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1
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Name the regions of the mainland of Greece

A 
Macedonia 
Epirus
Peloponnese
Thessalia
Thrace 
Central Greece (Sterea Ellada)
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2
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Goumenissa PDO is known for producing what style of wine?

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lighter reds from Xinomavro w/ min 20% Negoska

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3
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Where is the producer Boutari located?

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Naoussa PDO

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What is Greece’s coolest winegrowing region? What style of wine most known for?

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Amynteo PDO

Rosé wines dry-semi-sweet, still or sparkling

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5
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What PDO of Macedonia is a single estate appellation? For who? Styles of wine?

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Slopes of Meliton
Domaine Carras
R=CS, CF, Limnio
W=Assyritiko, Athiri, Rhoditis

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6
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Who is the winemaker who launched Domaine Carras?

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Evangelos Gerovassiliou

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7
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What are the primary PDOs of Thessalia?

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Rapsani
Messenikola
Anchialos

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8
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Name the styles of wine for following PDOs

  • Rapsani
  • Messenikola
  • Anchialos
A

Rapasani=Reds from Xinomavro blended w/ Krasato and Stavroto

Messinkola=Reds Mavro Mesenikola (70% min)+30% max Syrah and Carignan

Anchialos=Whites from Rhoditis and Savvatiano

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9
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What is the only PDO of Epirus? Style of wine?

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Zitsa PDO

dry, semi-sweet, and sparkling white wine from Debina

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10
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Attiki is most known for producing what style of wine? What varietal?

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Retsina
from Savvatiano
Central Greece main production for Retsina

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11
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What are the styles of wine produced in Nemea PDO?

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dry and sweet Reds wines from Agiorgitiko

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What is the only red wine producing PDO of Peleponnesse?

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Nemea PDO

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13
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What is the primary varietal of Mantinia PDO?

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Moscofilero

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14
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What is the style of wine made in Patras PDO?

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dry white, 100% Roditis

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15
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What are the 3 dessert wine PDOs of Patras?

A

Mavrodaphne de Patras
Muscat de Patras
Muscat de Rio Patras

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16
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What styles of wine are made in Muscat de Patras and Muscat de Rio Patras?

A

vin doux naturel or naturally sweet wines from Muscat Blanc à Petit Grains

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17
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What style of wine is made in Mavrodaphne de Patras and what are aging req’s and practices?

A

Sweet fortified reds from Mavrodaphne and Mavri Korinthiaki

1 yr min in oak, in practice may spend 10+ rs in cask

18
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Name a well known producer of Mavrodaphne de Patras

A

Achaia-Clauss (Solera back to 1882)

19
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What style of wine is produced in Monemvassia-Malvasia PDO?

A

sweet white wine fro 51% Monemvassia, aged in oxidative environment for min 2 yrs

20
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What is the only Ionian island to posses PDO’s? What are they? What styles?

A

Cephalonia

  • Robola of Cephalonia (Dry whites)
  • Muscat of Cephalonia (sweet whites)
  • Mavrodaphne of Cephalonia (sweet reds)
21
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What styles of wine are produced in

  • Archanes
  • Dafnes
A

Archanes=dry reds from Kotsifali and Mandilara

Dafnes=dry reds from Liatiko (100%)

22
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What styles of wine are in Sitia PDO?

A

Whites=70% Vilana and Thrapsathiri

Reds=80% Liatiko and Mandilaria, naturally sweet reds=100% Liatiko

23
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What styles of wine in Peza PDO?

A

W=dry 100% Vilana

R=dru Kotsifali and Mandilaria

24
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What styles of wine in Santorini?

A
  • dry whites from 75% Assyrtiko+Athiri/Aidani

- vinsanto/Liastros=51% Assyrtiko+obscure traditional varieties

25
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What is the only Greek PDO to mandate use of white grape in red blend? What varietal?

A

Paros (Monemvassia)

R from Mandilaria

26
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What is famous PDO of Isle of Samos? Style, req’s?

A

Muscat of Samos PDO
-VDN, VDL, nat’ly sweet (Samos Nectar)

Samos Nectar= 3 yrs min of aging

27
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What are PDOs and styles of Island of Lemnos?

A

Lemnos PDO

  • Dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet W from Moschato Alexandrias
  • Dry, sun dried, fortified R from Limnio

Muscat of Lemnos PDO
-W from Moschato Alexandrias

28
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What styles of wine produced in Rhodes?

A

PDO R, W, R, from Mandilaria and Athiri

Muscat of Rhodes PDO very rare

29
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What two traditional Apps are included in the PGI category and what styles of wine do they produce?

A

Retsina=resinous white wine from Savvatiano

Verdea=oxidative white wine produced on Zakythos in the Ionian Sea

30
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What does Reserve and Grand Reserve indicate about Greek reds and whites?

A

Reserve
W=1yr aging (6 mo barrel, 3 mo btl)
R=2yrs aging (1yr barrel, 6 mo btl)

Grand Reserve
W=2yrs aging (1yr barrel, 6 mo btl)
R=4yrs aging (18 mo barrel, 18 mo btl)

31
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What are the 2 PDO levels of Greece?

A
  1. Controlled Appellation of Origin (AOC/OPE)-for tradtional sweet wines
  2. Appellation of Superior Quality (AOSQ/OPAP)
32
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When was Greek wine law introduced? When were the majority of Apps est.?

A

1969-1970

1971

33
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What is Retsina?

A

A traditionally protected app (as PGI) that produces white wine from Savvatiano grapes and flavored with addition of pine resin. Rarely encountered outside of Greece

34
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What are primary red varietals of Greece?

A

Xinomavro
Agiorgitiko
int’l varieties

35
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What are primary white varietals of Greece?

A 
Assyrtiko
Roditis 
Moschofilero
White Muscat 
Savvatiano
36
Q

Breakdown PGI categories in Greece and what each one pertains to

A

Regional (Peloponnese, Crete Rhodes, Etc)
Districts (peripheral areas of Greece)
Area (smallest, may be only single estate)

37
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What are PGI wines of Greece and the styles included within?

A

Protected Geographical Indication
Varietal wines may carry vintage
table wines

38
Q

What are two broad Island categorizations of Greece?

A

Aegean Islands

Ionian Islands

39
Q

What style of wine is Naoussa and Amynteo known for producing?

A

Dry, firmly tannic reds from Xinomavro

40
Q

What does labeling term Cava refer to? Palaiomenos se vareli?

A

Cava
W+R=PGI wine with 1yr age (6 mo in oak)
R=PGI wine with 3 yrs (1 yr in oak)

Palaiomenos se vareli=oak aging beyond req’s for cava, reserve, and grand reserve wines

41
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What are primary regions of Macedonia w/ corresponding varietals

A

Naoussa (R, Xinomavro)
Plagies Melitona (R+W, Int’l and natives)
Amynteo (sparkling, rosé, reds from Xinomavro)

42
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What are the 7 Ionian islands? Which are most pertinent to wine study?

A 
Cephalonia (only PDOs) 
Ithaca
Corfu (capital) 
Lefkada
Paxi
Zakynthos (Verdea) 
Kythira

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