Glossary

Question 1

Coltura Promiscua

Answer 1

Mixed crop cultivation - grapevines planted alongside fruit trees, nut trees, etc

Question 2

Caratelli

Answer 2

old oak barrels used for vin santo

Question 3

Madre

Answer 3

Mother. The thick lees in the bottom of vin santo bbls.

Question 4

vin ruspo

Answer 4

“to draw off”
days of share cropping -> draw off fresh win before giving the rest to the landowner.

Question 5

Cerasuolo

Answer 5

rose, traditional name in abruzzo for famous roses.

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Amiable

Answer 6

medium sweet

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abboccato

Answer 7

off-dry / medium dry

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Mamertinum

Answer 8

Most famous sicilian wine during roman period. Mamertino resurrected in 2004.

Question 9

Liquoroso

Answer 9

Fortified wine

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BOtti

Answer 10

Large wooden casks

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Appassimento

Answer 11

Process of drying grapes before vinification

Question 12

Recioto

Answer 12

Term used for sweet wines of the Veneto

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Fermo

Answer 13

A still wine

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Annata

Answer 14

Vintage

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Vigna

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A single vinyard

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Vivace

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A lightly fizzy wine

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Vinsantaie

Answer 17

Lofts used to store barrels of aged vin santo

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Salasso

Answer 18

Bleeding off the tank

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Vin Ruspo (style)

Answer 19

A light rosato made in Carmignano

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Alberese

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A fine grained calcareous marl typical of certain areas of toscana.

Question 21

baglio

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A traditional sicilian farmhouse Rectangular and normally has a courtyard.

Question 22

Chiaretto

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Term used to indicate a rosato wine made in specific DOCs

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Fecce

Answer 23

Lees

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Fiasco

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A traditional straw basket bottle used for Chianti

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Galestro

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Metamorphic rock that is crumbly clayey and schist-like with sharp edges and tendency to flake. Typically found in certain areas around Toscana (chianti classico and montalcino)

Question 26

Graticci

Answer 26

Wooden racks for air-drying grapes

Question 27

Mosto Cotto

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cooked grape must

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Mosto

Answer 28

Unfermented grape juice

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MCR - Mosto Concentrato Rettificato

Answer 29

Rectified concentrated grape must

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Millesimato

Answer 30

Vintage

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Passito

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A wine made from semi dried grapes

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Pergola Abruzzese

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A variant of the tendone traditional to abruzzo

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Riserva

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A wine that went through extended period of aeging before release compared to the non-riserva version. A riserva may also have stricter production requirements.

Question 34

Spumante

Answer 34

Fully Sparkling

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Stenditoio

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Delimited and well ventilated area where grapes are dried in the sun

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Superiore

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A wine with a higher minimum actual alcohol content compared to the non-superiore version

Question 37

Talento

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A labeling term that is traditional method

Question 38

Tendone

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A high training system that forms a tent with the canopy allowing the grapes to grow underneath it.

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Terra Rossa

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Reddish soil rich in iron oxide

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Vendemmia Tardiva

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Late Harvest. This wine can be sweet or dry

Question 41

Vigneto

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Same as Vigna - Single vinyard term.

Question 42

Vinacce

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Same as pommace - leftover unpressed skins and lees

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Vino da Taglio

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Bulk wine specifically produced as a blending component.

Question 44

Concia

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the process of adding grape spirit and / or EtOH, mosto cotto (cooked grape must), and cotto sifone (fortified grape must), as well as mosto concentrato (concentrated grape must) to a base wine (marsala)