Emilia-Romagna Flashcards
What two grape varieties produce the typical red wine of Colli Piacentini DOC?
Barbera
Bonarda (local name for Croatina)
What was built by Roman consul Mario Emilio Lepido?
Via Emilia
Road connected the city of Piacenza in the west to Rimini on the Adriatic coast in the east.
This DOCG is one of the two DOCGs of Emilai-Romagna.
The appellation is based on Grechetto (Pignoletto), Bolgona’s point of pride in the grape area.
Colli Bolognesi Pignoletto DOCG (!)
The appleation was separated and elevated to DOCG status in 2010 from Colli Bolognesi DOC.
True or False:
The vineyards on the flat Po River Basin account for two thirds of the total area under vine and the bulk of Emilia-Romagna’s production.
True
Geographically what feature is at the southern end of Emilia-Romagna? What country and two regions border Emilia-Romagna?
The Northern Apenninces
The Republic of San Marino
Toscana and Marche
What wine is produced in Romaga Cagnina DOC?
Sweet red wine based on Terrano grape, released in October imeediately following the harvest.
Emilia-Romagna consists of three regions: plains, hills and mountains. What percentage makes up of each region?
- Mountains: 25%
- Hills: 27%
- Plains: 48%
What are five sub desingations of Romagna DOC(!)?
- Sangiovese
- Albana Spumante
- Cagnina
- Pagadebit
- Trebbiano
This DOC was named after a Roman jug found in nearby Piacenza in 1878. It was a part of Colli Piacentini DOC but was granted its own DOC in 2010.
Gutturnio DOC (!) from the Roman jug, gutturnium
What region is said to be a reference to Sangiovese name, supposedly to be given by local monks as to where the wines were produced around?
Monte Giove near Rimini in Romgana.Sangiovese is derived from Latin sanguis Jovi (Jupiter’s blood) according to the legend.
What is umbrella appelation covering several styles of wines made from both native and itnernational grapes in the Hills of Piacenza?
Colli Piacentini (!)
Native and widely planted on the hills of PIacenza, this white grape variety was considered less important and referred to as “the other grape”.
Ortrugo
After the fall of Roman Empire, Emilia and Romagna were split. When did the two regions joined together administratively into the single region of Emila-Romagna?
In 1947
Colli Piacentini DOC also allows for the production of this wine based on Malvasia di Candia Aromatica and Ortrugo.
Vin Santo
Which subzone of Colli Piacentini DOC is based on the native white grapes Santa Maria and Merlana?
Vin Santo di Vigoleno
What is typical rock formation resulting from serious water erosion called in Romagna?
Calanchi
What grape is considered to be the most important and traditional white grape that is responsible for Romagna’s best whites and passitos?
Albana
What city is the the administrative capital of the whoe Emilia-Romagna?
Bologna
This grape variety is particularly suited for sweet wine production because of its ablity to handle botrytis, some of the best examples are rich passitos.
It is an ancient variety that hare been grown in Romgana since at least the Middle Age.
Albana(!) (white)
What are the most widespread red grape and white grape that consitutes 40% of Emilia-Romagna’s total area under vine?
- Sangiovese (red)
- Trebbiano Romagnolo (white)
What (grapes) are Gutturnio DOC wines made of?
Blend of Barbera and Bonarda (Croatina)
traditionally frizzante
What was founded in 1088 AD in Bologna?
Alma Mater Studiorum (today Universita di Bologna), the oldest univeristy in the western world
This Lambrusco DOC is produced at the base of the Northern Apennines around the town of Castelvetro south of Modena.
The wine is considered to be full bodied, most structured and most concetrated but with high tannins and acidity, “less typical” of Lambrusco.
Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro DOC (!)
Which grapevine is quite peculiar in that it nees another Lambrusco variety in the vineyard to serve as a pollinator?
Which variety is commonly interplanted to play this role?
Lambrusco Sorbara
Lambrusco Salamino
What wine became internationally popular in 1970s and 1980s to bring wealth and prosperity to Emilia-Romagan but cemented the image as a mass producer of uninspiring wines?
Lambrusco
Why the name of grape Pignoletto was chandged to Grechetto (Grechetto Gentile)?
The name PIgnoletto has been adoopted to identify the historic area of production of the grape in 2014.
This DOCG was Emilia-Romagna’s first DOCG as well as Italy’s first white DOCG awarded in 1987.
Romagna Albana DOCG (!)
What impacts and influences the climate of vineyards in Emilia-Romagna?
The Po River
Which Lambrusco variety is considered to be the benchmark style of Lambrusco and most well known?
Lambrusco Sorbara (grown around the hamlet of Sorbara in the province of Modena)
What three red grapes considered to be significant local importance but less widely planted in Romagna?
- Fortana
- Terrano
- Malbo Gentile
What percentage of Emilia-Romagna’s total production is DOC/DOCG.
What percentage does IGT account for?
25% DOC/DOCG
40% IGT
(Red wines slightly exceed white wine production)
What minimum perctange of Grechetto (Pignoletto) is required for the superiore (still) made in the historic area of Colli Bolognese Pignoletto DOCG?
95% Grechetto (Pignoletto)
Non Superiore version requires 85%
What style of Rogmagna Albana is considered to be the most impressive?
Which village is considered to be the best of this long standing Albana tradition?
Passito style
Village of Bertinoro
True or False:
Nearly half of Emilia-Romagna is occupied by the flat plain of the Po River Basin.
True
What are two regions bordering wtih Emilia-Romagna to the west?
Liguria
A small portion of Piemonte
The most widely planted grape overall in Emilia-Romagna overall, Producers in Romagna in particular, champion it as a single variety.
Trebbiano Romagnolo (!) (often co-planted with Trebbiano Toscano).
True or False
No traidtional method Lambrusco is proiduced.
Small quantiies of method classico Lambrusco are made