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Rest of Europe Flashcards

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How many Grand Crus in Valais

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12

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Pot Vaudois 1822

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Historical bottle in Vaud
1.4 l

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2 PDO of England

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Darnibole (Baccchus)
Sussex

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Sussex PDO sparkling rules

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8 grape varieties (7 as in Champagne + Pinot Noir Précoce)
15 months of aging (12 on the lees)

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Aligote

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Burgundian white grape variety popular all over eastern europe.

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Amigne

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Rare white swiss grape variety used for dry, semi dry and sweet wines. Drys are powerful with distinctive linden aromas, seet with flavors of citrus fruit and bitter almond.

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Bacchus

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Important german cross, grown in the UK for its must weights and is second planted only to Chardonnay. With lower yields and higher natural acid levels does not suffer from the flabbiness of warmer climates.

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Blauer Wildbacher

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Perfumed dark grape variety grown primarily in Styria, Austria. Increasinglyt popular and is made into tart, pink specialty Schilcher.

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Blaufrankish

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Austrian name for red grape variety germans call Lemberger. Austrias second most planted dark berry variety. Character, high acidity, good color, tannin and raciness when carefully grown. Also grown in bulgaria, and hungary as Kekfrankos. Varied wine styles with red fruit, firm acidity, good weight, deep color and spicy character.

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Bouvier

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Minor low acid grape variety grown mainly in Burgenland of Austria.

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Chasselas

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Originating fom Switzerland, is the most common grape variety grown. Neutral white grape but some terroir influences can win acclaim. Can also be found in central Europe though not as commonly as in the past. Also known as Fendant

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Dimyat

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Widely planted indigenous white grape variety in Bulgaria, grown mainly in the east and south. Dependable quality, perfumed everyday whites of varying sweetness. High yielding Copper colored grapes. Wines should be consumed young and cool.

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Completer

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Ancient white grape variety grown in Graubünden Switzerland. Wines are distinctive, pungent, acidic and Full bodied.

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Ezerjo

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White grape variety almost exclusive to hungary. Light, crisp refreshing dry and strong sweet botrytized wines in good vintages.

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Feteasca

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Means ‘young girl’ 3 important varieties in eastern Europe. Feteasca Regalia; most planted in Romania, crisp, scented whites. Feteasca Alba; often used for sparkling wines, and Feteasca Neagra; dark skinned wines show potential when well vinified, and yields restricted, less commonly planted.

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Furmint

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Hungarian white grape variety. Used for dry and off-dry wines, but also happily susceptible to noble rot and widely used in the production of Tokaji Aszú. High acidity, leads to good aging potential and rich fiery flavors. Dry can be characterful delicious wine that can age well or be drunk young. Aszu grapes may not picked until well into November.

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Gamay Noir

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Outside france, chiefly valued in Switzerland, grown widely ad often blended with pinot noir.

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Gruner Veltliner

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Most commonly planted grape variety in Austria, and also planted around eastern Europe, increasingly respected world-wide. Vine can be productive and hardy, but ripens too late for northern Europe. Wines are dry, full bodied, peppery or spicy and combine perfume and substance. With time in bottle can taste Burgundian.

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Harslevelu

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White grape variety, most widely grown in Hungary, produces spicy aromatic white wines. Adds perfume to furmint and is a major component in Tokaji. Widely planted in hungary, deep green-gold, very viscous, full with the flavor of linden honey.

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Humagne Blanche

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Elegant swiss white grape.

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Humagne Rouge

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Rare red wine grape in Switzerland. Wines are wild, rustic, and high in tannins.

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Huxelrabe

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German cross, In England, its ripeness and high must weights are a useful counterbalance to naturally high acidity.

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Irsay Olivier

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Recent white wine cross grown in Slovakia and hungary. Ripens early and reliably, produces heavy intensely aromatic wines reminiscent of muscat.

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Juhfark

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Distinctive white grape variety, once widely grown in hungary but never fully recovered after phylloxera. Found exclusively in Somlo region, tart wines that age well.

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Kadarka

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Most widely planted in Bulgaria but found throughout eastern Europe. Late ripening red variety, prone to grey rot. Highly productive and needs to be controlled and trained into bush vines to produce concentrated wines. Fully ripe can be fine, soft, full bodied wines worthy of age.

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Keknyelu

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Revered but very rare white grape variety grown in hungary, very low yields make crisp, perfumed wines.

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Madeleine Angevine

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Early ripening cross most seen as table grapes, but can produce light grapey wines in England. Also planted in Sweden and Denmark.

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Mavrud

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Bulgarian grape, produces intense, tannic wine if allowed to ripen fully. Small berried, low yielding with a long vegetative period. Responds well to oak aging but ages faster than Melnik.

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Melnik

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Powerful ancient late-ripening Bulgarian red grape variety. Small berries with thick blue skin. More extract, tannin, and alcohol than typical of Bulgaria. Long lived wine, with oak aging and several years bring out a style similar to Nebbiolo. Aroma of tobacco leaves.

