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Austria 3.14.2024 Flashcards

1
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What is Sturm?

A

Fermenting grape juice sold just after harvest

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2
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What is an Austrian Synonym for Chardonnay?

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Feinburgunder

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3
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What is the maximum harvest yield for Austrian wines with a vintage and/or a variety on the label

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67.5 hl/ha

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4
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In which vintage was the Weinviertel DAC Reserve category established?

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2009

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5
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what is Hochkultur and who introduced it?

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Vine training system, lenz Moser

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6
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What is the STK?

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A grower association of 10 producers promoting a burgundy-style cru classification system in Steiermark

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7
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What was Wagram known as prior to 2007?

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Donauland

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8
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Sämling 88 is a synonym for which variety in Burgenland?

A

Scheurebe

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9
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Who produces ‘Unendlich’ Riesling?

A

FX Pichler

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10
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What is the most recently released vintage of Nikolaihof’s Vinothek Riesling?

A

2002

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11
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In what year was the Vinea Wachau formed?

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1983

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12
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What is the minimum alcohol to label a wine Smaragd?

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12.5%

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13
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What is the soil type of Heiligenstein?

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Permian Desert Sandstone

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14
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What is the primary moderating influence in Burgenland?

A

Lake Neusiedl

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15
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What is the minimum alcohol for wines labelled Kamptal Reserve DAC?

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13%

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16
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Can you name 4 producers of Heiligenstein?

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Brundlmeyer, Schloss Goebelsberg, Hirsch, Birgit Eichinger

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17
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What is the main grape planted in Heiligenstein?

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Riesling

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18
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Name 3 Rieds in Langelois

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Loiserberg, Spiegel, Dechant

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19
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What is the most recently approved DAC in the Niederosterreich?

A

Wagram 2022

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20
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What are the local white varieties of Thermenregion?

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Rotgipfler, Zierfandler

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21
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What is Spätrot-Rotgipfler?

A

White wine produced from Rotpgipfler and Zierfandler in Thermenregion

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22
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What is the minimum alcohol for Prdikatswein in Austria?

A

9%

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23
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Describe the 2021 vintage in Austria

A

Warm, sunny, ideal vintage, vintage of the century

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24
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what was the worst vintage of the 1990s in Austria?

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1996 (RAIN)

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25
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Describe the 2014 vintage in Austria

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Rainy, poor

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26
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In which DAC does Moric produce wines?

A

Mittelburgenland

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27
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In which village of Mittelburgenland is the producer Moric?

A

Nechenmarkt

28
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Arrange the villages Spitz, Dürnstein, and Mautern in order from warmest to coolest

A

Mautern, Dürnstein, Spitz

29
Q

What is the main grape variety of Kracher’s Grande Cuvée?

A

Welschriesling

30
Q

In which village is the Ried Lamm?

31
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What is the main grape planted in Kammern?

32
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What is the main grape planted in Lamm?

A

Grüner Veltliner

33
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What is the main grape planted in Zöbing?

34
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in which village is Heilgenstein?

35
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What is the main grape variety planted in Gaisberg?

A

Grüner Veltliner

36
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In which DAC would you find the producers Nigl, Stadt Krems, and Salomon Undhof

A

Kremstal DAC

37
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What was the first DAC approved in Austria?

A

Weinviertel 2002

38
Q

What is Flysch?

A

A soil of layered shale embedded with Greywacke Sandstone

39
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how would you generally describe the soils of the Wachau?

A

Exposed volcanic rock on upper slopes, loess closer to the river

40
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What is stinkerl?

A

a local term for petrichor minerality in wines, prominent in Achleiten

41
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What is the elevation of vineyards in the Wachau?

42
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What is Gfohl Gneiss?

A

A banded metamorphic rock named for a small town in the Krems, Austria

43
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Rieden of Spitz

A

Axpoint, Singerriedel, Hochrain, Tausendeimerberg,

44
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Famous Ried of Viessling

45
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Famous Ried of Gut Am Steg

46
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Rieden of Weissenkirchen

47
Q

Where is the source of the Danube?

A

Black Forest (flows into black sea)

48
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What is the climate of the Wachau Valley?

A

Cool Continental

49
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What is the effect of Neusieldersee on Burgenland?

A

Humidity > Bortrytis/moderating influence

50
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Name 3 tributary valleys of the Danube

A

Kamptal, Kremstal, Traisental

51
Q

Arrange the following DACs from North to South: Leithaberg, Mittelburgenland, Neusiedlersee

52
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What is the main grape variety of the Eisenberg DAC?

A

Blaufrankisch

53
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What is the parentage of Gruner Veltliner?

A

Savagnin X St Georgen-Rebe

54
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What is the primary grape variety of the Weinviertel DAC?

A

Gruner Veltliner

55
Q

What is the most planted grape variety in Steiermark?

A

Welschriesling

56
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Which two Grape varieties are allowed in the Traisental DAC?

A

GV, Riesling

57
Q

What is the minimum RS for Ruster Ausbruch DAC?

58
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In Kamptal, why does there tend to be more GV near the Danube and more Riesling planted higher up the slopes?

A

Loess & Clay Loam near the river, Primary Rock up the slopes.

59
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What is the primary grape variety of the Loibenberg Ried in Unterloiben?

60
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What is the most planted Grape variety in the axpoint ried in spitz?

61
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What is the most planted Grape variety in the Hochrain ried in Wosendorf?

62
Q

Nikolaihof’s Steiner Hund is bottled with which DAC on the label?

A

Kremstal (formerly Niederosterreich)

63
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Where would you find a wine described as having a ‘Pfefferl’ character?

A

Weinviertel

64
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Rotburger is s synonym for which grape variety?

65
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What is the name of the Bi-annual wine conference and trade show that takes place in Vienna?

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