French Wine-Important People And Key Dates

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Jean Michele Diess

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Avant garde produces in Alsace- co plants and co-ferments varietals

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Lords of Beaujou

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ruled Beaujolais in 10th century

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Philippe the Bold

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Valois Duke 1363-1414-outlawed cultivation of gamay in Burgundy

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John the Fearless

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Valois duke 1404-1419 influenced Charles VI to fix zone of Burgundy production

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Philippe the Good

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Valois Duke 1419-1467- built Hospices de Beaune in 1443

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Charles the Bold

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Valois Duke 1467-1477

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Eleanor of Acquitaine

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Married Henry Plantagenet 1152- joined western France to England

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Ausonnius

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Bordeaux native, scholar and poet 310-393AD

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Brulius

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roman lieutenant in charge of area around Mr Brouilly in Beaujolais

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Victor Puillat

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from Cheroubles- saved the wine industry by grafting vinifera onto phylloxera resistant root stock

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King Edward III of England and Philip Valois of France

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Initiated 100 years war. Didn end until 1453 with Battle of Castillon

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Jean Capus

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:father of the AOC" Separated Bordeaux into 57 AOCs in 1935

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Emile Paynaud

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Forefather of modern oenology- championed temp contr. fermentation, MLF, and encouraged vingeron to use second labels for young fruit in Bordeaux

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Clovis

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King of the Franks-absorbed Burgundy in 534

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Citeux

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Cistercian abby F 1098 betw Dijon and Beaune. Famous for library. Dukes of Burgundy buried here

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Cluny

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Benedictine abbey-largest landowner in Burgundy and most well endowed monestary in Europe till French Revolution 1790

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Pontigny

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Cistercian abbey (f1114) nr Auxerre. First planted Chardonnay in Chablis

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first sparkling wine in france

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Blanquette de Limoux- method ancestrale by monks of St Hilaire 150 yrs before Dom Perignon

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Dom Perignon

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first recognized usefulness of strong English glass, cork stoppers.1st blended chard, pnoir and p munier for champagne

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Brother Jean Oudart

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developed Liqueur de tirage to guarantee a sparkling product and a predictable amount of sparkle

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Veuve Cliquot

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Nicole Barbe Ponsardin-dev. riddling, poupitres

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Madame Pommery

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started trend toward dryer style of Champagne

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Arnau de Vilanova

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discovered process for VDN in 1285 (rector of university of montpellier)

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Baron Le Roy de Boiseaumarie

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delimited Chateauneuf zone of production in 1924. Helped create AOC system in 1935. Cofounded INAO

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first aoc's

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1936

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1429

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Joan of Acc persuaded the Dauphin to accept the crown of France in Chinon

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1709

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Severe freeze killed red culrivars of lower Loire.Replanted in whites under Dutch influence(muscat, folle blanche) for Brandy

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1851

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first wine auction hospice de Beaune

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1861

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first official vineyard classification system in Burgundy

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1936

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Burgundy boundaries legally defined

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1936

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first AOCs

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1956

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Major freeze devistated Bordeaux (killed most of Malbec) Rhone vines survived-resulted in more grapes planted over olives/fruit