Fortified Flashcards
What is vin de liqueur?
a french wine that is fortified with brandy to fermenting grape must to arrest the fermentation
What is Mistelle method?
Style of fortified wine where a neutral spirit is added to an unfermented grape must
What is a fortified wine?
A wine with the addition NGS to arrest fermentation leaving behind RS
Where is Ratafia found?
Where is Pineau De Charenets?
Where is Floc de Gascgone found?
Champagne
Cognac
Armagnac
What is the “Lei de Tergo?”
A decree restricting a houses sale of total inventory to 1/3 of their total production
What is the IVDP and what does it stand for
Instituto dos vinhos do Duero e Porto
A government run law that requires houses to maintain the lei de tergo law and control the integrity of the productions.
What is the beneficio authorization?
The maximum amount of wine that may be fortified in a given year.
What are the main red grapes of portugal?
Touriga Nacional, Tinta roriz
What are some of the main white grapes of porto?
Gouveio, Malvasia Fina
What is the “burning water” and what do they call it?
Aguardente, is a nuetral grape spirit at 77% that is used to fortify port
LBV port generally sees how many years in oak casks and how many vintages are in the blend?
4-6 in and is from a single vintage and because of the extended oak aging it shows some light amber characteristics of tawny port
What does envelhecido em Garrafa mean if printed on a port label?
An additional minimum aging of 3 years in the bottle
When a port reaches 30 - 40 years of ageing and becomes in an oxidative state it is called what?
Rancio
What is the difference between a ruby port and a ruby reserve port?
The reserve port generally denotes more complexity
What is the main difference between Tawny and Ruby port?
Tawny port generally spend much more time in oak with oxidative qualities and Ruby port spend little time in barrel before it begins is ageing in bottle.
What are the top declared port vintages between 1990 and 2015
1991, 1994, 1997, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
Who produces Quinta de Cavadinha?
Who produces Quinta de Vargellas?
Who produces Quinta do Bomfin?
Warre’s
Taylor’s
Dow’s
What is the difference between a LBV and a vintage port
The amount of time seen in barrel, 4-6 for LBV and 1-2 for Vintage
Why is it said that LBV port is sometimes the closest style to Tawny port
LBV port spends much more time in oak and generally will not improve with bottle age.
What are the differences between Colheita and Tawny Reserve port?
Colheita is vintage dated whereas Reserve is a Blend.
They both see min. 7 yrs.
What does a Tawny port with indication of age mean?
Nothing to do with age but instead how old it tastes determined by IVDP.
What are the poios?
Steep terraces made from Basalt stones found on the island
What is the IVBAM?
Embroidery and handicraft institut of madeira
The governing institution that regulate harvest and productions methods
Who is the largest producer and exporter of Madeira?
Henriques and Henriques
SECOND: Madeira Wine Company
