 2nd year)

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How large is Quarts de Chaume?

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54 ha ≈10,000 cases

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Name 2 highly regarded producers of Savennières.

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-Domaine des Baumard
-Chateau Pierre-Bise

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Name a producer of Bonnezeaux.

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Chateau des Fesles

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Name the 4 regions of the Loire Valley?

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(East to West)
-Pays Nantais
-Anjou-Saumur
-Touraine
-Central Vineyards

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T or F - Touraine AOP can also be pétillant, mousseux, and primeur.

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TRUE

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What 3 AOPs set the bar for classic Loire Cab Franc?

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-Chinon
-Bourgueil
-St-Nicholas-de-Bourgueil

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What 3 VDQS of Pays Nantais were upgraded to AOC status in 2011?

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-Gros Plant du Pays Nantais
-Coteaux d’Ancenis
-Fiefs Vendéens

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What 5 villages are allowed to append their name to Touraine AOP?

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-Mesland
-Azay-le-Rideau
-Amboise
-Oisly
-Chenonceaux

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What AOP is entitled to the “Grand Cru” moniker from 2010 forward?

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Quarts de Chaume AOP

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What AOP is located in the Allier department? What colors are produced?

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-Pourçain
-Red, rosé and white

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What AOP is located in the Cher department? What color/grapes are used?

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-Chateaumeillant
-Red and rosé - Gamay

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What AOP of the Central Vineyards is reserved 100% Cab Franc?

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Orléans-Cléry AOP

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What AOP of the Central Vineyards produce rosé from a pale vin gris from Pinot Gris?

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Reuilly

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What appellation of Muscadet was created in 1994?

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Muscadet Côtes de Grandlieu AOP

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What are the 3 broad soil distinctions of Chinon?

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-tuffeau (marine limestone)
-clay
-varennes - alluvial

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What are the 3 main soils of Sancerre?

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-Silex - flint
-Terres blanches - kimmeridgian clay
-Caillottes - stony, fossils

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What are the 3 subzones for Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine?

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-Clisson
-Le Pallet
-Gorges

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What are the 4 AOPs for Melon in Pays Nantais?

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-Muscadet
-Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire
-Muscadet Côtes de Grandlieu
-Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine

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What are the aging requirements for Muscadet Sur Lie?

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Wines are aged on their lees over the winter, and are bottled directly off the fine lees (without filtering) between 3/1 and 11/30 of the year following the harvest, cannot be markested until 3/8

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What are the best and most ageworthy red wines historically produced in the Loire?

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Chinon and Bourgueil in Touraine

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What are the colors/grapes of Cotes du Forez and Cote Roannaise?

