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WSET Level 2 Award in Wines & Spirits > Other White & Black Grapes > Flashcards

Other White & Black Grapes Flashcards

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Pinot Grigio

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Italy

  • dry
  • light-to-medium bodied
  • medium acid
  • neutral character

Better examples:
-Trentino-Alto Adige
-Friuli-Venezia Giulia
(ripe nuttiness, honey)

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Soave

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grape: garganega
Italy
-Soave
-Soave Classico DOC

  • late ripening
  • floral (chamomile)
  • white pepper
  • medium body
  • unoaked
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Torrontes

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Argentina
-Cafayate

  • aromatic
  • medium body
  • dry
  • high alcohol
  • medium acid
  • fruity (grape, peach)
  • floral (perfume)
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Pinot Gris

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France
-Alsace
New Zealand

  • full body
  • dry to off-dry to medium to sweet
  • spicy tropical fruit (ginger, melon, banana)
  • sometimes hints of honey
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Douro

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grape: touriga nacional
Portugal
-Douro DOC (hot climate)
(sweet, fortified port and dry, red wines)

  • deep color
  • high acid
  • high tannins
  • dark berry fruits
  • spices (pepper, licorice)
  • oak aged
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Amarone della Valpolicella

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Italy
-Amarone della Valpoicella DOC (Veneto)

  • grapes are partially dried to concentrate flavors
  • very complex
  • full bodied
  • dry
  • high tannins
  • high alcohol
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Pinotage

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South Africa

  • hybrid of pinot noir and cinsault grapes
  • created for SA’s climate
  • full body
  • medium tannins
  • red fruit (strawberry, raspberry, cherry)
  • vegetal, animal (leather, tar)
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Malbec

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Argentina

  • Mendoza
  • sometimes blended with cabernet sauvignon and merlot
  • full body
  • medium-to-high tannins
  • dark fruit (blackberry, black plum)
  • spice (pepper, clove)
  • oak aging
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Zinfandel

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California

  • old vines (100+ years) results in complex, intense wines
  • also makes off-dry, fruity roses
  • dry
  • rich
  • full body
  • high alcohol
  • black fruit (blackberry)
  • dried fruit (raison, prune)
  • sweet spice (clove, licorice)
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Primitivo & Negroamaro

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Italy
-Puglia
(Primitivo = Zinfandel)

  • medium body
  • medium tannins
  • medium acid
  • jammy black fruit
  • licorice
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Tempranillo (outside Rioja)

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  • Ribera del Duero DO
  • black fruit (blackberry, plum)
  • toasty oak

Navarra DO
-blended with Cabernet Sauvignon & Merlot

Catalunya
-blended with Garnacha & other grapes

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Gamay

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France
-Beaujolais

  • light-to-medium body
  • low tannins
  • medium-to-high acid
  • usually unoaked
  • red fruit (strawberry, raspberry, cherry)
  • hint of spice (cinnamon, pepper_
  • best consumed young, fruity
  • best crus can improve with bottle age
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Sangiovese

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Italy

  • Chianti DOCG
  • Chianti Classico DOCG
  • Brunello di Montalcino DOCG

Chianti:

  • much is inexpensive, simple
  • can have other varieties blended in

Brunello:

  • 100% sangiovese
  • medium-to-full bodied
  • high tannins
  • high acid
  • plum
  • red cherries,
  • earth
  • herbal notes (green tea)
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Nebbiolo

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Italy (Piemonte)

  • Barolo DOCG
  • Barbaresco DOCG (slightly softer)
  • full body
  • high tannins
  • high acid
  • high alcohol
  • red fruit
  • floral
  • earthy (tobacco, mushroom, tar)
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Aglianco

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Italy

  • Campania (Tourasi DOCG)
  • Basilicata
  • deeply colored
  • intensely flavored
  • full body
  • high tannins
  • high acid
  • complex
  • floral
  • dark fruit
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Barbera

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Italy
-Piemonte

  • low-to-medium tannins
  • high acid
  • red fruit
  • black pepper
  • oak aged (toast, vanilla, spice)
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Gewurztraminer

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France
-Alsace
New Zealand

  • intensely perfumed
  • dry, off-dry, medium sweet
  • full body
  • low acid
  • high alcohol
  • floral perfume (rose, orange blossom)
  • musky, sweet spices (ginger)
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Viogner

