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Dry Wines Flashcards

1
Q

What does it mean?

Branco

A

White

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2
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What does it mean?

Tinto

A

Red

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3
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What are the three basic Quality designations of Portugal

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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)

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4
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Where would you find Colares (be specific)

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Near Lisboa in Western Portugal

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5
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Define Casta

A

Grape Variety

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6
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What grape variety makes Bairrada’s most long lived, single variety reds?

A

Baga

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7
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What does it mean?

Verde

A

Young

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8
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How many IGPs are in Portugal? What are they?

MP- La Serena

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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
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9
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What is the dominant variety of the Bucelas Region?

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Arinto

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10
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Garrafeira min aging for red, white and rose

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Red 30 months w. 12 in bottle

White and Rose 12 months w. 6 in bottle

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11
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What viticultural hazard hit Portugal in the 1850’s

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Powdery and Downy Mildew

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12
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Non IGP, VR, DOP wines in portugal are declassified to what?

A

Vinhos de Mesa or Vinho

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13
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Where would you find the DOPs of Dao and Lafoes?

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Terras do Dao IGP

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14
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What is Enforcado

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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

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15
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What is Vinho Verde’s most planted grape

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Loureiro

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16
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What is muscatel Galego used for?

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Fortified Moscate wines, which may carry an age designation in the manner of tawny port

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17
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What Viticultural Hazard hit Portugal in the late 1860’s

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Phylloxera

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18
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What must happen to label your wine as gran reserva in the Duoro

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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

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19
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Name another Red grape variety usually used in port that makes dry red Portuguese wines?

A

Touring Franca
Trincadeira (tinta Amarela for port)
Jaen (Mencia)
Tinta Boriz (in North) Aragones (South) is Tempranillo

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20
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What are the 3 sub regions of the Trans-os-montes DOP in Transamatano

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Chaves, Valpacos, Planalto Mirandes

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21
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What does reserva mean on traditional method sparkling wine?

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Min 12 months on the lees prior to discorgement

22
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Describe the main soil type of Minho Verde

A

Gentle slopes of shallow granitic soil

23
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What does reserve on still portuguese wine mean?

A

0.5% higher than the legal min. established by the DOP or IGP, however some DOPs have stricter laws

24
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What is the Junta National do Vinhos?

A

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)

25
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What is the largest DOP is portugal?

A

Vinho Verde (15% of the nations total acerage)

26
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What are the two DOPs of Duriense

A

Duoro and Porto

27
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What is a major viticultural hazard associated with Minho/Vinho Verde

A

Grey rot- cool maritime off atlantic climate

28
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What is Portugal’s flagship red grape?

A

Touring National

29
Q

What is the only region that was spared from Phylloxera in Portugal, why?

A

Colares, soils are almost all sand

30
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In what year were Portugal’s DOC’s additionally classified as DOPs and why?

A

2009, in order to maintain EU protection

31
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What are Mateus and Lancers?

A

Semi sparkling rose that along with port became the face of the Portuguese wine industry after WWII

32
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In the Duoro red, white, rose reserva wines must do what?

A

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

33
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The Vinho Verde DOP is within what IGP?

A

Minho

34
Q

What does it mean?

Adega

A

Winery

35
Q

What does it mean?

Doce

A

Sweet

36
Q

What does it mean?

Vinha

A

Vineyard

37
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What is the most widely grown grape variety in Portugal

A

Castelao

38
Q

Min % of grapes from the regions for bottling for IG (VR) in Portugal

A

85%

39
Q

What styles of wine may be made in Minho? Answer in portuguese…

A

Tinto, Branco, Rosado

40
Q

Name a UNESCO world heritage site in Portugal

A

Duoro

41
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White and Rose Garrafeira min aging

A

Min 12 Months w. 6 in bottle

42
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Name the three sub zones of Duoro

A

Baixo Corgo
Cima Corgo
Duoro Superior

43
Q

What does it mean?

Amarzem

A

Cellar

44
Q

What does it mean?

Engarrafado (na Origem)

A

Bottled (estate Bottles)

45
Q

What does it mean?

Maduro

A

Old or mature

46
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Define Garrafeira

A

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

47
Q

Colheita Seleccionada indicate what?

A

Min 1% higher alcohol content that that established by the regional appellation

48
Q

Red Garrafeira min aging

A

Min 30 months w. 12 in Bottle

49
Q

What was the reason the cork industry took off in Portugal

A

Lack of replanting after Phylloxera

50
Q

What is Perequita

A

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

51
Q

What does it mean?

Colheita

A

Vintage

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