Umbria, Marche, Lazio, Abruzzo

Question 1

What region is landlocked in central Italy?

Answer 1

Umbria

Question 2

What moderates the climate of Umbria?

Answer 2

maritime wines from the Tyrrhenian Sea

Question 3

What wine was used to toast the 1st successful nuclear reaction of the Manhattan project?

Answer 3

Orvieto

Question 4

Describe Orvieto DOC

Answer 4

• used to toast nuclear reaction
• light white from Grechetto and Trebbiano Toscano (Procanico)
• overproduction but “classico zone” can be ok
• generally dry but can be sweet and/or botrytis

Question 5

What style of wine is made in Lago di Corbara DOC? Where is it?

Answer 5

Red wine on tuffeau soil

Within Orvieto in Umbria

Question 6

DOCGs of Umbria

Answer 6

Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG

Torgiano Rosso Riserva DOCG

Question 7

Aging/style of Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG

Answer 7

Secco (recent development) or passito

min 37 months aging with 12 months in wood for secco

Question 8

Best producers of Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG

Answer 8

Marco Capri - modern

Paola Bea - traditional

Question 9

Grapes/aging/styles of Torgiano Rosso Riserva DOCG

Answer 9

• 70-100% Sagrantino
• min 3 years aging (6 months in bottle)

**Riserva is DOCG, standard varietal wines, rosso, bianco, spumante are DOC

Question 10

Top producer of Torgiano

Answer 10

Lungarotti

-instrumental in elevation of Torgiano Rosso Riserva to DOCG in 1990

Question 11

Which coast is the Marche on?

Answer 11

Adriatic coast

Question 12

DOCGs of Marche

Answer 12

• Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva DOCG
• Conero (Conero Riserva) DOCG
• Offida DOCG
• Verdicchio di Matelica Riserva DOCG
• Vernaccia di Serrapetrona DOCG

Question 13

Two DOCGs for Verdicchio in Marche and when were they promorted?

Answer 13

-Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva DOCG
-Verdicchio di Matelica Riserva DOCG
2011

Question 14

Most important grape of Marche?

Answer 14

Verdicchio

Question 15

How are normale versions of Verdicchio released?

Answer 15

DOC, not DOCG

Question 16

Main grape of Conero Rosso Riserva in Marche?

Answer 16

85% Montepulciano, max 15% sangio

Question 17

What style of wine is made in the Vernaccia di Serrapetrona DOCG?

Answer 17

RED!

• sparkling, dry or sweet
• percentage of passito grapes (40%)

Vernaccia here is a red grape
-derives from latin meaning indigenous, refers to a number of different varieties in Italy.

Question 18

What is the most recent DOCG in the Marche?

Answer 18

Offida DOCG (2011)

Question 19

What is made in Offida DOCG

Answer 19

red wines from Montepulciano

white wines from Pecorino, Passerina

Question 20

Where is Abruzzo located?

Answer 20

Directly south of Marches on the Adriatic coast

Question 21

What is the most cultivated varietal in Abruzzo

Answer 21

Montepulciano

Question 22

What is the 2nd most planted grape in Italy?

Answer 22

Montepulciano

Question 23

What are rosatos made from Montepulciano referred to as?

Answer 23

Cerasuolo - cherry red color

Question 24

What is the DOCG of Abruzzo

Answer 24

Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Colline Teramane DOCG

-Rosso (Normale, Riserva)

Question 25

Two top producers of Abruzzo

Answer 25

Edoardo Valentini
Emidio Pepe (naturalist)

Question 26

How do Valentini and Pepe release their wines?

Answer 26

Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOC.

Question 27

Difference between DOC and DOCG for Montepulciano d’Abruzzo (Colline teramane)

Answer 27

85% –> 90% min montepulciano
-2 years of aging with 1 in wood
(riserva is 3 yrs aging)

Question 28

What accounts for most of the white wine in Abruzzo?

Answer 28

Trebbiano d’Abruzzo DOC

Question 29

What are the two types of trebbiano in Abruzzo

Answer 29

Trebbiano Toscano

Trebbiano d’Abruzzo, known as Bombino

Question 30

What is bombino?

Answer 30

Trebbiano d’Abruzzo

Question 31

DOC for rosato in Abruzzo?

Answer 31

Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo DOC

Question 32

Where is Rome located?

Answer 32

Lazio

Question 33

Where is Lazio located?

Answer 33

South of Tuscany on the Tyrrhenian coast

Question 34

What are the principal grapes of Lazio?

Answer 34

Trebbiano Toscano and Malvasia

Question 35

What large DOC encompasses many smaller appellations in Lazio?

Answer 35

Castelli Romani DOC

Question 36

What is the Frascati DOC known for? (Lazio)

Answer 36

white still and sparkling mainly Malvasia

Question 37

DOCGs of Lazio

Answer 37

Cannellino di Frascati DOCG
-Bianco (Vendemmia Tardiva)

Cesanese del Piglio DOCG
-Rosso (Normale, Superiore, Riserva)

Frascati Superiore DOCG
-Bianco Superiore (Normale, Riserva)

Question 38

What was the first DOCG in Lazio

Answer 38

Cesanese del Piglio DOCG

Question 39

What is Falesco?

Answer 39

Top estate in Lazio, in Montefiascone near Umbrian border

-known for Merlot and Cab Sauv

Question 40

Story behind Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone DOC

Answer 40

The unusual name of the wine region dates back to a 12th-century tale of a German Bishop traveling to the Vatican for a meeting with the Pope. The Bishop sent a prelate ahead of him to survey the villages along the route for the best wines. The ‘wine scout’ had instructions to write ‘Est’ (Latin for ‘There is’) on the door or on the wall of the inns he visited when he was particularly impressed with the quality of the wine they served so the Bishop following on his trail would have known in advance where to make a stop. At a Montefiascone inn, the prelate was reportedly so overwhelmed with the local wine that he wrote Est! Est!! Est!!! on the door.[2] While this tale has been widely repeated, with some variations (such as the event taking place in the 10th century[1] and/or involving a Flemish bishop,[3] attending the coronation of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor instead of meeting the Pope,[4] etc.), the story is considered by many wine experts, such as Master of Wine Mary Ewing-Mulligan, to be apocryphal.[3]