Syrah & Grenache Flashcards
1
Q
What is Syrah called in Australia?
A
Shiraz
2
Q
What are Syrah grapes like?
A
- small
- dark
- thick skins
3
Q
Syrah characteristics
A
- deeply colored
- medium-to-high tannins
- medium acid
- full body
4
Q
Moderate Climate Syrah
A
- black fruit (blackberry)
- herbaceous
- smoked meat
- spice (black pepper)
- oak (toast, smoke, vanilla, coconut)
-maturity: animal, vegetal (leather, wet leaves)
5
Q
Cool Climate Syrah
A
Trick question. Doesn’t ripen.
6
Q
Hot Climate Syrah
A
- black fruit (blackberry)
- dark chocolate
- sweet spice (licorice)
- oak (toast, smoke, vanilla, coconut)
-maturity: animal, vegetal (leather, wet leaves)
7
Q
What do they call Grenache in Spain?
A
Garnacha
8
Q
What are Grenache grapes like?
A
- large
- thin skins
- high sugar
- low acid
9
Q
Grenache characteristics
A
- full body
- seldom deep in color
- red fruit (strawberry, raspberry)
- spice (white pepper, licorice)
-age: toffee, leather
10
Q
What does Grenache need to ripen?
A
Hot climate
11
Q
Adding Syrah to Grenache
A
Boosts
- color
- tannins
- acid
Adds dark fruit character
12
Q
Adding Grenache to Syrah
A
- more alcohol
- lower tannins
- lower acid
- red fruit
- extra spice flavors
13
Q
Grenache Rose
A
- thin skins = easy to make rose
- most best consumed young
- age: oak, orange hue, dull fruit, savory, complex
1. full body, dry, red fruit (strawberry)
2. light body, fruity, medium sweet - Southern Rhone
- Southern France
- Spain
14
Q
What grapes constitute Rhone blends?
A
- Syrah
- Grenache
- Cinsault (high yields, cheap, easy to grow)
- Mourvedre (high yields, cheap, easy to grow)
15
Q
The Northern Rhone
A
- mostly Syrah
- steep, narrow terraces (hand harvesting)
- sunlight
- good drainage
- wines are powerful, complex, ageworthy
Best appelations (rare, expensive):
- Cote-Rotie
- Hermitage
Other:
-Crozes-Hermitage
- larger
- some flat sites
- lower prices
- less intense, complex
- black pepper
