Central and Southern Italy

Question 1

What is the main white DOC of Umbria?

Answer 1

Orvieto DOC, a clean, light white wine produced from atleast 60% Grechetto and Trebbiano Toscano

Question 2

What are the main red wine DOCs of Umbria?

Answer 2

Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG and Torgiano Rosso Riserva DOCG

Question 3

What is the aging requirement for Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG?

Answer 3

37 months including 13 months in wood for the dry wines. 100% Sagrantino.

Question 4

Who is the most notable producer of Umbria?

Answer 4

Paolo Bea

Question 5

What is the main white grape of Marche?

Answer 5

Verdicchio grape, it is age worthy, focused, green tinged with a distinctive lemony, stony character and a bitter almond tang

Question 6

What is immediately south of the Marches?

Answer 6

Abruzzo

Question 7

What is the most planted grape in Abruzzo?

Answer 7

The Montepulciano grape

Question 8

What is Italy’s second most planted red grape?

Answer 8

Montepulciano

Question 9

What is the main red and white DOC of Abruzzo?

Answer 9

Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOC and Trebbiano d’Abruzzo DOC

Question 10

What is the aging requirement of Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOC

Answer 10

Requires 85% Montepulciano (DOCG raises minimum to 90%), aged for one year including two months in bottle. Riserva wines are aged minimum 3 years.

Question 11

Who is the most famous producer of Abruzzo?

Answer 11

Emidio Pepe

Question 12

At the height of the Roman Empire in the first century which Italy wine was among the most prominent?

Answer 12

Falernian, a Campanian wine sourced from the slopes of Monte Massico

Question 13

What are main red and white grapes of Campania?

Answer 13

Aglianico and Primitivo, and the white varietal are Falanghina, Greco and Fiano

Question 14

What is the capital of Campania?

Answer 14

Naples

Question 15

What are the red DOCGs in Campania?

Answer 15

Taurasi DOCG and Aglianico del Taburno DOCG

Question 16

What is the aging requirement for Taurasi DOCG?

Answer 16

Aged a minimum of 3 years with one year in wood. For Riserva it increases to 4 years with 18 months in wood.

Question 17

What are the white DOCGs of Campania?

Answer 17

Greco di Tufo and Fiano di Avellino

Question 18

Describe the Fiano and Greco grape.

Answer 18

Fiano is full bodied and resiny while Greco is lighter and more aromatic.

Question 19

Which region is the heel of the boot of Italy?

Answer 19

Puglia

Question 20

Primitivo is genetically identical to which grape?

Answer 20

Zinfandel

Question 21

Puglia makes mostly red wines, which are the main grapes?

Answer 21

Nero di Troia, Negroamaro, and Primitivo

Question 22

Basilicata has one wine of note, which is:

Answer 22

Aglianico from Aglianico del Vulture DOC or Aglianico del Vulture Superiore DOCG

Question 23

Which Italy wine region is the toe of the Italian boot?

Answer 23

Calabria

Question 24

What is Sicily’s most famous vinous product?

Answer 24

Marsala DOC, a fortified wine that was popular once but now essentially branded as a cooking wine

Question 25

What is Sicily’s most planted grape?

Answer 25

Catarratto

Question 26

What are the dominant grapes of Etna DOC?

Answer 26

Nerello Mascalese and Carricante

Question 27

What is the island’s most planted red grape and crowned with the recent DOCG Cerasuolo di Vittoria?

Answer 27

Nero d’Avola

Question 28

What is the blend of Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG

Answer 28

70-50% Nero d’Avola and 30-50% Frappato to create a vibrant, cherry red colored wine

Question 29

Besides Masala DOC which are notable dessert wines are made in Sicily?

Answer 29

Dessert wines from Zibibbo, Moscato Bianco and Malvasia. Such as the Superiore Passito di Pantelleria of the volcanic island of Pantelleria.

Question 30

South of Corsica is which island?

Answer 30

Sardinia

Question 31

Sardinia owes a great to Spanish grape varieties. Like what?

Answer 31

Cannonau (garnacha), carignano (cariñena) and the white grape Vermentino.