“The civil status of noble wine
PERSONALITY
A – SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNG WINES
Pre-drink stimulation
- Visual stimulation:
– Aspect
– Color
– Outgassing:
– Creaminess
- Olfactory stimulation
– Odors
- Stimulation during consumption
– Taste stimulation
– Olfactory stimulation
– Mechanical stimulation
– Common chemical stimulation
– Caudalies
- Flavor
B – AVERAGE ANALYTICAL CHARACTERISTICS
– Ph
– Density at 20°C
– Acquired alcoholic strength
– Potential alcoholic strength
– Potent alcoholic extract
– Dry extract (by densimetry) g/I
– Sugars g/I
– Glycerol
– Total acidity in g. SO 4 H 2/1
– Volatile acidity in g. SO 4 H 2/1
– Fixed acidity in g. sa 4 H 2/1
– Free sulphur dioxide mg/l
– Total sulphur dioxide mg/l
– Trivalent iron mgll
– Bivalent iron mgll
– Copper mgll
– Potassium (K) mg/l
– Sodium (Na) mg/l
– KlNa ratio
– Citric acid mg/l
– Sulfates g/l
– Tartaric acid
– Malic acid
– Lactic acid
C – AGEING ABILITY
Maturity :
– Exceptional vintages
– Normal vintages
– Small vintages
D – HIERARCHICAL SUITABILITY
PREPARATION CONDITIONS
A – COMPOSITION OF RAW MATERIALS
Sugar in g/l
Acidity in g. sa 4 H2/1
Ph
Presence of botrytis cinerea
Vintage
Normal Exceptional “Small
B – CORRECTIONS AND CARE
Chaptalization
Addition of tartaric acid
Addition of neutralizers
Sulphur dioxide
C – WINEMAKING METHOD
Red winemaking :
– Long vatting time
– Short vatting time
Number of years of vatting by carbonic maceration:
– Partial – total destemming (frequency)
– Fermentation temperature
– White winemaking
– Crushing the harvest
– Press type
– Weight of grapes pressed (to obtain 100 1. of must)
– Fermentation time
– Fermentation temperature
D – PRE-FERMENTATION PHASES
– Grape harvesting :
– How the grapes are transported :
– De-sludging
– Miscellaneous
E – AGEING AND BOTTLING
– Type of housing for winemaking (wood, cement, metal…)
– Type of housing for wine maturing: (wood, cement, meta!…)
– Number of fills
– Filling period
– Gluing (Type of glue)
– Filtration
– Bottling dates
I THE ORIGINS OF WINE
A – GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
– Latitude
– U.T.M. contact details :
B – PEDOLOGICAL STUDY
– Soil type
– Depth
– Analytical characteristics
- Clay
- Fine sands
- Coarse sand
- Silt
- Limestone
- Magnesium
- Iron
C – PLOT ORIENTATION
D – CLIMATE
PLUVIOMETRY
Budburst
Vegetation
Fructification
Maturation
SOLARIMETRY THERMOMETRY
E – CELLS
F – BREEDS (indicate breeds)
G – MICROCLIMATE
PRODUCTION CONDITIONS
A – PLOT PLANTING DATE
B – TYPE OF PLANTING
– Number of plants per hectare
– Rootstock
D – AVERAGE YIELD OVER 10 YEARS
– Minimum and maximum yields
E – GROUND WORKS AND PERIOD
F – SIZE
G – VINEYARD PROTECTION
– Usual treatments to combat it:
– Downy mildew
– Powdery mildew
– Mites
– Cluster worms
– Botrytis
