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Grape Varieties Flashcards

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Verdicchio

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Natural high in acidity, flavours of green apples lemons fennel Almonds
Many are simple and fruity, the best have a greater concentration honey and almonds

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Verdejo

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White grape variety
Highly susceptible to oxidation
What are used to make sherry
Predictive winemaking is light bodied
Similar style to Sauvignon blanc
Richer Fuller body style
Undergone skin contact please barrel fermentation
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Vidal

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Hybrid
Hardy
Little character made into dry whites
High-quality for ice wines, 
Without acid structure or aromatic complexity in coparisation w Riesling
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Viognier

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Full body
Perfume aromas such as blossom apricot‘s Stone fruits aroma
Low acidity
High alcohol
Cannot develop Signature romans until very late in the season when they have reached a very high level of sugar ripeness
Careful handling with new oak
Off dry styles is from Late harvested grapes is only a small number

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Aligote

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France burgundy
White grape neutral lines high acidity
Capable of high-quality where it is grown in sites where it can reach full ripeness

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Agiorgitiko

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Greece
Vineyards 230to 900 m
Is best suited for Rose wines
The best wines are deep will colour high levels of smote tannins low to moderate acidity Sweetspice red fruit flavours

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Arien

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Most widely planted 
Vast majority = La Mancha 
Cope heat + drought 
- One of the few varieties
Most of the output 
- brandy de Jerez
- main varieties in Cava
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Albariño

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Grown northwest
Fashionable grape
Thick Skin 
- resist fungal disease 
- useful in damp climates
Natural high acidity
Refreshing wines with hints of citrus and stone fruit
Richer and full body
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Auxerrois

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Similar characteristics to PB
Light simple refreshing not aromatic
Slightly spicier
More full-bodied
Blends with PB
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Baga

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Dominant black grape variety small thick skins varies deep in colour high tannins later picking gentler crashing and maceration techniques rich black fruit

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Bonarda

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Second most planted Argentina

Late ripening deeply coloured high acidity high tannin high yields

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Barbera

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Black grape most widely planted late ripening grape medium to deep colour low to medium tannin is high acidity with cherries plums black pepper
- youthful and fruity with no oak
-barrel aged and spicy flavours
Northern Italy

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Blaufrankisch

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Most highly of the Austrian black varieties medium acidity peppery sour cherry flavour

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Carmenere

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Late ripening
 Successful on the warmest, sunniest sites
Full-bodied, high levels of tannin
Herbaceous aroma if not fully ripen
Black fruit character, herbal aroma
Chili’s signature grape variety
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Cortese

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White grape
Natural high acidity
Pale in colour
Light bodied
Citrus, green apples, pears
Cool fermentation in stainless steel
Also, old vessels + lees stirring to add complexity
Wines from the best producers, age well
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Corvina

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Thin skin
Colour moderate 
Low to medium tannins
High acidity
To increase colour and tannins, blends of local varieties
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Cabernet franc

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- Saint Emilion
Less body and tannin than CS
Herbaceous flavours when unripe 
Ripe = Vibrant fruitnotes, floral
- Loire
Flowers and ripens early
Light, fruity
Sandy soils
Fuller bodied and tannicwith south facing slopes and limestone and clay soils
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Carignan

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Widely grown
Natural high in tannin, acidity, colour
Old vine with poor soils can produce quality wines

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Cinsault

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Southern Rhône
From supporting role In blends
Red fruit, rather than tannin + colour
Blending partner Grenache for fresh fruit rose
Smaller planting in southern France for Rose

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Dolcetto

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Widely planted in northern Italy
Earlier ripening then Nebbiolo or Barbera
- can be planted on the coolest sites
Dolcetto d’alba
- many of the finest wines
— deep often purple colour, medium high tannins, medium acidity, black plums, red cherries, dried herbs

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Dornfelder

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Germany
The other black Variety, widely planted
Deeply coloured wines

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Palomino

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Vast majority of the plantings in Jerez
Low in acids
Like various verietal aromas
Ideal for sherry production
Biological and oxidative maturation
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Pedro Ximinez

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Varietal flavour 
Skin is ideal suit skin dried
Production of sherry
Most of the groups are from the neighbouring region of Montilla Moriles
There it grows more successfully
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Muskat of Alexandria

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Very small accounts, sweet wines

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Friulano

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Widely planted in Friuli Venezia guilia , medium to high acidity, medium body, there, apples,herbs

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Grenache blanc

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Dry wine, soft peachy fruitiness, full body, low acidity, oxidise early, often blended with other rhone varieties

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Grenache

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Late ripening 
Planted in warm/hot climates
High tolerance for drought conditions
Sweet, thick skin grapes
High in alcohol
Low in acidity
Full-bodied with soft tannins and red fruit flavours
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Gewurtztraminer

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Pungent aromatic spicy nose
Roses, lychees, sweet baking spice
Light pink skin
= giving a golden coloured to some of the wines
Full-bodied
Rich oily texture
Low to medium acidity
High alcohol, wines of 14% are not uncommon
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Gruciano

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Highly valued
Challenging to grow
Rioja
Part of the blend in many finest wines
Small quantities are used
Produce concentrated black fruit aromas
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Garganega

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Northern Italy
Medium to high acidity
Medium body
Pears, red apple, stone fruit, white pepper, no aromas or flavours of new oak, when eating, almonds, honey
When made from the entire region = Soave DOC
Grapes on the foothills
Soave Classico DOC

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Gruner veltliner

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Full-bodied, concentrated wines with naturally high acidity
In youth
-  Citrus, stone fruit, hints of pepper
Developing
-  layers of honey, toast with ageing
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Gamay

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Burgundy
Early drinking reds
Ripe berry fruit
Low tannins
Regional appellation
PN

Loire
Mainly planted in Touraine - Anjou
Fruity, early drinking wines

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Xinomavro

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Compare it with Nebbiolo
Hi levels of tenant and acidity
Medium colour, quickly fade to tawny like fresh fruit aromas in their youth
Long lived
Complex spice at the aroma

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