Tempranillo

Question 1

Tempranillo characteristics are generally described as what on the usual scale?

Answer 1

Medium

Question 2

How are Tempranillo’s made suitable for ageing?

Answer 2

Other grape variettiees blended to increase tannins and acidity

Question 3

Very good/outstanding Tempranillo can develop what tertiary flavours in the bottle?

Answer 3

Mushroom, leather and dried fruit

Question 4

Which Spanish region produces high volumes of Temp and Temp-based blends?

Answer 4

Catalunya DO

Question 5

For early-drinking wines, Temp is often blended with what grape?

Answer 5

Grenache

Question 6

What aspect of the Ribera del Duero DO gives fresh fruit flavours to Temp?

Answer 6

Its altitude and cool nights

Question 7

Ribera del Duero DO’s Temp is summarised as what?

Answer 7

Full-bodied wines with fresh black-fruit flavours

Question 8

Joven wines are termed as what in Rioja?

Answer 8

Generico

Question 9

Generico wines in Rioja are gives what term elsewhere in Spain?

Answer 9

Joven

Question 10

Which kinds of Spanish wine have the most pronounced secondary and tertiary aromas?

Answer 10

Gran Reserva