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OW - Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland Flashcards

1
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

When was the first record of TBA in Austria recorded?

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1526

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

Who developed the wire trellising system? When?

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Dr Lenz Moser in the 1950s

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What happened to cause consumer doubt in Austrian wine quality? When?

A

Diethylene glycol added to wine

1985

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4
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is the Austrian name for a winemaking region?

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Weinbaugebiete

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the four major wine making regions of Austria from N to S?

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Niederosterreich
Wein (Vienna)
Burgenland
Styria (Steiermark)

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

Which two Weinbaugebiete form most of Austria’s production? What percentage?

A

Niederosterreich
Burgenland
90%

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is the most cultivated grape in Austria? What percentage of total acreage?

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Gruner Veltliner

30%

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

Besides Gruner, what are the major white varietals of Austria?

A 
Welschriesling
Muller Thurgau
Weissburgunder
Riesling
Chardonnay (Morillon, Feinburgunder)
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the major red plantings of Austria?

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Zweigelt (Blaufrankisch x St. Laurent)
Blaufrankisch
Blauer Portugieser
Blauburger (Blaufrankisch x Blauer Portugeiser)

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

In 2009, what percentage of total plantings were white varietals in Austria?

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65%

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11
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the three quality levels for wine in Austria?

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Wein
Landwein
Qualitatswein

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the specifications for Austrian Qualitatswein?

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Sourced from a single Weinbaugebiete or one of the 16 smaller wine regions
Produced from one or more of 35 permitted grapes
Must pass a tasting panel and chemical analysis, giving it a State Control Number (Prufnummer) and a red or white banderole on the capsule

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is a Prufnummer?

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State control number given to Austrian Qualitatswein indicating that it has passed a tasting panel and chemical analysis

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the specifications for Austrian Wein?

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Generic category that replaced Tafelwein in 2009 vintage
May carry a vintage and varietal
May not have a more exclusive statement of origin than Osterreich

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the specifications for Austrian Landwein?

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Production is restricted to 35 varietals in Qualitatswein

Labeled with one of three Weinbauregionen

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16
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the three Weinbauregionen of Austria?

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Weinland
Steierland
Bergland

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Weinland in Austria?

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A weinbauregionen defined as the Weinbaugebiete Niederosterreich, Wein (Vienna) and Burgenland

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Steierland in Austria?

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A weinbauregionen defined as the Weinbaugebiete Styria (Steiermark)

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Bergland in Austria?

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A weinbauregionen defined as about 500 ha of vineyard land scattered through the remainder of Austria’s mountainous countryside

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20
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the maximum yields allowed for Austrian Wein, Landwein and Qualitatswein?

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9,000 kg/ha

67.5 hl/ha

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21
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

Do minimum must weight requirements increase with each level of quality in Austrian wine?

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Yes

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22
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the divisions of Qualitatswein in Austria?

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Pradikatswein

Districtus Austriae Controllatus

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the levels of Pradikatswein in Austria?

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Spatlese
Auslese
Beerenauslese
Stohwein
Eiswein
Ausbruch
Trockenbeerenauslese

Kabinett is considered part of Qualitatswein

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What restrictions are there on Pradikatswein and Kabinett wine in Austria?

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No chaptalization or sussreserve

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25
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is strohwein in Austria?

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Dried grapes of at least Beerenauslese ripeness

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26
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is ausbruch in Austria? How is it made?

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Sweet speciality wine of Rust in Neusiedlersee-Hugelland
Made similarly to Tokaji; richly concentrated botrytis-affected must is added to less concentrated must (from the same vineyard) and fermented together, then aged in barrel
Traditionally from Furmint, but other grapes are now used

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27
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

Where are sweet wines made in Austria?

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Around lake Neusiedlersee in Burgenland

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the DACs in Austria as of 2010?

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Weinviertel
Mittelburgenland
Traisental
Kremstal
Kamptal
Leithaberg
Eisenberg
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the sub-regions of Niederosterreich?

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Weinviertel
Carnuntum
Thermenregion
Wagram
Traisental
Kremstal
Kamptal
Wachau
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30
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the DACs of the Niederosterreich?

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Weinviertel
Traisental
Kremstal
Kamptal

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is the soil of Niederosterreich?

