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✔✔Macon AC wines can be made from what grapes - ✔✔Chardonnay
Pinot Noir
Gamay
✔✔Key AC's of Maconnais - ✔✔Macon AC
Macon Villages AC
Pouilly Fuisse AC
✔✔how many white wine villages can attach their name to Macon ______ AC - ✔✔43
✔✔where is the village of Chardonnay - ✔✔Maconnais
✔✔Important AC's of Maconnais - ✔✔Vire-Clesse AC
Saint Veran AC
Pouilly-Vinzelles AC
Pouilly-Fuisse AC
✔✔Pouilly Fuisse AC alcohol % and style - ✔✔up to 14% abv
peach and melon fruit
savory and nutty w/new oak
✔✔domaine bottled - ✔✔grower bottles and sells wine under its own label
✔✔Key Beaujolais AC's - ✔✔Beaujolais
Beaujolais villages
(ten Cru villages)
✔✔ten cru villages of Beaujolais North to South - ✔✔St Amour AC
Julienas AC
Chenas AC
Moulin-a-vent AC
Chiroubles AC
Fleurie AC
Morgon AC
Regnie AC
Cote de Brouilly AC
Brouilly AC
✔✔Most powerful full bodied Beaujolais - ✔✔Moulin-a-vent
Morgon
✔✔Soil of Beaujolais Cru - ✔✔hilly Granitic Schist
,✔✔city to the south of Beaujolais - ✔✔Lyon
✔✔how are the vines train in Beaujolais - ✔✔en gobelet or (bush trained)
✔✔Cheers in Alsace - ✔✔Skelt
✔✔Sausage pairing - ✔✔Gewurztraminer
✔✔Lamb Pairing - ✔✔Chianti
✔✔Oyster Pairing - ✔✔Muscadet
✔✔Fois Gras Pairing - ✔✔Sauternes
✔✔Brussel sprouts and asparagus pairings - ✔✔Rose
✔✔Pairing w/ Indian food - ✔✔Syrah
✔✔Pairing w/ Spam - ✔✔Gewurztraminer
✔✔Red Bean Chili pairing - ✔✔Sparkling wine
✔✔pairing with popcorn - ✔✔chardonnay
✔✔pairing with chocolate chip cookies - ✔✔marsala
✔✔Main soil which Riesling is grown in - ✔✔slate
✔✔Name the two geological formations surrounding Alsace - ✔✔Vosges Mountains
Rhine River
✔✔Name two negociant houses of Alsace - ✔✔Trimbach
Hugel
✔✔how much of Alsatian wines are sold by co-operatives - ✔✔80 %
✔✔climate of Alsace - ✔✔cool continental
✔✔Rainfall in Alsace - ✔✔as little as 500 mm per year
19.7 in per year
✔✔Slopes in Alsace typically face what direction - ✔✔east or south east
, ✔✔soil of Alsace - ✔✔On slopes: varied -granitic, limestone, sandstone, clay, loam,
even volcanic
On plains: alluvial
✔✔How are Alsatian vines trained - ✔✔on slopes: low to benefit from radiated heat
on plains: high to minimize risk of spring frost
double guyot is the primary pruning system
✔✔Most important grape varieties in Alsace - ✔✔*Riesling
*Gewurztraminer
*Pinot Gris
*Muscat
pinot blanc
Sylvaner
Pinot Noir
✔✔What are the 2 ACs for still wine in Alsace - ✔✔Alsace AC
Alsace Grand Cru AC
✔✔if a bottle in Alsace states a grape variety, how much must be from that grape -
✔✔100%
✔✔Name of Alsatian wine bottles - ✔✔flutes d'alsace
✔✔when was Alsace Grand Cru AC established - ✔✔1975
✔✔how many Grand Cru vineyards are in Alsace - ✔✔51
✔✔what Grand Cru vineyards of Alsace allow blending - ✔✔Kaefferkopf
Altenberg de Bergheim
✔✔What Grand Cru in Alsace allows Sylvaner - ✔✔Zotzenberg
✔✔What must the label of an Alsation Grand Cru wine state - ✔✔Name of the vineyard
vintage
grape variety (where appropriate)
✔✔Vendange Tardive (VT) - ✔✔meaning late harvest or late vintage
-must be noble grapes
-passerillage is typically used in best wines
-can vary from dry to medium sweet