Romania & Bulgaria

Question 1

Romania:

What do the categories DOC-CMD, DOC-CT, and DOC-CIB each mean?

Answer 1

DOC-CMD: grapes harvested at full maturity
DOC-CT: late-harest grapes
DOC-CIB: botrytis-affected grapes

Question 2

Romania:

What does VM mean?

Answer 2

Vin de Masa

*Table wine

Question 3

Romania:

What does VMS mean?

Answer 3

Vin de Masa Superior

*Superior Table Wine

Question 4

Romania:

What does VS mean?

Answer 4

Vin de Calitate Superioara

*Quality wines with a geographical designation

Question 5

Romania:

What are the aging requirements of rezervă?

Answer 5

Minimum 6 months in oak and 6 months in bottle

Question 6

Romania:

What are the aging requirements of vin de vinotecă?

Answer 6

Minimum 1 year in oak and 4 years in bottle

Question 7

Romania:

What are the aging requirements of vin tânăr?

Answer 7

“Young Wine” –– must be bottled before the end of the year in which it was produced

Question 8

Romania:
Describe the following wine styles of Cotești DOC:
Vin Linistit
Vin Perlant
Vin Spumant de Calitate
Vin Licoros

Answer 8

Vin Linistit: still wine (white, rosé, red, and aromatic, both varietal and blends)
Vin Perlant: Frizzante
Vin Spumant de Calitate: sparkling
Vin Licoros: fortified

Question 9

Vin Spumant de Calitate Panciu is sparkling wine made by what method?

Answer 9

Traditional method

Bonus:

• min pressure of 3.5 atm
• min 3 months on the lees

Question 10

What is the RS level of Vin de Calitate Aromat Dealu Mare and Vin Spumant de Calitate Aromat Panciu wines labeled Demi-sec and Dulce?

Answer 10

Demi-sec: 32-50 g/L RS
Dulce: 50+ g/L RS

*The only two aromatic sparkling wine DOCs

Question 11

Romania:

What is the RS level of still wines labeled sec, demi-sec, Demi-dulce, and dulce?

Answer 11

sec: max 4 g/L RS
demi-sec: 4 - 12 g/L RS
demi-dolce: 12 - 45 g/L RS
dulce: min 45 g/L RS

Question 12

Vin de Calitate Dealu Mare is traditional method sparkling wine with an RS scale that mirrors that of ______.

Answer 12

Champagne

Question 13

Where would you find the Carpathian Mountains?

Answer 13

Romania

Question 14

Bulgaria:

What is barik?

Answer 14

All quality wines may have this label if the fermentation occurred in oak casks of 500L or less in volume

Question 15

Bulgaria:

What is the quality of wine scheme?

Answer 15

Declared Geographic Origin (DGO) / Vino ot Deklarera Geografski

Question 16

Bulgaria:

What is Controliran?

Answer 16

A superior controlled appellation of origin within a DGO

- Each Controliran wine must be produced from the appellation’s permitted grape varieties

Question 17

Name the basic wine regions of Bulgaria.

Answer 17

Struma River Valley, Valley of Roses, Thracian Lowlands, Danubian Plain, Cherno More (Black Sea) Region

*The EU only recognises the Danubian Plain and Thracian Lowlands as geographical indications