Greece Wine

Question 1

Lemnos grape varieties?

Answer 1

Muscat - white

Lemnio - red

Question 2

Mantinia is known for which grape varietals?

Answer 2

Moschofilero

Question 3

Name a Greek PDO for sparkling wine.

Answer 3

Zitsa

Question 4

Name of only Greek appellation that mandates use of a white grape in red blends?

Answer 4

Paros (Monemvassia is the white grape)

Question 5

Name the PDO appellations containing Muscat?

Answer 5

Muscat of Patras

Muscat of Rio Patras

Muscat of Cephalonia

Muscat of Lemnos

Muscat of Rhodes

Muscat of Samos

Question 6

Naoussa is known for which grape varietals?

Answer 6

Xinomavro

Question 7

Nemea is known for which grape varietals?

Answer 7

Agiorgitiko

Question 8

Only Greek PDO to allow production of Rose wines?

Answer 8

Amynteo

Question 9

Paros PDO grape varieties?

Answer 9

Mandilaria - red

Monemvassia - white

Question 10

Red wines from Santorini are released under what appellation?

Answer 10

Cyclades

Question 11

Retsina grape varieties?

Answer 11

Savvatiano

Roditis

Question 12

Rhodes grape varieties?

Answer 12

Mandilaria - red

Athiri - white

Question 13

Samos grape varieties?

Answer 13

Muscat Blanc a Petits Grains (Moscato Aspro)

Question 14

Santorini PDO grapes?

Answer 14

Assyrtiko

Athiri

Aidani

Question 15

What are the 2 main categories for the Greek Islands?

Answer 15

Aegean

Ionian

Question 16

What are the 3 PDO zones of Peloponnese?

Answer 16

Nemea

Mantina

Patras

Question 17

What are the 4 PDOs of Macedonia?

Answer 17

Naoussa

Amynteo

Goumenissa

Slopes of Meliton (Plagies Melitona)

Question 18

What are the 4 wine producing Ionian islands of the west coast of Greece?

Answer 18

Cephalonia

Kerkyra (Corfu)

Lefkada

Zakynthos

Question 19

What are the Cyclades Islands?

Answer 19

Santorini

Paros

Question 20

What are the three PDO zones of Peloponnese?

Answer 20

Nemea

Mantinia

Patras

Question 21

What are the wine producing regions of the Aegean islands?

Answer 21

Santorini

Paros

Rhodes

Lemnos

Samos

Question 22

What does ‘cava’ refer to in regards to Greek wines?

Answer 22

Refers to a minimum of oak aging. (For PGI and varietal wines only)

White - 1 year of aging (6m in Barrel)

Red - 3 years of aging (1y in Barrel)

Question 23

What is a principal grape varietal of Mantinia?

Answer 23

Moschofilero

Question 24

What is Greece’s coolest region?

Answer 24

Amynteo

Question 25

What is Retsina?

Answer 25

Aromarized wine made with Savvatiano grapes and flavoured with pine resin

Question 26

What is Rose Retsina called?

Answer 26

Kokkineli

Question 27

What is the exclusive grape varietal of Nemea?

Answer 27

Agiorgitiko (St. George)

Question 28

What is the generic term for unknown white grapes?

Answer 28

Asproudes

Question 29

What is the largest and most southern Greek island?

Answer 29

Crete

Question 30

What is the name of the major Mountain Range in Greece?

Answer 30

Pindus

Question 31

What is the name of the Northern wind which blows in Santorini?

Answer 31

Meltemia

Question 32

What is the name of the only PDO in Epirus?

Answer 32

Zitsa

Question 33

What is the only Greek appellation that mandates use of a white grape in red blends?

Answer 33

Paros

Question 34

What is the only Ionian Island with a PDO?

Answer 34

Cephalonia

Question 35

What is the principal grape varietal on Santorini?

Answer 35

Assyrtiko

Question 36

What Islands make up the Aegean Islands?

Answer 36

Crete Santorini Paros Rhodes Lemnos Samos

Question 37

What regions are found on the Greek Mainland?

Answer 37

Macedonia Epirus Peloponnese Thessalia Thrace Central Greece (Sterea Ellada)

Question 38

What training system is used for the vines on Santorini?

Answer 38

Stefani - vines are trained close to the ground in the shape of baskets or wreaths to protect from the fierce winds and to collect morning dew for moisture.

Question 39

What varietal is grown in Mantinia?

Answer 39

Moschofilero

Question 40

What varietal is grown in Nemea?

Answer 40

Agiorgitiko (St George)

Question 41

What varietal is grown to produce dry white Patras?

Answer 41

Roditis

Question 42

What varietal is used to make red wine from Naoussa?

Answer 42

Xinomavro

Question 43

What varietals are authorized for Zitsa?

Answer 43

Debina 100%

Question 44

What varietals are used to make Kokkineli?

Answer 44

Roditis

Question 45

What white varietals are grown on Santorini?

Answer 45

Assyrtiko Athiri Aidani

Question 46

What would “Grand Cru” indicate on a label of Greek wine?

Answer 46

Sweet wines / VdN style / from selected vineyards / typically higher altitude)

Question 47

Which is Greece's coolest region?

Answer 47

Amynteo

Question 48

Which region is home to Boutari?

Answer 48

Naoussa

Question 49

Wine Producing Ionian Islands?

Answer 49

Cephalonia Kerkyra (Corfu) Lefkada Zakynthos

Question 50

Kir Yianni is a famous producer in which PDO of Greece?

Answer 50

Naoussa

Question 51

In which region of Greece would you find the Kotsifali and Mandilaria grapes being grown?

Answer 51

Crete