Provence Flashcards
(115 cards)
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What grape is unique to Bellet AOC?
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Braquet Noir
used from reds and rosés
2
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When do growers typically pick their wines?
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10-14 day before red harvest
Keep acidity
3
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What is the production amount for Rosé?
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90%
4
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What color does Syrah and Mourvèrde produce?
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Pink
5
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What color does Tibouren produce?
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Salmon
6
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Wines with lower acidity are colored….
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Salmon
7
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Wines with higher acidity are coloured…
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Pink
8
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What happens when grapes are warm?
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Bleed more color no matter what the grape or process
9
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Direct press does…
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creates paler wines
10
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What does saignée do
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More saturated colors
11
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Longer macerations….
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producer more color
12
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What makes a wine more orange?
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- Volcanic soils
- Oxygen
13
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What DGC mandate oak?
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CdP Frejus
14
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Who is the largest producer in Provence?
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Cótes de Provence
15
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How many DGC in Cotes de Provence?
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Five
16
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How many communes in Cotes de Provence?
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84
17
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How much wine does Côte de Provence produce?
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72% of all production
91% Rosé
18
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What city did the Phocaens found?
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Massalia eg Marseille
6th BCE
18
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2nd largest producer in Provence?
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Coteaux d’Aix en-Provence
19
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Where can you find crystalline schist?
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Eastern
20
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Where are volcanic sandstone soils?
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Between Frejus and Cannes
20
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Where is limestone dominate?
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Western part of AOC
21
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Where are mixed soils of limestone and crystalline schist?
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Interior valley from Toulon to Les Arcs
22
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What are the authorized varieties for CdP whites?
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Clairette
Semillon
Ugni Blanc
Vermentino
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What is authorized for CdP reds?
Cinsaut
Grenache
Mourverde
Syrah
Tibouren
24
What DGC produces red and rose but cannot label its name for whites?
Sainte-Victoire
Frejus
Notre-Dame des Agnes
Pierrefeu
24
What is the only DGC that can use carbonic maceration?
Sainte-Victoire
25
What is the CdP requirements for reds and rosés?
Must have 2 red grapes with 1 primary more than 50%
25
What is allowed in CdP Rosé?
Can add white to 20%
26
What are the restrictions for CdP white wines?
No blending restrictions
27
What is a unique primary grape for Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence?
Counoise
28
What is the only DGC allowed to produce white?
La Londe
29
What must white wines be label for the DGCS other than La Londe?
Côtes de Provence AOC
30
What are the aging requirements for Frejus DGC reds?
6m on oak or foudres
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How many communes does Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence have?
49
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Where is the concentration of vines in Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence?
A sedimentary basin
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What are the dominate white grapes in Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence?
Vermentino
33
What is allowed blending for Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence reds and roses?
GSM
Counois
Cinsaut
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What heavily influences Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence?
The Mistral
33
What are blending rules in Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence?
At least two varieties must be in the blend
34
What AOC/DGC mandates aging?
CdP Frejus
Bandol
Palette
34
What is the dominate grape in Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence reds and rosé?
Grenache
35
Where do you find Tibouren used?
Côte de Provence
Pallete
Coteaux Varois en Provence
Tibouren-more salmon color rose
35
Where can chalky soils at elevation be found?
Coteaux Varois en Provence
36
For white Coteaux Varois en Provence what must be in the wine?
30% Vermentino often blended with Clairette
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What is production levels of Coteaux Varois en Provence
93% rosé
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How many communes in Coteaux Varois en Provence?
28
39
What AOC is sheltered by limestone hills and Mt Sainte-Baume (W) / Bessillons (N) / Barres de Cuers (S)
Coteaux Varois en Provence
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What are the soils of Coteaux Varois en Provence
Chalky clay soils
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What is the weather of Coteaux Varois en Provence?
Med with Continental influences
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What AOC makes more white (71%) than red or rosé in Provence?
Cassis
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What AOC has elevation and thus higher acidity and delicate fruit character than any other in Provence?
Coteaux Varois en Provence
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An AOC with terraced vineyards on the Med coast near Marseille?
Cassis
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What AOC requires both Marsanne and Clairette in a blend?
Cassis
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What AOC has white primary grapes of Clairette, Bourboulenc and Ugni Blanc?
Bandol
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What are the red and rosé of are Cinsaut, Grenache &/or Mourverdre dominant?
Cassis
20% of rose can be white
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Where can restanques be found?
Bandol
45
Where is the AOC with arid, low-fertile soils with pebbly limestones, sandstone, and sandy marls with vineyards on the hillsides?
