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1
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What is kekfrankos?

A

Hungary’s Blaufrankisch

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What is Szurkebarat?

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Hungary’s Pinot Gris

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What are the three major geographical zones of Hungary?

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North Hungary, Transdanubia, The Great Plain

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Which zone of Hungary contains Tokaj?

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North Hungary

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5
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Which zone of Hungary contains Eger?

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North Hungary

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6
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Wines called ‘The Bulls Blood of Eger’ were referring to a wine labeled as what?

A

Egri Bikaver

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Tokaj PDO lies at the confluence of what two rivers?

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Tisza and Bodrog

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8
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Where is the Bodrog river?

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Tokaj

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9
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Where is the Tisza river?

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Tokaj

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10
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Tokaj and Bodrog are important to what region?

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Tokaj

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11
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True or False: Botrytis wines from Tokaj predated that of Sauternes?

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TRUE

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12
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What mountains shelter the Tokaj region?

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Carpathian Mountains

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13
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What is the climate of Tokaj?

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Warm continental climate

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14
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What are the soils of Tokaj?

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volcanic loess and clay

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15
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what does the term azsu refer to?

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botrytis infected grapes in Tokaj

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16
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What is a gonci barrel?

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The barrels that contained the non botrytis must where it would be mixed with the puttony, 136 Liters

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17
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What is a puttony?

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containers, roughly 25kg, in which the botrytis grapes would be collected in the vineyard

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18
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What is the minimum RS for Tokaj Azsu?

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120 grams per liter

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19
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What are the aging requirements for Tokaj Aszu?

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3 years, 18 months in wood

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20
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Can Tokaj PDO produce sparkling wines? WHat are they known as?

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yes, Pezsgo

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21
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Must Tokaj Aszu grapes be harvested by hand?

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yes

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22
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What is Szamorodni?

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‘As it comes’. style produced by mixing aszu grapes and non aszu grape. often oxidative in style. matured 2 years sometimes under floor. comparable to sherry

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23
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What does Edes refer to?

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sweet Szamorodini

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24
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What does Szaras refer to?

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dry Szamorodini

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25
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What is the Tokaj property owned by Vega Sicilia?

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Oremus

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26
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Where is Lake Balaton?

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Hungary. one of Europe’s largest lakes.

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27
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What regions may use the terms Bikaver on labels?

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Only Eger and Szekszard in Transdanubia are permitted to use the term “Bikaver” on labels

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28
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Where is Badacsony?

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Transdanubia

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29
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Where is Transdanubia?

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Hungary

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30
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Where are The Great Plains?

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Hungary

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31
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Name a producer from Bulgaria

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Boyar Estate Cabernet Sauvignon

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32
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What are the 5 regions of wine produciton in Bulgaria?

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Northern Danbian Plain, Southern Thracian Lowlands, Eastern Black Sea Region, Western Struma River Valley, narrow Rose Valley in the center of the country

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33
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What grapes lead plantings in Bulgaria?

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Cabernet and Merlot

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34
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Where is Cotnari DOC?

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Romania

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35
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What style of wines are produced in Cotnari DOC?

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sweet wines

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36
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What are the three wine regions of Slovenia

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Podravje, Primorska, Posavje

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37
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What are the subregions of Primorska

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Goriska Brda, Kras, Koper, Vipava

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38
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What is the Hungarian word for Pinot Gris?

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Szurkebarat

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39
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What is the Hungarian term for Blaufrankisch?

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Kekfrankos

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40
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What is Crljenak Kastelanski ? Where is it labeled this?

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zinfandel, croatia

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41
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What is the Croatian synonym for Zinfandel?

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Crljenak Kastelanski

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42
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Welschriesling is known as what in Hungary?

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Olaszrizling

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43
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What is Olaszrizling?

A

Welschriesling

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44
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What is the most planted red in Hungary?

A

Kekfrankos

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45
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Where is Szekszard?

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Hungary

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46
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Where is Sopron?

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Hungary.

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47
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Where is Matra?

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Hungary

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48
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What are the requirements for wines labeled Egri Bikaver?

