Dry Wines Flashcards
What does it mean?
Branco
White
What does it mean?
Tinto
Red
What are the three basic Quality designations of Portugal
Denominacao de Origem COntrolada (DOC)
Indicacoes Geograficas Protegidas (IGP) This is gradually replacing the Vinho Regional (VR)
Vinho or Vinho de Portugal (replaced the old Vinho de Mesa)
Where would you find Colares (be specific)
Near Lisboa in Western Portugal
Define Casta
Grape Variety
What grape variety makes Bairrada’s most long lived, single variety reds?
Baga
What does it mean?
Verde
Young
How many IGPs are in Portugal? What are they?
MP- La Serena
14 Minho Transmatano Duriense Terras do Dao Terras de Cister Terras da Beira Berira Atlantico Tejo Lisboa Alentejano Peninsula de Setubal Algarve Terras Madeirenses Acores
What is the dominant variety of the Bucelas Region?
Arinto
Garrafeira min aging for red, white and rose
Red 30 months w. 12 in bottle
White and Rose 12 months w. 6 in bottle
What viticultural hazard hit Portugal in the 1850’s
Powdery and Downy Mildew
Non IGP, VR, DOP wines in portugal are declassified to what?
Vinhos de Mesa or Vinho
Where would you find the DOPs of Dao and Lafoes?
Terras do Dao IGP
What is Enforcado
A system of high vine training common in Minho , vines would grow up trunks of trees, telephone poles, etc, creating overhead canopies. Lessing the threat of fungal disease from the Cool rainy climate
What is Vinho Verde’s most planted grape
Loureiro
What is muscatel Galego used for?
Fortified Moscate wines, which may carry an age designation in the manner of tawny port
What Viticultural Hazard hit Portugal in the late 1860’s
Phylloxera
What must happen to label your wine as gran reserva in the Duoro
IVDP must certify all wines, but those that meet the reserva criteria and score exceptionally well in the blind tasting lysis get to use the term grand reserva
Name another Red grape variety usually used in port that makes dry red Portuguese wines?
Touring Franca
Trincadeira (tinta Amarela for port)
Jaen (Mencia)
Tinta Boriz (in North) Aragones (South) is Tempranillo
What are the 3 sub regions of the Trans-os-montes DOP in Transamatano
Chaves, Valpacos, Planalto Mirandes
What does reserva mean on traditional method sparkling wine?
Min 12 months on the lees prior to discorgement
Describe the main soil type of Minho Verde
Gentle slopes of shallow granitic soil
What does reserve on still portuguese wine mean?
0.5% higher than the legal min. established by the DOP or IGP, however some DOPs have stricter laws
What is the Junta National do Vinhos?
A group founded in 1937 to restart the portuguese wine industry by taking small vineyards and putting them into larger co-ops ( The Quality of wine suffered)
What is the largest DOP is portugal?
Vinho Verde (15% of the nations total acerage)
What are the two DOPs of Duriense
Duoro and Porto
What is a major viticultural hazard associated with Minho/Vinho Verde
Grey rot- cool maritime off atlantic climate
What is Portugal’s flagship red grape?
Touring National
What is the only region that was spared from Phylloxera in Portugal, why?
Colares, soils are almost all sand
In what year were Portugal’s DOC’s additionally classified as DOPs and why?
2009, in order to maintain EU protection
What are Mateus and Lancers?
Semi sparkling rose that along with port became the face of the Portuguese wine industry after WWII
In the Duoro red, white, rose reserva wines must do what?
Achieve a higher min alcohol and aged
White and rose min goes from 10.5% to 11.5% + 6 month aging
Red goes from 11% to 12% + 12 months aging
The Vinho Verde DOP is within what IGP?
Minho
What does it mean?
Adega
Winery
What does it mean?
Doce
Sweet
What does it mean?
Vinha
Vineyard
What is the most widely grown grape variety in Portugal
Castelao
Min % of grapes from the regions for bottling for IG (VR) in Portugal
85%
What styles of wine may be made in Minho? Answer in portuguese…
Tinto, Branco, Rosado
Name a UNESCO world heritage site in Portugal
Duoro
White and Rose Garrafeira min aging
Min 12 Months w. 6 in bottle
Name the three sub zones of Duoro
Baixo Corgo
Cima Corgo
Duoro Superior
What does it mean?
Amarzem
Cellar
What does it mean?
Engarrafado (na Origem)
Bottled (estate Bottles)
What does it mean?
Maduro
Old or mature
Define Garrafeira
Wine produced as vintage dated DOP or IGP may carry this label meaning “private wine cellar” and indicating a minimum period off aging prior to release
Colheita Seleccionada indicate what?
Min 1% higher alcohol content that that established by the regional appellation
Red Garrafeira min aging
Min 30 months w. 12 in Bottle
What was the reason the cork industry took off in Portugal
Lack of replanting after Phylloxera
What is Perequita
A brand of wine made from the Castelao variety, that was formed by JM da Fonseca that was so successful that it became a copied synonym for the grape and led to law suits
What does it mean?
Colheita
Vintage
