Corsica

Question 1

How many nations ruled Corsica?

Answer 1

6

Question 2

When did Phoceaean traders found a settlement on Corsica?

Answer 2

570 BC

Question 3

When were Romans on Corsica?

Answer 3

2-5th c AD

Question 4

Who were the Saracens?

Answer 4

An Islamic people who ruled Corsica from 700-800 AD

Question 5

When did Genoa rule Corsica?

Answer 5

13-18th c

Question 6

What happened with the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 6

1768, Genoa gave control of Corsica to France

Question 7

Sciacarello is known as what in Italy?

Answer 7

Mammolo

Question 8

What was Corsica’s 1st AOC?

Answer 8

Patrimonio 1968

Question 9

How many AOCs on Corsica?

Answer 9

9

Question 10

What % of production on Corsica is AOC?

Answer 10

30%

Question 11

How many IGPs on Corsica?

Answer 11

2

Question 12

What % of Corsican production is IGP?

Answer 12

60%

Question 13

Corsica distance from surrounding countries?

Answer 13

France; 100m, Italy 50 m, Sardinia, 7 miles

Question 14

Corsica climate?

Answer 14

Med w/ oceanic and alpine influence. Hotter and drier than mainland

Question 15

Hours of sunshine in Corsica?

Answer 15

2,885 per year

Question 16

What is the median rainfall in Corsica?

Answer 16

29 in per year, very little in Aug, Sept

Question 17

Where are Corsica’s vineyards located?

Answer 17

A ring all around islands coastline

Question 18

Corsica is a bulge in what?

Answer 18

The Hercynian Trend

Question 19

T/F Corsica is the most mountainous island in the Med Sea?

Answer 19

T

Question 20

How many soils in Corsica for wine?

Answer 20

7

Question 21

What is soil in Cap Corse?

Answer 21

Schist

Question 22

What grape does well in Cap Corse?

Answer 22

Vermentino, also fortified wines

Question 23

What are the soils of Patrimonio?

Answer 23

Limestone and clay

Question 24

What grape does well in Patrimonio?

Answer 24

Nielluccio, full bodied, fruit forward with a tight core of minerality and herb scented aroma

Question 25

What is Nielluccio?

Answer 25

Sangiovese

Question 26

What is the soil in Ajaccio?

Answer 26

Mostly granite

Question 27

What grape does well in Ajaccio?

Answer 27

Sciaccarello, richer and more full bodied than other parts of the island

Question 28

What AOCs are on Corsica's east coast?

Answer 28

Vin de Corse AOC, Vin de Corse Porto Vecchio AOC

Question 29

What are the soils of Corsica's east coast?

Answer 29

Marly sand mixed with limestone

Question 30

What style of wines come from Corsica's east coast?

Answer 30

Light bodied, fresh, fruit forward red, rose, whites

Question 31

Does Corsica produce more white or red

Answer 31

Red, only 1/3 is white

Question 32

What is Corsica's most planted white AOC grape?

Answer 32

Vermentino

Question 33

What styles can Vermentino produce?

Answer 33

Lively, aromatic, and fat, round

Question 34

What are the AOC whites of Corsica?

Answer 34

Vermentino, UB, Codivarta, Muscat a Petit Grains

Question 35

What is Codivarta?

Answer 35

White Italian grape, good extract, moderate abv, moderate to low acid

Question 36

What grape crafts fortified dessert wines on the peninsula of Cap Corse?

Answer 36

Muscat a Petit Grains Blanc

Question 37

What is Corsica's most widely planted AOC red?

Answer 37

Nielluccio

Question 38

Sciaccarello character?

Answer 38

Light pigment, bright acid, generous alcohol

Question 39

What are the red AOC grapes of Corsica?

Answer 39

Nielluccio, Sciaccarello, Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault, Carignan, Mourvedre, Barbarossa

Question 40

Where does Grenache have a significant role in Corsica?

Answer 40

Cap Corse

Question 41

What white grape is used mostly for IGP wines?

Answer 41

Ch, also Muscat PG

Question 42

Corsica's red IGP grapes?

Answer 42

ML (30% of plantings), CS, PN, and AOC grapes

Question 43

Corsica vine training?

Answer 43

Gobelet, single Guyot, Cordon de Royat

Question 44

Corsica pests?

Answer 44

Cicadas

Question 45

T/F Vin de Corse covers entire island?

Answer 45

T, but most production is in east.

Question 46

What are the Vin de Corse sub appellations?

Answer 46

5. Corse Coteaux du Cap Corse, Corse Calvi, Corse Sartène, Corse Figari, Corse Porto Vecchio

Question 47

What AOC produces 45% of Corsica's AOC wines?

Answer 47

Vin de Corse AOC, and its sub regions

Question 48

Required grapes for rose/red Vin de Corse AOC?

Answer 48

Min 50% Niellucio, Sciacarellu, Grenache, max 20% Carignan

Question 49

What is the primary white grape of Vin de Corse AOC?

Answer 49

Vermentino

Question 50

What is the primary style of Ajaccio AOC?

Answer 50

Med bodied red/rose. Min 60% Sciacrello w/ Niellucio Barbarossa, Vermentino

Question 51

Grapes for Ajaccio AOC white?

Answer 51

Min 80% Vermentino, with UG

Question 52

Patrimonio AOC red wine min?

Answer 52

Min 90% Niellucio

Question 53

Patrimonio AOC rose wine min?

Answer 53

Min 75% Niellucio w/ Sciacarello, GR, Vermentio

Question 54

Patrimonio AOC white grapes?

Answer 54

100% Vermentino

Question 55

What AOC produces fortified wine?

Answer 55

Muscat du Cap Corse AOC. 100% Musca PG, 15-18% abv, min 95 g/l rs

Question 56

What is Corsica's island wide IGP?

Answer 56

IGP Île de Beauté

Question 57

What % of Corsica's production is Île de Beauté?

Answer 57

60%

Question 58

IGP Mediterranée is shared with what other regions?

Answer 58

Provence, Rhone, Corsica