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France

  • Northern Rhone
  • Southern France
  • Chile
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • California
  • full body
  • soft
  • aromatic

Northern Rhone:

  • low acid
  • high alcohol
  • delicate fruit, floral (peach, pear, apricot, violet)
  • spicy notes
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Verdicchio

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Italy

  • Marche
  • Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC
  • high acid
  • medium body
  • lemon
  • fennel
  • bitter almond
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Gavi

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Italy
-Gavi DOCG (Piemonte)

  • light body
  • high acid
  • citrus
  • green apple
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Muscadet

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grape: melon blanc
France
-Muscadet AC (Loire)
-Muscadet Sevre et Maine AC (superior sub-region)

  • medium body
  • medium/high acid
  • dry
  • unoaked
  • neutral fruit

-“sur lie”: remained on dead yeast cells (more body, complexity)

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Semillon

A

France
-Bordeaux
Australia

Bordeaux:

  • blended with sauvignon blanc to make dry wine
  • sweet wine on its own

Australia:

  • medium bodied
  • either simple citrus or intensely vegetal, pungent
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Albarino

A

Spain
-Rias Baixas

  • light-to-medium body
  • refreshingly high acid
  • fresh green fruit (apple, pear)
  • citrus fruit (grapefruit)
  • unoaked
24
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Trebbiano

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Italy (most widely planted white variety)

  • mostly inexpensive neutral wine
  • some varietal wines
  • high acid
25
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Chenin Blanc (France)

A

France

  • Touraine AC (Loire)
  • Vouvray AC (Loire)
  • medium body
  • high acid
  • unoaked
  • green fruit (apple)
  • citrus fruit (lemon)
  • tropical fruit (pineapple)
  • herbaceous aromas (green leaf)
  • makes dry and sweet wines (susceptible to noble rot)
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Chenin Blanc (South Africa)

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South Africa

  • large quantity, inexpensive wines
  • often blended with chardonnay (refreshing acid, citrus fruit)
  • medium body
  • medium-to-high acid
  • dry and off-dry
  • citrus
  • tropical fruit
  • some oaked (premium)
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Tempranillo (Rioja)

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-Rioja DOCa

  • medium-to-full body
  • medium acid
  • medium tannins
  • red fruit (strawberry)
  • often blended with Garnacha (high alcohol, spice, lighter tannins)
  • oak aging
    1. softens tannins
    2. adds sweet coconut, vanilla
    3. with time (Gran Reserva): savory, animal/vegetal flavors (meat, leather, mushroom)
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Carmenere

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Chile
-Central Valley
-Aconcagua
Originally from Bordeaux

  • often blended with Cabernet Sauvignon & Merlot
  • requires warm, sunny weather to ripen
  • deep color
  • medium-to-full body
  • medium-to-high acid
  • medium-to-high alcohol
  • high tannins
  • dark fruit (blackberry)
  • peppery spice
  • if underripe: green bean, green bell pepper
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Montepulciano d’Abruzzo

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grape: montepulciano
Italy
-Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOC

  • deep color
  • high acid
  • medium-to-high tannins
  • medium-to-high alcohol
  • black fruit (blackberry, black cherry, plum)
  • inexpensive: jammy black fruit
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Valpolicella

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grape: corvina dominated blend
Italy (Veneto)
-Valpolicella
-Valpolicella Classico DOC

Inexpensive:

  • light body
  • pale/medium ruby
  • low tannins
  • high acid
  • sour red cherry

More expensive:

  • more concentrated
  • baked fruit (plum, dried red cherries, prunes)
  • more complexity
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Regions of Beaujolais

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  1. Beaujolais AC, Beaujolais Nouveau AC
  2. Beaujolais Villages AC
  3. Beaujolais Cru
    - Morgon AC
    - Fleurie AC
    - Brouilly AC
    - Moulin-a-Vent AC
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Spanish Aging Law Levels

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  1. Joven (youngest, unoaked, bottle in the yr after vintage)
  2. Crianza
  3. Reserva
  4. Gran Reserva (only exceptional vintages, pale, garnet in color, very complex)

WSET Level 2 Award in Wines & Spirits (11 decks)

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