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

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Diethylene glycol added to wine

1985

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

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Niederosterreich
Burgenland
90%

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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?

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Welschriesling
Muller Thurgau
Weissburgunder
Riesling
Chardonnay (Morillon, Feinburgunder)
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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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In 2009, what percentage of total plantings were white varietals in Austria?

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65%

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is strohwein in Austria?
Dried grapes of at least Beerenauslese ripeness
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is ausbruch in Austria? How is it made?
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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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland Where are sweet wines made in Austria?
Around lake Neusiedlersee in Burgenland
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the DACs in Austria as of 2010?
``` Weinviertel Mittelburgenland Traisental Kremstal Kamptal Leithaberg Eisenberg ```
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the sub-regions of Niederosterreich?
``` Weinviertel Carnuntum Thermenregion Wagram Traisental Kremstal Kamptal Wachau ```
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the DACs of the Niederosterreich?
Weinviertel Traisental Kremstal Kamptal
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is the soil of Niederosterreich?
Loess soils in the Pannonian Plain
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is the largest winegrowing region in Austria?
Niederosterreich
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is the climate of Austria?
Continental with hot dry summers and cold winters
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland Where are most of the sub-zones located in the Niederosterreich?
Along the Danube River
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Weinviertel? What are the permitted varietals?
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?
Gruner Veltliner | Riesling
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Erste Lange in Austria? Who names them?
Top vineyards in Austria as named by the Osterreichischen Traditionsweinguter association of wine producers founded in 1992
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Wachau?
Westernmost subregion of Niederosterreich | Has most of Austria's best vineyards but not a DAC
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is the wine classification hierarchy in Wachau in Austria? What is special about them?
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?
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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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Burgenland in Austria? What is its climate?
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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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the subregions of Burgenland?
Mittelburdenland Sudburgenland Neusiedlersee Neusiedlersee-Hugelland
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the DACs of Burgenland?
Mittelburgenland Eisenberg (in Sudburgenland) Leithaberg (in Neusiedlersee-Hugelland)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the approved grapes in Mittelburgenland?
Blaufrankisch
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the approved wines of Leithaberg?
Whites may be SV or blends of Gruner, Chardonnay, Neuburger or Weissburgunder Reds must be 85% Blaufrankisch
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the approved grapes of Eisenberg?
Blaufrankisch
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is the most famous sweet wine in Austria?
Alois Kracher's bottlins of esiwein, BA and TBA
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is heuriger?
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?
``` Chasselas Muller Thurgau Sylvaner (Johannisberg) Pinot Noir Gamay Noir Merlot ```
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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?
Valais | 40%
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What river runs through Valais?
The northern part of the Rhone
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the most produced wines in Valais?
Fendant (Chasselas) Dole (Pinot Noir and Gamay) Vin des Glaxier (maderized solera wine from Reze)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Vaud? What are the grapes typically grown there?
Canton on the north shore of lake Geneva | Dorin (Chasselas)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the regional AOCs of Vaud?
``` Chablais La Cote Lavaux Vully Bonvillars Cotes de l'Orbe ```
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the grand crus of Vaud?
Dezaley | Calamin
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the traditional AOCs of Vaud?
Dorin (Chasselas) | Salvagnin (blend of Gamay, Pinot Noir and crossings of Gamaret and Garanoir)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Geneva?
Canton on SW shore of Lake Geneva containing Switzerland's densest plantings
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Neuchatel? What are the varietals?
Wine producing canton in Switzerland that produces wines with extended lees contact, typically unfiltered Chasselas Pinot Noir and Chasselas
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Assyrtiko?
(A seer? tee ko) Greek white varietal originally from Santorini but now throughout Greece
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Malagousia?
(Mah lah gou zya?) Greek white varietal from Macedonia, Peloponnesa
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Moschofilero?
(Mos ko fee? le ro) Greek white varietal from Mantinia in Peloponnese
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Roditis?
(Ro dee? tees) Greek white varietal from Attica, Macedonia, Thessaly and Peloponnese
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is White Muscat?
Greek white varietal from Samos, Patra and Rio of Patra
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Xynomavro?
(Ksee no? ma vro) Red Greed varietal. Translates as ?sour black.? The predominant grape in Macedonia
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Agiorgitiko?
(Ah yor yee? ti ko) Red Greek varietal. ?St George? ? AOC region Nemea in the Peloponnese
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Mavrodaphne?
(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
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are PDOs of Greek wine law?
Controlled Appellation of Origin (AOC/OPE - traditionally for sweet wine) Appellation of Superior Quality (AOSQ/OPAP) PDO Wines of Greece
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the requirements for PDO Reserve in Greece?
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
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the requirements for PDO Grand Reserve in Greece?
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
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the PGIs of Greek wine?
