Grapes Flashcards
What is Bastardo?
Synonym for Trousseau in Portugal
What is the synonym for Trousseau in Galicia?
Merenzao
What appellation produces wines from the Prié grape?
The subzone of Morgex et de la Salle in the Valle d’Aosta subzone
What crossing produced Blauburger?
Blaufrankisch x Portugieser
Where is Blauer Wildbacher grown and what specialty wine is it used to produce?
Western Styria in Austria
Used for the production of the rosé specialty known as Schilcher
What is the synonym for Blaufränkisch in Germany?
Lemberger
What is the Hungarian synonym for Blaufränkisch?
Kékfrankos
What is the Bulgarian synonym for Blaufrankisch?
Gamé
What is the star Hungarian appellation for Kékfrankos (Blaufrankisch)?
Sopron
What is the star appellation for Blaufrankisch in Austria?
Burgenland on the north shores of the Neusiedlersee in Mittelburgenland and at Eisenberg in South Burgenland
What is Blaufrankisch known as in Friuli?
Franconia
What is Blaufrankisch known as in the Czech Republic and Serbia?
Frankovka
What is the name for Malvazia Fina in Madeira?
Boal/Bual
What is the second-most planted red grape in Spain behind Tempranillo and where are the highest quality wines produced from it? In what 4 D.O. is it permitted?
Bobal
Best examples are produced in high elevation vineyards of Utiel-Requena
Allowed in 4 D.O. areas of Utiel-Requena, Manchuela, Valencia, and Ribera del Júcar
Where is Bombino Bianco planted?
Planted mainly in Puglia but also found in Abruzzo where it is often confused with but may be identical to Trebbiano d’Abruzzo
What is Early California also known as and where else is it grown?
Arbouriou; grown in the Côtes du Marmandais AOP
What is Acolon a cross of and where is it popular?
Dornfelder x Lemberger (Blaufrankisch)
Increasingly popular in Württemberg and the Pfalz
What is St. George also known as and where is it at its best?
Agiogitiko
At its best in Nemea (Peloponnese)
What are the 3 DOCG of Aglianico?
Aglianico del Taburno DOCG (Campania) Taurasi DOCG (Campania)
Aglianico del Vulture Superiore DOCG (Basilicata)
Where is the highest quality Aïdani produced?
Santorini PDO
What varietal accounts for almost a quarter of all Spanish vineyards and covers more area than any other white wine variety in the world?
Airén
Albalonga is a crossing of what? What German producer is known for producing high quality late-harvest wines from this grape?
Rieslaner x Silvaner
Wittmann
The white wine DOCG of Emilia-Romagna is produced from what grape?
Albana
What are Alvarinho’s most common blending partners in Vinho Verde?
Loureiro, Treixadura, and Caiño
What is the Ligurian DOC for Albarola?
Cinque Terre DOC
Star white grape for Ribera del Duero DO white wines?
Albillo Mayor (min 75%)
Tuscan passito DOCG from grape compared to Muscat?
Elba Aleatico Passito DOCG
Synonym for Tinta Bastardinha. Where is its best expression?
Alfrocheiro
Dão is the best but also grown in Alentejo, Tejo, and Bairrada
What is the most heavily planted teinturier grape in France and what is its synonym in Spain?
Alicante Bouschet
Known as Garnacha Tintorera
Traditional grape for the wine mixed for Kir?
Aligoté
Finest white grape of Savoie?
Altesse, aka Roussette
What is the Portuguese synonym for Brancellao?
Alvarelhão
Star grape of Moncão?
Alvarinho
Where is Amigne grown?
Specialty grape of Vétroz in the Valais (Switzerland)
In what wine might you fine the Ancellotta grape?
Lambrusco
Tuscan synonym for Sicily’s Inzolia?
Ansonica
Produces full-bodied white wines in Alentejo and often blended with Arinto?
Antão Vaz
Alentejo synonym for Tempranillo?
Aragonez
Where would you find Arany Sárfehér?
Great Plain of Hungary
Arbois Blanc is synonymous with?
