Spain Flashcards
The white grape of Rueda DO?
Verdejo
Minimum aging requirements for Rioja Gran Reserva white wines?
Six months in barrel; four years total
The native trio of grapes used in Cava production?
Xarel-Lo
Macabeo
Parellada
The most widely planted red grape of Spain?
Tempranillo
Name the two DOCa regions of Spain?
Rioja
Priorat
Aging requirements for Rioja Crianza?
One year in barrel; two years total
This region produces the majority of Cava?
Catalunya
Arrange the four tiers of Spanish Classification from most prestigious on down.
DOCa
DOC
VCIG
Vino de la Tierra
Match the following towns with their corresponding subregions of Rioja:
a) Haro
b) Laguardia
c) Logrono
a) Rioja Alta
b) Rioja Alavesa
c) Rioja Alta
Name the five DOs of Galicia?
Valdeorras DO Ribiero DO Ribiera Sacra DO Monterrei DO Rias Baixas
Who produces L’Hermita?
Alvaro Palacios (Priorat)
Name the top Ribera del Duero vintages from the 21st century?
2001
2004
2005
2010
Cencibel is a synonym for?
Tempranillo
What geographical feature separates Costers del Segre from Southwest France?
Pyrenees Mountains
What is the most planted red grape of Jumilla DO?
Monastrell
In which DO would you be most likely to find old vine Garnacha?
Calatayud
Who produces “Castillo y Gay?”
Marquis de Murrietta
In which region would you find the Calatayud DO?
Aragon
What region is Gratallops located in?
Priorat
Tenerife and Lanzarote are located in what archipelago?
Canary Islands
What specific body of water is directly to the north of País Vasco?
Bay of BIscay
What is the primary red grape of Manchuela DO?
Bobal
What is the dominant red grape of Navarra?
Garnacha
Name the region(s) constituting the Rioja DOCa.
La Rioja
Navarra
Name the permissible white and red grapes of Cava?
a) Xarel-Lo, Macabeo, Parellada, Chardonnay, Malvasia
b) Garnacha, Pinot Noir, Monestrall, Trepat
Name the permissible white and red grapes of Cava?
a) Xarel-Lo, Macabeo, Parellada, Chardonnay, Malvasia
b) Garnacha, Pinot Noir, Monestrall, Trepat
Wines labeled Añejo are aged for a minimum of how many months before release?
24mos
Bodega Otazu, Prado de Irache, and Señorio de Arinzano all produce wines under what designation?
DO Pago
What is the capacity of traditional barrels used in aging red wines in Rioja?
225L
Match the following DOs to their respective regions:
a) Montilla-Moriles
b) Ribeira Sacra
c) Rueda
d) Arabako Txakolina
e) Costers del Segre
a) Andalucia
b) Galicia
c) Castilla y Leon
d) Pais Vasco
e) Catalunya
Quercus Alba is also known as?
American Oak
Name four traditional Rioja producers whose start began during the latter half of the nineteenth century?
La Rioja Alta
Lopez Heredia
CVNE
Berceo
What was Cava first known as when traditional method sparkling wine began being produced in Spain?
Champana
The birthplace of Cava?
San Sadurni d’Anoia
DO regulations were finally approved and implemented in?
1970
Define the aging requirements for these additional DOP label terminologies:
a) Noble
b) Anejo
c) Viejo
a) 18mo aging in cask < 600L
b) 24mo aging in cask < 600L
c) 36mo aging in cask < 600L
Name the three autonomias found within north-central Spain?
La Rioja
Navarra
Aragon
The was Spain’s first DOC (Denominacion de Origen Calificada)? In what year?
a) La Rioja
b) 1991
What is Carignan known as in Rioja?
Mazuelo
The five grapes of red Rioja that must comprise 85% of the blend? Other permissible grapes to finish the blend?
a) Tempranillo, Mazuelo, Graciano, Garnacha, Maturana Tinta
b) Cabernet, Monastrell
Macabeo is known as what in Rioja?
Viura
Four most planted white grapes of Rioja?
Viura
Garnacha Blanca
Malvasia Riojana
Maturana Blanca
Red Rioja standards for the following:
a) Crianza
b) Reserva
c) Gran Reserva
a) 1yr in oak, 2yrs in total
b) 1yr in oak, 3yrs in total
c) 2yrs in oak, at least 3yrs in bottle
White Rioja standards for the following:
a) Crianza
b) Reserva
c) Gran Reserva
a) 6mos cask, 2yrs total
b) 6mos in cask, 2yrs total
c) 6mos in cask, 4yrs total
Rioja Alavesa typically produces this style of wine?
Vino Joven
The common soil type of Alta/Alavesa?
Calcareous clay
Navarra is renowned for this style of wine?
Rosado
The most prominent white variety of Navarra DO?
