eastern_europe Flashcards
(189 cards)
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What is kekfrankos?
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Hungary’s Blaufrankisch
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What is Szurkebarat?
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Hungary’s Pinot Gris
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What are the three major geographical zones of Hungary?
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North Hungary, Transdanubia, The Great Plain
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Which zone of Hungary contains Tokaj?
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North Hungary
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Which zone of Hungary contains Eger?
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North Hungary
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Wines called ‘The Bulls Blood of Eger’ were referring to a wine labeled as what?
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Egri Bikaver
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Tokaj PDO lies at the confluence of what two rivers?
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Tisza and Bodrog
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Where is the Bodrog river?
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Tokaj
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Where is the Tisza river?
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Tokaj
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Tokaj and Bodrog are important to what region?
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Tokaj
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True or False: Botrytis wines from Tokaj predated that of Sauternes?
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TRUE
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What mountains shelter the Tokaj region?
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Carpathian Mountains
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What is the climate of Tokaj?
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Warm continental climate
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What are the soils of Tokaj?
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volcanic loess and clay
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what does the term azsu refer to?
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botrytis infected grapes in Tokaj
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What is a gonci barrel?
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The barrels that contained the non botrytis must where it would be mixed with the puttony, 136 Liters
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What is a puttony?
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containers, roughly 25kg, in which the botrytis grapes would be collected in the vineyard
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What is the minimum RS for Tokaj Azsu?
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120 grams per liter
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What are the aging requirements for Tokaj Aszu?
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3 years, 18 months in wood
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Can Tokaj PDO produce sparkling wines? WHat are they known as?
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yes, Pezsgo
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Must Tokaj Aszu grapes be harvested by hand?
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yes
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What is Szamorodni?
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‘As it comes’. style produced by mixing aszu grapes and non aszu grape. often oxidative in style. matured 2 years sometimes under floor. comparable to sherry
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What does Edes refer to?
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sweet Szamorodini
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What does Szaras refer to?
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dry Szamorodini
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What is the Tokaj property owned by Vega Sicilia?
Oremus
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Where is Lake Balaton?
Hungary. one of Europe's largest lakes.
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What regions may use the terms Bikaver on labels?
Only Eger and Szekszard in Transdanubia are permitted to use the term "Bikaver" on labels
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Where is Badacsony?
Transdanubia
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Where is Transdanubia?
Hungary
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Where are The Great Plains?
Hungary
31
Name a producer from Bulgaria
Boyar Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
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What are the 5 regions of wine produciton in Bulgaria?
Northern Danbian Plain, Southern Thracian Lowlands, Eastern Black Sea Region, Western Struma River Valley, narrow Rose Valley in the center of the country
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What grapes lead plantings in Bulgaria?
Cabernet and Merlot
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Where is Cotnari DOC?
Romania
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What style of wines are produced in Cotnari DOC?
sweet wines
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What are the three wine regions of Slovenia
Podravje, Primorska, Posavje
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What are the subregions of Primorska
Goriska Brda, Kras, Koper, Vipava
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What is the Hungarian word for Pinot Gris?
Szurkebarat
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What is the Hungarian term for Blaufrankisch?
Kekfrankos
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What is Crljenak Kastelanski ? Where is it labeled this?
zinfandel, croatia
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What is the Croatian synonym for Zinfandel?
Crljenak Kastelanski
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Welschriesling is known as what in Hungary?
Olaszrizling
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What is Olaszrizling?
Welschriesling
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What is the most planted red in Hungary?
Kekfrankos
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Where is Szekszard?
Hungary
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Where is Sopron?
Hungary.
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Where is Matra?
Hungary
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What are the requirements for wines labeled Egri Bikaver?
8 day maceration. They must be a blend of at least 3 varieties, including Kekfrankos. No single variety may be less than 5% or more than 50% of total blend.
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What is the max Kadarka that can be used in Egri Bikaver PDO?
50%.No Variety can exceed 50%
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What is the minimum Zweigelt that could be used in Egri Bikaver PDO?
5% No variety included can be less than 5%
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What does Egri Bikaver Superior require?
14 DAY MACERATION. 30-50% Kekfrankos. No other variety may exceed 30%. Cabernet Sauv and Franc may not exceed 30% combined.
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How long must Egri Bikaver PDO wines be macerated?
8 days
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Name 3 PDOs in North Hungary
Matra PDO, Tokaj PDO, Eger PDO ( Bukk, Ddbroi Harslevelu)
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The Tokaj region is sheletered by what?
Carpathian Mountains
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When was the Tokaj region delimited?
1737 by Royal decree became the world's first delimited region
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Who classified the vineyards of Tokaj?
