Central Italy White Wine

Question 1

Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG is located in which region?

Answer 1

Toscana

Question 2

Orvieto DOC is located in which regions?

Answer 2

Umbria and Lazio

Question 3

Which wine was named ‘the sun of Italy in a bottle’?

Answer 3

Orvieto DOC

Question 4

Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC is located in which region?

Answer 4

Marche

Question 5

Vin Santo is which regions classic dessert wine?

Answer 5

Toscana

Question 6

What are the four important Vin Santo appellations?

Answer 6

1. Vin Santo di Carmignano DOC
2. Vin Santo del Chianti DOC
3. Vin Santo del Chianti Classico DOC
4. Vin Santo di Montepulciano DOC

Question 7

Which body of water borders Toscana to the West?

Answer 7

The Tyrrhenian Sea

Question 8

What soil type if the historic classico zone of Orvieto DOC?

Answer 8

Volcanic

Question 9

Which body of water borders the East of Marche?

Answer 9

The Adriatic Sea

Question 10

What is the name of the mountains that run down the spine of Italy?

Answer 10

The Apennines

Question 11

What does Citta Regia translate to?

Answer 11

Royal city

Question 12

What does Castelli mean?

Answer 12

Castles

Question 13

How many villages are entitled to make wine under the Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC?

Answer 13

22

Question 14

What does Vin Santo translate to?

Answer 14

Holy wine

Question 15

Which grape variety is grown almost exclusively around the town of San Gimignano?

Answer 15

Vernaccia di San Gimignano

Question 16

What word derives from the latin word ‘vernaculus’ meaning native or indigenous?

Answer 16

Vernaccia

Question 17

Oriveto DOC wines are made from what two grapes?

Answer 17

Grechetto and Trebbiano Toscano

Question 18

Which grape is considered to be of higher quality: Grechetto or Trebbiano Toscano?

Answer 18

Grechetto

Question 19

Name the two distinct varieties of Grechetto?

Answer 19

1. Grechetto di Orvieto

2. Grechetto di Todi

Question 20

What is the flagship and most planted white variety of the Marche region?

Answer 20

Verdicchio

Question 21

TRUE OR FALSE

The name Verdicchio derives from the Italian word for green?

Answer 21

True - verde, which refers to the greenish colour of the grapes

Question 22

What grape varieties are used to make Vin Santo?

Answer 22

Trebbiano Toscano and Malvasia

Question 23

Which wine is described as the typical embodiment of a symbiotic relationship between a single grape variety and a specific terroir?

Answer 23

Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG

Question 24

TRUE OR FALSE
Orvieto DOC wines offer a fresh and easy drinking style , with the best examples displaying florals, citrus and stone fruit, rich texture, depth and minerality

Answer 24

True

Question 25

TRUE OR FALSE | Verdicchio is only used to make still wine

Answer 25

FALSE - Verdicchio grapes are used to make a range of styles - from sparkling to sweet passito. In Marche the grape is at its best as a still dry wine. The top examples have a combination of structure, richness, complexity and age-worthiness

Question 26

Which Toscano wine is described as sweet, intense and velvety with a pleasant oxidative character?

Answer 26

Vin Santo

Question 27

TRUE OR FALSE | Wines labelled as 'Classico Superiore' are sweet?

Answer 27

FALSE -Classico Superiore refers to the historic region where the grapes were originally grown. Wines from here are often richer, more complex and longer-lived

Question 28

To be labelled Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG, wines must contain a minimum of .........% of Vernaccia di San Gimignano?

Answer 28

85%

Question 29

What is the minimum ageing requirement for Vernaccia di San Gimignano?

Answer 29

11 months - it will usually spend some of this time in oak

Question 30

For Orvieto DOC wines, Grechetto and Trebbiano Toscano must account for at least what %?

Answer 30

60% - small proportions of other local grapes are permitted

Question 31

TRUE OR FALSE | Most Orvieto DOC wines are unoaked and dry (secco)

Answer 31

TRUE

Question 32

To be labelled as Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC the wine must contain what minimum % of Verdicchio?

Answer 32

85% - although most are 100%

Question 33

Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva DOCG requires what minimujm amount of ageing?

Answer 33

18 months - it will often spend time in oak and can also be labelled as classico

Question 34

What are caratelli?

Answer 34

small, old barrels

Question 35

TRUE OR FALSE | Top examples of Vin Santo are made for early consumption?

Answer 35

FALSE - they can rest in caratelli for a decade or longer