Eastern Mediterranean

Question 1

retsina

Answer 1

Greek wine flavored with pine resin

Question 2

Greek wine flavored with pine resin

Answer 2

retsina

Question 3

Greece is surrounded on _ sides by the Mediterranean Sea

Answer 3

3

Question 4

The ________ Peninsula has the highest concentration of vineyards in Greece

Answer 4

Peloponnese

Question 5

Greece environment

Answer 5

Mediterranean

Question 6

Greece has ___+ indigenous varieties

Answer 6

300

Question 7

3 most important Greece red grapes

Answer 7

Agiorgitiko “Saint George’s Grape”
Xinomavro “Acid Black”
Mavrodaphne “Black Laurel”

Question 8

this red grape is often used in the production of sweet, fortified Greek wine

Answer 8

Mavrodaphne

Question 9

What is Verdea?

Answer 9

oxidative white wine - speciality of Greece

Question 10

Where is Commandaria made?

Answer 10

Cyprus

Question 11

What is Cyprus known for?

Answer 11

Commandaria

Question 12

What is Commandaria?

Answer 12

ancient dessert wine - has been made for 4000 yrs. made with sun-dried grapes - aged in cask using the mana system (similar to the Solera system)

Question 13

Where is Chateau Musar found?

Answer 13

Lebanon

Question 14

most of the vineayards of Lebanon are planted in the _____ Valley

Answer 14

Bekaa

Question 15

Where is Mount Carmel?

Answer 15

Israel

Question 16

the largest producing winery of Israel

Answer 16

Carmel Winery

Question 17

Where is the wine region Galilee located?

Answer 17

Israel

Question 18

What kind of grapes do you find in Israel?

Answer 18

Large proportion of classic International varieties + a fair share of indigenous varieties

Question 19

How did retsina come to be?

Answer 19

Wine used to be transported in amphorae, sealed with pine reisn to prevent spoilage. over time, the resulting flavor became desired

Question 20

Well known PDO for agiorgitiko

Answer 20

Nemea PDO (peloponnese)

Question 21

Where is Nemea PDO and name the grape

Answer 21

Peloponnese - agiorgitiko

Question 22

pink skinned variety (vinified white) - most well known in Mantinia PDO

Answer 22

moschofilero

Question 23

moschofilero is produced in this PDO

Answer 23

Mantinia PDO (peloponnese)

Question 24

Where is Roditis planted?

Answer 24

all over Greece

Question 25

where is Athiri found?

Answer 25

Rhodes and Santinori

Question 26

top 5 white grapes of Greece

Answer 26

moschofilero “mohs-koh-FEE-leh-roh”
assyrtiko “a-seer-tee-koe”
moschato
athiri “a-theory”
roditis “roe-deet-is”

Question 27

top 3 red grapes of Greece

Answer 27

agiorgitiko “ah-yorh-tee-kee-koe”
xinomavro
mavrodaphne

Question 28

xinomavro means…

Answer 28

acid black

Question 29

mavrodaphne means…

Answer 29

black laurel

Question 30

agiorgitiko means…

Answer 30

Saint George’s Grape

Question 31

this grape is considered the nebbiolo of Greece

Answer 31

xinomavro - high acids and tannins

Question 32

this red grape is used to make fortified dessert wine

Answer 32

mavrodaphne

Question 33

Greece wine quality system

Answer 33

EO - table wine
TO - PGI level
OPE (sweet) OPAP (dry) - PDO
OKP / appellation by tradition - fort Retsina and Verdea

Question 34

Verdea

Answer 34

traditional Greek oxidative white wine