The Rest Flashcards
Ararat valley is found in what country?
Armenia
What kind of variety is Pamid and where is found?
Most planted Bulgarian variety; but its light body; low acidity and low extract means at best it produces light table wines for early consumption.
It does not play a major role in bottles bound for export and is planted quite extensively as in Romania.
What kind of variety is Mavrud and where is found?
The most popular varietal wine on the Bulgarian market; where it is preferred in a tannic and extensively oak aged style.
What kind of variety is Melnik and where is found?
It is very late ripening and can require extensive ageing; it is probably the Bulgarian wine with the greatest longevity. Its berries are notably small with thick; blue skins.
Some wines have the aroma of tobacco leaves; oak ageing and several years bring out a warmth and style not unlike a Nebbiolo.
What kind of variety is Rubin and where is found?
It is regarded by some as the variety with most potential to become Bulgaria’s signature grape and is currently very much in demand.
It is distinctively Bulgarian crossing of Nebbiolo and Syrah developed around 1944.
What kind of variety is Rkatsiteli and where is found?
Still the most planted vine variety in the ex-Soviet republics; providing a base for a wide range of wine styles; including fortified wines and brandy.
The wine is distinguished by a keen level of acidity; easily 9 g/l even when picked as late as October; and by good sugar levels too.
What kind of variety is Saperavi and where is found?
Saperavi is distinctive Georgian red wine grape variety notable for the colour and acidity it can bring to a blend.
What kind of variety is Tsolikouri and where is found?
It is relatively important white wine grape of Georgia; although only about a tenth as widely planted there as the popular Rkatsiteli.
What kind of variety is Argaman and where is found?
Israeli crossing of Carignan and the Portuguese Sousão which produces relatively ordinary wine.
What kind of variety is Obaideh and where is found?
Obaideh is hardy; vigorous; workmanlike indigenous grape of Lebanon; high in sugar; low in acidity; used extensively in the making of arak (local spirit); sacramental wines; and white Chateau Musar.
What kind of variety is Prokupac and where is found?
Red grape variety grown all over Serbia; where the strong wine it produces is often blended with more international vine varieties. Its stronghold is just south of Belgrade; where some argue it is identical to Syrah.
What kind of variety is Neoplanta and where is found?
Smederevka × Traminer crossing with very perfumed aroma and oily texture not unlike a concentrated Pinot Gris grown in Fruska Gora; Serbia.
What kind of variety is Smederevka and where is found?
Serbia. As a varietal wine; it is usually dry and relatively high in both alcohol and acidity; but it is often blended with other varieties; notably Laški Rizling.
It is the same as Bulgaria’s Dimiat.
What kind of variety is Vranac and where is found?
Red grape variety that is a speciality of Montenegro and Macedonia. The wines produced are deeply coloured and can be rich in extract; responding unusually well to oak ageing.
DNA profiling at Zagreb in 2001 suggested a parent-offspring relationship with Primitivo; better known in California as Zinfandel.
What kind of variety is Kratosija and where is found?
Relatively important grape in Macedonia and Montenegro that is the same as Zinfandel.
What are most important Lebanon Regions?
Overwhelming majority of wine grapes are grown in the western Bekaa and Zahleh; where; at an impressive altitude of around 1;000 m/3;280 ft. between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountain ranges; they enjoy dry summers; cool nights; and consistent rainfall so that the grapes rarely ripen before the middle of September.
What are most important Bulgarian White Varieties?
Bulgaria grows a curious mix of white grape varieties; showing evidence of Serbian influence in its everyday Dimiat (9;500 ha; Smederevka) and Georgian influence in its plantings of Rkatsiteli (11;700 ha).
Central European influence is evident in its Welschriesling; Muscat Ottonel and a local pink-skinned variety called Misket Cherven.
Name Bulgarian Wine Regions?
The country has generally been divided into five distinct wine regions: Danubian Plain; Rose Valley or Sub-Balkan region; Thracian Lowlands region; Black Sea region; and South West or Struma Valley region.
In the mid-2000s; the EU accepted just two wine regions for Bulgaria; name them?
Danubian Plain (the northern half of the country) and the Thracian Lowlands (the southern half).
Name Bulgarian Big Wineries?
Suhindol; Khan Krum; Russe; Sliven; Preslav; Magura; Festa Holdings; Stork Nest Estates and Burgas.
Name Bulgarian Boutique Wineries?
Ch de Val; Santa Sarah; Todoroff; Bessa Valley project (Enira label) and Maxxima (ambitious négociant operation).
Name two Czech Republic Regions?
Two distinct regions: the tiny; touristy vineyards of Bohemia near Prague or on the banks of the river Labe (Germany’s Elbe) in the north; and; quantitatively much more important; Moravia to the south along the Austrian and Slovakian borders.
Name Georgia Viticultural Zones?
