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06 To 23. Grape Varieties Flashcards

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Grape Varieties | Name the grape:
High in acidity, low to medium tannins, pale to medium in colors, red-fruit, like strawberry, raspberry and red cherry flavors.

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Pinot Noir

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Grape Varieties | Describe the primary, secondary and tertiary possible aromas and flavors of Pinot noir:

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Primary: red fruits
Secondary: smoke, cloves
Tertiary: forest floor, mushrooms

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Grape Varieties | Where is the most important region for Pinot Noir?

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France. Burgundy. Côte d’Or. Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune.

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Grape Varieties | What does it mean when the Pinot Noir wine is labelled Bourgogne AOC? What to expect?

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Most Basic GI for Burgundy wines. The Pinot Noir will be light to medium body, low tannins, high acidity, and fresh red-fruit aromas. Drink them young.

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Grape Varieties | Name the most famous villages for Pinot Noir in the Côte d’Or:

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In Côte de Nuits: Gevrey-Chambertin AOC and Nuits-San-Georges AOC.
In Côte de Beaune: Beaune AOC and Pommard AOCA.

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Grape Varieties | How are called the best Pinot Noirs in Burgundy?

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Premier Cru and Grand Cru. Grand Crus are the best ones. Usually present all expect flavors in its bouquet.

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Grape Varieties | Where can we find Pinot Noirs in US?

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Califórnia: Carneros, Sonoma, Santa Bárbara County, because of the cool sea breeze.
The best ones are in Oregon, cooler than California. They are complex, fresh fruity, and usually present secondary and tertiary flavors.

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Grape Varieties | Where we find good quality Pinot Noir in Chile?

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Casablanca Valley.

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Grape Varieties | South Africa, New Zealand and Australia produce Pinot Noirs?

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Yes.
SA: Walker Bay, coolest coastal region
AUS: Yarra Valley and Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, cooler, but still the wine has a mor cooked aspect.
NZ: best black grape in NZ. Martinborough and Marlborough. Central Otago also have great examples but end up being more full body.

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Grape Varieties | How is the other name for Zinfandel?

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Primitivo, in Italy.

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Grape Varieties | What’s expected for Zinfandel?

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Usually black fruits flavors, like blackberry, plums and black cherries, cans also develop dried fruits character like raisin and prune oak flavors. It’s mostly dry, with medium to high acidity, full body, high tannins and high alcohol.

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Grape Varieties | What is white Zinfandel?

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White Zinfandel it’s a style of wine, made with the grape Zinfandel. It’s rosé, made with the short maceration process, that gives a low alcohol and sweetness for the wine. Combined with red fruit aromas.

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Grape Varieties | Where Primitivo it’s important?

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In the southern Italy, in Puglia.
It’s produced in high volume, but also have some good examples and can have a excellent money value.

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Grape Varieties | Describe the different Riesling flavors:

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They can go from:
Just ripe: green fruit (apple, pear);
extra-ripe: stone fruit (peach, apricot) e tropical fruit (mango, pineapple);
Extra extra ripe: dried fruit (apricot, raisins)

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Grape Varieties | What is Süssreserve?

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It’s a sterile grape juice, sometimes added in styles off-fry and medium sweet rieslings.

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Grape Varieties | What’s the tertiary flavors possible to appear in a Riesling?

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Honey and Petrol (gasoline) are very usuals.

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Grape Varieties | Name the important regions for Riesling:

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Germany it’s the biggest producer of Riesling. Inside Germany we have: Mosel, Rheingau and Pfalz.
France in the region of Alsace AOC.

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Grape Varieties | The difference between the Riesling from Germany and France:

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Alsace it’s usually medium bodied and dry, German ones are lighter in body and contain more sugar to balance the higher acidity.

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Grape Varieties | Name the six Prädikat categories:

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Kabinett
Spätlese
Auslese
Icewine
Beerenauslese
Trockenbeerenauslese

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Grape Varieties | Describe German labeling terminology from poorest quality to best one:

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Landwein;
Qualitätswein;
Prädikatswein.
Classified from sugar level IN THE GRAPE. It means that Landwein will be the one with less sugar. In this case sugar that might transform in alcohol, it doesn’t mean they are sweet.

