Prominent Laws Flashcards
What is the registered term for the process for creating Champagne in the Champagne AOP?
méthode Champenoise
What are other terms to describe the Champagne production process?
méthode traditionnelle
méthode classique
What is the regulating body of Champagne?
Comité interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne (CIVC)
NV cuvée represents?
A house’s signature style
Vintage-dated Champagne must do what?
100% of the blend must come from the stated vintage
Yet a maximum 80% of a year’s harvest may be sold as vintage Champagne
Prestige Cuvée/Tête de Cuvée is?
The finest and most expensive bottling that a house offers.
It’s typically vintage-dated and aged for a number of years prior to release.
Only released in superior vintages.
How many Grand Crus are in Champagne?
17
How many Premier Crus are in Champagne?
42
NM (Négociant Manipulant) on the label means?
A house that purchases grapes and or base wines from growers and other smaller houses including large Champagne houses.
RM (Récoltant Manipulant) on the label represents?
A grower-producer who makes Champagne from estate grown fruit
95% of the grapes must originate in the producers’ own vineyards
CM (Coopérative Manipulant) on the label represents?
A growers cooperative that produces the wine under a single brand.
RC (Récoltant Coopérateur) on the label represents?
A grower whose grapes are vinified at a cooperative but whose wines are sold under the growers own label.
SR (Société de Récoltants) on the label represents?
A firm, not a cooperative, set up by a union of often related growers who share resources to make their wines and collectively market several brands.
ND (Négociant Distributeur) on the label represents?
A middleman company that distributes Champagne it did not make.
MA (Marque dAcheteur) on the label represents?
A buyers own brand often a large supermarket chain or restaurant that purchases Champagne and sells it under its own label.
