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southeast region
windy strong storms in winter, dry hot summers |
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| breezy off ocean, bordeaux. |
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| western, colder winters, variable weather. marriage of grapes/terroir |
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| blending grape, most popular grown in france |
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pretty much everything in france.
high vine density. |
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| two important regulating committees |
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INRA
INAO - national institute of origin control |
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| rules were enacted because |
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| people were growing hybrids and there was fraud |
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| types of wine, yield, trellising systems, alcoholic strength. |
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1. Vin de Table
2. Vin de Pays - typical country wines
3. VDQS - only 1% of wines
4. AOC - 40% of wines, can be crap but the classification means they follow the rules |
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| au bord de l'eau = along the water |
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| Gironde. made from Garonne and Dordogne. |
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| means clear. close association with english. red bordeaux = claret. |
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| eleanor of aquitaine and king henry of england |
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| wine from bordeaux had no taxes, destroyed the english wine industry. |
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| big traders. drained the swamps. established great estates in 17th century. |
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| people who buy french wine in bordeaux and sell it to the rest of the world |
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| haut (high). medoc. graves (gravel). Sauternes, barsoc. CABERNET |
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| MERLOT. st. emilion, pomerol. shorter growing season, mostly chalk and limestone. |
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70% cab.
15% cab. franc
15% merlot |
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60% merlot
30% cab. franc
10% cab. |
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| how they put the wine together |
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| splits wine into first, second and third growths. |
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sauvignon blanc.
has botrytis - noble rot. |
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| uses and abuses of wine impact public health policy |
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| mediterranean wine culture |
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| resposible decision making taught early. lower abuse. |
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| belief that there's non abuse in france but it's highest in abuse |
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| sex differences in consumption |
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| men can consume twice as much per day without damage |
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| 1-2 drinks per day may be healthful and reduce heart disease |
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| j shaped or u shaped curve |
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| 1-2 drinks is helpful, less helpful as amount consumed increases. 0 is not as good as 1-2. |
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| phenolics in wine are helpful |
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| white oak can be sawn but |
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| fill spaces between the oak slats |
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| piece of wood used in barrel making |
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| provided by barrel. little bit of oxygen mixes with wine, softens the wine. |
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| major supplier of wine cork |
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| tubes that carry the sugar from the leaves to roots |
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25 years before it can be stripped
stripped again in 9 years
9 years after that the cork can be used |
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| tainted wine because of fungi on cork - TCA |
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| most popular kind of screw tops |
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| burning inside of a barrel. less toast = more wood taste |
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| noble types - most common |
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| most sought after of whites, highest prices. one of few whites to be barrel fermented. grown in burgandy. |
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| allow the lees to sit with the wine. gives a softer mouthful. |
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anti-chardonnay
grape of germany. late blooming, ripening, picking. high in acidity. expresses microclimate. |
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| bordeaux (called a white bordeaux) |
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| traminer. varies in color. grown in alsace. |
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| chameleon like, easy to grow, grown in loire. |
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