Cour-Cheverny (wine region)

The wine region Cour-Cheverny is part of the great wine-growing region Loire . The appellation at the transition between the Touraine and the Center region has had the status of an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée since March 24, 1993 . Approx. 2,000 hectoliters of a straw-yellow, dry white wine are produced on 41 hectares of recognized vineyards .

The area is south of the city of Blois , but on the orographic left side of the Loire . The growing area partially overlaps with the broader appellation Cheverny . In addition, the Montlouis-sur-Loire growing region is only a few kilometers away. Also Chambord castle is located not far from the growing area removed.

Approved vineyards are in the eleven municipalities of Cellettes , Cheverny , Chétenay , Comeray , Cour-Cheverny ( eponymous municipality), Huisseau-sur-Cosson , Montlivault , Mont-près-Chambord , Saint-Claude-de-Diray , Tour-en-Sologne and Vineuil . In the north the area is bounded by the Loire. The large state forest Grande Sologne connects to the south .

The appellation only produces white wines from the Romorantin grape variety . The planting goes back to François I when he resided in Castle Romorantin. In 1519 he had 80,000 vines called Dannery come from Burgundy . However, the variety was locally only called Romorantin; a name that has held up to this day. This wine is therefore a rare local specialty. He recalls in his bouquet of apples and / or pears. The wine can be stored for a few years and thereby gains in quality. The ideal drinking temperature is 8–10 ° C.

Before the white wines are fermented , the natural minimum sugar content of the must must be as low as 145 g / l (→ must weight ), which corresponds to an alcohol content of 9.5 percent by volume in the wine. If a chaptalization is approved in bad years , the alcohol content of the finished fermented wine must not exceed 12.5% ​​by volume. The harvest restriction is 60 hectoliters / hectare.

literature

• Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . 3. Edition. Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
• Pierre Galet : Cépages et Vignobles de France . Lavoisier Publishing House, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7430-0585-8 .
• Benoît France (ed.): Grand Atlas des Vignobles de France . Solar publishing house, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-263-03242-8 .