Italy: Central and South

Question 1

What are the DOCGs of Campania?

Answer 1

1. ) Taurasi
2. ) Fiano di Avellino
3. ) Greco di Tufo
4. ) Aglianico del Taburno

Question 2

What are the DOCGs of Lazio?

Answer 2

1. ) Casanese del Piglio
2. ) Frascati Superiore
3. ) Cannellino di Frascati

Question 3

What are the DOCGs of Abruzzo?

Answer 3

1.) Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Colline Teramane

Question 4

What are the DOCGs of Marche?

Answer 4

1. ) Verdicchio di Matelica Riserva
2. ) Castilli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva
3. ) Conera Rosso Riserva
4. ) Vernaccia di Serrapetrana
5. ) Offida

Question 5

What are the DOCGs of Umbria?

Answer 5

1. ) Sagrantino di Montefalco

2. ) Torgiano Rosso Riserva

Question 6

What are the red grapes of Sicily?

Answer 6

• Nero d’Avola
• Frappsto (Calabrese)
• Perricono
• Nerello Mascalese
• Nerello Cappucio

Question 7

Who released the first Super Tuscan and what was it labeled in what year?

Answer 7

• Marquis Mario Rocchetta, Tenuta San Guido, 1968 Sassicaia (making for themselves since 1948

Question 8

List the DOCGs of Toscana?

Answer 8

1. ) Brunello di Montalcino
2. ) Carmignano
3. ) Chianti
4. ) Chianti Classico
5. ) Elba Aleatico Passito
6. ) Montecucco Sangiovese
7. ) Morellino di Seansano
8. ) Rosso della Val di Cornia
9. ) Suvereto
10. ) Vernaccia di San Gimignano
11. ) Vino Nobile di Montepulciano

Question 9

What mountain range does Umbria lie in the shadows of?

Answer 9

• Apennines

Question 10

Describe Orvieto DOC

Answer 10

• clean, light white from 60% Grechetto and Trebbiano Toscana (Procanico)
• responsible for the majority of the regions production
• wine toasted at the completion of the Manhattan Project with Enrico Fermi
• over produced, seek from town of Orvieto , in Classico zone.
• can be sweet or botry.

Question 11

What are the celebrated red wines of Umbria ?

Answer 11

• Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG and Torgiano Rosso Riserva DOCG

*Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG:
100% Sagrantino , high in tannin and alcohol ; 37 m. w/ 12 m in wood.

*Torgiano Rosso Riserva DOCG:
70-100% Sangio; 3 yr., 6 m. In bottle. If bottled as rosso, bianco, spumante then just DOC

Question 12

Name two producers of Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG

Answer 12

• Marco Caprai
• Paolo Bea
• Còlpetrone

Question 13

Name a producer for Torgiano Rosso Riserva DOCG

Answer 13

• Lungarotti family

Question 14

Name a producer of Orvieto DOC

Answer 14

• Luigi e Giovanni Barberani