Rest of Europe Flashcards
How many Grand Crus in Valais
12
Pot Vaudois 1822
Historical bottle in Vaud
1.4 l
2 PDO of England
Darnibole (Baccchus)
Sussex
Sussex PDO sparkling rules
8 grape varieties (7 as in Champagne + Pinot Noir Précoce)
15 months of aging (12 on the lees)
Amigne
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.
Blauer Wildbacher
Perfumed dark grape variety grown primarily in Styria, Austria. Increasinglyt popular and is made into tart, pink specialty Schilcher.
Blaufrankish
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.
Bouvier
Minor low acid grape variety grown mainly in Burgenland of Austria.
Chasselas
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
Dimyat
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.
Completer
Ancient white grape variety grown in Graubünden Switzerland. Wines are distinctive, pungent, acidic and Full bodied.
Ezerjo
White grape variety almost exclusive to hungary. Light, crisp refreshing dry and strong sweet botrytized wines in good vintages.
Feteasca
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.
Furmint
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.
Gamay Noir
Outside france, chiefly valued in Switzerland, grown widely ad often blended with pinot noir.
Gruner Veltliner
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.
Harslevelu
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.
Humagne Blanche
Elegant swiss white grape.
Humagne Rouge
Rare red wine grape in Switzerland. Wines are wild, rustic, and high in tannins.
Huxelrabe
German cross, In England, its ripeness and high must weights are a useful counterbalance to naturally high acidity.
Irsay Olivier
Recent white wine cross grown in Slovakia and hungary. Ripens early and reliably, produces heavy intensely aromatic wines reminiscent of muscat.
Juhfark
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.
Kadarka
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.
Keknyelu
Revered but very rare white grape variety grown in hungary, very low yields make crisp, perfumed wines.
Madeleine Angevine
Early ripening cross most seen as table grapes, but can produce light grapey wines in England. Also planted in Sweden and Denmark.
Mavrud
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.
Melnik
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.
Misket
Name for 3 different perfumed white wines in Bulgaria.
Muller-Thurgau
German cross that thrives in central and eastern Europe. Generally makes light inconsequential wines.
Muscat Blanc a Petits Grains
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.
Muscat Ottonel
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.
Neuburger
Somewhat distinguished white grape variety grown almost exclusively in Austria. Nutty wine that tastes like an even fuller bodied weissburgunder.
Ortega
Once popular as an Oechsle booster in germany. Full flavored wines with high must weight but low acidity, popular in England for this reason.
Pamid
Bulgaria’s most widely planted but least interesting indigenous grape variety. Thin early maturing red wines with few distinguishing marks. Mostly consumed domestically.
Petite Arvine
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.
Phoenix
Rot prone but disease resistant variety grown in England, produces attractive, herbaceous, and elderflower scented wines.
Portugieser
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.
ReichenSteiner
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.
Rkatsiteli
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.
Rondo
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.
Rotgipfler
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.
Savagnin
Very old variety important for its genetics, Parent of Gewurztraminer, Chenin Blanc, Gruner Veltliner, Sauvignon blanc, Silvaner, and Petit Manseng.
Scheurebe
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.
Schonburger
Pink berried german cross that is more useful to England, but plantings are declining. White, low in acid, and full bodied.
Seyval Blanc
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.
St-Laurent
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.
Silvaner
Early budding white grape variety grown mainly in germany and central Europe. Important in Switzerland (4th most planted white variety) Luscious compared to Chasselas.
Welschriesling
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.
Zefir
Early ripening Hungarian cross producing soft, spicy, white wine.
Zenit
Hugarian cross that ripens early to produce crispy, fruity but non aromatic white wines.
Zeta
Hungarian cross that is permitted in Tokaj.
Zierfandler
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.
Zweigelt
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.
