HTM 3030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir, List Of Champagne Houses

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Course: HTM 3030
• Professor: Joe Barth

Document Summary

Most northerly wine district in france: growers are usually small family operations, growers make a still wine and sell to champagne houses for blending and conversion into sparkling wine. Champagne: g(cid:396)ape p(cid:396)i(cid:272)es (cid:396)ise due to de(cid:448)astatio(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:373)ilde(cid:449)"s a(cid:374)d ph(cid:455)llo(cid:454)e(cid:396)a i(cid:374) ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) (cid:1005)9(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s, champagne houses use cheap bulk wine from the south to make champagne, confrontation with champagne growers, results in first agreement on appellation in 1910. Two categories of wine emerge: table wines, aoc wines. Appellatio(cid:374) d"origi(cid:374)e co(cid:374)trole (cid:894)aoc(cid:895: appellation system was an attempt to safeguard the interests of the grower, not the consumer, all french wines were divided into 2 categories, vin de table wines, appellatio(cid:374) d"o(cid:396)igi(cid:374)e (cid:449)i(cid:374)es. In this case, vin de table is a class of wine not a type of wine (confusing) Aoc guarantees: region of production, permitted grape variety, minimum harvest maturity, maximum yield per hectare. Aoc designation implication: wine is typical of the named region.