Vineyards Flashcards
(225 cards)
What’s the latest GC vineyard added?
La Grand Rue 1992
List all Gevrey-Chambertin GCs and show them in the map
The steepest and highest in elevation GC in Gevrey-Ch?
Ruchottes
320 m
What GC may also be labeled as Charmes Ch
Mazoyeres
Coolest GC in Gevrey-Ch
Latricieres-Chambertin
the only 1er Cru in all of the Côte d’Or to be completely surrounded by Grand Cru land?
Aux Combottes is surrounded by Grand Cru vineyards: Clos de la Roche, Latricières-Chambertin, and Mazoyères-Chambertin
Smallest GC in Gevrey?
Griotte
Meaning of Griotte
Origin of Name: “Griotte” is a derivative of criotte, or “chalk.”
Meaning of Mazis?
Origin of Name: “Mazis,” like “maison,” is derived from mas, a house or dwelling. This may refer to a small hamlet displaced by vineyard planting in the 1300s.
Meaning of Chambertin name?
Origin of Name: “The field of Bertin”: a peasant named Bertin planted a vineyard adjacent to the plot owned by the Abbey of Bèze. The vineyard name first appeared in print (as “Campus Bertini”) in the 13th century.
Meaning of Clos de Beze Name
Origin of Name: The vineyard is named for the Abbey of Bèze, who owned the site from 630-1219, when it passed into the hands of the Diocese of Langres. In 1761, the names “Chambertin” and “Clos de Bèze” were first linked in two separate texts.
Owner of 1er Cru Clos du Chapitre?
Clos du Chapitre is a tiny Premier Cru climat of Gevrey-Chambertin, located at the bottom of the Cote d’Or hillside, almost within the village itself. This small vineyard, a monopole of the Nuiton-Beaunoy co-operative, makes a rich, fruit-driven example of Pinot Noir with good structure and soft tannins.
List all the villages of Cote de Nuits from
North to south
List all the villages of Cote de Nuits from
North to south
The only appellation Village which produces wines from all three colours?
Marsannay
Northernmost Cote dOr Village?
Marsannay
Producing communes for Côte de Nuits-Villages? Colors of the wines?
Red and rarely white
Fixin, Brochon - north
Premeaux-Prissey, Comblanchien, Corgoloin - south
Ha vineyards in Gevrey Chambertin?
408
Name 4 producers of Chambertin?
(Domaine Leroy) A Rousseau Domaine Trapet Domaine Dugat-Py Domaine Denis Mortet
The only 1 100% aligote 1er Cru
D Ponsot
Clos des Monts Luisants
In Morey SD
Name 4 producers of Clos de la Roche?
Domaine Leroy
Ponsot
Dujac
Hubert Lignier
Ha of GC vineyards in MSD
CLOS DE LA ROCHE: 16.89 ha.
CLOS DES LAMBRAYS: 8.67 ha.
CLOS DE TART: 7.06 ha.
CLOS SAINT-DENIS: 6.42 ha
Clos des Lambrays owner? Size?
Monopole
Domaine des Lambrays LVMH
8 ha.
Clos de Tart owner?
Owned by Francois Pinault of Latour, who purchased from Mommessin in 2017