Calabria

Question 1

What is the most widely planted grape in Calabria?

Answer 1

Gaglioppo

Question 2

Name the dominant vine training method in Calabria

Answer 2

Alberello

Question 3

Cirò Rosso DOC must contain at least 80% of which grape variety?

Answer 3

Gaglioppo

Question 4

Name Calabria’s largest and oldest DOC

Answer 4

Cirò DOC

Question 5

Hills and mountains comprise more than 90% of the Calabrian territory. True or false?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Calabria was mainly known for the production of bulk wine (vini da taglio). True or False?

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What name did the ancient Greek settlers give to Calabria?

Answer 7

Oenotria (“the land of the vines”)

Question 8

Cirò Bianco is based on what grape variety?

Answer 8

Greco Bianco

Question 9

Is Calabria predominantly planted to red or white grapes?

Answer 9

Red

Question 10

Greco di Bianco is believed to be genetically identical to what grape variety?

Answer 10

Malvasia di Lipari

Question 11

What style is Greco di Bianco DOC?

Answer 11

Sweet passito

Question 12

Name the waterway that separates Calabria from Sicilia

Answer 12

Strait of Messina

Question 13

What is the principal white grape in Calabria?

Answer 13

Greco Bianco