Bandol
46
Where does Mourverdre thrive?
Bandol
47
What is the dominate grape in Bandol?
Mouvedre (but max 95%)
48
What dominates Bandol whites?
Clairette (with Bourboulenc & Ugni Blanc blends)
49
Where do Bandol plant their white grape vines to mitigate the heat?
North facing hillsides slopes
50
What is the minimum aging requirements for Bandol reds?
18 months
51
What is Provence's oldest wine region?
Bandol
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Describe the Bandol area
Amphitheater with terraced (restanques) walls, with arid, poor quality soils made of pebbly limestone, and pockets of sandstone and sandy marls
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What is the key factor for quality wines in Bandol
arid and low fertile soils
54
How are grapes picked in Bandol
Must be hand harvested
55
What is the production o Bandol
75% red/rosé
56
What AOC is south of Avignon?
Les Baux de Provence
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What AOC sits near an ancient for on the plateau in the Alpilles Mountains (west Provence)
Les Baux de Provence
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What does Baou mean?
Rocky outcrop
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What AOC has bauxite soils?
Les Baux de Provence
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What does the town Val d'Enfer mean and which AOC is adjacent to it?
Hell Valley - since it is very hot
Les Baux de Provence
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What AOC is 100% organic?
Les Baux de Provence
62
What does lette raisonée mean?
"the reasoned struggle" financially and responsible farming
63
What is the smallest AOC in Provence?
Palette
64
Where is Château Simone located
Palette
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What AOC uses the white rare grape Araignan?
Palette
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Approved white grapes in Palette?
Clairette
Bourboulen
Araignan
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Approved primary red grapes in Palette?
Cinsaut
Grenache
Mourverdre
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What AOC has aging requirements for all its wines - white, red and rosé?
Palette
White/Rose (6m)
Reds (18m)
Hand harvest and sorted
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What is the dominate red grape in Palette?
Mouverdre (max 80%)
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What river runs through Palette?
Arc River
70
What AOC produces about the same about of white, red and rosé?
Bellet
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What river runs through Bellet?
Var River
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Where is Vermentino dominate but can be blended with Chardonnay?
Bellet
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What is AOC surrounds Nice?
Bellet
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What is the only AOC in Provence to allow Chardonnay?
Bellet
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What are the permitted red grapes of Bellet
Braquet Noir
Fuella Nera
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Where is Braquet Noir dominate for rosé
Bellet
Usually 100%
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What is another name for Bellet AOC
Vin de Bellet
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What is the northernmost AOC in Provence?
Pierrevert
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What white grape are required Pierrevert?
Greneche Blanc
Vermentino
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Which AOC has similar style to Rhône?
Pierrevert
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What AOC has the strong alpine influence and diurnal range in all of Provence?
Pierrevert
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What grapes dominate Pierrevert rosé?
Cinsaut
Grenache
Syrah
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What are reds of Pierrevert
Grenache
Syrah
82
What is the most significant IGP in Provence?
Méditerranée
Includes Rhône and Corsics
83
What is the Pelette, Provence local sweet wine, that starts with cooked must with a year long fermentation typically drank at Christmas Eve?
Vin Cuit
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Light bodied, crisp refreshing wines meant for apertif?
Vins de Soif
85
Deeper, full bodied wines meant for meals?
Vins de Gastronomie
86
How do Provence Cru Classes get ranked?
By the estate
87
Wines for aging usually red?
Vin de Garde
88
What is the term for for 2-3 years of bottle aged for rosé?
Grand Rosé
Rosé à Conserver
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What is the marshland called in the Rhone River Delta?
Camargue
90
What are the dominate grapes in Provence?
Grenache
Cinsaut
Syrah
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What is the dominate white in Provence?
Vermentino (Rolle)
92
Main training system for Provence?
Goblet - for old vines
Guyot - for newer vineyards
93
Requirements for Rosé and Reds
2 grape - 1 primary
Rosé can add white (20%)
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When was Provence Cru Classés put in place?
1955
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What is the primary or secondary white grape in every Provence AOC?
Clairette
96
Barbaroux, Clairette Rose and Terret Gris are used all over Provence but mostly in what AOC?
Palette
97
What does Cinsaut bring to reds and roses?
Delicate color, red fruit and floral notes
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Where would you find more orange colored roses?
New M Esterel since there are volcanic soils in Frejus
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Where is granite, gneiss, and mica schist?
btwn
Hyères & Fréjus
(along the edge of the Mediterranean coast)
Massif des Maures