Chardonnay
Name two DO Pago estates in Navarra DO?
Prado Irache
Bodegas Otazu
Seniorio de Arinzano
The five subzones of Navarra?
Tierra Estrella Valdizarbe Baja Montana Ribera Alta Ribera Baja
The four DOs of Aragon and their specialties?
a) Campo de Borja - Garnacha (red and rosado)
b) Calatayud - Garnacha
c) Carinena - Garnacha
d) Somontano - Alcanon, Parraleta (both local)
The four autonomias of the Green Spain?
a) Galicia
b) Pais Vasco
c) Asturias
d) Cantabria
The five DOs of Galicia?
Ribiero Ribera Sacra Valdeorras Rias Baixas Monterrei
The five subzones of the Rias Baixas DO?
Condado do Tea Valle do Salnes Ribiera do Ulla Soutomaior O Rosal
Name two of the white blending grapes found in Rias Baixas DO?
Treixadura
Loureira
Three red grapes found in Rias Baixas DO?
Caino
Mencia
Espadeiro
The prominent red and white varietals of Ribiero?
Caino
Treixadura
Where would you find Vino Tostado? What kind of wine?
a) Ribiero
b) Appassimento-style
Where would you most likely encounter wines labeled “Súmmum?”
Ribeira Sacra
What sub-region of Rías Baixas has the highest production of total wine?
Val do Salnes
What geographical feature separates Costers del Segre from Southwest France?
Pyrenees Mountains
Which region has the largest number of DO Pago appellations?
Castilla-La Mancha
Who produces Malleolus?
Emilio Moro (Ribera del Duero)
Who produces Janus?
Pesquera (Ribera del Duero)
Who produces Pesus?
Bodegas Hermanos Sastre
What sub-region of Rías Baixas allows up to 70% Treixadura?
Condado do Tea
Which País Vasco DO has the largest production?
Bizkaiko Txakolina
Rueda Dorado, Garnatxa del Tarragona, Lagrima, and Vendimia Asoleada de Malaga are all examples of what style of wine?
Vino de Licor
The famed red grape of Ribeira Sacra? Common white grapes?
a) Mencia
b) Treixadura, Godello
Valdeorras DO’s specialty?
Godello
The three DOs of Pais Vasco?
Getariako Txakolina
Bizkaiko Txakolina
Arabako Txakolina
The traditional name of Txakolina rosado?
Ojo de Gallo
The two predominant grapes of Txakolina production? Which accounts for the majority share?
a) Hondarrabi Zuri, Hondarrabi Beltza
b) Zuri
The largest autonomia of Spain?
Castilla y Leon
The Duero river passes along these 5 DOs in Castilla y Leon?
Ribera del Duero Toro Rueda Tierra del Vino de Zamora Arribes
These two DOs are found in the mountainous NW of Castilla y Leon, near the border of Galicia?
Bierzo DO
Tierra de Leon DO
Mencia comprises what percentage of rose and red wines in Bierzo DO?
a) 50%
b) 75%
The two founding partners in Descendientes de Jose Palacios? In which DO?
Alvaro Palacios (Priorat, Rioja) Rafael Palacios (Valdeorras)
Where would you find Prieto Picudo?
Tierra de Leon DO
The three common white varieties of Bierzo?
Godello
Dona Blanca
Palomino
Vines were planted at the Vega Sicilia estate in?
1864
Tempranillo is known as __________ in Ribera del Duero?
Tinto de Pais
Vega Sicilia is typically a blend of these varieties?
Tinto de Pais (Tempranillo)
Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
These two vintages brought international acclaim to Vega Sicilia in this year of the Barcelona World Fair?
a) 1917, 1918 Unico
b) 1929
Are white wines allowed under the Ribera del Duero DO?
No
This white grape is allowed in Ribera del Duero rosado?
Albillo
Aging requirements for Ribera del Duero DO wines?
Crianza - 2 years (one in cask)
Reserva - 3 years (one in cask)
Gran Reserva - 5 years (two in cask)
White wines labeled as Rueda require a minimum ____% Verdejo?
50
What is a “Dorado?”
A fortified, oxidized wine
Toro’s local strain of Tempranillo?
Tinta de Toro
White wines are made from what in Toro?
Verdejo
Malvasia
Vega Sicilia’s Toro estate?
Bodegas Pintia
Dehesa la Granja is found where in Spain? Part of whose empire?
a) Tierra del Vino de Zamora DO (Castilla y Leon)
b) Pesquera (Alejandro Fernandez)
Rufete is found in this DO of Castilla y Leon?
Arribes DO
Where would you find the Cigales DO and the Arlanza DO?
Castilla y Leon
Where did Miguel Torres introduce stainless steel fermentation in the 1960’s?
Catalunya
This was the second region in Spain to be promoted to DOCa?
