Champagne

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Name the Five Major Champagne Districts

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Montagne de Reims
Côte des Blancs
Vallée de la Marne
The Aube
Côte de Sézanne:

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On the Chamagne label, NM stands for:

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Négociant-Manipulant

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On the Champagne Label, RM stands for:

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Récoltant-Manipulant

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On the Champagne Label, CM stands for:

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Coopérative-Manipulant

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On the Champagne Label, RC stands for:

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Recoltant-Cooperative

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On the Champagne Label, SR, ND and MA stand for:

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Société de Récoltants, Négociante-Distributeur, Marque d’Acheteur

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Prisse de Mousse refers to:

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The second fermentation of Champagne. (also the name of many Champagne yeasts)

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Sweetness levels and their respec-tive residual sugars for Cham-pagne:

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Extra Brut – 0-6 g/l
Brut – 0-15 g/l
Extra Sec – 12 -20 g/l
Sec – 17-35 g/l
Demi-Sec – 35 -50 g/l
Doux – 50 + g/l

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In Champagne a marc refers to:

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4000 kilos of grapes - (the capacity of the traditional co-quard press)

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How much wine from a marc?

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2550 liters
1st 2050 liters referred to as cuvée;
last 500 liters referred to as taille

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Grand Crus of Vallée de la Marne:

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Aÿ-Champagne
Tours-sur-Marne (red grapes only)

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Grand Crus of Montagne de Reims

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Mailly-Champagne
Verzenay
Verzy
Louvois
Bouzy
Ambonnay
Sillery
Puisieulx
Beaumont-sur-Vesle

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Liqueur de Tirage is:

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Mixture of yeast, still wine, sugar and bentonite added to Cham-pagne to begin the 2nd fermenta-tion (Prisse de Mousse)

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Liqueur d’Expedition

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Mixture of Sugar and still Cham-pagne added after disgorgement to soften acidity and encourage post-disgorgement aromas to develop.

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Grand Cru Vineyards of Côte de Blancs

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Oiry
Chouilly
Cramant
Avize
Oger
Les Mensnil-sur Oger

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What is the Famous wine from Riceys?
Where is Riceys located?

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Rosé de Riceys (from P. Noir)
The Aube in Champagne

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99% Rated Vineyards and their re-gions

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Mareuil-sur-Aÿ (Vallée del Marne)
Tauxières (Montagne de Reims)

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How many Grand Crus in Cham-pagne?
How many Premier Crus?
How many Deuxieme Crus?

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17 Grand Crus
41 1er Crus
244 2nd Crus

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Which Grand Cru is only for Red Grapes?

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Tours-sur-Marne

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Which Grand Cru is only for White Grapes?

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Chouilly

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Bollinger’s Tête de Cuvée

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Vieilles Vignes Française
overripe, ungrafted Pinot Noir from three sites: Clos St-Jacuqes & Chaudes terres in Ay-Champagne & Croix Rouge in Bouzy.
vines are planted to a density of 30,000 vines /ha, and severely pruned. Result-ing in a super-powerful, complex, concetrated wine.
vinified in small, four-year-old casks.
No malo-lactic.

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How much grapes in a bottle of Champagne?
How many bubbles?

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1.2 Kg grapes (1.5 if all cuvée)
250 million bubbles

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Philipponnat’s Tête de Cuvée

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Clos des Goisses
70% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay from a single, walled vineyard in Mareuil-sur-Äy with a South-South facing slope and a gentle east-facing slope (provides blending complexity). Very austere and long lived.

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Moët & Chandon’s Tête de Cuvée

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Cuvée Dom Perignon
~50/50 Chardonnay/Pinot Noir
perfectly blended. 1st vintage 1921, 2nd 1928

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Nicolas Feuillatte Tête de Cuvée

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Cuvée Palmes d’Or
60% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir

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Henriot Tête de Cuvée

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Cuvée des Enchanteleurs
55% Chardonnay, 45% Pinot Noir

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Krug’s Tête de Cuvée(s)

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MV Grand Cuvée
24-35% Chard, 45-50% Pinot Noir, 13-20% Pinot Meunier
Clos du Mesnil
100% Chardonnay from walled vineyard in Les Mesnil sur Oger. First Vintage 1979.

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Laurent-Perrier’s Tête de Cuvée

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Grand Siècle ‘La Cuvée’
3 vintage blend, all Grand Cru, Chardonnay/Pinot Noir ~51/49. Min 7 years yeast contact, sealed with cork & agrafe for 2nd fermentation, Manual disgorgement.

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Perrier-Jouët’s Tête de Cuvée

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La Belle Époque
1st Vintage 1964,
50% Chardonnay (mostly from Cramant) 45% Pinot Noir, 5% Pinot Meunier
1st vintage rose 1976
Rose — 45% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir, 5% Meunier
Reserve la Belle Epoque (2,000 Jeroboams of 1995) included stay and dinner at Maison Belle Epoque.

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Pol Roger’s Tête de Cuvée

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Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill
1st Vintage 1975 (released in 1984)

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Louis Roederer’s Tête de Cuvée

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Cristal
~42% Chard, 58% Pinot Noir sweeter style than most Tête de Cuvée
1st Vintage in 1876

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First Vintage of Salon

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1921

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Taittinger’s Tête de Cuvée

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Comtes de Champagne
Blanc de Blancs 1st Vintage 195
Rose 1st Vintage 1966
Rose is Exclusively from Ambon-nay and Bugey, and is Saignee

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Veuve Clicquot’s Tête de Cuvée

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La Grande Dame
Brut—1st Vintage 1969
Rosé — 1st Vintage 1988? Rose is brut cuvee with up to 15% P. Noir for Clos Colin in Bouzy

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Which four Grand Crus Lie outside of the 5 Main Champagne areas, and their specific locations

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Sillery & Puisieulx— N. of Mailly-Champagne in Montagne de Reims
Beaumont-sur-Vesle — N of Verzy in Montagne de Reims
Oiry — East of Chouilly in Côtes de Blancs

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Recent Champagne Vintages

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2007—Major Hail damage.
2006—good-mediocre Chard takes lead
2005—okay, rot in black grapes
2004—very good vintage, classic
2003—not great, but interesting if well-blended (Bollinger)
2002—Excellent Vintage
2001 — Disastrous except for Clos des Goisses
2000—lots declared because it’s an auspicious year . . . But
1999 — okay
1998 — turning out to be quite good
1997 — thought to be quite good, but just okay

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Three Great Champagne Houses in Epernay

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Pol Roger
Dom Perignon (in fact all of Moet & Chandon)
Perrier-Jouet

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Three Great Champagne Houses in Ay

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Bollinger
Gosset—Celebris Brut (70 Chard, 30 Noir), Grand Millesime Brut (66 Chard, 34 Noir) Grand Rose Brut (80 Chard, 20 Noir)
Henri Goutorbe (RM)

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Great Producers in Reims

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Krug
Ruinart
Pommery
Bruno Paillard

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Great Single Vineyard Cham-pagnes

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Cattier Clos du Moulin (Three Vintage Blend, 2.2 Hectares, 90/89/88, 50/50 noir/chard, from Chigny-les-Roses in Montaigne de Reims)
Philliponnat Clos des Goisses
Krug Clos de Mesnil
Moet & Chandon Sarments d’Aÿ (NV)
Drappier Grand Sendrée Brut and Rosé (from the Aube), Brut- 45 Chardonnay, 55 Pinot Noir. Rose 100 Pinot Noir
Billecart Salmon Clos Ste. Hillaires

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Secondary Grape Varieties in Champagne

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Arbanne
Petite Meslier
Pinot Blanc
Vrai