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Loess soils in the Pannonian Plain

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32
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is the largest winegrowing region in Austria?

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Niederosterreich

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is the climate of Austria?

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Continental with hot dry summers and cold winters

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34
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

Where are most of the sub-zones located in the Niederosterreich?

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Along the Danube River

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35
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Weinviertel? What are the permitted varietals?

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Austria’s first DAC
Niederosterreich’s largest sub-zone
Wines from Gruner Veltliner

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the allowed varietals in Traisental, Kamptal and Kremstal?

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Gruner Veltliner

Riesling

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37
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Erste Lange in Austria? Who names them?

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Top vineyards in Austria as named by the Osterreichischen Traditionsweinguter association of wine producers founded in 1992

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38
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Wachau?

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Westernmost subregion of Niederosterreich

Has most of Austria’s best vineyards but not a DAC

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39
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is the wine classification hierarchy in Wachau in Austria? What is special about them?

A

Steinfeder (local grass)
Federspiel (falconer’s tool)
Smaragd (emerald lizard)
Typically display tones of botrytis

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Vinea Wachau? What are their tenants? When was it founded? What is the total acreage?

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Organization of estates sworn to hold tenants of the Codes Wachau
No additives (including sugar)
No aromatization (including new barrique)
No fractionation
Must be bottled in the region and grapes come from Wachau
1983
85% of Wachau

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41
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Burgenland in Austria? What is its climate?

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Weinbaugebite in Austria that produces the best red and sweet wines in Austria
Borders Hungary
Hot continental climate with lake influence from Neusiedlersee (a lake)

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42
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the subregions of Burgenland?

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Mittelburdenland
Sudburgenland
Neusiedlersee
Neusiedlersee-Hugelland

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the DACs of Burgenland?

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Mittelburgenland
Eisenberg (in Sudburgenland)
Leithaberg (in Neusiedlersee-Hugelland)

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44
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the approved grapes in Mittelburgenland?

A

Blaufrankisch

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45
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the approved wines of Leithaberg?

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Whites may be SV or blends of Gruner, Chardonnay, Neuburger or Weissburgunder
Reds must be 85% Blaufrankisch

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46
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the approved grapes of Eisenberg?

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Blaufrankisch

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47
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is the most famous sweet wine in Austria?

A

Alois Kracher’s bottlins of esiwein, BA and TBA

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48
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is heuriger?

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A primeur wine consumed young in taverns of the same name

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the most cultivated grapes in Switzerland?

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Chasselas
Muller Thurgau
Sylvaner (Johannisberg)
Pinot Noir
Gamay Noir
Merlot
50
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is the most important canton in Switzerland? How much of the country’s wine production is it responsible for?

A

Valais

40%

51
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What river runs through Valais?

A

The northern part of the Rhone

52
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the most produced wines in Valais?

A

Fendant (Chasselas)
Dole (Pinot Noir and Gamay)
Vin des Glaxier (maderized solera wine from Reze)

53
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Vaud? What are the grapes typically grown there?

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Canton on the north shore of lake Geneva

Dorin (Chasselas)

54
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the regional AOCs of Vaud?

A 
Chablais
La Cote
Lavaux
Vully
Bonvillars
Cotes de l'Orbe
55
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the grand crus of Vaud?

A

Dezaley

Calamin

56
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the traditional AOCs of Vaud?

A

Dorin (Chasselas)

Salvagnin (blend of Gamay, Pinot Noir and crossings of Gamaret and Garanoir)

57
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Geneva?

A

Canton on SW shore of Lake Geneva containing Switzerland’s densest plantings

58
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Neuchatel? What are the varietals?

A

Wine producing canton in Switzerland that produces wines with extended lees contact, typically unfiltered Chasselas
Pinot Noir and Chasselas

59
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Assyrtiko?

A

(A seer? tee ko) Greek white varietal originally from Santorini but now throughout Greece

60
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Malagousia?

A

(Mah lah gou zya?) Greek white varietal from Macedonia, Peloponnesa

61
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Moschofilero?

A

(Mos ko fee? le ro) Greek white varietal from Mantinia in Peloponnese

62
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Roditis?

