TWP BORDEAUX UPDATED EXAMS PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Bel Air Ortet - ✔✔St Estephe
- tiny, owned by Cheval Quancard
- 50/50 cab merlot, 25 year vines
✔✔Lillian Ladouys - ✔✔St Estephe
Cru Bourgeois Superieur
La Devise de _____
- vineyards close to Cos and Lafite
✔✔Lafite-Rothschilde - ✔✔Pauillac
1st growth
Carraudes de _____
- vineyards on hillsides around chateau, on carraudes plateau, and plot in st estephe
- vines used for grand vin = 45 years
-70 Cab/25 Mer/rest CF&PV
- La Graviere plot dating to 1886
- barrels made at domaines cooperage
✔✔Mouton-Rothschild - ✔✔Pauillac
1st Growth
Le Petite _____
,- Obtained 1st growth status after 20 year campaign
- 77 Cab/11 Merlot/10 CF/2PV
- Partners with world producers including Concha Y Toro (Almaviva)
- also produces Aile d'Argent Bordeaux White
✔✔Latour - ✔✔Pauillac
1st Growth
Les Forts de ______
- gravelly soil overlooking Gironde
- produces majority Cab (80, 18 merlot, tiny amounts of CF/PV)
- As of 2012, no longer participating in en primeur system; holding wines until ready to
drink
✔✔Pichon Lalande - ✔✔Pauillac
2nd Growth
Reserve de la Comtesse
- Currently owned by Louis Roederer
- Higher percentage Merlot than many other LB (45CS/35M/12CF/8PV) = wines with
soft, fleshy character that can be consumed younger
✔✔Pichon Baron - ✔✔Pauillac
2nd Growth
Les Griffons de _____________(same material as Grand Vin) AND Tourelles de
Longueville (single plot mostly Merlot)
- est 1850 by Baron Raoul Pichon de Longueville, was a gift from his father
- Owned now by AXA Millesimes
✔✔Duhart-Milon - ✔✔Pauillac
4th Growth
Moulin de _____
- Purchased by Lafite in 1962, wines made by Lafite
✔✔Pontet-Canet - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
Les Hauts du ________________
, - Owned by Tesseron Family
- located in the heart of Pauillac, just south of Mouton Rothschild, shares poor gravelly
soil of great vineyards
- Back to back (2009/2010) 100pt reviews from Robert Parker; only Medoc estate below
2nd growth to receive 100pt review from him
✔✔Batailley - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
- Flagship wine of Borie-Manoux and Casteja family (other holdings include Beau-Site
and Trotte Vieille)
✔✔Grand Puy Lacoste - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
Lacoste Borie
- Owned by Borie family
- Gravel outcroppings; true to name: "puy" = small hillock
✔✔Grand Puy Ducasse - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
Prelude a _______________
- Vineyards bordered to north by Lafite, Mouton, and Pontet-Canet
✔✔Lynch-Bages - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
Echo de ____________
- Jean-Michel Cazes has elevated chateau's reputation above its 5th growth
classification
- Produces highly sought white: Blanc de _________
✔✔Lynch-Moussas - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
Les Hauts de __________
- Owned by Borie-Manoux and Casteja families
✔✔D'Amailhac - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Bel Air Ortet - ✔✔St Estephe
- tiny, owned by Cheval Quancard
- 50/50 cab merlot, 25 year vines
✔✔Lillian Ladouys - ✔✔St Estephe
Cru Bourgeois Superieur
La Devise de _____
- vineyards close to Cos and Lafite
✔✔Lafite-Rothschilde - ✔✔Pauillac
1st growth
Carraudes de _____
- vineyards on hillsides around chateau, on carraudes plateau, and plot in st estephe
- vines used for grand vin = 45 years
-70 Cab/25 Mer/rest CF&PV
- La Graviere plot dating to 1886
- barrels made at domaines cooperage
✔✔Mouton-Rothschild - ✔✔Pauillac
1st Growth
Le Petite _____
,- Obtained 1st growth status after 20 year campaign
- 77 Cab/11 Merlot/10 CF/2PV
- Partners with world producers including Concha Y Toro (Almaviva)
- also produces Aile d'Argent Bordeaux White
✔✔Latour - ✔✔Pauillac
1st Growth
Les Forts de ______
- gravelly soil overlooking Gironde
- produces majority Cab (80, 18 merlot, tiny amounts of CF/PV)
- As of 2012, no longer participating in en primeur system; holding wines until ready to
drink
✔✔Pichon Lalande - ✔✔Pauillac
2nd Growth
Reserve de la Comtesse
- Currently owned by Louis Roederer
- Higher percentage Merlot than many other LB (45CS/35M/12CF/8PV) = wines with
soft, fleshy character that can be consumed younger
✔✔Pichon Baron - ✔✔Pauillac
2nd Growth
Les Griffons de _____________(same material as Grand Vin) AND Tourelles de
Longueville (single plot mostly Merlot)
- est 1850 by Baron Raoul Pichon de Longueville, was a gift from his father
- Owned now by AXA Millesimes
✔✔Duhart-Milon - ✔✔Pauillac
4th Growth
Moulin de _____
- Purchased by Lafite in 1962, wines made by Lafite
✔✔Pontet-Canet - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
Les Hauts du ________________
, - Owned by Tesseron Family
- located in the heart of Pauillac, just south of Mouton Rothschild, shares poor gravelly
soil of great vineyards
- Back to back (2009/2010) 100pt reviews from Robert Parker; only Medoc estate below
2nd growth to receive 100pt review from him
✔✔Batailley - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
- Flagship wine of Borie-Manoux and Casteja family (other holdings include Beau-Site
and Trotte Vieille)
✔✔Grand Puy Lacoste - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
Lacoste Borie
- Owned by Borie family
- Gravel outcroppings; true to name: "puy" = small hillock
✔✔Grand Puy Ducasse - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
Prelude a _______________
- Vineyards bordered to north by Lafite, Mouton, and Pontet-Canet
✔✔Lynch-Bages - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
Echo de ____________
- Jean-Michel Cazes has elevated chateau's reputation above its 5th growth
classification
- Produces highly sought white: Blanc de _________
✔✔Lynch-Moussas - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
Les Hauts de __________
- Owned by Borie-Manoux and Casteja families
✔✔D'Amailhac - ✔✔Pauillac
5th Growth