Prince Rakoczy
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Who was Prince Rakoczy
Prince of Transylvania, gave King Louis XIV of France some Tokaji wine from his Tokaj estate as a gift. The Tokaji wine was served at the French Royal court at Versailles, where it became known as Tokay. He insisted on a classification of the best vineyards around the 28 villages that produced tokaji aszu as it had become incredibly popular in the courts of Europe.
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What is Kesoi Szuretelesu bor?
Late harvest wine in Hungary
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How much grapes can be held in a Puttony??
25 kg
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What is the size of a gonc barrel?
136 L
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Szamorodni can be produced in what styles?
Edes or Szaras
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Where is Kunsag?
Hungary
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What is the largest region in Hungary?
Kunsag
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What style of wine in Hungary can be compared to Sherry or Vin Jaune?
Szamorodni
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What is Forditas
(meaning "turning over" in Hungarian), wine made by pouring must on aszu dough which has already been used to make aszu wine.
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Explain the process of producing Eszencia
Tokaji Essencia is the most valuable and rarest type among the Tokaj wines. Hand-selected noble rotten berries, which are later needed for the Aszu preparation, are gathered into a keg and kept in it for a couple of days before the Aszu dough is going to be prepared. Then, due solely to the berries' own weight, some highly concentrated juice of noble quality will have accumulated on the bottom of the keg. This is the juice the Essencia is made from
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What is Maslas?
(derived from the word "copy" in Hungarian), The oldest by-product of botrytis wine in Hegyalja is Maslas, a lesser quality botrytis wine but superior table wine, made from non-botrytis wine and the lees and marc of Aszu or Szamorodni.
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Forditas is equivalent to what other style popularized in Italy
Ripasso
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What is Feher Bor?
White table wines in Hungary
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Where is Cosngrad?
It is a PDO in Hungary
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Where are Vilany and Pecs?
Hungary
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What two regions can produce wines labeled Bikaver
Szekszard and Eger
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What style of wine is mainly produced in Sopron?
Kekfrankos
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What is the huge lake in Hungary called?
Lake Balaton
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What is key to the process of Botrytis?
The mold develops on the berries in moist conditions (such as in foggy river valleys) and then dries when the sun comes out. This process of rotting and drying causes the grapes to shrivel and become sweet.
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Where are Mad and Tarcal?
Tokaji
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What are the two great growths of Tokaji?
Szarvas Mezes Maly.
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PDOs are known as what in Romania?
DOC
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What are the subcategories of DOC wines in Romania?
DOC CMD, CT, CIB
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Where is Mutenia Oltenia"?
Romania
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Where is Banat
Romania
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Where is Transylvania?
Romania
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Where are Romania's highest vineyards
Transylvania
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What river forms the southern border of Romania, and the northern border of Bulgaria?
Danube
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Where is the Tarnave river?
Romania( Tarnave DOC)
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What region in Romania is said to have once enjoyed a reputation on par with Tokaji?
Cotnari DOC
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What grape is used for Cotnari wines
Grasa de Cotnari
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Where is Dealu Mare?
Romania (Muntenia-Oltenia)
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What is Romania's most exciting appellation for red wines?
Dealu Mare DOC
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Where is Dobrogea?
Romania
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Where is Murfatlar DOC
Romania
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Where does Suhindol produce wine?
Bulgaria. Expertise was lent to them in deal with Pepsi Co
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Who led a anti-alcohol purge in 1985 in Bulgaria that had a profound effect on the country's wine industry
Gorbachev
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Where do you see Controliran appellations
Bulgaria
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What does Barik indicate
Fermentation in oak casks of 500 L or less
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If fermented in a oak barrel of 500 L or less what may the wines be called in Bulgaria
Barik
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Bulgaria is divided into what 5 regions?
Northern Danubian Plain, Southern Thracian Lowlands, Black Sea Region, Struma River Valley, Rose Valley
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Where is the Rose valley
Bulgaria
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Where is the Struma River Valley
Bulgaria
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Where is the Black SEa Region
Bulgaria
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Where are Svishtov and Suhindol,?
Bulgaria
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What mountain range crosses through the center of Bulgaria
The Bulkan mountains
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Where are the Rhodopi Mountains
Bulgaria
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Where are the Pirin Mountains
Bulgaria
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What 3 mountain ranges affect growing in Bulgaria
Pirin, Rhodopi, Bulkan
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What style of wine is Sungulare known for?
Red Misket
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Where is Sungulare
Rose Valley.
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Where is Khan Krum?
Black Sea Region of Bulgaria
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Where are the Zapadni Rodopi and Pirin Mountains?
Focused along the Struma
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The EU recognizes what two regions of Bulgaria as geographical indications
Danubian Plain and Thracian Lowlands
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What is Gamza
Kadarka in Bulgaria
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What is the Bulgarian synonym for Kadarka
Gamza
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Where is Melnik
Bulgaria
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What style of wine is produced by Rkatsiteli
white wine.