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8 day maceration. They must be a blend of at least 3 varieties, including Kekfrankos. No single variety may be less than 5% or more than 50% of total blend.

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49
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What is the max Kadarka that can be used in Egri Bikaver PDO?

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50%.No Variety can exceed 50%

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50
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What is the minimum Zweigelt that could be used in Egri Bikaver PDO?

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5% No variety included can be less than 5%

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51
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What does Egri Bikaver Superior require?

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14 DAY MACERATION. 30-50% Kekfrankos. No other variety may exceed 30%. Cabernet Sauv and Franc may not exceed 30% combined.

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52
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How long must Egri Bikaver PDO wines be macerated?

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8 days

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53
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Name 3 PDOs in North Hungary

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Matra PDO, Tokaj PDO, Eger PDO ( Bukk, Ddbroi Harslevelu)

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54
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The Tokaj region is sheletered by what?

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Carpathian Mountains

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55
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When was the Tokaj region delimited?

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1737 by Royal decree became the world’s first delimited region

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56
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Who classified the vineyards of Tokaj?

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Prince Rakoczy

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57
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Who was Prince Rakoczy

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Prince of Transylvania, gave King Louis XIV of France some Tokaji wine from his Tokaj estate as a gift. The Tokaji wine was served at the French Royal court at Versailles, where it became known as Tokay. He insisted on a classification of the best vineyards around the 28 villages that produced tokaji aszu as it had become incredibly popular in the courts of Europe.

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58
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What is Kesoi Szuretelesu bor?

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Late harvest wine in Hungary

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59
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How much grapes can be held in a Puttony??

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25 kg

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60
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What is the size of a gonc barrel?

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136 L

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61
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Szamorodni can be produced in what styles?

A

Edes or Szaras

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62
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Where is Kunsag?

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Hungary

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63
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What is the largest region in Hungary?

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Kunsag

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64
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What style of wine in Hungary can be compared to Sherry or Vin Jaune?

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Szamorodni

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65
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What is Forditas

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(meaning “turning over” in Hungarian), wine made by pouring must on aszu dough which has already been used to make aszu wine.

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66
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Explain the process of producing Eszencia

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Tokaji Essencia is the most valuable and rarest type among the Tokaj wines. Hand-selected noble rotten berries, which are later needed for the Aszu preparation, are gathered into a keg and kept in it for a couple of days before the Aszu dough is going to be prepared. Then, due solely to the berries’ own weight, some highly concentrated juice of noble quality will have accumulated on the bottom of the keg. This is the juice the Essencia is made from

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67
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What is Maslas?

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(derived from the word “copy” in Hungarian), The oldest by-product of botrytis wine in Hegyalja is Maslas, a lesser quality botrytis wine but superior table wine, made from non-botrytis wine and the lees and marc of Aszu or Szamorodni.

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68
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Forditas is equivalent to what other style popularized in Italy

A

Ripasso

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69
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What is Feher Bor?

A

White table wines in Hungary

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70
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Where is Cosngrad?

A

It is a PDO in Hungary

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71
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Where are Vilany and Pecs?

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Hungary

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72
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What two regions can produce wines labeled Bikaver

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Szekszard and Eger

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73
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What style of wine is mainly produced in Sopron?

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Kekfrankos

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74
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What is the huge lake in Hungary called?

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Lake Balaton

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75
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What is key to the process of Botrytis?

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The mold develops on the berries in moist conditions (such as in foggy river valleys) and then dries when the sun comes out. This process of rotting and drying causes the grapes to shrivel and become sweet.

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76
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Where are Mad and Tarcal?

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Tokaji

77
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What are the two great growths of Tokaji?

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Szarvas Mezes Maly.

78
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PDOs are known as what in Romania?

A

DOC

79
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What are the subcategories of DOC wines in Romania?

A

DOC CMD, CT, CIB

80
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Where is Mutenia Oltenia”?

A

Romania

81
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Where is Banat

A

Romania

82
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Where is Transylvania?

A

Romania

83
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Where are Romania’s highest vineyards

A

Transylvania

84
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What river forms the southern border of Romania, and the northern border of Bulgaria?

A

Danube

85
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Where is the Tarnave river?