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Grape Varieties | Where we find Riesling in Australia and how they are in style?

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Éden Valley and Clare Valley in South Australia. They are dry with a lot of flavor, from lime, peach, blossom and petrol.

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Grape Varieties | Where we can find Chenin Blanc of high quality?

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France, under the Vouvray AOC in the Loir Valley.
South Africa, has a lot of old vines of chenin blanc producing wine with a lot of tropical fruit like linalol and mango. The grape enjoys the warm climate but can still maintain its big acidity.

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Grape Varieties | Talk about Vouvray AOC:

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It’s the only appellation that allows only Chenin blanc. It’s located in the Loire Valley, in France, and it’s allowed a big range of styles, from dry, to sweet (botrytis).

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Grape Varieties | Describe Sémillon characteristics:

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White grape that likes moderate to warm climate. Apple, lemon, grass. Tertiary notes of dried fruits, nuts and honey. It can have from medium to high acidity, light to full body.

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Grape Varieties | Which are the most important regions for Semillon?

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In France:
In Bordeaux, where it’s usually blended with Sauvignon Blanc for the most famous white blend. Making from dry to sweet wines.
In Sauternes, small sub-region of Bordeaux and the house of some of the best sweet wines in the world, made with the noble rot.
Australia it’s the new world house of semillon, because it decolo well in warm climates. In Hunter Valley and Barossa Valley. The first one having great examples with bottle aging.

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Grape Varieties | What is Furmint?

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Furmint it’s a white grape, widely planted in HUNGARY. The home is one of the most famous sweet wines in the world, the Tokaji Aszú (always sweet, but the Tokaji region can also produce dry wines). The Furmint is usually blended with some other local grapes for flavor complexity, but it’s by far the most important.

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Grape Varieties | Describe the differences between cool climate, moderated climate and warm climate Chardonnay:

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Cool climate: high acidity, light to medium body, flavor of green fruits, citrus and wet stone (mineral);
Medium climate: medium to high acidity, medium to full body, flavors of stone fruits, lemon and sometimes tropical fruits;
Warm climate: full bodied, medium acidity and flavors of stone fruit and tropical fruit.

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Grape Varieties | What the difference between Puligny-Montrachet and Pouilly-Fuissé?

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They are both AOC from Burgundy, made with Chardonnay. But, Puligny-Montrachet it’s from the region of Côte d’Or (Beaune) and Pouilly-Fuissé it’s from Maconnais, down in the map.
In Maconnais usually will be more full body and have more ripe fruits flavors.

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Grape Varieties | Difference between French Chardonnay and American Chardonnay?

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France Chardonnay it’s lighter and even when have oak passage it’s just enough to give a complexity of flavors and extra ripe aromas. Meanwhile American Chardonnay it’s big, bold, full body, butterich full of oak.

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Grape Varieties | Talk about Cortese:

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It’s a white grape, gives dry wines, light body and light acidity, floral, citrus and green fruit aromas.
It’s the main grape of the Gavi DOCG in Piemonte.

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Grape Varieties | Talk about Vericchio:

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White grape, medium body, high acidity, green fruits, citrus and herbal notes.
It’s main appellation it’s the versículo dei castelo di Jesi form the Marche region.

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Grape Varieties | Talk about Garganega:

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Classic grape from Veneto, usually dry, medium body, high acidity, green and stone and citrus fruits.
The main grape from Soave DOC, Soave Classico DOC and Recioto do Soave DOCG.

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Grape Varieties | Talk about Fiano:

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medium acidity, medium to full body, stone and tropical fruit, From the region of Campania. Not unusual to find Fiano wines with lee contact. Main variation for Fiano di Avelino DOCG.

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Grape Varieties | Talk about Nebbiolo:

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Main grape from Piemonte, producing two of the most expensive and famous wines in the country: Barolo and Barabesco. Has high acidity, high tannins, full body, and long ageing potencial. Can present red fruit aromas, violets and roses and dried herbs notes…

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Grape Varieties | Talk about Barbera:

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High acidity, low to medium tannins, red fruit characteristics, with black pepper notes. Famous in the appellation Barbera d’Asti, also in the Piemonte region.

