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Name the regions of the mainland of Greece

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Macedonia 
Epirus
Peloponnese
Thessalia
Thrace 
Central Greece (Sterea Ellada)
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Goumenissa PDO is known for producing what style of wine?

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lighter reds from Xinomavro w/ min 20% Negoska

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Where is the producer Boutari located?

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Naoussa PDO

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What is Greece’s coolest winegrowing region? What style of wine most known for?

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Amynteo PDO

Rosé wines dry-semi-sweet, still or sparkling

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What PDO of Macedonia is a single estate appellation? For who? Styles of wine?

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Slopes of Meliton
Domaine Carras
R=CS, CF, Limnio
W=Assyritiko, Athiri, Rhoditis

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Who is the winemaker who launched Domaine Carras?

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Evangelos Gerovassiliou

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What are the primary PDOs of Thessalia?

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Rapsani
Messenikola
Anchialos

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Name the styles of wine for following PDOs

  • Rapsani
  • Messenikola
  • Anchialos
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Rapasani=Reds from Xinomavro blended w/ Krasato and Stavroto

Messinkola=Reds Mavro Mesenikola (70% min)+30% max Syrah and Carignan

Anchialos=Whites from Rhoditis and Savvatiano

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What is the only PDO of Epirus? Style of wine?

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Zitsa PDO

dry, semi-sweet, and sparkling white wine from Debina

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Attiki is most known for producing what style of wine? What varietal?

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Retsina
from Savvatiano
Central Greece main production for Retsina

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What are the styles of wine produced in Nemea PDO?

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dry and sweet Reds wines from Agiorgitiko

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What is the only red wine producing PDO of Peleponnesse?

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Nemea PDO

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What is the primary varietal of Mantinia PDO?

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Moscofilero

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What is the style of wine made in Patras PDO?

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dry white, 100% Roditis

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What are the 3 dessert wine PDOs of Patras?

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Mavrodaphne de Patras
Muscat de Patras
Muscat de Rio Patras

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What styles of wine are made in Muscat de Patras and Muscat de Rio Patras?

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vin doux naturel or naturally sweet wines from Muscat Blanc à Petit Grains

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What style of wine is made in Mavrodaphne de Patras and what are aging req’s and practices?

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Sweet fortified reds from Mavrodaphne and Mavri Korinthiaki

1 yr min in oak, in practice may spend 10+ rs in cask

18
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Name a well known producer of Mavrodaphne de Patras

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Achaia-Clauss (Solera back to 1882)

19
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What style of wine is produced in Monemvassia-Malvasia PDO?

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sweet white wine fro 51% Monemvassia, aged in oxidative environment for min 2 yrs

20
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What is the only Ionian island to posses PDO’s? What are they? What styles?

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Cephalonia

  • Robola of Cephalonia (Dry whites)
  • Muscat of Cephalonia (sweet whites)
  • Mavrodaphne of Cephalonia (sweet reds)
21
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What styles of wine are produced in

  • Archanes
  • Dafnes
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Archanes=dry reds from Kotsifali and Mandilara

Dafnes=dry reds from Liatiko (100%)

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What styles of wine are in Sitia PDO?

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Whites=70% Vilana and Thrapsathiri

Reds=80% Liatiko and Mandilaria, naturally sweet reds=100% Liatiko

23
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What styles of wine in Peza PDO?

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W=dry 100% Vilana

R=dru Kotsifali and Mandilaria

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What styles of wine in Santorini?

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  • dry whites from 75% Assyrtiko+Athiri/Aidani

- vinsanto/Liastros=51% Assyrtiko+obscure traditional varieties

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What is the only Greek PDO to mandate use of white grape in red blend? What varietal?
Paros (Monemvassia) | R from Mandilaria
26
What is famous PDO of Isle of Samos? Style, req's?
Muscat of Samos PDO -VDN, VDL, nat'ly sweet (Samos Nectar) Samos Nectar= 3 yrs min of aging
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What are PDOs and styles of Island of Lemnos?
Lemnos PDO - Dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet W from Moschato Alexandrias - Dry, sun dried, fortified R from Limnio Muscat of Lemnos PDO -W from Moschato Alexandrias
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What styles of wine produced in Rhodes?
PDO R, W, R, from Mandilaria and Athiri | Muscat of Rhodes PDO very rare
29
What two traditional Apps are included in the PGI category and what styles of wine do they produce?
Retsina=resinous white wine from Savvatiano | Verdea=oxidative white wine produced on Zakythos in the Ionian Sea
30
What does Reserve and Grand Reserve indicate about Greek reds and whites?
Reserve W=1yr aging (6 mo barrel, 3 mo btl) R=2yrs aging (1yr barrel, 6 mo btl) Grand Reserve W=2yrs aging (1yr barrel, 6 mo btl) R=4yrs aging (18 mo barrel, 18 mo btl)
31
What are the 2 PDO levels of Greece?
1. Controlled Appellation of Origin (AOC/OPE)-for tradtional sweet wines 2. Appellation of Superior Quality (AOSQ/OPAP)
32
When was Greek wine law introduced? When were the majority of Apps est.?
1969-1970 | 1971
33
What is Retsina?
A traditionally protected app (as PGI) that produces white wine from Savvatiano grapes and flavored with addition of pine resin. Rarely encountered outside of Greece
34
What are primary red varietals of Greece?
Xinomavro Agiorgitiko int'l varieties
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What are primary white varietals of Greece?
``` Assyrtiko Roditis Moschofilero White Muscat Savvatiano ```
36
Breakdown PGI categories in Greece and what each one pertains to
Regional (Peloponnese, Crete Rhodes, Etc) Districts (peripheral areas of Greece) Area (smallest, may be only single estate)
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What are PGI wines of Greece and the styles included within?
Protected Geographical Indication Varietal wines may carry vintage table wines
38
What are two broad Island categorizations of Greece?
Aegean Islands | Ionian Islands
39
What style of wine is Naoussa and Amynteo known for producing?
Dry, firmly tannic reds from Xinomavro
40
What does labeling term Cava refer to? Palaiomenos se vareli?
Cava W+R=PGI wine with 1yr age (6 mo in oak) R=PGI wine with 3 yrs (1 yr in oak) Palaiomenos se vareli=oak aging beyond req's for cava, reserve, and grand reserve wines
41
What are primary regions of Macedonia w/ corresponding varietals
Naoussa (R, Xinomavro) Plagies Melitona (R+W, Int'l and natives) Amynteo (sparkling, rosé, reds from Xinomavro)
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What are the 7 Ionian islands? Which are most pertinent to wine study?
``` Cephalonia (only PDOs) Ithaca Corfu (capital) Lefkada Paxi Zakynthos (Verdea) Kythira ```

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