Georgia has five viticultural zones: Kakheti; Kartli; Imereti; Racha-Lechkhumi; and the humid subtropical zone.
Name Israel regions?
Galilee (best quality); Sharon Plain (the largest); Shomron; Samson; and Negev.
Name three biggest Israel Producers?
The dominant and historic producer remains Carmel; with nearly 50 per cent of production; followed by Barkan Wine Cellars and Golan Heights Winery.
These three wineries control over 80 per cent of the domestic market and they are also the biggest exporters.
Name quality Israel Producers found on export market?
Smaller wineries exporting high-quality wines include Dalton; Galil Mountain; Recanati; and Tishbi and the finest of the boutique wineries Domaine du Castel; Flam; Margalit; Saslove; and Yatir.
What is Kosher (meaning ‘pure’) wine?
To be considered kosher; a wine must be handled by orthodox religious Jews only. Oenologists who are not themselves Sabbath-observing may instruct observant Jews to carry out the necessary physical operations in the winery.
All substances used in the process must be kosher. Examples of forbidden fining agents include gelatin; casein; and isinglass.
What is ‘Kosher for Passover’?
Wines described as ‘kosher for Passover’ have not come into contact with bread; dough; or grain.
Name most famous wine from Lebanon?
Chateau Musar is still Lebanon’s most celebrated wine; a gamey blend of 50 to 80 per cent Cabernet Sauvignon fleshed out with Cinsaut and Carignan.
Who is Lebanon’s biggest producer?
Chateau Ksara is Lebanon’s biggest producer; most notably wine is it`s top Bordeaux blend Cuvée du Troisième Millenaire.
Name Moldova Regions?
Romanesht; Chumai; Khinchesh; Krikova; Mileshtii Mich; and Purkar.
Name some Moldova Notable Producers?
Successful exporters include Acorex; Cricova; DK Intertrade/Aur Vin; and Lion Gris. The old Purkhar Estate is also being restored.
What kind of wine is Cagor?
Moldova continues to make some fortified wines notably Cagor; a 16 per cent; partially fermented red; often based on Cabernet.
Name most important Romanian Varieties?
most planted varieties by far are two white Feteasca Alba and Feteasca Regala, Merlot is the most planted red wine variety followed by Cabernet Sauvignon.
Chateau Kefraya is located in which country?
Chateau Kefraya is the Lebanon’s second biggest winery; its Cabernet-Syrah blend Comte de M 1996 convinced the outside world that there was more to Lebanese wine than Chateau Musar.
Name Romanian wine regions?
plateau of Transylvania in the middle of the country; the Pannonian Plain on the Hungarian border in the old province of Crisana and Maramures; the Moldovan hills on the eastern slopes of the Carpathians; the warm, central Muntenia and Oltenia region in the southern Carpathians; Banat towards the borders with Hungary and Serbia; the knolls of Dobrogea between the Danube and the Black Sea; and the flatter Danube Terrace
What kind of wine is Cotnari?
Moldova (Romania) whose golden nectar was at one time almost as sought after as those of Tokaji and Constantia. Made in various styles from dry to semi sweet; and an alcoholic strength of at least 11 per cent. Unlike Tokaji; it is aged in wood for no more than a year; and is carefully protected from oxygen.
Where is found Dealul Mare region?
Romania, best known for its red wines produced from Cabernet Sauvignon; Merlot; some Pinot Noir; and Feteasca Neagra.
Name Russian Regions?
Krasnodar is the most important Russian wine region followed by Dagestan; The rest are Stavropol; Rostov; Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkariya.
Name Turkey Regions?
Thrace region (home to the country’s first ‘boutique’ winery Sarafin) and Anatolia (wineries Tekel and Kavaklidere). Buzba? is the most memorable brand of Tekel.
Where is winery Massandra located?
Winery built to extremely high specifications on the outskirts of Yalta in the Crimea in the 1890s to supply Livadia; the tsars’ summer palace. The most successful wines are strong and sweet; many of them Vins Doux Naturels as well as fortified.
What is Magarach?
Wine research institute at Yalta in the Crimea; founded in 1828; more than 50 years before Davis or the Institute of Oenology at the University of Bordeaux.
What kind of variety is Žilavka and where is found?
Relatively successful white grape variety planted in Herzegovina.
This distinctive variety manages to combine high alcohol with high acidity and a certain nuttiness of flavour.
What kind of variety is Malvazija Istarska and where is found?
Considered indigenous Croatian and makes full bodied; dry wines with some minerality and a bitter almond finish.
What kind of variety is Teran and where is found?
Names for a subvariety of the Refosco group; used; respectively; in Croatia and the Kras district of Slovenia and the Carso DOC in the extreme east of Friuli.
What kind of variety is Teran Bijeli and where is found?
Teran Bijeli was shown to be identical to Prosecco by DNA profiling at Zagreb.
