Left Bank Flashcards
What is the single most dangerous weather element in Bordeaux?
Rain, particularly at harvest.
What is the Ciron?
A tributary of the Garonne cutting through Barsac and Sauternes, creating a “T” that contributes to botrytis.
What is higher: max yield for the Médoc/Haut-Médoc, or max yield for St-Estèphe, Paulliac, St-Julien, and the other communal appellations?
Médoc/Haut-Médoc @ 55hl/h v. 57 for the named communes
What are the communes of Pauillac?
Pauillac St-Estèphe St-Julien-Beychevelle Cissac-Médoc Saint-Saveur
What are the communes of St-Julien?
Pauillac
St-Julien-Beychevelle
St-Laurent-Médoc
Cussac-Fort-Médoc
What is the “super-second” of St-Estèphe?
Cos d’Estournel
What are the Super Seconds of St-Julien?
Léoville-Las-Cases
Ducru-Beaucaillou
What are the communes of Margaux?
Soussans Margaux Cantenac Labarde Arsac
What are boulbenes?
A mix of sand, gravel, and light clay found in Graves
What was the Graves Classification created, and when was it revised?
1953
1959
What was the last vintage for La Tour Haut-Brion, and what is it now used for?
2005
Blended into the second wine of La Mission Haut-Brion: La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion
What was the last vintage for Laville Haut-Brion, and what is it now used for?
2008
La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc
Notable unclassified estates of the Médoc
Potensac (Médoc)
Sociando-Mallet (Haut-Médoc)
Chasse-Spleen (Moulis)
Poujeaux (Moulis)
What château originally classified in 1855 is no longer part of the classification?
Château Dubignon, a third growth of Margaux.
It was absorbed into Malescot-St-Exupéry post-phylloxera in the 1870’s. From 1901 to 1960 it was its own estate labeled Dubignon-Talbot and classed as Cru Bourgeois Superieur/Ancienc Troisieme Cru; later parceled and sold off.
What marks the border between St. Estèphe and Pauillac? What two estates does it divide?
The Jalle de Breuil.
Cos d’Estournel and Lafite-Rothschild.
