Geography
The two French departments that Alsace lies in.
What are the Haut Rhine and the Bas Rhine?
The year in which Alsace achieved AOP status.
What is 1962 (the last major French AOP)?
The four noble grapes of Alsace.
Riesling, Muscat, Pinot Gris, and Gewurztraminer.
The label of the joint venture between Ernst Loosen and Chateau St. Michelle.
What is Eroica?
The Alsatian term for pink Vosges sandstone that is often used in the construction of churches and cathedrals in Strasbourg. Caves are often cut into it for cellaring.
What is Gres de Vosges?
The name of the most important viticultural valley created by the Vosges mountains in the Haut Rhine department.
What is the Munster Valley?
The year that Alsace Grand Cru was first defined as a single appellation.
What is 1975?
The main grape grown in the department of Haute-Savoie.
What is Chasselas?
The famous producer of Clos Saint Urbain?
Who is Zind-Humbrecht?
Two terms; the first indicating a blend of white AOP Alsace varieties with no required indication of the blend, the second indicating a blend of white AOP Alsace varieties with at least 50% noble varieties.
What are Edelzwicker and Gentil?
The Grand Cru vineyard in which the parcel Clos Saint Hune lies.
What is Rosacker GC?
The treaty that ended the Thirty Years War and cemented France's ownership of Alsace in the 17th century.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
The Grand Cru that grows Sylvaner.
What is Zotzenberg?
The producer of the historical monopole Clos des Capucins.
Who is Domaine Weinbach?
The two varieties of Muscat grown in Alsace.
What are Muscat Blanc a Petits Grains and Muscat Ottonel (guildsomm disagrees with Jancis and also lists Muscat Rose a Petits Grains)?
The Grand Cru vineyard in which the parcel Clos Saint Urbain lies.
What is Rangen de Thann GC?
The last Alsace Grand Cru AOP and the year it was added.
What is Kaefferkopf in 2006?
The grapes that are allowed to be bottled varietally under Alsace AOP law (you can skip the 4 noble ones-we know those).
What are Pinot Blanc (Klevner), Pinot Noir, Chasselas (Gutedel), and Sylvaner?
The domaine that holds the largest portion of Grand Cru vineyards in Alsace.
What is Domaines Schlumberger?
The man who worked tirelessly to change the Altenberg de Bergheim legislation to allow for blending.
Who is Jean-Michel Deiss? (He succeeded in 2001 and now blends 13 varieties- Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Muscat, Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer, Sylvaner, Auxerrois, Chasselas, Pinot Beurot, Chasselas Rosé, Traminer and Muscat Ottonel for his Altenberg de Bergheim).
The order of the following communes from north to south; Ribeauville, Thann, Marlenheim, Riquewihr.
Marlenheim, Ribeauville, Riquewihr, Thann.
Starting with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 list the wars that resulted in Alsace being traded from France to Germany or vice versa.
After the Peace of Westphalia Alsace was French...
1870-1871 Franco-German War- Alsace annexed to Germany
1914-1918 WW1- Alsace restored to France
Early 1940's- Alsace annexed by Germany for the remainder of WW2
1939-1945 WW2- At the end Alsace returns to French rule
The grape that Klevener de Heiligenstein is known for.
What is Savagnin Rose?
Name the producer of Cuvee Frederic Emile AND the Grand Cru vineyards it is from.
Who is Trimbach? What are Geisberg and Osterberg?
The general time frame when harvest takes place in Alsace (over which months) and the general rule of which order grapes are picked in (cover VT's and SGN's, cremant, Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Muscat, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Chasselas, Auxerrois, Sylvaner, and Pinot Blanc).
What is early september-early november.
1st-Grapes for cremant (lots of Pinot Blanc and Auxerrois but other grapes as well)
2nd- The rest of the Auxerrois, Muscat, the rest of the Pinot Blanc, and Pinot Noir
3rd-Chasselas, Sylvaner, and Pinot Gris
4th- Gewurztraminer
5th-Riesling
6th- VT's and SGN's
*as a general rule generic AOP wines are picked before Grand Cru wines