A

Romania( Tarnave DOC)

86
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What region in Romania is said to have once enjoyed a reputation on par with Tokaji?

A

Cotnari DOC

87
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What grape is used for Cotnari wines

A

Grasa de Cotnari

88
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Where is Dealu Mare?

A

Romania (Muntenia-Oltenia)

89
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What is Romania’s most exciting appellation for red wines?

A

Dealu Mare DOC

90
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Where is Dobrogea?

A

Romania

91
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Where is Murfatlar DOC

A

Romania

92
Q

Where does Suhindol produce wine?

A

Bulgaria. Expertise was lent to them in deal with Pepsi Co

93
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Who led a anti-alcohol purge in 1985 in Bulgaria that had a profound effect on the country’s wine industry

A

Gorbachev

94
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Where do you see Controliran appellations

A

Bulgaria

95
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What does Barik indicate

A

Fermentation in oak casks of 500 L or less

96
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If fermented in a oak barrel of 500 L or less what may the wines be called in Bulgaria

A

Barik

97
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Bulgaria is divided into what 5 regions?

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Northern Danubian Plain, Southern Thracian Lowlands, Black Sea Region, Struma River Valley, Rose Valley

98
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Where is the Rose valley

A

Bulgaria

99
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Where is the Struma River Valley

A

Bulgaria

100
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Where is the Black SEa Region

A

Bulgaria

101
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Where are Svishtov and Suhindol,?

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Bulgaria

102
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What mountain range crosses through the center of Bulgaria

A

The Bulkan mountains

103
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Where are the Rhodopi Mountains

A

Bulgaria

104
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Where are the Pirin Mountains

A

Bulgaria

105
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What 3 mountain ranges affect growing in Bulgaria

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Pirin, Rhodopi, Bulkan

106
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What style of wine is Sungulare known for?

A

Red Misket

107
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Where is Sungulare

A

Rose Valley.

108
Q

Where is Khan Krum?

A

Black Sea Region of Bulgaria

109
Q

Where are the Zapadni Rodopi and Pirin Mountains?

A

Focused along the Struma

110
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The EU recognizes what two regions of Bulgaria as geographical indications

A

Danubian Plain and Thracian Lowlands

111
Q

What is Gamza

A

Kadarka in Bulgaria

112
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What is the Bulgarian synonym for Kadarka

A

Gamza

113
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Where is Melnik

A

Bulgaria

114
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What style of wine is produced by Rkatsiteli

A

white wine.

115
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What style of wines are produced from Dimiat

A

White wine. (Bulgaria)

116
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What are the most planted varieties in Bulgaria

A

Dimiat and Rkatsiteli

117
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What is the parentage of Rubin

A

Nebbiolo and Syrah

118
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Nebbiolo and Syrah combine to make what grape grown in Bulgaria

A

Rubin

119
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Where is Rubin produced commonly

A

Bulgaria

120
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What is the most cultivated grape in Russia

A

Rkatsiteli

121
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Where is Krasnodar?

A

Russia

122
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Where is Stravopol?

A

Russia

123
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Where is Dagestan?

A

Russia

124
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In what region in Russia do the vines need to be buried in the soil to survive the cold

A

Stravopol

125
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Why is Stravopol notable

A

The vines need to be buried in the soil to survive the cold

126
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What is Russia’s most important region

A

Krasnodar

127
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What are the four major regions of Ukraine

A

TONiC. Transcarpathian Region, Odessa, Nikolayev-Kherson, Crimea

128
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Where is Crimea

A

Ukraine

129
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Where is Odessa

A

Ukraine

130
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Where is Nikolayev Kherson

A

Ukraine

131
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Where is the Transcarpathian Region

A

Ukraine

132
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Crimea is known for what style of wine

A

Sparkling ( Sparkling Krim)

133
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What are the four winegrowing regions of Moldova

A

Baitu, Codru, Stefan Voda, Cahul

134
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Where is Stefan Voda?

