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VARIETAL CHARACTERISTICS Flashcards

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What are the key permitted varieties in the Douro?

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100+ permitted, 5 key (esp for replanting):

1) Touriga Franca
2) Tinta Roriz
3) Tinta Barroca
4) Tinta Amaerla
5) Tinto Cão
6) Touriga Nacional
7) Sousão

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What are the characteristics of Touriga Franca? (5 points)

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  • Late ripening, and suited to warm, s-facing sites and low altitude
  • Thick skins/tight bunches; disease resistant
  • Vigorous and needs summer pruning
  • Adds colour, tannin, acidity, juicy black/red fruit, floral aromas
  • Most widely grown variety
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What are the characteristics of Tinta Roriz? (4 points)

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Aka. Tempranillo

  • Early ripening, better in cooler sites
  • Can suffer from water stress if too warm
  • Can be high yielding but concentration suffers. Mgmt needed
  • Lends deep colour and body
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What are the characteristics of Tinta Barroca? (4 points)

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  • Early ripening, suited to cooler sites
  • Prone to heat damage or shrivelling when too warm; loses acidity
  • High yielding
  • Lends earthy aromas; colour can fade quicker than Tinta Roriz/Franca
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What are the characteristics of Tinta Amarela? (3 points)

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  • Tight bunches that are prone to fungal disease
  • Adds black fruit, sprice
  • Approachable in youth but can also age
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What are the characteristics of Tinto Cão? (6 points)

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  • Late ripening, heat tolerant
  • Small and thick skinned; disease resistant
  • Low yielding
  • Concentrated
  • High acid
  • Ageable
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What are the characteristics of Sousão? (3 points)

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Thick skinned
Deep colour intensity
High acid
(Increasing in Popularity)

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What are the characteristics of Touriga Nacional? (7 points)

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  • Mid ripening
  • Thick skins
  • Retains acidity
  • Adds deep colour, tannins, concentrated red/black fruit
  • Vegetative vigour that needs to be managed via summer pruning
  • Coulure susceptible
  • Potential for long ageing
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What are 2 white varieties used in White Port and what are their characteristics?

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1) Malvasia Fina aka. Boal
- Neutral
- Med Acidity
- Full Body
- Slight honeyed character

2) Moscatel Galego Branco aka Muscat Blanc
- Aromatic
- Often used for unaged style

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What are the 3 main grape varieties used in Sherry?

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  1. Palomino (Fino)
  2. Moscatel aka Muscat of Alexandria
  3. Pedro Ximénez
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What are the characteristics of the most common grape variety for Sherry? (6 points)

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  1. Mid to Late Ripening
  2. High yielding
  3. Suited to dry, sunny weather
  4. Neutral character
  5. Loses acidity quickly at maturity
  6. Accounts of 97% of plantings
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What are the characteristics of Moscatel (3) and where is it mainly grown?

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aka Muscat of Alexandria

Mainly grown around coastal town of Chipiona on Arenas soils

  1. Late ripening
  2. Heat & drought resistant
    Aromatic
  3. Mainly used for “Moscatel” Sherry
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What are the characteristics of PX (3), where is it grown and how much is grown in the delimited area?

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  1. Small, thin-skinned
  2. Accummulates high sugar
  3. Neutral character, but achieves flavour via drying/maceration

1% of plantings in delimited area, but it can also be grown outside in Montilla and shipped to the Zona as grapes/raisins or young wines.

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What are the 7 recommended varieties for Madeira?

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1) Tinta Negra
2) Sercial
3) Verdelho
4) Boal Cachudo
5) Malvasia de Sāo Jorge
6) Malvasia Cândida
7) Terrantez

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What are the characteristics of TInta Negra and what style of wine does it make?

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  • Black variety
  • Most widely planted
  • High yielding
  • Easy to grw
  • Variety can be listed on label since 2015, but often just sweetness listed

Style: A variety of sweetness levels

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What are the characteristics of Sercial and what style of wine does it make? (9)

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  • High acidity
  • Late ripening, esp in cool sites
  • Picked last at min potential alc.
  • Resistant to powdery
  • Susceptible to botrytis and poor fruit set
  • Small plantings
  • Used for Extra Dry or Dry styles
  • Lightest colour and lightest bodied
  • Citrus peel and nuts
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What are the characteristics of Verdelho and what style of wine does it make?

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  • 2nd most planted
  • High acid
  • Susceptible to downy, powdery, botrytis and coulure
  • Medium dry styles
  • More body than Sercial
  • Candied fruit character
  • Darker colour than Sercial typ.
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What are the characteristics of Boal and what style of wine does it make?

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  • Term for a group of white varieties, but Boal Cachudo (aka Malvasia Fina) used in Madeira
  • Best in the South Island in warm, low altitude sites
  • Susceptible to drought, needs irrigation to do well
  • Med Sweet styles
  • Fuller, sweeter, and darker than Verdehlo
  • Caramel, chocolate, candied nuts
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What are the characteristics of Malvasia de São Jorge and what style of wine does it make?

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  • Falls under Malvasia umbrella of varieties
    -Most widely planted Malvasia of the two
  • High yielding
  • Susceptible to botrytis
  • Sweet/Rich styles
  • Full bodied
  • Balanced by high acidity
  • Raisins and caramel
  • Brown colour
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What are the characteristics of Malvasia Cândida and what style of wine does it make?

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  • Prized for quality
  • Highly susceptible to powdery, limiting yields
  • Small plantings
  • Sweet/Rich styles
  • Full-bodied
  • Sweetness balanced w/high acidity
  • Raisins and caramel
  • Brown colour
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What are the characteristics of Terrantez and what style of wine does it make?

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  • Susceptible to powdery & botrytis
  • Picked at min. potential alc (9%)
  • Very limited plantings
  • Med Dry to Med Sweet styles
  • High sugar, but delicate
  • Citrus peel, caramel, floral
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What are the 3 main varieties for VDN and what are their characteristics?

What are 3 other permitted varieties in Rousillon?

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Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains:
- Small grapes&raquo_space; Intense
- Dry weather tolerant
- Susceptible to powdery, botrytis, mites

Muscat of Alexandria
- Larger grapes
- Higher sugar
- Susceptible to powdery, botrytis
- Less refined vs ^ so plantings declining.

Grenache Noir
- Late ripening
- High yielding
- Drought resistant
- High sugar
-Susceptible to coloure, downy, botrytis, phomopsis,

Grenache Gris, Grenache Blanc, Macabeu also permitted in Rousillon.

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What is the variety used for Rutherglen Muscat and what are the characteristics?

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Muscat a Petit Grains Rouge aka Rutherglen Brown Muscat

A mutation of Muscat Blanc

Pronounced grapey/flora aromas

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