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Grape Varieties | What’s the difference between Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG and Valpolicella DOC?

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Valpolicella it’s a simple appellation from the same region. While Valpolicella present simple, acid and medium tannins wines. Amarone it’s full of complexity. Made with the apassimento technique, concentrating the sugars in the grapes, resulting in a dry very alcoholic wine.

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Grape Varieties | Talk about Sangiovese:

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The most widely planted grape if Italy, but has its really famous wines in Tuscany. Chianti, Chianti Classico and Brunello do Montalcino.
Sangiovese it’s high in acidity and tannins.

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Grape Varieties | Talk about Montepulciano:

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Black grape famous for the appellation Montepulciano d’Abruzzo. Makes a wine deep in color, rich with black fruits character and high tannins and medium acidity.

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Grape Varietes | Name the important regions for Sauvignon Blanc Im France :

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In the Loire Valley: Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé. West of Sancerre, Touraine.
Bordeaux (usually mixed with Semillon), in Graves AOC and Pessac-Léognon AOC.

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Grape Varietes | Nowadays where can we find the best examples of Sauvignon Blanc wines? And why?

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In New Zealand. Besides the cool windy climate that it’s proper for SB, in NZ they created a technique that blend different grapes from different vineyards to create a complex and balanced wine.

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Grape Varieties | Does Chiles produces gold quality Sauvignon Blanc?

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Yes, in Casablanca Valley. Because this region it’s cooled by the the sea breezes and Morning fogs.

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Grape Varieties | What’s the difference between Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris?

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They are the same grape, bu when in Italy it’s called Grigio and in France gris.
In Italy it’s more simple style, refreshing and acid. Well found in the Veneto region.
In France it’s more complex and has more body because of the grape growing technique used. Famous in Alsace area.

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Grape varieties | Talk about Gewurztraminer:

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White grape that can vary in wine styles from dry to sweet. Concentrate a lot of sugar in the grape, resulting in full body, alcoholic, dry wines.

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Grape Varieties | What is Codrieu AOC?

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Condirei it’s an appellation from northern Rhône for wines made exclusively with Viognier.
Usually low to medium acidity, medium to full body and high in alcohol. Floral and stone fruits.

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Grape Varieties | Where it’s Albariño best known?

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Spain, in the appellation of Rias Baixas. It’s a Wine high in acidity, medium body, citrus and stone fruits flavor.

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Grape Varieties | What’s the bests appellations for Syrah in France?

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Côte Rotie AOC, Hermitage AOC and Crozes-Hermitage AOC. All in Rhône region.

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Grape Varieties | Shiraz it’s the most widely planted varietie in Australia. Name the regions where it is best know in.

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Barossa Valley with some of the worlds oldest Shiraz vines, and Hunter Valley with high clouded sky and sea breezes that can slow the ripening.

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Grape Varieties | Name the most famous wine made with Gamay and the most famous Apellation where Gamay it’s the main grape.

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Beaujolais Noveau and Fleurie AOC, beujolais cru.

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Grape Varieties | Name the most important appellations with Grenache:

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Côte du Rhône AOC
Côte du Rhône Village AOC
Chateauneuf-du-pape AOC

South of France, make rosé wines, apellation Minervois AOC.

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Grape Varieties | Name the most famous appellations for Garnacha:

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Rioja DOCa
Navarra DOCa
Priorat DOCa

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Grape Varieties | Which it’s the order for oak ageing labeling in Spain:

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Joven
Crianza
Reserva
Gran Reserva

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Grape Varieties | Tempranillo it’s the most important grape of Spain, it’s most used alone in wines, but sometimes can be blended with __?

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Garnacha.

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Grape Varieties | Name the most important appellations for Tempranillo in Spain:

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Rioja DOCa
Catalunya DO
Ribera del Duero DO

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Grape Varieties | Pinotage it’s, sometimes, blended with other different grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. These blends are known as ____?

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Cape blends.

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