CMS - Advanced Sommelier – Champagne All Answers Correct

CMS - Advanced Sommelier – Champagne All Answers Correct What is Bidule? ️️A plastic cup that used to collect sediments during secondary fermentation in the bottle. What is muselet? ️️A wire cage that hold the cork to the sparkling bottle neck. What is the prestige cuvee of Ruinart, Billecart-Salmon, G.H Mumm & Delamotte? ️️Dom Ruinart Elizabeth Salmon & Grand Cuvee Cuvee R Lalou Nicholas Louis Delamotte What are the rules for Special Club members? ️️1. RM Producer 2. Vinification and bottling must occur on the estate 3. Members must respect and uphold the Club's charter of the Club Trésors de Champagne Rules for "Special Club" Wines 4. The "Special Club" is the top-of-the-range, prestige cuvée for all members 5. The Club Trésors will declare a vintage as being worthy of "Special Club" prestige cuvées, then each member may decide individually whether or not to produce a "Special Club" wine 6. All base wines and finished "Special Club" wines must undergo tasting analysis All "Special Club" bottles share an identical label and bottle shape Tirage cannot occur until when? ️️After 1st Jan the year following the harvest. When does degorgement happen? ️️12 months after tirage. Can a champagne producer produce 100% of his entire production as vintage? ️️No. Only 80%. Elevage requirements for NV & Vintage? ️️15 and 36 months respectively. Name two still wine AOP in champagne. ️️Coteaux de Champenoise Rose de Riceys What is the oldest champagne house? ️️Grosset for still Ruinart for sparkling What is the different between vin de cuvee and vin de taille? ️️1st pressing of grapes from champagne production 2050l and 2nd 500l respectively. What is unique about champagne labels compare to other french appellation? ️️AOC and AOP is not mandatory after the region name. What is weinfuhrer? ️️Nazi German soldiers looting wines during the WW2. What is Prestige Cuvee in French? ️️Tete de Cuvee. Which altitude is champagne at and what climatic conditions it falls under? ️️48th parallel with Atlantic influence. What is bouvreux? ️️Second crop that develop from rain during flowering and rarely ripens. Champagne soil type? ️️Porous, first layer is covered by belemite chalk subsoil absorb heat and warm vines at night and provide excellent drainage in wet climate. It also contains lots of limestone content from the sea fossils. A second layer of micraster chalk, named for an extinct sea urchin, characterizes the valley vineyards. What is Les bleus de ville? ️️Blue bag that carries recycled Parisian garbage to fertilize the vineyards soil in Champagne. Apart from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier, what other varietals are allowed in Champagne AOP? ️️Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Petit Meslier and Arbane. Name all the pruning methods allowed in champagne. ️️Cordon Royat, Chablis, Guyot & Vallee de la Marne (only for Pinot Meunieur What is the average vine age in Champagne? ️️20 years.. older vines are that lower productivity are not desirable. What is Coquard basket press? ️️A marc of grapes equivalent to 4000kg that limit to 2550 liters of juice. What is blocage and deblocage? ️️The reserve and release respectively, of wine stocks for future vintage usage. Name two Grand Cru of Valle de la Marne. ️️Ay and Tours sur Marne. Spell and explain each abbreviation below NM RM CM RC SR ND MA ️️NM - buy grapes and base wine - Negociant Manipulant RM - own vineyards and grapes at least 90% - Recoltant Manipulant CM - Growers cooperative under one brand - Cooperative Manipulant RC - grower that made wine under cooperative but sells under own brand - Recoltant Cooperative SR - A firm usually a union of growers share resources and make Wines and collectively sells several brands ND - A middleman who sells wines he does not make. - Negociant Distributeur MA - A supermarket chUain that buys wines and sells it under own brand. Marque d'Acheteur What is Rebeche? ️️3rd extraction that is used for distillation. Must account for 0-10% total production. What do Chardonnay, PN and PM gives to the final blend of a champagne? ️️Chardonnay gives elegance longevity. Pinot Noir gives structure, richness and body. Pinot Meunier add youthfulness and approcabilty. What is bourbes? ️️Solid remains after pressing before fermentation. What is Vin clairs? ️️High acid base wine after primary fermentation. Often around 11abv. What is prise de mousse? ️️Second fermentation in the bottle of methode champenoise. What is autolysis? ️️The breakdown of dead yeast, forms sediment in the second fermentation. What is pointage? ️️Briefly shaking of bottle to prevent dead yeast from sticking at the bottle glass before degorgement. What is sur latte? ️️Placing the bottle on horizontal position. How long does the second fermentation takes place? ️️Usually up to 8 weeks.