Lazio (Latium)

Question 1

Where is Lazio?

Answer 1

South of Tuscany and Umbria. North of Campania.

Question 2

What sea is to the west of Lazio?

Answer 2

Tyrrhenian Sea

Question 3

What is the capital of Lazio?

Answer 3

Rome

-political center of Italy and the third most populous Italian region.

Question 4

What are the principal grapes of the region?

Answer 4

Trebbiano Toscano and Malvasia.

Question 5

What is the broad zone in Lazio that encompasses several smaller appellations and is responsible for mass quantities of wine?

Answer 5

Castelli Romani DOC

Question 6

What is the best known subzone of Castelli Romani DOC?

Answer 6

Frascati DOC

Question 7

What are the three DOCGs of Lazio?

Styles found in each?

Answer 7

—Cannellino di Frascati DOCG- late harvest style: 70% combined Malvasia Bianca di Candia and/or Malvasia del Lazio with a min 35 g/l RS

—Frascati Superiore DOCG: Min 70% combined Malvasia Bianca di Candia and/or Malvasia del Lazio

—Cesanese del Piglio (Piglio) DOCG: 90% combined Cesanese di Affile and/or Cesanese comune (common).

Question 8

What is the style found in Frascati DOC?

Answer 8

Spumante (sparkling) and white wine with min 70% Malvasia di Candia and/or Malvasia del Lazio

Question 9

What is the style of Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone

What is the back-story?

Answer 9

White and sparkling wines based on Trebbiano (Toscano aka: Procanico and Giallo aka: Rossetto)

-12th-century tale of a German Bishop traveling to the Vatican for a meeting with the Pope. The Bishop sent a prelate ahead of him to survey the villages along the route for the best wines. The ‘wine scout’ had instructions to write ‘Est’ (Latin for ‘There is’) on the door of the inns he visited when impressed with the wine so the Bishop following on his trail would have where to make a stop. At a Montefiascone inn, the prelate was reportedly so overwhelmed with the local wine that he wrote Est! Est!! Est!!! on the door. The story is considered by many wine experts, such as Master of Wine Mary Ewing-Mulligan, to be apocryphal.

Question 10

What are international variety wines labeled as in Lazio?

Answer 10

IGT Lazio

Question 11

What is the white and red grape of Cori DOC?

Answer 11

White: Min 50% Bellone

Red: Min 50% Nero Buono

Question 12

Name two high quality grapes used in Lazio?

Answer 12

Cesanese and Nero Buono di Cori.

Question 13

Describe Cesanese

Answer 13

produces spicy, peppery, highly acidic wines of moderate to high alcohol levels.

Question 14

Aleatico di Grandoli DOC
From?
Style?

Answer 14

Lazio

Dolce, Passito, Liquoroso based on 95% Aleatico.

Question 15

How much of Lazio is devoted to red wine?

Answer 15

Red wines make up only 15% of the region’s typical production.