Greece Flashcards
Name the regions of the mainland of Greece
Macedonia Epirus Peloponnese Thessalia Thrace Central Greece (Sterea Ellada)
Goumenissa PDO is known for producing what style of wine?
lighter reds from Xinomavro w/ min 20% Negoska
Where is the producer Boutari located?
Naoussa PDO
What is Greece’s coolest winegrowing region? What style of wine most known for?
Amynteo PDO
Rosé wines dry-semi-sweet, still or sparkling
What PDO of Macedonia is a single estate appellation? For who? Styles of wine?
Slopes of Meliton
Domaine Carras
R=CS, CF, Limnio
W=Assyritiko, Athiri, Rhoditis
Who is the winemaker who launched Domaine Carras?
Evangelos Gerovassiliou
What are the primary PDOs of Thessalia?
Rapsani
Messenikola
Anchialos
Name the styles of wine for following PDOs
- Rapsani
- Messenikola
- Anchialos
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
What is the only PDO of Epirus? Style of wine?
Zitsa PDO
dry, semi-sweet, and sparkling white wine from Debina
Attiki is most known for producing what style of wine? What varietal?
Retsina
from Savvatiano
Central Greece main production for Retsina
What are the styles of wine produced in Nemea PDO?
dry and sweet Reds wines from Agiorgitiko
What is the only red wine producing PDO of Peleponnesse?
Nemea PDO
What is the primary varietal of Mantinia PDO?
Moscofilero
What is the style of wine made in Patras PDO?
dry white, 100% Roditis
What are the 3 dessert wine PDOs of Patras?
Mavrodaphne de Patras
Muscat de Patras
Muscat de Rio Patras
What styles of wine are made in Muscat de Patras and Muscat de Rio Patras?
vin doux naturel or naturally sweet wines from Muscat Blanc à Petit Grains
What style of wine is made in Mavrodaphne de Patras and what are aging req’s and practices?
Sweet fortified reds from Mavrodaphne and Mavri Korinthiaki
1 yr min in oak, in practice may spend 10+ rs in cask
Name a well known producer of Mavrodaphne de Patras
Achaia-Clauss (Solera back to 1882)
What style of wine is produced in Monemvassia-Malvasia PDO?
sweet white wine fro 51% Monemvassia, aged in oxidative environment for min 2 yrs
What is the only Ionian island to posses PDO’s? What are they? What styles?
Cephalonia
- Robola of Cephalonia (Dry whites)
- Muscat of Cephalonia (sweet whites)
- Mavrodaphne of Cephalonia (sweet reds)
What styles of wine are produced in
- Archanes
- Dafnes
Archanes=dry reds from Kotsifali and Mandilara
Dafnes=dry reds from Liatiko (100%)
What styles of wine are in Sitia PDO?
Whites=70% Vilana and Thrapsathiri
Reds=80% Liatiko and Mandilaria, naturally sweet reds=100% Liatiko
What styles of wine in Peza PDO?
W=dry 100% Vilana
R=dru Kotsifali and Mandilaria
What styles of wine in Santorini?
- dry whites from 75% Assyrtiko+Athiri/Aidani
- vinsanto/Liastros=51% Assyrtiko+obscure traditional varieties
What is the only Greek PDO to mandate use of white grape in red blend? What varietal?
Paros (Monemvassia)
R from Mandilaria
What is famous PDO of Isle of Samos? Style, req’s?
Muscat of Samos PDO
-VDN, VDL, nat’ly sweet (Samos Nectar)
Samos Nectar= 3 yrs min of aging
What are PDOs and styles of Island of Lemnos?
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
What styles of wine produced in Rhodes?
PDO R, W, R, from Mandilaria and Athiri
Muscat of Rhodes PDO very rare
What two traditional Apps are included in the PGI category and what styles of wine do they produce?
Retsina=resinous white wine from Savvatiano
Verdea=oxidative white wine produced on Zakythos in the Ionian Sea
What does Reserve and Grand Reserve indicate about Greek reds and whites?
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)
What are the 2 PDO levels of Greece?
- Controlled Appellation of Origin (AOC/OPE)-for tradtional sweet wines
- Appellation of Superior Quality (AOSQ/OPAP)
When was Greek wine law introduced? When were the majority of Apps est.?
1969-1970
1971
What is Retsina?
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
What are primary red varietals of Greece?
Xinomavro
Agiorgitiko
int’l varieties
What are primary white varietals of Greece?
Assyrtiko Roditis Moschofilero White Muscat Savvatiano
Breakdown PGI categories in Greece and what each one pertains to
Regional (Peloponnese, Crete Rhodes, Etc)
Districts (peripheral areas of Greece)
Area (smallest, may be only single estate)
What are PGI wines of Greece and the styles included within?
Protected Geographical Indication
Varietal wines may carry vintage
table wines
What are two broad Island categorizations of Greece?
Aegean Islands
Ionian Islands
What style of wine is Naoussa and Amynteo known for producing?
Dry, firmly tannic reds from Xinomavro
What does labeling term Cava refer to? Palaiomenos se vareli?
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
What are primary regions of Macedonia w/ corresponding varietals
Naoussa (R, Xinomavro)
Plagies Melitona (R+W, Int’l and natives)
Amynteo (sparkling, rosé, reds from Xinomavro)
What are the 7 Ionian islands? Which are most pertinent to wine study?
Cephalonia (only PDOs) Ithaca Corfu (capital) Lefkada Paxi Zakynthos (Verdea) Kythira
