Slovenia and Croatia Flashcards
Slovenia is the wealthiest and most modernized nation to emerge from what?
the wreckage of Tito’s Yugoslavia
When did Slovenia join the EU?
2004 and is a rapidly improving producer of wine
What are the 3 regions of Slovenia?
- Primorska (Primorje) borders Friuli in Italy
- Podravje is in the extreme northeast
- Posavje lines Slovenia’s eastern border with Croatia
What is the Slovenia’s best region for both red and white wine?
Primorska
What is Primorska subdivided into?
- Goriska Brda
- Kras
- Koper
- Vipava
The proximity to Friuli is clear in Primorska, what becomes Collio Goriziano across the Italian border?
Goriska Brda (“Brda” translates to “hills”)
The proximity to Friuli is clear in Primorska, what becomes Carso across the Italian border?
Kras
What is the climate of Primoska?
mild, Mediterranean-influenced climate is similar to that in Friuli
Who has has to cross the border to harvest nearly half of his vineyards in Slovenia?
Ales Kristancic of Movia, Slovenia’s star producer
Movia’s contemporary and aesthetic kin, ____ , has to cross the Slovenian border to access some of his vineyards as well.
Josko Gravner
The varieties are simply renamed in Slovenia: Refosco becomes__; Ribolla Gialla becomes__; Pinot Grigio becomes __.
Refosk, Rebula, Sivi Pinot
What International varietals are common in Primoska?
Cabernet grapes and Merlot
What other indigenous varieties persist in Primoska?
the white Pinela and Zelen (a relative of Verduzzo Gialla)
What is Slovenia’s largest region?
Podravje
How many subzones does Podravje hold?
7 and primarily produces white wines
What varietals comprise Podravje’s varietal bottlings?
Laski Rizling (Welschriesling), Diseci Traminer (Gewürztraminer), Renski Rizling (Riesling), Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc
What region is third in production?
Posavje, with slightly more than half of Primorska’s total acreage under vine
Posavje borders what Croatian region?
The Inland region, which is characterized overwhelmingly by white wine production
What grape is cultivated in over half of Crotaians Inland region vineyards?
Grasevina (Laski Rizling)
The coast of Croatia stretches from where to where?
the Italian border southward
The coast of Croatia includes what 2 noncontiguous zones?
Istria and Dalmatia
What is dominant on the coast of Croatia?
White wine
Interest in what red grapes are on the rise on the coast of Croatia?
red Bordeaux varietals and the native Crljenak Kastelanski (Zinfandel) and its offshoot Plavac Mali
Mike Grgich, legendary Napa Valley winemaker and a native Croatian, produces what in Croatia?
Plavac Mali wines at his Grgic Vina estate in the Dingac subzone of Dalmatia