A

(Ro dee? tees) Greek white varietal from Attica, Macedonia, Thessaly and Peloponnese

63
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is White Muscat?

A

Greek white varietal from Samos, Patra and Rio of Patra

64
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Xynomavro?

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(Ksee no? ma vro) Red Greed varietal. Translates as ?sour black.? The predominant grape in Macedonia

65
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Agiorgitiko?

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(Ah yor yee? ti ko) Red Greek varietal. ?St George? ? AOC region Nemea in the Peloponnese

66
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Mavrodaphne?

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(Mav ro tha?f nee) Red Greek varietal. Translates as ?black laurel.? Found in the Peloponnesean regions of Achaia and Ilia as well as the Ionian Islands

67
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are PDOs of Greek wine law?

A

Controlled Appellation of Origin (AOC/OPE - traditionally for sweet wine)
Appellation of Superior Quality (AOSQ/OPAP)
PDO Wines of Greece

68
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the requirements for PDO Reserve in Greece?

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Reserve White - 1 year min, 6 mo in barrel min, 3 mo in bottle min
Reserve Red - 2 year min, 1 yr in barrel min, 6 mo in bottle min

69
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the requirements for PDO Grand Reserve in Greece?

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Grand Reserve White - 2 year min, 1 yr in barrel min, 6 mo in bottle min
Grand Reserve Red - 4 year min, 2 yr in barrel min, 1 yr in bottle min

70
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the PGIs of Greek wine?

A

Includes traditional appellations of Retsina and Verdea

Divided into regional, district, and area level

71
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Retsina? What are the grapes? Are there any labeling restrictions?

A

Oxidative white wine produced on Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea
Flavored with Aleppo pine resin
Typically from Savvatiano grapes
NV

72
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What does Cava mean in Greek wine?

A

For PGI whites and roses, minimum one year ageing (min 6 mo in oak)
For PGI reds, minimum three years ageing (min 1 year in oak)

73
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

How do you indicate more than required ageing in oak for PGI Greek wines?

A

Palaiomenos se vareli” will appear on the label”

74
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

When were Greece’s wine laws established? Appellations

A

1969 and 1970

1971

75
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Thrace?

A

Region in NE Greece

No PDO appellations

76
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Macedonia? What are its PDOs?

A 
Region in NE Greece
Naoussa
Amyneto
Goumenissa
Cotes de Meliton
77
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Naoussa?

A

PDO in Macedona (reds from Xinomavro)

78
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Amynteo?

A

PDO in Macedonia (reds and roses from Xinomavro)

79
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Goumenissa?

A

PDO in Macedonia (reds fromXinomavro and min 20% Negoska)

80
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Slopes of Meliton?

A

PDO in Macedonia, single appellation for Domaine Carras
Reds from Cab Sav, Cab Franc and Limnio
Whites from Assyrtiko, Athiri and Rhoditis

81
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Thessalia? What are its PDOs?

A

Region in Greece south of Macedonia

Rapsani

82
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Rapsani?

A

PDO in Thessalia on the lower slopes of Mt Olympus

Reds from Xinomavro blended with Roditis and Savvatiano

83
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Epirus? What are its PDOs?

A

Region in Greece on the Ionian Coast west of Thessalia

Zitsa

84
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Zitsa?

A

PDO in Epirus

Dry, semisweet and sparkling wines from Debina

85
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Central Greece? What is another name for it? What are its PDOs?

A

Region in Greece also called Sterea Ellada
Most famous for Retsina
There are no PDOs

86
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the Ionian Islands? Which one is a PDO?

A

Islands off the west coast of Greece

Cephalonia

87
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Cephalonia?

A

Ionian island
PDO for dry whites from Robola
PDO for sweet wines from Mavrodaphne and Muscat

88
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Peloponnese?

A

A region in southern Greece, barely a penninsula

89
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the PDOs of the northern Peloponnese?

A

Nemea
Mantinia
Patras

90
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Nemea? What are is the nickname for its wine?

A

PDO in northern Peloponnese with sweet and red wines from Agiorgitiko
Blood of Hercules (Blood of the Lion)

91
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Mantinia?

A

PDO in northern Peloponnese

Wines from Moschofilero

92
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Patras?

