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Question 1

What are the two IGT regions to know for quality wine in Bulgaria?

Answer 1

Danubian Plain
Thracian Lowlands

Question 2

How many PDO level regions are there in Bulgaria? Do we care?

Answer 2

52

No, because nobody uses them. Only 1% of production.

Question 3

What are the 4 regions of Bulgarian production and what are their climates?

Answer 3

Northern Danubian Plain CON
Eastern Black Sea Coast CON
Southern Thracian Plain CON
SW Struma River Valley MEDI

Question 4

Hungarian Kadarka is native to Bulgaria, but what do they call it?

Answer 4

Gamza

Question 5

Of Bulgarian production, how much is red?

What 2 grapes account for half of that?

Answer 5

60%

Cab Sauv and Merlot

Question 6

What is Pamid?

Answer 6

A historically important red grape in Bulgaria. Accounts for 10%

Question 7

Romania produces more white wine or red?

What 2 grapes lead plantings?

Answer 7

white, about 60%

Feteasca Alba and Feteasca Regala

Question 8

What 2 geographical features heavily influence Romanian viticulture?

Answer 8

Carpathian Mountains and the Black Sea

Question 9

Name the important Romanian region for white wine, what grapes are used?

Any specialties?

Answer 9

Jidvei DOC

The Feteasca grapes, Alba and Regala

A rose made from Traminer

Question 10

Whats made in the Romanian region of Cotnari DOC?

Answer 10

sweet wines like Tokaj

Question 11

What Slovakian wine region makes sweet botrytized wines?

Answer 11

Tokaj

Question 12

Whats the Slovakian wine region to know for red and white wine?

What grapes are they working with?

Answer 12

Male Karpaty Hills

Silvaner, Veltliner, Riesling for white
Cab Sauv and Blaufrankisch for red

Question 13

What are the 2 Czech wine regions to know?

Which is most important?

Answer 13

Moravia and Bohemia

Moravia is most important, 96% of production, near the Austrian border.

Question 14

What is Russia’s most important wine region and where is it?

Answer 14

Krasnodar, on the Black Sea coast

Question 15

What grape accounts for half of Russian plantings?

Answer 15

Cabernet Sauvignon

Question 16

What are Ukraine’s two most important regions?

Answer 16

Odessa and Crimea

Question 17

Moldova shares a line of latitude with what famous wine region?

What grapes are they working with? (They’re next door to Romania)

Answer 17

Burgundy

Feteasca Alba and Regala

Chard, Pinot, Aligote, Sauv Bl, Cab Sauv

Question 18

What is the most cultivated grape in Georgia, red and white?

Answer 18

Rkatsiteli (white)
Saperavi (red)

Question 19

What special pots are used for fermentation in Georgia?

Whats the wine region to know in Georgia? % production?

Answer 19

Qvevri

Kakheti 80%

Question 20

What is the major region for viticulture in Armenia? Whats the local grape to know?

Answer 20

Ararat Valley
Areni Noir

Question 21

In terms of grape growing, where does Turkey rank worldwide?

What region accounts for half of production?

Answer 21

5th

Aegean

Question 22

Native Turkey grapes. Give the name and basic style.

Okuzgozu
Bogazkere
Narince
Emir

Answer 22

Okuzgozu, bull’s eye, fruity reds
Bogazkere, throat puckerer, stuctured reds
Narince, mid weight white
Emir, crisp white

Question 23

Cyprus is famous for what ancient wine?

How long has it been made?

Answer 23

Commandaria

at least 800bc, prolly longer

Question 24

Whats the dominant soil type of Cyprus?

Answer 24

Volcanic

Question 25

How did the name of Cyprus's famous wine come about? What are the 2 styles?

Answer 25

The knights templar established districts on the island called commanderies. dried grapes, the red Mavro and the white Xynisteri. Blended. When Mavro leads its fortified, when Xynisteri leads it is not fortified

Question 26

What is arak?

Answer 26

grape spirit distilled with anise

Question 27

What ancient civilization was located in present day Lebanon?

Answer 27

The Phoenicians

Question 28

What is Lebanon's largest producer, dating back to 1857? Which producer today is its marquee producer?

Answer 28

Chateau Ksara Chateau Musar (Hochart family)

Question 29

What is Lebanon's most important region? What two mountain ranges form it, and what river runs through it?

Answer 29

Bekaa Valley Mt Lebanon range near the coast Anti Lebanon Mountains along Syrian border Litani river

Question 30

Who invested in Israel in the 1880's, bringing French know how to its wine industry? What is the winery?

Answer 30

Baron Edmond de Rothschild Carmel Winery

Question 31

What are the 5 wine production areas of Israel?

Answer 31

Judean Hills Golan Heights Galilee Coastal Plain Mount Carmel

Question 32

What grapes are commonly seen in Israel? 3 white 3 red. Local specialties?

Answer 32

Chard, Sauv Bl, Viogner Cab Sauv, Merlot, Shiraz Emerald Riesling and Argaman Marawi

Question 33

Whats the most important wine growing area in Israel? % of production and soils?

Answer 33

Judean Hills, 33% terra rosa over limestone

Question 34

What Chinese wine region is the modern face of its growing accumen for viticulture? What winery put the region on the map with a win in competition in 2011?

Answer 34

Ningxia Helan Qingxue Winery