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What style of wines are produced from Dimiat
White wine. (Bulgaria)
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What are the most planted varieties in Bulgaria
Dimiat and Rkatsiteli
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What is the parentage of Rubin
Nebbiolo and Syrah
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Nebbiolo and Syrah combine to make what grape grown in Bulgaria
Rubin
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Where is Rubin produced commonly
Bulgaria
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What is the most cultivated grape in Russia
Rkatsiteli
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Where is Krasnodar?
Russia
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Where is Stravopol?
Russia
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Where is Dagestan?
Russia
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In what region in Russia do the vines need to be buried in the soil to survive the cold
Stravopol
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Why is Stravopol notable
The vines need to be buried in the soil to survive the cold
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What is Russia's most important region
Krasnodar
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What are the four major regions of Ukraine
TONiC. Transcarpathian Region, Odessa, Nikolayev-Kherson, Crimea
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Where is Crimea
Ukraine
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Where is Odessa
Ukraine
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Where is Nikolayev Kherson
Ukraine
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Where is the Transcarpathian Region
Ukraine
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Crimea is known for what style of wine
Sparkling ( Sparkling Krim)
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What are the four winegrowing regions of Moldova
Baitu, Codru, Stefan Voda, Cahul
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Where is Stefan Voda?
Moldova
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Where is Milestii Mici
Moldova. Wine collection
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What area has the Guiness Book of World Records largest wine collection
Milestii Mici in Moldova
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Where is Baitu
Moldova
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Where is Codru
Moldova
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Where is Cahul
Moldova
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What is Qvevri
A jar like huige pot belled amphora buried in the ground. Used in the country of Georgia
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What are the five zones for production in Georgia
Kakheti, kartli, Imereti, Racha Lechkhumi (KIRK)
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Where is Kakheti
Georgia
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Where is Kartli
Georgia
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Where is Imereti
Georgia
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Where is Racha Lechkhumi
Georgia
146
Where is the Alazani River
Georgia. Kakheti
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Where is most of the wine in Georgia produced?
Kakheti
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What are the white and red of Georgia
Rkatsiteli and Seperavi
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Where is Istria?
Croatia
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Where are the Dinaric Alps
Croatia
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Where is Dalmatia?"
Croatia
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Where is Hvatsko Primorje PDO?
Croatia
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What is the grape of Dingac?
Plavac Mali
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What white grape is the focus of Istria
Malvasia
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Where would you commonly see Refosco in Croatia
Istria
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Where is Slavonia?
Croatia
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What are the four major regions of Croatia
Istria, Dalmatia, Uplands, Slavonia
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What region of Slovenia borders Friuli
Primorska
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What is the easternmost winegrowing region of Slovenia
Podravje
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What is Sivi Pinot
Pinot Grigio in Slovenia
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What is Pinot Grigio known as in Primorska
SIvi Pinot
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Where is the Vipava Valley
Primorska
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Where does Tilia produce wine
Vipava Valley of Primorska (Pinot Noir)
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Teran PDO produces reds from what grape
Refosco
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Where is Teran
(Kras), Primorska, Slovenia and Croatian Istria
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What is the slovenian synonym for Welschriesling
Laski Rizling
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What is Laski Rizling
Welschriesling in Slovenia
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What other country also has a Tokaj region
Slovakia
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Where is Tokajska
Slovakia
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Where is Nitrianska
SLovakia
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Where is Malokarpatska
Slovakia
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Where is Stredoslovenska
SLovakia
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Where is Juznoslovenska
Slovakia
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What are themost planted white and red of Slovakia
Gruner and Blaufrankisch
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What are two snynonyms for Blaufrankisch
Lemberger, Kekfrankos, Frankovka
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What is Frankovka
Blaufrankisch in Czech Republic
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Where is Moravia
CZECH REPUBLIC
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WHERE IS ZNOJMO VOC
CZECH REPUBLIC
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WHERE WOULD YOU SEE VOC DESIGNATIONS
CZECH REPUBLIC
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WHERE ARE 96% OF THE VINES OF CZECH REPUBLIC LOCATED
MORAVIA
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Where are the Palava hills
Moravia. Czech Republic
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Where is Bohemia
Czech Republic
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What are the rules for Znojmo VOC
Must be blends or varietal wines of Gruner Veltliner Sauvignon Blanc or Riesling. Cork closure is required.
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Where are Mikulov and Znojmo
Czech Republic
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What two categories can be seen as the byproduct of Aszu production
Forditas and Maslas
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Where are the Two Istrias
Slovenia and Croatia
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The EU has recently granted partial permission for Croatian winemakers to use what label on its wine labels after a long dispute with Slovenia?
Teran
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What are the most planted grapes in Romania?
Feteasca Alba and Feteasca Negra
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What does CMD, CT, and CIB indicate on a Romanian wine?
CMD-full maturity, CT-Late Harvest, CIB- Botrytis affected