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Red and rosé - Gamay

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What are the grapes used for Touraine AOP white wines?
Chenin Blanc currently dominates, but a new encepagement mandates Sauvignon Blanc and a max 20% Sauvignon Gris, replacing the older style by 2016
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What are the major grapes used for red and rosé Touraine AOP wines?
-Gamay -Groslot -Pineau d'Aunis -Cab Franc
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What are the soils of Saumur?
soft tuffeau limestone
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What color and grape is used for the Orléans-Cléry AOP?
Red only - 100% Cab Franc
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What color can be produced under the Pouilly-Fumé AOP?
White only
30
What color wines and what grapes are used for Cheverny AOP? Where is it located?
-Light reds - Pinot Noir and Gamay based -White - SB -Touraine
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What color wines are produced under the Chinon AOP? From what grapes?
-Red, rosé - Cab Franc + 10% Cab Sauv -White - Chenin Blanc
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What color wines are produced under the Quincy AOP?
White only - Sauv Blanc
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What colors are produced for Cotes d'Auvergne and St-Pourçain?
Red, rosé and white
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What colors/grapes are used for Coteaux du Giennois AOP? Where is it located?
-Central Vineyards -White - SB -Red and rosé - req blended PN and Gamay
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What colors/grapes are used for Reuilly AOP?
-Red - PN -Rosé - PG -White - Sauv Blanc
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What communes are Bonnezeaux and Quarts de Chaume located in?
-Bonnezeaux - Thouarcé -Quarts de Chaume - Rochefort-sur-Loire
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What former "Grand Crus" of Savennières finally received their own AOCs in 2011? Which is a monopole of Nicolas Joly?
-Roche aux Moines -Coulée de Serrant - monopole of Nicolas Joly
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What former part of Vouvray now has its own AOP?
Montlouis-sur-Loire AOP - 100% Chenin Blanc
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What former VDQS of Central Vineyards was promoted in 2006? What colors/grapes?
-Orléans AOP -Red and rosé - Pinot Meunier -White - Chardonnay
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What former VDQS of Pays Nantais was upgraded to AOC in 2011? Where is it located?
-Haut-Poitou -50 miles due south of Chinon
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What grape dominates Anjou blanc?
Chenin Blanc
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What grape dominates the Saumur-Champigny AOP? Where is produced?
-Cabernet Franc -The commune of Champigny and the eight surrounding villages
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What grape is used for the Pouilly-sur-Loire AOP?
Chasselas
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What grapes are used for red Saumur AOP wines?
CF, CS, and Pineau d'Aunis
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What grapes are used for Vouvray AOP? Where is it located?
-Chenin Blanc + 5% Orbois -Touraine
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What is "Cru Communaux"?
A designation that was proposed in 2001, requiring eligible wines from specified schist soils to spend a min 18 months sur lie -In 2011, this proposal introduced 3 subzones for Sevre-et-Maine: -Clisson -Le Pallet -Gorges
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What is "Hermine d'Or"?
An unofficial label term that promotes terroir and stresses ageability for Muscadet
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What is Cabernet Franc called in the Loire Valley?
Breton
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What is Chenin Blanc known as in Anjou?
Pineau de la Loire
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What is Folle Blanche called in the Loire Valley?
Gros Plant
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What is Groslot called in the Loire Valley?
Grolleau
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What is Jasnières AOP?
A sub-appellation to Coteaux du Loir (Touraine), produces Chenin Blanc
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What is Malbec called in the Loire Valley?
Cot
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What is Menetou-Salon AOP located? What grapes are used?
-Central Vineyards -Sauv Blanc/Pinot Noir
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What is Orbois called in the Loire Valley?
Menu Pineau
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What is Pinot Meunier known as in the Loire Valley?
Gris Meunier
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What is the AOP for red wines produced in the Coteaux l'Aubance boundaries?
Anjou Villages Brissac AOP
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What is the AOP for sweet wines produced under the Anjou Villages Brissac boundaries?
Coteaux l'Aubance
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What is the basic AOP in Anjou for Gamay?
Anjou Gamay AOP - but Gamay may not be blended in standard rouge bottlings
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What is the Coteaux du Vendômois AOP?
(Touraine) Located NE of Coteaux du Loir, a newer appellation specializing in dry rosé of Pineau d'Aunis
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What is the major soil of Pouilly-Fumé?
Silex - flint
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What is the min residual sugar for Coteaux du Layon and Coteaux du l'Aubance?
34g/l of RS
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What is the min RS required for the wines of Chaume?
min 80 g/l of RS
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What is the southernmost AOP in the Loire? What colors are produced?
-Cotes d'Auvergne AOP -Red, rosé, and white
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What is the Terres blanches soil of the Central Vineyards?
A continuation of the same Kimmeridgian clay that extends into Chablis
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What is Touraine Noble-Joué AOP for? When was it created?
-2001 -It recreates a historical vin gris style of a blend of Gris Meunier (Pinot Meunier), Malvosie (PG) and Pinot Noir
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What moniker is used for Didier Dagueneau's "Grand Cru" bottling of Pouilly-Fumé?
"Silex"
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What other AOP of the Loire other than Muscadet can be labeled sur lie?
Gros Plant du Pays Nantais
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What portion of Anjou's total production is devoted to rosé? What grape dominates these?
-45% -Grolleau
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What range of sweetness levels are produced under Vouvray?
-Sec -Sec-tendre (off-dry) -Demi-sec -Moelleux -Liquereux
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What regions can blend into Crémant de Loire AOP?
Touraine, Anjou and Saumur
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What river are Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé located on?
Loire River
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What seven villages are entitled to add their names to the basic Coteaux du Layon AOP? What is required for these wines?
-Beaulieu-sur-Layon -Rochefort-sur-Loire -Faye d'Anjou -St-Lambert du Lattay -St-Aubin de Luigné -Rablay-sur-Layon -Chaume -Higher min must weights, lower max yields
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What southern Touraine AOP is for both wine and goats' milk cheeses? What grapes are used?
-Valençay AOP White - SB Rosé/Red - Gamay, PN, Cot
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What style of wine is produced under the Coteaux de l'Aubance AOP? Where is it located?
-Sweet botrytis Chenin Blanc -Anjou
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What style of wines are produced under the Bourgueil and St-Nicholas-de-Bourgueil AOPs? From what grapes?
-Red and rosé -Cab Franc + 10% Cab Sauv
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What style of wines are produced under the Coteaux du Loir AOP?
-Red and rosé - Pineau d'Aunis -White - Chenin Blanc
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What style wines are produced under the Anjou-Villages AOP? What are the major varieties?
Red only - CF and CS
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What styles of wine are produced under Coteaux du Layon AOP? Where is located?
-Sweet botrytis Chenin Blanc -Anjou
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What styles of wines are produced under the Anjou AOP?
-Red -White -Sparkling
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What tributary of the Loire is Chinon located on?
Vienne
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What was the second demarcated appellation in France?
Quincy (Central Vineyards)
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What white grapes are used for Saumur AOP? The recipe is shared with what AOP?
-Chenin Blanc - until 2016 max combined 20% Chard and SB -a recipe identical to Anjou Blanc
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What wines are produced under the Saumur AOP?
-Red -Dry white -Sparkling white -Sparkling rosé
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What wines of Anjou can carry the "Premier Cru" moniker?
-Chaume -Quarts de Chaume complained enough to have it banished back into the fold in 2009. When Quarts de Chaume was bestowed with "Grand Cru" the INAO allowed "1er cru" on Chaume
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Where are Bonnezeaux and Quarts de Chaume located? What wines are produced?
-Coteaux du Layon (Anjou) -Sweet Chenin Blanc
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Where is Chasselas produced in the Loire Valley?
Pouilly-sur-Loire AOP (Central Vineyards)
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Where is Cour-Cheverny located? What grape is it?
-Touraine -Romorantin
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Where is the Loire's center for sparkling wine?
Saumur
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Which sub-region of Muscadet is the leanest wine?
Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire AOP - the most northerly appellation
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What is the cepage of Chinon rouge & rosé?
Cab Franc + max 10% Cab Sauv
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What is the max yield and max RS for Quarts de Chaume? Chaume?
Quarts de Chaume (as of 2011): •20hl/ha •85g/l RS Chaume: •25hl/ha •80g/l RS (as of 2011)

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