Priorat DOCa
What kind of soil is “Licorella?” Found where?
a) Black slate and quartzite
b) Priorat DOCa
Name the five “Clos” of Priorat.
Clos Mogador (Barbier), Clos Erasmus, Clos Dofi (Palacios), Clos de l’Obac (Pastrana), Clos Martinet (Sarah Perez)
The village category established for Priorat wines in 2009?
Vino de Pueblo
This DO completely surrounds Priorat at lower elevations?
Montsant DO
The largest DO of Catalunya?
The all-encompassing Catalunya DO
Most of Tarragona DO is planted to varieties destined for?
Cava
Costers del Segre, Terra Alta, and Conca de Barbera are all found where?
Catalunya
The three altitude zones in which Penedes DO is divided?
Baix-Penedes
Alt-Penedes
Medio-Penedes
Name all permissable grapes of Cava DO?
White: Paralleda, Macabeo (Viura), Xarel-Lo, Chardonnay, Malvasia (Subirat Parent)
Red: Pinot Noir, Garnacha Tinta, Monastrell, Trepat
The fortified specialty of Sitges?
Malvasia de Sitges
This innovative technology for riddling was introduced in Cava DO?
Gyropalette
The capital of Cava production?
San Sadurnia d’Anoia
Minimum lees contact for the three tiers of Cava production?
Standard - 9mos
Reserva - 15mos
Gran Reserva - 30mos
What is Xarel-lo known as in the Alella DO?
Pansa Blanca
The focus of the Emporda DO?
Carinena-based rosados
The two DO zones of the Balaeric Islands?
Pla i Llevant DO
Binissalem Mallorca DO
The largest autonomia of Spain?
Castilla y Leon
The Duero river passes along these 5 DOs in Castilla y Leon?
Ribera del Duero Toro Rueda Tierra del Vino de Zamora Arribes
These two DOs are found in the mountainous NW of Castilla y Leon, near the border of Galicia?
Bierzo DO
Tierra de Leon DO
Mencia comprises what percentage of rose and red wines in Bierzo DO?
a) 50%
b) 75%
The two founding partners in Descendientes de Jose Palacios? In which DO?
Alvaro Palacios (Priorat, Rioja) Rafael Palacios (Valdeorras)
Where would you find Prieto Picudo?
Tierra de Leon DO
The three common white varieties of Bierzo?
Godello
Dona Blanca
Palomino
The founder of Vega Sicilia? Vines were planted for the famed estate in?
a) Don Eloy Lecanda y Chaves
b) 1864
Tempranillo is known as __________ in Ribera del Duero?
Tinto de Pais
Vega Sicilia is typically a blend of these varieties?
Tinto de Pais (Tempranillo)
Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
These two vintages brought international acclaim to Vega Sicilia in this year of the Barcelona World Fair?
a) 1917, 1918 Unico
b) 1929
Ribera del Duero was granted DO status in?
1982
Are white wines allowed under the Ribera del Duero DO?
No
This white grape is allowed in Ribera del Duero rosado?
Albillo
Aging requirements for Ribera del Duero DO wines?
Crianza - 2 years (one in cask)
Reserva - 3 years (one in cask)
Gran Reserva - 5 years (two in cask)
White wines labeled as Rueda require a minimum ____% Verdejo?
50
What is a “Dorado?”
A fortified, oxidized wine
Toro’s local strain of Tempranillo?
Tinta de Toro
White wines are made from what in Toro?
Verdejo
Malvasia
Vega Sicilia’s Toro estate?
Bodegas Pintia
Dehesa la Granja is found where in Spain? Part of whose empire?
a) Tierra del Vino de Zamora DO (Castilla y Leon)
b) Pesquera (Alejandro Fernandez)
Rufete is found in this DO of Castilla y Leon?
Arribes DO
Where would you find the Cigales DO and the Arlanza DO?
Castilla y Leon
Where did Miguel Torres introduce stainless steel fermentation in the 1960’s?
Catalunya
This was the second region in Spain to be promoted to DOCa?
Priorat DOCa
Name two white and three red grapes that the Canary Islands grow?
a) Malvasia, Listan Blanco (Palomino)
b) Listan Negro, Listan Prieto (Mission), Negramoll (Tinta Negra)
The village category established for Priorat wines in 2009?
Vino de Pueblo
This DO completely surrounds Priorat at lower elevations?
Montsant DO
The largest DO of Catalunya?
The all-encompassing Catalunya DO
Most of Tarragona DO is planted to varieties destined for?
Cava
The three altitude zones in which Penedes DO is divided?
Baix-Penedes
Alt-Penedes
Medio-Penedes
Name all permissable grapes of Cava DO?
White: Paralleda, Macabeo (Viura), Xarel-Lo, Chardonnay, Malvasia (Subirat Parent)
Red: Pinot Noir, Garnacha Tinta, Monastrell, Trepat
The fortified specialty of Sitges?