Menu Pineau (Loire)
Star white grape of Bucelas? What is its synonym in Vinho Verde?
Arinto
known as Pedernã in Vinho Verde
What are three synonyms for Tempranillo in Portugal?
Aragonez
Arinto Tinto
Tinta Roriz
AKA Barolo Bianco and its DOCG?
Arneis
Roero DOCG
Where would you find Arrufiac?
Gascony in Pacherenc du Vic-Bihl AOP
Nervy, citrusy, sometimes salty white wine grape considered the finest of indigenous white grapes in Valais?
Arvine aka Petite Arvine
When Auxerrois is black-berried its found where?
Cahors, where it’s a synonym for Cot/Malbec
Synonym for Pinot Gris in Alsace?
Auxerrois Gris
Star grape of Ayze?
Gringet
Romania’s second-most planted red grape behind Merlot?
Bābeascā Neagrā
Second-most planted white grape behind Chardonnay in the U.K.?
Bacchus
Star red grape of Bairrada?
Baga
Star grape of Banyuls AOP and Banyuls Grand Cru AOP?
Grenache
min 50% for Banyuls AOP
min 75% for Banyuls Grand Cru AOP
SW France AOP for white wine from Baroque?
Tursan AOP
Principle grape of Bellet Blanc?
Rolle/Vermentino (min 60%)
Roussanne synonym for Savoie?
Bergeron
Forastera and Biancolella blend DOC?
Ischia DOC (Campania)
Synonym for Charbono in Argentina?
Bonarda
Romanian synonym for Cab Franc?
Bordo
Where is Bosco grown?
Liguria
What is the synonym for Cabernet Franc in St.-Emilion?
Bouchet
Star white grape of La Clape?
Bourboulenc
Graciano in Sardinia?
Bovale Sardo
Star grape of Piedmont sparkling red DOCG?
Brachetto
Loire synonym for Cab Franc?
Breton
Top red grape of Brindisi DOC?
Negroamaro
What is the Romanian synonym for Blaufrankisch?
Burgund Mare
Synonym for Cot in Argentina and top appellation in France for it?
Malbec in Argentina
Cahors AOP in SW France
Nero d’Avola is also known as?
Calabrese
Top grape of Lago di Caldaro/Kalterersee?
Schiava
Sardinian synonym for Grenache?
Cannonau
Grape that must be present in Cape Blends?
Pinotage
Cape Riesling synonym?
Crouchen Blanc
Spanish synonyms for Carignan?
Mazuelo and Cariñena
Highest quality white wine grape in Sicily?
Carricante
What is the top red grape of Carso?
Terrano
Second-most planted red grape in Portugal behind Tinta Roriz?
Castelão
Cataratto is mostly used for the production of?
Marsala
Top 3 grapes of Cava?
Xarel-lo
Macabeo
Parellada
Indigenous red grape that’s allowed for Cava but only in rosé?
Trepat
La Mancha and Valdepeñas synonym for Tempranillo?
Cencibel
Second-most planted grape in Argentina behind Malbec?
Cereza
Star red grape of Lazio?
Cesanese
Chambourcin is a French Hybrid that originated from where?
Loire Valley
What is Charbono called in Savoie?
Douce Noire
Synonym for Chasselas in Alsace?
Gutedel
Synonym for Nebbiolo in Valtellina?
Chiavennasca
What crossing created Pinotage?
Pinot Noir x Cinsaut
Where is Côdega de Larinho planted?
Douro and Tras-os-Montes
Top red and white grapes of Colares?
Ramisco (red)
Malvasia de Colares (white)
What crossing created Colombard?
Chenin Blanc x Gouais Blanc
What is the most widely planted variety in New York?
Concord
Star grape of Gavi DOCG?
Cortese
Star grape of Valpolicella?
Corvinone
What is the synonym for Mission in Peru?
Negra Corriente
What is the synonym for pais in Argentina?
Criolla Chica
What is Tribidrag?
Zinfandel in Croatia
aka Crljenak Kastelanski (Croatia) and Primitivo (Italy)