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Which producer is the oldest producing house in the Region of Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Gosset (although the house was not making sparkling wines when it was founded in the year 1584) In Champagne, who produces the unique bottling named "Saran" and why is it so unique? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Moet Chandon makes "Saran" Blanc de Blanc, Coteaux Champanois. What is Coteaux Champenois, you ask??? Ohhhh, you have much to learn, young padawon! Name a bottling that is 100% Meunier. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Egly-Ouriet's "Les Vignes de Vrigny" ***Thank you Dustin! What percent of the Cote de Blancs is planted to White Varietals?
- .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 80% oddly enough; 20% of the Cote de Blancs is dedicated to RED GRAPES! What is the oldest sparkling wine house in Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Ruinart (founded in 1729) What is "farmer fizz" - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ RM producers
What was Napoleon's famous quote about Champagne durring battle time? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ "Always carry Champagne. In Victory, you deserve it and in defeat, you need it" What is the tete de cuvee of Chalres de Cazanove - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Stradivarius, named after the famed string instruments of the family of the same name What does the term "Jetting" refer to? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ After degorgment, jetting is the proccess of squirting some chapagne into the bottle, the moment before the cork is inserted in the bottle, allowing the wine to fizz up, pushing out the air in the neck of the bottle to minimize premox in the bottling. (This question was asked at last years MS Theory exam) ***Thank you Patricia! How many members are there currently of "Special Club"? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 29 Members at present What was the inaugural vintage of Cuvee Elizabeth Salmon? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 1988 What is the tete de Cuvee for Vilmart & Cie? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Coeur de Cuvee What is the name for the second crop that is generally left on the vine at harvet in champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Bouvreux
What are the four pruning methods allowed? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Cordon de Royat, Chablis, Vallêe de la Marne and Guyot What is a Marc of grapes referring to? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 2550 liters per 4,000 kg, the amount a in a traditional Coquard basket press name the french term for bottles in the vertical position. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Sur pointe What is the sweetness level for Extra dry? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 12-17 grams per liter What is the first vintage of Salon? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 1921 Name the grand cru from where Salon is sourced. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Le Mesnil Sur Oger Name the first "House" to put "brut" on the market. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Pommery in 1874 Another name for Dosage? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Liqueur d'expédition
When does tirage happen? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ After Jan1st following harvest. When does degorgement happen? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 12 months after tirage. Define CM. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Cooperative Manipulant,growers cooperative that produces under a single brand. Define RC as set by the CIVC. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Recoltant Cooperateur, grower whose grapes are vinified at a co-op,but sells under his/her own brand. What is prise de mousse? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 2nd fermentation of champagne. Name the Grand Cru villages of Cotes de Blancs. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Oger,Le-Mesnil-sur- Oger,Chouilly,Oiry,Cramant,Avize. Name Delamotte's prestige cuvee. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Nicholas Louis Delamotte. Name to still wine appellations in Champagne. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Coteaux /champenois,Rose de /riceys.
What is Société de Récoltants? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ A family firm of growers that makes and markets own-label Champagne from grapes sourced from family vineyards. How many bottle equivilents are in a Salomon? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 24 How many bottle equivilents are in a Souverain? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 35 How many bottle equivilents are in a Primat? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 36 what is the dominant soil type in the Aube? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ clay What 4 Grand Cru villages of the Cote des Blanc were added 1985? N-S - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Choilly, Oiry, Oger and Les-Mesnil-sur-Oger What is the vin de cuvee? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ the first 2050l pressed from a marc (4000kg) Name the 2 premier crus that are ranked at 99% - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Tauxieres-Mutry - Montagne de Reims | Mareuil- sur-Ay - Valle de la Marne
What grapes (other than the main 3) are permitted in Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Pinot Blanc Vrai Arbane Pinot Gris Petit Meslier Who makes Fleur de Passion? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Diebolt-Vallois Name 3 special club producers. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Gaston Chiquet, Paul Bara, Pierre Gimmonet, Henri Goutorbe, Marc Hebrart Who produced the first brut champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Pommery "Nature" in 1874 What is Ratafia? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ a vin de liquor aften aged in oak and tend to take on sherry-esque characteristics. It is fortified to 20%abv What is the typical barrel size used in champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ What is the only Champagne to be listed on the Wine Spectator Top 100 in 2017? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Chartogne- Taillet, Cuvee Ste.-Anne Who are the only 2 producers to make a Special Club Rosé? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Paul Bara; Mousse
What was the first single vineyard Champagne and when was the first vintage? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Philipponnat, Clos des Goisses; 1935 What does CIVC stand for? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne Name three special club producers. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Gaston Chiquet, Marc Hebrart, Larmandier, Dumenil, Vincent Joudart.... True or False: Champagne is the only AOP region of France that allows rose to be produced by blending red and white wine. - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ TRUE In what year was the Rheoboam discontinued? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 1989 What is the style of Rose de Riceys? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 100% Pinot Noir Rose from the village of Les Riceys, a cru village in the Aube Along which laditudinal parallel is Champagne located? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 48th parallel How many bottles in a gyropalatte? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 504
