Green Spain

Question 1

What are the four autonomous regions of Green Spain?

Answer 1

Galicia
Asturia
Cantabria
Pais Vasco

“GaAs Can Pai”=Green (Money)

Question 2

What is the name of Galicia’s historically-significant capital?

Answer 2

Santiago de Compostela

Question 3

The majority of grape varieties grown in Galicia are indigenous. True or False.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What is the name for the submerged river valleys situated along Galicia’s coastline?

Answer 4

Rìas

Question 5

What is the primary climate of Galicia?

Answer 5

Maritime

Question 6

What are the two most important rivers in Galicia?

Answer 6

Miño

Sil

Question 7

What is the name of the mountain range in Galicia which forms the western end of the Cordillera Cantábrica?

Answer 7

Macizo Galaico
-or-
Galician Massif

Question 8

What is the term for pergolas in DO Rías Baixas?

Answer 8

Parrals

Question 9

What is the primary grape of DO Rías Baixas?

Answer 9

Albariño

Question 10

What is the most important red grape in Galicia?

Answer 10

Mencía

Question 11

What are the sub-regions of Rías Baixas?

Answer 11

Condado do Tea
O Rosal
Ribera de Ulla
Soutomaior
Val do Salnes

“Of CORSV I know…”

Question 12

What is the birthplace of Albariño?

Answer 12

Val do Salnes of Rías Baixas in Galicia

Question 13

What is the oldest sub region of Rías Baixas?

Answer 13

Val do Salnes

Question 14

What is the hottest sub region of Rías Baixas?

Answer 14

Condado do Tea
(Hot Tea)

Question 15

What sub region of Rías Baixas produces ONLY Albariño?

Answer 15

Soutomaior

Question 16

Which is the northernmost subzone in DO Rías Baixas?

Answer 16

Ribeira do Ulla

Question 17

What is the Galician word for “bodega”?

Answer 17

Adega

Question 18

What is an Adega?

Answer 18

Bodega in Galicia

Question 19

What does “Ribeira Sacra” translate to in English?

Answer 19

Sacred Riverbank

Question 20

What is the special designation in DO Ribeira Sacra for red wines with 85% of preferred varieties?

Answer 20

Ribeira Sacra Summum

Question 21

What is Ribeira Sacra Summum?

Answer 21

A special designation in DO Ribeira Sacra for wines with 85% of preferred varieties.

Now includes red and white.

Question 22

White wines labeled as Ribeira Sacra Summum must be made from what percentage of preferred varieties?

Answer 22

Was 100%

Now 85%

Question 23

What is the dominant grape grown throughout DO Ribeira Sacra?

Answer 23

Mencía

Question 24

DO Ribeira Sacra has how many subzones?

Answer 24

5

Question 25

What is the primary white grape of DO Ribeiro?

Answer 25

Treixadura (stop mixing it up with Godello from Bierzo chump)

Question 26

Treixadura is the primary white grape of what Galician DO?

Answer 26

Ribeiro

Question 27

What are the three rivers of Ribeiro?

Answer 27

Arnoia Avia Miño

Question 28

What is the name for boutique estate wineries in Ribeiro?

Answer 28

Colleiteiros

Question 29

What are Colleiteiros? Where?

Answer 29

Boutique estate wineries in Ribeiro

Question 30

How many sub-zones are in DO Valdeorras?

Answer 30

8

Question 31

What is the name of the DO Valdeorras category for wines produced with 85% of the preferred varieties?

Answer 31

Valdeorras Castas Nobles

Question 32

What is Valdeorras Castas Nobles?

Answer 32

A category for wines produced with 85% of the preferred varieties in Valdeorras DO (Galicia)

Question 33

What is the primary white grape of DO Valdeorras?

Answer 33

Godello

Question 34

Which topographic feature forms a natural border between Asturias and Cantabria to the north and Castilla y León to the south?

Answer 34

Cordillera Cantábrica

Question 35

What is the term for warm and drying winds on the leeward side of a mountain?

Answer 35

Foehn winds/Foehn effect

Question 36

Wines produced in Asturias are primarily red. True or False?

Answer 36

True

Question 37

Wines produced in the northern part of Cantabria are mostly red whereas in the south they are mostly white. True or False?

Answer 37

False (the opposite is true)

Question 38

What are the three provinces of País Vasco?

Answer 38

Álava/Araba Vizcaya/Bizkaia Guipúzcoa/Gipuzkoa

Question 39

Which major river creates part of the southern border of País Vasco?

Answer 39

Ebro River

Question 40

What is the climate of the País Vasco coastal provinces of Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa?

Answer 40

Maritime

Question 41

Approximately what percentage of wine made in the three Basque DOs is white?

Answer 41

95%

Question 42

What is the main white grape of the three Basque DOs?

Answer 42

Hondarribi Zuri

Question 43

What is the sole red grape of the three Basque DOs?

Answer 43

Hondarribi Beltza

Question 44

Which is the smallest and driest País Vasco appellation?

Answer 44

DO Arabako Txakolina Txakoli de Álava Chacolí de Álava

Question 45

Which is the wettest DO in País Vasco?

Answer 45

DO Getariako Txakolina Txakoli de Getaria Chacolí de Getaria

Question 46

In which País Vasco province did producers formed the Txakoli Winemaker’s Association in the 1980s?

Answer 46

Vizcaya/Bizkaia

Question 47

What is Vizcaya/Bizkaia?

Answer 47

The province in which producers formed the Txakoli Winemaker’s Association in the 1980s

Question 48

What are parrals?

Answer 48

Pergola trellis in Galicia

Question 49

What are the original sub-zones of Rías Baixas?

Answer 49

Val de Salnes Condado do Tea O Rosal

Question 50

What are the “uniques” of Val do Salnes?

Answer 50

Oldest Flattest Coolest Birthplace of Albariño Umia River

Question 51

What is the language of the Basques?

Answer 51

Euskera

Question 52

What is Euskera?

Answer 52

The language of Basque. (Of the Euskadi people)

Question 53

Where is the Umia River?

Answer 53

Val do Salnes

Question 54

What is the river of Val do Salnes?

Answer 54

Umia (Salt has Umami)

Question 55

What are the four provinces of Galicia?

Answer 55

A Coruna Lugo Pontevedre Ourense ALPO