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Misket

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Name for 3 different perfumed white wines in Bulgaria.

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Muller-Thurgau

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German cross that thrives in central and eastern Europe. Generally makes light inconsequential wines.

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Muscat Blanc a Petits Grains

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In eastern Europe it is not as widely planted as Muscat Ottonel due to its longer growing season. It is the third ingredient in Tokaj.

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Muscat Ottonel

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Palest of all muscats, easier to cultivate in cooler climates. Low vigor vine does best in deep damp soils, grown widely through eastern Europe. Notable in Austria, hungary and Romania. In Romania and Bulgaria may be labelled Misket.

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Neuburger

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Somewhat distinguished white grape variety grown almost exclusively in Austria. Nutty wine that tastes like an even fuller bodied weissburgunder.

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Ortega

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Once popular as an Oechsle booster in germany. Full flavored wines with high must weight but low acidity, popular in England for this reason.

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Pamid

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Bulgaria’s most widely planted but least interesting indigenous grape variety. Thin early maturing red wines with few distinguishing marks. Mostly consumed domestically.

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Petite Arvine

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Also known as Arvine, Finest indigenous garpe variety in Switzerland. Nervy with considerable extract, suggestion of grapefruit and salt. Wines vary in sweetness level from dry-sweet.

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Phoenix

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Rot prone but disease resistant variety grown in England, produces attractive, herbaceous, and elderflower scented wines.

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Portugieser

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Common black grape variety grown in Austria. 3rd most planted dark berry variety, but rarely exported. Produces dull, thin red wines. Spread throughout Central Europe due to its ease to grow.

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ReichenSteiner

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Cross of Muller-Thurgau and Madeleine Angevine. Both wine and vine resemble its undistinguished parents, but looser bunches mean its less rot prone, and better chance of reaching better must weights.

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Rkatsiteli

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Widely planted in old Soviet union, but Vine pull scheme around 2000 drastically reduced its plantings. Productive variety achieves much as a base for a range of wine styles, decent acidity and sugar. Ancient cold-hardy white variety.

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Rondo

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Disease resistant red grape variety grown to a limited extent in Northern European countries. Early ripening with good depth of color. Small berries, makes light fruity wine.

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Rotgipfler

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Less noble of the two white grape varieties used in the full-bodied long-lived spicy wine of Austria’s Thermenregion. Late ripening, high in extract, alcohol and bouquet. Plantings remain steady.

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Savagnin

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Very old variety important for its genetics, Parent of Gewurztraminer, Chenin Blanc, Gruner Veltliner, Sauvignon blanc, Silvaner, and Petit Manseng.

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Scheurebe

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Grown in southern Austria, producing fine sweet wines. German cross that is Unappetizing in not allowed to reach full ripeness.Exuberant racy flavors of Blackcurrants or Grapefruit. Similar to a riper more productive Riesling.

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Schonburger

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Pink berried german cross that is more useful to England, but plantings are declining. White, low in acid, and full bodied.

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Seyval Blanc

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Complex light-skinned French hybrid. Productive, ripens early and is suitable for the cool climates of England, used to be most planted but was overtaken by champagne grapes. Mainly used for blending and sparkling wine.

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St-Laurent

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Pinot Noir like grape variety most common to Austria. With limited yields can produce deep-colored, velvety reds with sufficient concentration to permit oak and bottle aging. More important than Pinot noir, can produce a similar but more powerful wine. Very early budding, tendency to drop flowers, and susceptibility to Coulure and rot are less of a problem in Austria.

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Silvaner

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Early budding white grape variety grown mainly in germany and central Europe. Important in Switzerland (4th most planted white variety) Luscious compared to Chasselas.

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Welschriesling

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Important white grape variety in Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovenia, Czech republic and Slovakia. Does best in dry climates and warmer soils. Light-bodied, aromatic wines that keep their acidity well. Best in Austria, specifically in finely balanced, rich late harvest wines. 2nd most planted variety, can reach very high levels of sweetness in good vintages from noble rot.

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Zefir

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Early ripening Hungarian cross producing soft, spicy, white wine.

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Zenit

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Hugarian cross that ripens early to produce crispy, fruity but non aromatic white wines.

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Zeta

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Hungarian cross that is permitted in Tokaj.

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Zierfandler

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Finer of the two white grapes in full-bodied, long-lived spicy white wines of Thermenregion Austria. Ripens late but keeps acidity well. Sufficent nerve to make late harvest wines that can evolve for years in bottle in a varietal.

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Zweigelt

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Austria’s most popular dark-berried variety, cross between blaufrankisch and St-Laurent. Bite and elegance, but sometimes encouraged to produce too much leading to a diluted wine. Ripens earlier than Blaufrankisch but buds later than St-Laurent. Grown widely throughout Austria, and can make a serious, age-worthy, exuberantly fruity wine, most are best drunk young. Grown elsewhere in Europe.

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Bernard Massard

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Luxemburg, sparkling wine producer

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