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47 Cards in this Set
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5 Areas in Champagne
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Montagne de Reims
Vallee de la Marne Cote des Blanc Cote de Sezanne Aube/ Cote des Bars |
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2 Areas in Champagne that produce most of the black grapes
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Montagne de Reims
Vallee de la Marne |
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Most Important river in Champagne
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Marne
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What does CIVC stand for?
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Comite Interprofessionel du Vin de Champagne
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Grapes grown in Champagne
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Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Chardonnay
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What does "echelle" mean?
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It's a grading system that fixes prices. Vineyards that are graded 100% can sell their grapes for 100% of the fixed price. The ratings are 100-80.
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Define CM
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Cooperative de Manipulante
-made by a cooperative |
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Define NM
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Negociant Manipulant
-sold under the name of the house that made it |
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Define RM
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Recolant Manipulant
produced by a grower from their own grapes |
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Define MA
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Marque d'Acheteur
-Champagne has been bought from a producer and sold under another name ex- a supermarket chain |
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Define SR
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Societe de Recoltant
- sold under the name of a company created by growers who are of the same family |
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Define NR
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Negociant Distributeur
-Company sells champagne it did not make to others who then retail it. |
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Define La Methode Champenoise
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-secondary fermentation happens in the bottle
-only method allowed by CIVC |
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Is malolactic fermentation allowed in Champagne
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Yes it is usually either allowed to happen or induced.
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Define liqueur de triage
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liquid sugar, yeast, tannins and filling added to stimuate second fermentation.
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What happens if too much yeast is added to the bottle for the second fermentation?
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The bottle may explode.
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Define remuage
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movement of all sediment and dead yeast cells into a plastic cup under the crown top for removal.
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What is a gyropallette, or a girosol?
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A machine for riddling the Champagne bottles- Mechanical remuage
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Define degorgement
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removal of sediment from champagne bottle after second fermentation
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What are two methods of degorgement?
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traditional, a la volee:
- remove the closure while turing the bottle neck upwards, allowing sediment and a small amount of wine out of the bottle. a la glace -bottle necks are placed in a shallow trough of freezing mixture making a pellet of wine below the sediment. When the bottle is opened the ice-ball and sediment are blown out by the pressure. |
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What is dosage?
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sweekented wine added after degorgement that determines the style of the champagne (Brut, Sec, Doux etc)
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Describe the transfer method of sparkling wine production
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Sparkling wine is made in the traditional way then transfered to larger or smaller bottles under pressure.
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Who was Dom Perignon
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Cellar master at the abbey in Hautvillers 1670-1715.
He invented la methode champenoise |
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Who now owns the abbey in Hautvillers?
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Moet and Chandon
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Who was Madame Nicole-Barbe Clicquot-Ponsardin
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the person who developed and invented remuage
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What is Blanc de Blanc?
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made only from Chardonnay grapes.
Mostly from Cotes des Blancs |
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What is Blanc de Noirs?
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made from Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier
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What is Rose Champagne?
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Made by blending 8-9% Coteaux Champenois Rouge in to Champagne before bottling
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What is Coteaux Champenoise?
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Still wine from Champagne
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What is Blocage?
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System of putting wine in reserve in good years to use in poor years
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What is cremant?
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sparkling wine from other regions in France using la methode traditionelle
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What is Cava?
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Sparkling wine from Spain made with the traditional method
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What is vinos espumosos?
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sparklign wine from Spain made by any method besides the traditional method
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Describe the Cuve Close or Charmat process for making sparkling wine
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-produced by bulk in a tank.
-still wine is pumped into tanks with sugar and yeast. -quick -wine is drawn off under pressure, filtered and bottled |
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Describe the Transversage method
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The secondary fermentation is carried out in the bottle, wine is chilled and then put in a tank, then filtered and rebottled.
-often used for large format bottles |
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Describe Methode Dioise Ancestrale
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-Bottle the wine before it has finished fermenting.
-degourged before the sugar and yeast are used up (generally sweeter styles are produced) -filtered and rebottled with no liquer d'expedition |
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What is liquer d'expedition?
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another name for dosage, sweetened wine added after degorgement to determine style of sparkling wine
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Describe the Carbonation method for producing sparkling wines
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-quickest and cheapest wines
-fat flabby bubbles that don't last -chilled wine is pumped with CO2. |
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A french term for slightly sparkling
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petillant
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What is Perlant
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a french term for very slightly sparkling
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A German term for slightly sparkling
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spritzig
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What is Schaumwein?
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low quiality sparkling wine from Germany
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What is Perlwein?
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German slightly sparkling wine, made by the carbonation method
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What is a German term for sparkling?
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Sekt
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What is a portuguese term for sparkling?
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espumante
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What is an Italian term for sparkling?
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Spumante
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What is a Spanish term for sparkling?
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Espumosos
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