Greece Flashcards
6 mainland regions of Greece
Trace Macedonia Epirus Thessalia Central Greece (Sterea Ellada) Peloponnese
4 PDO of Macedonia
Amynteo
Goumenissa
Naoussa
Slopes of Meliton
Which Macedonian PDO produces sparkling rose?
Amynteo
2 100% Xinomavro PDOs
Amynteo
Naoussa
Authorized varieties of Goumenissa
Xinomavro
Negoska (min. 20%)
Single producer of Slopes of Meliton
Domaine Carras
Only PDO of Epirus
Zitsa
Grape variety for Zitsa
Debina
3 PDO of Thessalia
Anchialos
Messenikola
Rapsani
3 PGI Districts for Retsina
Attiki (Attica)
Evia
Viotia
Allowable grapes of Anchialos
Roditis (min. 75%)
Savvatiano (max. 25%)
Main grape of Retsina
Savvatiano
3 grapes of Rapsani
Xinomavro
Krassato
Stavroto
*Traditionally planted 1/3 each
7 PDOs of Peloponnese
Nemea Mantinia Patras Monemvassia-Malvasia Mavrodaphne of Patras Muscat of Patras Muscat of Rio Patras
Grape of Nemea
Agiorgitiko
Major grape of Mantinia
Moschofilero (min. 85%)
Grape of Patras
Roditis
3 PDO of Ionian Islands
Robola of Cephalonia
Mavrodaphne of Cephalonia
Muscat of Cephalonia
4 wine producing Ionian Island
Lefkada
Zakynthos
Cephalonia
Kerkyra (Corfu)
Where is Verdea produced?
Zakynthos
What is Verdea?
Traditional appellation wine, a blend of grapes: - Skiadopoulo (min. 50%) - Pavlos - Avgoustiatis, etc Similar in style to Sherry and Vin Jaune
5 wine producing Aegean Island PDOs
Santorini Paros Rhodes Lemnos Samos
7 PDOs of Crete
Sitia Peza Dafnes Archanes Candia Malvasia Candia Malvasia Sitia
2 islands of Santorini PDO
Thera (Santorini)
Thirasia
3 allowed grapes for Santorini dry wines
Assyrtiko (min. 75%
Athiri
Aidani
Grape variety of Dafnes
Liatiko
2 red only PDOs of Crete
Dafnes
Archanes
2 sweet wine PDOs of Crete, also producing dry wines
Sitia
Dafnes