Includes traditional appellations of Retsina and Verdea | Divided into regional, district, and area level
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Retsina? What are the grapes? Are there any labeling restrictions?
Oxidative white wine produced on Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea Flavored with Aleppo pine resin Typically from Savvatiano grapes NV
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What does Cava mean in Greek wine?
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)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland How do you indicate more than required ageing in oak for PGI Greek wines?
Palaiomenos se vareli" will appear on the label"
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland When were Greece's wine laws established? Appellations
1969 and 1970 | 1971
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Thrace?
Region in NE Greece | No PDO appellations
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Macedonia? What are its PDOs?
``` Region in NE Greece Naoussa Amyneto Goumenissa Cotes de Meliton ```
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Naoussa?
PDO in Macedona (reds from Xinomavro)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Amynteo?
PDO in Macedonia (reds and roses from Xinomavro)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Goumenissa?
PDO in Macedonia (reds fromXinomavro and min 20% Negoska)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Slopes of Meliton?
PDO in Macedonia, single appellation for Domaine Carras Reds from Cab Sav, Cab Franc and Limnio Whites from Assyrtiko, Athiri and Rhoditis
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Thessalia? What are its PDOs?
Region in Greece south of Macedonia | Rapsani
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Rapsani?
PDO in Thessalia on the lower slopes of Mt Olympus | Reds from Xinomavro blended with Roditis and Savvatiano
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Epirus? What are its PDOs?
Region in Greece on the Ionian Coast west of Thessalia | Zitsa
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Zitsa?
PDO in Epirus | Dry, semisweet and sparkling wines from Debina
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Central Greece? What is another name for it? What are its PDOs?
Region in Greece also called Sterea Ellada Most famous for Retsina There are no PDOs
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the Ionian Islands? Which one is a PDO?
Islands off the west coast of Greece | Cephalonia
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Cephalonia?
Ionian island PDO for dry whites from Robola PDO for sweet wines from Mavrodaphne and Muscat
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Peloponnese?
A region in southern Greece, barely a penninsula
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the PDOs of the northern Peloponnese?
Nemea Mantinia Patras
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Nemea? What are is the nickname for its wine?
PDO in northern Peloponnese with sweet and red wines from Agiorgitiko Blood of Hercules (Blood of the Lion)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Mantinia?
PDO in northern Peloponnese | Wines from Moschofilero
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Patras?
PDO in northern Peloponnese Dry wines from Roditis Also has dessert wine appellations
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the dessert wine PDOs of Patras?
Muscat of Patras Muscat of Rio Patras Mavrodaphne of Patras
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland Describe the wines of Muscat of Patras and Muscat of Rio Patras?
VDN or naturally sweet from Muscat Blanc a Petit Grains
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland Describe the wines of Mavrodaphne of Patras?
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
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Monemvassia-Malvasia?
Small PDO zone in SW Peloponnese | Sweet oxidized wines from min 51% Monemvassia
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the PDOs for Crete?
Peza Sitia Archanes Dafnes
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the non-Crete Agean Island PDOs?
``` Santorini Paros Lemnos Rhodes Muscat of Lemnos Muscat of Rhodes Muscat of Samos ```
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the red PDOs of Crete?
Archanes (Mandilaria with Kotsifali) | Dafnes (Liatiko grape)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the Red/White PDOs of Crete?
Sitia (W-Vilana, R-Liatiko) | Peza (W-Vilana, R-Mandilaria with Kotsifali)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Santorini?
PDO North of Crete White wines from Assyrtiko Stefani traning into baskets
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Paros?
PDO North of Crete Whites from Monemvassia Reds from Mandilaria and Monemvassia
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Samos?
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)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Lemnos?
Island north of the Cyclades 2 PDOs - Lemnos and Muscat of Lemnos Whites from Muscat and may be dry or sweet
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Rhodes?
Island east of the Cyclades 2 PDOs - Rhodes and Muscat of Rhodes Red and white varietal wines from Mandilaria and Athiri
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What does Aszu mean?
Indicates grapes with high sugar levels affected by botrytis?
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland When was Tokaji first classified?
1700
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland When does Aszu first appear in literature?
1571
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is the Tokaj region?
Region in Hungary at the convergence of two rivers, sheltered by the Carpathian Mountains Continental climate with long humid autumns
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland How are Tokaj vineyards classified?
Into 1st, 2nd and 3rd growths
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the grapes of Tokjai Aszu?
``` Furmint Harslevelu Sarga Muskoatly (Muscat Blanc a Petit Grains) Zeta (Oremus) Kabar Koverszolo ```
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are puttony?
Traditional containers that hold 25 kg
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is esszencia?
Wine made from free run juice of Aszu
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland How is Tokjai Aszu made?
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?
136L
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland How long is Tokaji Aszu aged?
Two in barrels, one in bottle
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland How long does esszencia take to ferment? What is the final alcohol level? RS?
It can take decades to reach 4-6% alcohol | Can be up to 800 g/L
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What are the typical Puttonyos and RS levels for Tokaji Aszu?
``` 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 ```
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Tokaji Szamorodni?
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)
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Tokaji Forditas?
Ripasso
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# Austria, Greece, Hungary and Switzerland What is Tokaji Maslas?
Refermenting wine with spent lees from Tokjai Aszu

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