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Calabria Flashcards

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Calabria

Chief red grape

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Gaglioppo

  • Thick-skinned
  • Ciro DOC, Ionian Coast: reds, rosatos
  • Thought to be Greek origin; local legend ascribes wines of Ciro as beverage of ancient Olympians
  • More recently, genetically linked to Sangiovese
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Calabria

  • Geography
  • Climate
  • History
  • Today’s general style
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  • Toe of the Italian boot
  • Like its neighbors, covered in mountains, dividing the region climatically between the hot Mediterranean coast and the more continental, higher-altitude interior
  • Famous throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages
  • Most Calabrian wine today exists at the same high alcohol but low quality level that characterizes much southern Italian wine
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Calabria

Most planted white grape

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Greco

  • White grapes less than 10% Calabrian wine
  • Melissa DOC - best example
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T/F : Calabria’s production is nearly double that of neighboring Basilicata.

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True

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2 towns that qualify for Cirò Classico

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  • Cirò
  • Cirò Marina
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Cirò

Major soil type

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Calcareous clay, sand, and marl

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Greco

Other regions, other names

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  • Umbria (Grechetto)
  • Sicily (Grecanico)
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Calabria

2nd largest DOC

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Terre di Cosenza DOC, 191 ha

vs Círo, 487 ha

  • All styles
    • Bianco/Varietal/Spumante/VT/Passito
    • Rosato/Spumante
    • Rosso/Novello/Riserva/Varietal/VT/Passito
  • Varietal Rosso: Mantonico
  • Spumante Bianco and Rosato: min 60% Magliocco
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Terre di Cosenza spumante

Method of sparkling

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Terre do Cosenza spumante

Metodo Classico

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albarello

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Bush vines

  • Mostly in southern italy and the islands
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Greco di Bianco DOC

Style

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Bianco Passito

  • Min. 95% Greco Bianco
  • Min alcohol 17% potential, 14% acquired
  • Min acidity 6%
  • Aged Nov 1, year after harvest
  • Greco di Bianco DOC est 1980
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Calabria

DOC for Bianco Passito

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Greco di Bianco DOC

  • 95% Greco Bianco
  • SW Calabria
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Calabria

9 DOCs

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  • Bivongi DOC
  • Cirò DOC
  • Greco di Bianco DOC
  • Lamezia DOC
  • Melissa DOC
  • S. Anna di Isola Capo Rizzuto DOC
  • Savuto DOC
  • Scavigna DOC
  • Terre di Cosenza DOC
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Calabria

  • # of DOCGs
  • # of DOCs
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  • No DOCGs
  • 9 DOCs
    • Bivongi DOC
    • Cirò DOC
    • Greco di Bianco DOC
    • Lamezia DOC
    • Melissa DOC
    • S. Anna di Isola Capo Rizzuto DOC
    • Savuto DOC
    • Scavigna DOC
    • Terre di Cosenza DOC
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Calabria

2 DOCs in the south

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  • Greco di Bianco
    • Southernmost, Bianco Passito only
  • Bivongi
    • ​Bianco (Greco blends), Rosato, Rosso (Gaglioppo blends)
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Calabria

3 DOCs on the central western coast

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N to S

  • Savuto
  • Scavigna
  • Lamezia
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Calabria

3 DOCs on the east

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N to S

  • Cirò DOC
    • 487 ha, largest DOC, Bianco, Rosato, Rosso
  • Melissa DOC
    • 29 ha, Bianco, Rosso
  • S. Anna di Isola Capo Rizzuto DOC
    • 1 ha, smallest DOC, Rosato, Rosso
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Calabria

Largest and smallest DOC

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  • Eastern Calabria, N to S
  • Cirò DOC
    • 490 ha, largest DOC, Bianco, Rosato, Rosso
  • Melissa DOC
    • 29 ha, Bianco, Rosso
  • S. Anna di Isola Capo Rizzuto DOC
    • 1 ha, smallest DOC, Rosato, Rosso

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