Greece Flashcards
Where is Boutari located?
Naoussa, Macedonia
Where are Malvasia Sitia and Malvasia Candia PDOs?
•Styles produced?
•Aging?
Crete
•Sweet white and Vin doux naturel
•24 mos in wood
What district surrounds Athens and is the center of production for Retsina in Central Greece?
Attiki - PGI Retsina Attiki
•2 other PGI District indications:
•Retsina Viotia
•Retsina Evia
What are the red & white grapes for the Slopes of Meliton PDO?
Red - Cab Sauv, Cab Franc, and Limnio
White - Assytiko, Thiri and Rhoditis
What PDO of Thessalia produces whites only?
•Styles?
Anchialos PDO
•75% Rhoditis, + Savvatiano
•Still, dry to semi-sweet whites
What is Retsina flavored with?
Aleppo pine resin
Where is Domaine Porto Carras located?
Slopes of Meliton
What is the farthest eastern island of Greece?
Rhodes - located closer to Asia
What are the PDOs of Peloponnese?
- Nemea
- Mantinia
- Patras
- Mavrodaphne of Patras
- Muscat of Patras
- Muscat of Rio Patras
- Monemvassia-Malvasia
Where is the Nemea PDO? What styles of wine are produced and from what grapes?
- Peloponnese
- Still, dry to med-sweet reds
- 100% Agiorgitiko
What PDOs of Crete produce reds from Liatiko?
Sitia and Dafnes
*Sitia also allows white from Vilana
What are the RED only PDOs of Crete?
•Grapes?
•Styles?
- Archanes - Mandilaria and Kotsifali (Still, dry red)
- Dafnes - Liatiko (Still, dry to sweet red and VDN)
*Candia, Peza, and Sitia allow red and white
What are the PDOs of Rhodes?
•Styles?
•Grapes?
(Aegean Island)
•Muscat of Rhodes PDO (Blanc a Petits Grains)
•Rhodes PDO (Still dry, to med-sweet red, white, rosé; SPARKLING white and rosé - brut nature to doux)
- Red - min 70% Mandilaria
- White - min 70% Athiri
What are the red and white PDOs of Crete?
- Sitia
- Peza
- Candia
What is unique about the Liatiko grape?
- Found only on Crete and handful of neighboring islands
- One of the most ancient varieties under cultivation
- Ripens in mid-July, and delivers a distinctively “orange” wine
What is Samos Nectar?
Nectar is a proprietary brand made by the Union of Viticultural Coop of Samos
•Sun-dried and aged 3 yrs in barrels
What is the only PDO of Epirus?
•Styles?
Zitsa PDO: 100% Debina
•Still, dry white
•Sparkling, dry to semi-dry
Where is the Paros PDO located?
Paros Island, part of the Aegean Islands north of Crete
What quality levels are below PDO?
- PGI
- “Varietal” wines
- “Table” wines
What styles of wine are produced under the Paros PDO?
•Grapes?
Still, dry red and white
•Red - co-ferm: min 35% Madilaria, + Monemvassia
•White - 100% Monemvassia
*Only Greek red wine that mandates a white grape’s inclusion
What does “Palaiomenos se Vareli”mean on a label? What wines may this be added to?
- It indicates oak aging beyond the required minimums
* Cava, Reserve and Grand Reserve
Who is the progenitor of Mavrodaphne of Patras?
- Achaia-Claus Estate
* Has a Mavrodaphne solera dating to 1882
What styles of wine are produced under the Monemvassia-Malvasia PDO?
•Styles?
•Grapes?
•Aging?
Still, sweet white and VDN
•Peloponnese
•min 51% Monemvassia
•min 24 mos oxidatively, if longer it may be aged for 4 yrs, or in multiples of 4 yrs after that
What are the 4 wine producing islands of the Ionian Islands?
- Cephalonia
- Kerkyra (Corfo)
- Lefkada
- Zakynthos
What PDO includes the four villages on the lower slopes of Mt Olympus?
Rapsani PDO
What two PDOs are on the island of Lemnos? What styles and from what grapes?
Lemnos PDO:
•Muscat of Alexandria: Still, dry to sweet white
•Limnio: Still, dry red and VDN
•Muscat of Lemnos PDO - Moscato Alexandrias: Sweet, VDN/VDL, Grand Cru VDN
Where is Vinsanto produced in Greece?
- Santorini Island
- May be produced both from dried grapes and fortified (not currently used)
- min 51% Assyrtiko, + Athiri, Aidani
- min 260g/l prior to dry; 370 g/l post
•min 24 mos in wood, must occur on the islands of Thera or Thirasia in an oxidative manner; Aging statements (rather than a vintage) must be a multiple of “4”
What does “Grand Reserve” indicate for a PDO wine?
- White - min 24 mos: 12 wood, 6 btl
* Red - min 48 mos: 18 wood, 18 btl
Where is the Patras PDO? What style of wines, from what grape?
- Peloponnese
- Dry whites
- 100% Roditis
What does “Reserve” indicate for a PDO wine?
- White - 12 mos: 6 wood, 3 btl
* Red - min 24 mos: 12 wood, 6 btl