A

Moldova

135
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Where is Milestii Mici

A

Moldova. Wine collection

136
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What area has the Guiness Book of World Records largest wine collection

A

Milestii Mici in Moldova

137
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Where is Baitu

A

Moldova

138
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Where is Codru

A

Moldova

139
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Where is Cahul

A

Moldova

140
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What is Qvevri

A

A jar like huige pot belled amphora buried in the ground. Used in the country of Georgia

141
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What are the five zones for production in Georgia

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Kakheti, kartli, Imereti, Racha Lechkhumi (KIRK)

142
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Where is Kakheti

A

Georgia

143
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Where is Kartli

A

Georgia

144
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Where is Imereti

A

Georgia

145
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Where is Racha Lechkhumi

A

Georgia

146
Q

Where is the Alazani River

A

Georgia. Kakheti

147
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Where is most of the wine in Georgia produced?

A

Kakheti

148
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What are the white and red of Georgia

A

Rkatsiteli and Seperavi

149
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Where is Istria?

A

Croatia

150
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Where are the Dinaric Alps

A

Croatia

151
Q

Where is Dalmatia?”

A

Croatia

152
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Where is Hvatsko Primorje PDO?

A

Croatia

153
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What is the grape of Dingac?

A

Plavac Mali

154
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What white grape is the focus of Istria

A

Malvasia

155
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Where would you commonly see Refosco in Croatia

A

Istria

156
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Where is Slavonia?

A

Croatia

157
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What are the four major regions of Croatia

A

Istria, Dalmatia, Uplands, Slavonia

158
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What region of Slovenia borders Friuli

A

Primorska

159
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What is the easternmost winegrowing region of Slovenia

A

Podravje

160
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What is Sivi Pinot

A

Pinot Grigio in Slovenia

161
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What is Pinot Grigio known as in Primorska

A

SIvi Pinot

162
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Where is the Vipava Valley

A

Primorska

163
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Where does Tilia produce wine

A

Vipava Valley of Primorska (Pinot Noir)

164
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Teran PDO produces reds from what grape

A

Refosco

165
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Where is Teran

A

(Kras), Primorska, Slovenia and Croatian Istria

166
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What is the slovenian synonym for Welschriesling

A

Laski Rizling

167
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What is Laski Rizling

A

Welschriesling in Slovenia

168
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What other country also has a Tokaj region

A

Slovakia

169
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Where is Tokajska

A

Slovakia

170
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Where is Nitrianska

A

SLovakia

171
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Where is Malokarpatska

A

Slovakia

172
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Where is Stredoslovenska

A

SLovakia

173
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Where is Juznoslovenska

A

Slovakia

174
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What are themost planted white and red of Slovakia

A

Gruner and Blaufrankisch

175
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What are two snynonyms for Blaufrankisch

A

Lemberger, Kekfrankos, Frankovka

176
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What is Frankovka

A

Blaufrankisch in Czech Republic

177
Q

Where is Moravia

A

CZECH REPUBLIC

178
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WHERE IS ZNOJMO VOC

A

CZECH REPUBLIC

179
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WHERE WOULD YOU SEE VOC DESIGNATIONS

A

CZECH REPUBLIC

180
Q

WHERE ARE 96% OF THE VINES OF CZECH REPUBLIC LOCATED

A

MORAVIA

181
Q

Where are the Palava hills

A

Moravia. Czech Republic

182
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Where is Bohemia

A

Czech Republic

183
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What are the rules for Znojmo VOC

A

Must be blends or varietal wines of Gruner Veltliner Sauvignon Blanc or Riesling. Cork closure is required.

184
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Where are Mikulov and Znojmo

A

Czech Republic

185
Q

What two categories can be seen as the byproduct of Aszu production

A

Forditas and Maslas

186
Q

Where are the Two Istrias

A

Slovenia and Croatia

187
Q

The EU has recently granted partial permission for Croatian winemakers to use what label on its wine labels after a long dispute with Slovenia?

A

Teran

188
Q

What are the most planted grapes in Romania?

A

Feteasca Alba and Feteasca Negra

189
Q

What does CMD, CT, and CIB indicate on a Romanian wine?

A

CMD-full maturity, CT-Late Harvest, CIB- Botrytis affected

Advanced Sommelier Exam (11 decks)

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