A

PDO in northern Peloponnese
Dry wines from Roditis
Also has dessert wine appellations

93
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the dessert wine PDOs of Patras?

A

Muscat of Patras
Muscat of Rio Patras
Mavrodaphne of Patras

94
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

Describe the wines of Muscat of Patras and Muscat of Rio Patras?

A

VDN or naturally sweet from Muscat Blanc a Petit Grains

95
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

Describe the wines of Mavrodaphne of Patras?

A

Sweet fortified red from Mavrodaphne and Mavri Korinthiaki (Currant grape used to raise sugar content of wine)
Aged one year in wood at least
Can be vintage, NV, or solera

96
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Monemvassia-Malvasia?

A

Small PDO zone in SW Peloponnese

Sweet oxidized wines from min 51% Monemvassia

97
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the PDOs for Crete?

A

Peza
Sitia
Archanes
Dafnes

98
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the non-Crete Agean Island PDOs?

A 
Santorini
Paros
Lemnos
Rhodes
Muscat of Lemnos
Muscat of Rhodes
Muscat of Samos
99
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the red PDOs of Crete?

A

Archanes (Mandilaria with Kotsifali)

Dafnes (Liatiko grape)

100
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the Red/White PDOs of Crete?

A

Sitia (W-Vilana, R-Liatiko)

Peza (W-Vilana, R-Mandilaria with Kotsifali)

101
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Santorini?

A

PDO North of Crete
White wines from Assyrtiko
Stefani traning into baskets

102
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Paros?

A

PDO North of Crete
Whites from Monemvassia
Reds from Mandilaria and Monemvassia

103
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Samos?

A

Island for PDO Muscat of Samos
Produced from Muscat Blanc a Petits Grans
Produced in VdL, VdN and naturally sweet versions (Samos Nectar - similar to vin de paille)

104
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Lemnos?

A

Island north of the Cyclades
2 PDOs - Lemnos and Muscat of Lemnos
Whites from Muscat and may be dry or sweet

105
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Rhodes?

A

Island east of the Cyclades
2 PDOs - Rhodes and Muscat of Rhodes
Red and white varietal wines from Mandilaria and Athiri

106
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What does Aszu mean?

A

Indicates grapes with high sugar levels affected by botrytis?

107
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

When was Tokaji first classified?

A

1700

108
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

When does Aszu first appear in literature?

A

1571

109
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is the Tokaj region?

A

Region in Hungary at the convergence of two rivers, sheltered by the Carpathian Mountains
Continental climate with long humid autumns

110
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

How are Tokaj vineyards classified?

A

Into 1st, 2nd and 3rd growths

111
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the grapes of Tokjai Aszu?

A 
Furmint
Harslevelu
Sarga Muskoatly (Muscat Blanc a Petit Grains)
Zeta (Oremus)
Kabar
Koverszolo
112
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are puttony?

A

Traditional containers that hold 25 kg

113
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is esszencia?

A

Wine made from free run juice of Aszu

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

How is Tokjai Aszu made?

A

Aszu is made into a paste and then a number of puttony with aszu paste are added to gonci barrels of non-aszu must/wine

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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

How large is a gonc?

A

136L

116
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

How long is Tokaji Aszu aged?

A

Two in barrels, one in bottle

117
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

How long does esszencia take to ferment? What is the final alcohol level? RS?

A

It can take decades to reach 4-6% alcohol

Can be up to 800 g/L

118
Q

Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What are the typical Puttonyos and RS levels for Tokaji Aszu?

A 
3 Puttonyos 60 g/L
4 Puttonyos 90 g/L
5 Puttonyos 120 g/L
6 Puttonyos 150 g/L
Aszuesszencia (7-9) Puttonyos 180 g/L
Naturesszencia 250 g/L
119
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Tokaji Szamorodni?

A

As it comes… Mixture of aszu and non-aszu grapes? Often oxidative because it is matured in cask for two years under flor May be edes (sweet) or szaras (dry)

120
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Tokaji Forditas?

A

Ripasso

121
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Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland

What is Tokaji Maslas?

A

Refermenting wine with spent lees from Tokjai Aszu

Wine - Old World Regions (11 decks)

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