Malvasia de Sitges
This innovative technology for riddling was introduced in Cava DO?
Gyropalette
What is the westernmost DO in Spain located on the Duero river?
Arribes
Minimum lees contact for the three tiers of Cava production?
Standard - 9mos
Reserva - 15mos
Gran Reserva - 30mos
The focus of the Emporda DO?
Carinena-based rosados/reds
Pla i Llevant DO and Binissalem Mallorca DO are found where?
Canary Islands
The two DOs contained within Valencia and their specialties?
a) Alicante DO - Fondillon (solera style oxidized dessert wine from Monastrell)
b) Utiel-Requena DO - Doble Pasta wines from the Bobal grape
What are Doble Pasta wines?
Red wines are macerated and fermented with twice the normal amount of grape skins and pulp
Jumilla DO, Yecla DO, and Bullas DO are found where?
Murcia (South of Valencia)
This grape represents over 95% of production in Murcia?
Monastrell
Europe’s single largest demarcated region?
La Mancha DO
The principle white and red grape of La Mancha DO?
Airen
Cencibel
The most-planted white variety in Spain (and the world for that matter)?
Airen
Name three DO Pago estates in La Mancha?
Marquis de Grinon
Finca Elez
Deheasa del Carrizal
The focus of the following southern Spain DOs?
a) Almansa DO
b) Manchuela DO
c) Valdepenas DO
d) Ucles DO
e) Mondar DO
f) Ribera del Guadiana DO
a) Garnacha Tintorera
b) Bobal
c) Airen, Cencibel
d) Cencibel, Garnacha, International reds
e) Cab Sauv, Malvar
f) Fruit destined for sherry production
Name the six DOs that span the southern Spanish coastline?
Malaga DO Sierras de Malaga DO Montilla-Moriles DO Condado do Huelva DO Jerez-Xeres-Sherry DO Manzanilla Sanlucar de Barrameda DO
English-speakers historically referred to the wines of Sherry as?
Sack
The two important DOs of sherry production?
Jerez-Xerez-Sherry
Manzanilla-Sanlucar de Barrameda
The three central hubs (towns) of Sherry production?
Jerez de la Frontera
Sanlucar de Barrameda
El Puerto de Santa Maria
Palomino is also known as _________ elsewhere in Spain.
Listan
The three grapes of sherry production in order of importance?
Palomino
Pedro Ximenez
Moscatel
Sherry’s predominant soil-type? Clay soils in the area are known as? Sandy soils?
a) Albariza
b) Barros
c) Arenas
Montilla-Morez DO foucus on this grape for sherry production?
Pedro Ximenez
These two styles are all that are typically fortified in Montilla-Morez?
Oloroso
Dessert Styles
The process of drying grapes for a period of roughly 20 days in Malaga is known as? The principal grapes of the region?
a) Soleo
b) Pedro Ximenez, Moscatel
What is “arroppe?”
Concentrated grape must heated and reduced to one-third of its original volume
Solera aging in Malaga Sherry happens in what kind of oak?
American
Table wines in Malaga are released as?
Sierras de Malaga DO
Name three white and red grapes that the Canary Islands grow?
a) Malvasia, Listan Blanco (Palomino), Malvasia
b) Listan Negro, Listan Prieto (Mission), Negramoll (Tinta Negra)
What sub-region of Rias Baixas allows up to 70% Treixadura?
Condado do Tea
Who produces the following wines:
a) El Pison
b) Corullon
c) Lefriec
d) Pago La Jara
e) Embruix
a) Artadi (Rioja)
b) Descendientes del Palacios (Bierzo)
c) Allemany i Corrio (Penedes)
d) Telmo Rodriguez (Toro)
e) Val Llach (Priorat)
In what DO would you most likely find red wines produced from Mencia in Castilla y León?
Bierzo
Ribera del Duero DO is situated within the four provinces of Valladolid, Burgos, Segovia, and _____.
Soria
Rueda Dorado, Garnatxa del Tarragona, Lagrima, and Vendimia Asoleada de Malaga are all examples of what style of wine?
Vino de Licor
Vinos de Tea are produced in which DO?
La Palma
Which País Vasco DO has the largest production?
Chacolí de Bizcaia
Three great Rioja vintages from the 90s?
1990
1991
1994
What is the westernmost DO in Spain located on the Duero river?
Arribes
What river separates Valdeorras and Ribeira Sacra?
Sil
What is Vendimia Tardía?
Late-Harvest wines
Vil de la Vila may be appended to a villages name to indicate superior quality in this region? Name four villages?
a) Priorat DOCa
b) Gratallops, Porrera, La Morrera de Monsant, Escaladei
Euskadi is the indigenous name for what region?
Pais Vasco