Bernard Massard
Luxemburg, sparkling wine producer
Best vintage for English wines
2018
Acreage of vines in England
3500 ha
How many wineries in England
165
The first Denmark PDO
Dons
From 2018
The acreage of the Dons PDO in Denmark
500 ha
The only estate of Dons PDO in Denmark
Skaersogaard
Vineyards of the Queen of England
Windsor Vineyard
Sussex
Winery of Steven Spurrier
Bride Valley
Dorset
Trade mark of english sparkling
Great Britain Classic Method
1086 line
Nyetimber
6.5 years on lees
Bacchus parents
white grape created by Peter Morio at the Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding in the Palatinate in 1933
Silvaner x Riesling + Müller-Thurgau
Regent parents
(Sylvaner*MT) + Chambourcin
Rondo
dark skinned
Saint Laurent + Zarya Severa
Solaris
Merzling + Gm 6493 (crossing of Zarya Severa and Muscat Ottonel)
Denmark’s largest winery
Dyrehoj Vingaard
The northernmost vineyard of Europe
Lerkekåsa Vineyard
Norway
Denmark key regions
4
Jutland
Funen
Zealand
Bornholm
Year when Denmark officially being named a wine-producing country by the EU
2000
Souvignier Gris
Cabernet Sauvignon + Bronner
Region where PDO Dons is located
Jutland
the northernmost appellation in the EU
PDO Dons
The biggest winery in Denmark
Dyrehøj
Acreage of vineyards in Sweden
30 ha
Первый коммерческий проект в Швеции
Хозяйство Blaxta
C 1999
Parallels of Norway
between the 58th and 62nd North parallels, its vineyard is the most northern in the world!
Acreage of vineyards in Norway
10 ha
Cabernet Cortis
Solaris + CabernetSauvignon
The wine estate in Norway
Skudenest Gaard
Triomphe d’Alsace
Parents
Knipperle (an obscure crossing of Pinot Noir and Gouais Blanc) and an unknown American vine.
Madeleine Angevine
Parents
Circe and Madeleine Royale
Northernmost Winery in Europe
Where
Latvia
Seyval blanc parents
Seibel 5656 + Seibel 4986 (Rayon d’Or)
Schonburger parents
Pinot Noir + Pirovano 1 (itself a crossing of Chasselas Rosé and Muscat Hamburg)
Ortega parents
Müller -Thurgau + Siegerrebe
Kent’s oldest commercial vineyard
Biddenden
Chapel Down winery
Where
Kent
Which region is known colloquially as the Garden of England
Kent
Taittinger’s project in England
Domaine Evremond
Kent
The largest wine region in England
Sussex
700 ha
Nyetimber
Where
Sussex
Ridgeview
Where
Sussex
only one winery in Wales
Ancre Hill Estates
Wine production was illegal in Denmark until…
1999
The most significant winery in Denmark
Dyrehøj gaard winery
Till 2008, this vineyard held the Guinness World Record as the world’s most northerly commercial, open-air vineyard.
Vīna kalns (‘wine hill’) in Latvia
Apostelhoeve winery
Where
Holland
The only area where viniculture is feasible in Sweden is
Scania province
national monopoly in Sweden
Systembolaget
Min lees aging for English PDO sparkling wine
9 mths
Vineyards acreage in England
3500
Wine regions of Southern England
4
Hampshire
Surrey
Sussex
Kent
England’s first modern commercial vineyard
The Hambledon vineyard
1951
Hampshire
the first winery in England to make Albarino
Chapel Down of Kent
the first winery in England to make orange wine
Chapel Down of Kent
How many wineries in England
165 wineries
770 vineyards
How many bottles produced a year in England
10.5 m
The most planted grape in England
Chardonnay
On Barack Obama’s state visit to the UK in 2011, which English sparkling wine was he served
Ridgeview Cuvee Merret Fitzrovia Rosé 2004
Gusbourne
Where
Kent
The first English sparkling to be produced by a Champagne House.
Louis Pommery English brut
by Vranken-Pommery
Hampshire
the largest winery in England
Chapel Down
the most widely grown variety for still wines
Bacchus
The most northerly commercial vineyard in England
Ryedale Vineyards near York
Darnibole PDO
Single vineyard
Single winery (Camel valley winery)
Bacchus grape 100%
5 PDOs for wine in England
English wine
Welsh wine
Sussex wine
Darnibole
Sussex sparkling wine
Style of Dons PDO
Sparkling traditional method
Min 6 months on lees
Less than 25 g of RS
The most planted grape in Denmark
Solaris
