Spain - North-Central Spain

Question 1

Best vintages of Rioja from 2000 to 2010?

Answer 1

2001

2004

2005

Question 2

Maximum yield for Rioja red wine?

Answer 2

6500 kg/ha and 70 L/100 kg

Question 3

Name 3 DO Pagos of Navarra?

Answer 3

Senorio de Arinzano

Prado Irache (Tierra Estella)

Bodegas Otazu (Valdizarbe)

Question 4

Top wine of La Rioja Alta?

Answer 4

Gran Reserva 890

Question 5

What 2 vineyards are used to make Lopez de Heredia’s Gran Reservas?

Answer 5

Tondonia

Bosconia

Question 6

What are the 4 DOs of Aragon?

Answer 6

Campo de Borja

Calatayud

Carinena

Somontano

Question 7

What are the 5 Subzones of Navarra N to S?

Answer 7

Valdizarbe

Baja Montana

Tierra Estella

Ribera Alta

Ribera Baja

Question 8

What are the DOs of North Central Spain?

Answer 8

Rioja

Navarra

Campo de Borja

Calatayud

Carinena

Somontano

Question 9

What does the acronym C.V.N.E stand for?

Answer 9

Compañia Vinicola del Norte de España

Question 10

What is the name of Lopez de Heredia’s white wine?

Answer 10

Tondonia

Question 11

What is the new official name for Rioja Baja?

Answer 11

Rioja Oriental

Question 12

What is the size of a Rioja cask?

Answer 12

225 Liters

Question 13

What is the Trousseau grape known as in the Rioja?

Answer 13

Maturana

Bastardo in Portugal

Question 14

What mountain ranges are to the NE of Rioja?

Answer 14

Pyrenees Mountain

Question 15

What mountain ranges are to the NW of Rioja?

Answer 15

Cantabrian Mountains

Question 16

What producer from Rioja started making wine in Rueda in the 70s?

Answer 16

Marques de Riscal

Question 17

Who was the 1st producer to be labelled Rioja?

Answer 17

Marques de Murrieta

Question 18

3 sub zones of Rioja are?

Answer 18

Rioja Alta - southwest, warm climate and calcareous clay

Rioja Alavesa - smallest, northernmost with calcareous clay

Rioja Oriental - hottest and has alluvial soil and ferrous clay

Question 19

5 Sub zones of Navarra?

Answer 19

Valdizarbe - higher altitude

Baja Montana - North

Tierra Estella - North

Ribera Alta - centre

Ribera Baja - hot south

Question 20

Name the 3 Pagos found in Navarro.

Answer 20

Pago de Arínzano

Pago de Otazu

Pago Prado de Irache

Question 21

Who makes ‘Prado Enea’?

Answer 21

Bodegas Muga of Rioja

Question 22

Name and producer of the oldest white wine brand in Spain?

Answer 22

CVNE ’Monopole’: 100% Viura

Question 23

Which winery in Spain boasts a cellar designed by Aleixandre Gustave Eiffel?

Answer 23

CVNE

Question 24

What is the purpose of the golden mesh on some Spanish wine bottles?

Answer 24

A form of counterfeit protection introduced in the 19th century by the Marquis de Riscal which has been imitated to add glamour to select bottles

Question 25

What is the Spanish word for the golden mesh on some Spanish wine bottles?

Answer 25

Malla

Question 26

What is ‘malla’ in regards to Spanish wine?

Answer 26

The golden mesh that covers the wine bottle introduced at the end of the 19th century as an anti-counterfeiting device

Question 27

Which producer introduced the ‘Malla’ to protect against counterfeiting?

Answer 27

Marques de Riscal at the end of the 19th Century

Question 28

Name a traditional Rioja producer who only uses American oak for all their wines?

Answer 28

Lopez de Heredia

Question 29

3 sub zones of Rioja are?

Answer 29

Rioja Alta - southwest, warm climate and calcareous clay Rioja Alavesa - smallest, northernmost with calcareous clay Rioja Oriental - hottest and has alluvial soil and ferrous clay

Question 30

Who was the 1st producer to be labelled Rioja?

Answer 30

Marques de Murrieta

Question 31

What is the Treausseau grape known as in the Rioja?

Answer 31

Maturana | Bastardo in Portugal

Question 32

What is needed to become a Pago DO?

Answer 32

Lowered yields Quality winemaking International critical praise Decades worth of quality production

Question 33

Which winery makes ‘Vinas de Gain’, ‘Pagos Viejos’ and ‘Vina El Pison’?

Answer 33

Artadi

Question 34

Who makes ‘Castillo Ygay’ Gran Reserva?

Answer 34

Marques de Murrieta

Question 35

What is the minimum vine age for a Vinedo Singular in Rioja?

Answer 35

35 years

Question 36

What are ‘Aging Wineries’ called in Rioja?

Answer 36

Criadores

Question 37

What is the Meseta?

Answer 37

Meseta Central, great interior meseta (plateau) of the Iberian Peninsula, central Spain. With Madrid at its centre, it extends over 81,000 square miles (210,000 square km) and has an average elevation of 2,165 feet (660 metres)