Who is the oldest WINE producer in Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Gosset, 1584 Who produced the first Brut Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Pommery, 1874 How many liters in the vin de cuvee? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ the first 2050 liters of juice from extraction What five villages were elevated to Grand Cru status in 1985? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Chouilly, Oiry, Verzy, Oger, and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger Who produces the blanc-de-blancs "La Bolorée," and what is significant about it? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Cedric Bouchard. It is made from a .217ha plot of Pinot Blanc Vrai (100%) in the Aube In what year was Champagne declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 2015 In terms of winemaking, what are the respective styles of Laurent-Perrier and Bollinger? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Reductive and Oxidative What is the minimum must weight in Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 143 g/l
What are the aging requirements for NV Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 15 months, 12 on lees What are the AOPs of Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Champagne AOP, Coteaux Champenois AOP, Rose des Riceys AOP How many bubbles are in a bottle of Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ For a 750ml, approximately 100 million Ruinart, Veuve, and Taittinger are all from what village? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Reims This is the unofficial "capital of Champagne" home to Moet and Pol Roger - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Epernay What is the minimum potential alcohol of Champagne AOP - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 9% What brands of sparkling wine does LVMH own? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Moet & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Ruinart, Mercier, Dom Perignon, Krug, Chandon What is the principal grape for Rose de Riceys? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 100% Pinot Noir
What grapes six grapes are authorized for Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Pinot Blanc Vrai, Arbane, Pinot Gris, Petit Meslier and PN, CH,PM What are the must extraction limit? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 102liters from of 160kg grapes , 2550liters from 4000kg Who is producing low dosage 'Cave Privee' Champagne? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Veuve Cliquot In which village Pierre Gimonet Grower-producer is? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Cuis Name all Grand Cru Villages in Cotes de Blancs? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Oiry, Chouilly, Cramant, Avize, Oger, Le Mesnil sur Oger What is Debourbage? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ When the juice is alowed to settle at a cool temperature for eight to fifteen hours after pressing (SOLIDS=BOURBES) First Tete de Cuvee? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Dom Perignon 1921 Vintage launched in 1936 ( 1873 Christal special Cuvee for the Russian Tsar ) How many Premier Cru Villages and Name 3? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 42 villages few famous : Vdl Marne : Cumieres, Dizy, Hautvillers Md Reims: Rilly-la Montagne, Chigny-les-Roses and Ludes CdBlancs: Vertus, Cuis
What Grand Cru village is best known for still red wine made from Pinot Noir? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Bouzy What is the Butte de Saran? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Outcrop of rock apart from the main slope of the Cotes des Blancs, stretching from Chouilly to Cramant What was the first single vineyard Champagne and when was it put into market? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 1935 Philiponnat Clos des Gossies What did Dom P. himself contribute to the champ. method - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Assembelage Difference between vin de cuvee and vin de taille - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ First press vs. last press of the same grapes What are the 'other 4' varietals of Champagne - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Pinot blanc, arbane, pinot gris, petit meslir What are the 3 main cities of Champagne - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Reims, Empernay, Ay Pinot Noir is permitted in what 2 regions only - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Aube, Montage de Reims How many grand cru villages - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 17
How many premier cru villages - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 42 What is a pupitre - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ A' frame to hold bottles for riddling grams per liter on Brut, extra dry, sec - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 0-12, 12-17, 17- When did Special Club originate - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ h Where are Premier Crus Ranked on the Echelle de Crus? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ 90- Name three Rivers that influeced the Champagne Vineyards? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Marne, Aube, Seine Who was the first to put BRUT on the market? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ What is liqueur d'expedition? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Dosage (sugar syrup and wine) Where is Egly-Ouriet? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Ambonnay
Vergisson and Chantré are communes in which Burgundy AOP? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Pouilly-Fuissé AOP - along with Solutré-Pouilly and Fuissé What is the min % Pinot noir required in Bourgogne Passe-Tout- Grains AOP? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ min 30% Pinot Noire (and min 15% Gamay) Which Vosne-Romanée Grand Cru is a monopole of Francois Lamarche? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ La Grande Rue Which Premier Cru vineyard Borders the Grand Cru "la Tache" to the South? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Aux Malconsorts Armand Rousseau Specializes in wines in which Burgundy Village? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Gevery Chambertin The amount of land a peasant worker was supposedly able to work in a single day in Burgundy is known as what? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ An Ouvrée - standard unit of measurement for vineyard size in Burgundy (equivalent to 4. ares) Which is the Only Grand Cru of the Cotes du Nuits which may produce white wines? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Marsannay What region of Burgundy is the old home of Philip the Bold? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Santenay
What direction to most vineyards in the Cote de Beaune face? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ southeast True or False, Gamay Noir is allowed in Bourgogne AOP wines? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ False, not since 2011 Where is the center of Cremant de Bourgon production? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Rully in the Cote Chalonnaise What is the largest Beaujolais Cru? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Brouilly What is the smallest Beujolais Cru? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ Chenas What is the name for the geological feature that runs through the Cote d'Or consisting of alluvial fans and pebbles? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ The combs How many Grand Crus does Meursault have? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ zero When is the Hospice de Beaune? - .... 🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔ the third sunday in November
