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78 Cards in this Set
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What Croatian grape is genetically identical to Zinfandel?
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Crljenak Kastelanski
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Where is the region of Tokaj?
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Eastern Hungary
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What styles of wine are produced in Rhodes?
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Red and white (both dry to medium sweet) are produced
White: 100% Athiri Red: 100% Mandilaria (Amorgiano) |
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What is the only Greek PDO to allow rosé wines? What styles of rosés? What grape varietal?
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Amynteo PDO. The wines may be dry to semi-sweet, and still or sparkling. Xinomavro is the grape used there.
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How are the vines trained in Santorini?
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The vines must be trained close to the ground, in the "stefani" shape of baskets or wreaths, in order to protect them from the fierce Aegean winds.
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What is the only Greek appellations that mandates used of a white grape in red blends?
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Paros
White: 100% Monemvassia Red: 2/3 Mandilaria, 1/3 Monemvassia |
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What is the only PDO zone in Epirus?
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Zitsa
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What grapes are used and what styles of wine are allowed in Zitsa?
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Dry, semisweet, and sparkling wines are produced from the Debina grape.
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True or false: Nemea PDO must be 100% Agiorgitiko.
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True
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What is Koutsi?
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The most famous subzone of Nemea PDO
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Where is the Peloponnese? What is the narrow isthmus that makes it a peninsula?
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Peloponnese, a peninsula only by virtue of the narrow Isthmus of Corinth, is directly south of Sterea Ellada (Central Greece).
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What grape is most commonly used in Retsina? What are the PDO zones of Retsina?
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Savvatiano is preferred for retsina. The center of production for retsina is Attiki, the region surrounding Athens. All of this is in Sterea Ellada (or Central Greece).
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Where is the Anchialos PDO? What color wine is allowed here? What grapes are used? What style is the wine? What is the makeup of the blend?
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- The Anchialos PDO is located in Thessalia, south of Rapsani.
- Only white wines are allowed here, blended from Rhoditis and Savatiano grapes from higher-altitude vineyards. - The style of the wine is dry white. - The wine must be a min of 80% Rhoditis, plus Savvatiano |
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What is Crete's most cultivated grape?
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Vilana
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Name the five large wine producing region of Bulgaria.
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1. Danubian Plain (to the North)
2. Thracian Lowlands (to the South) 3. Black Sea Region (eastern) 4. Struma River Valley (western) 5. Rose Valley (narrow region in the center of the country) |
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Where is Boyar Estates?
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Bulgaria
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Where would someone find a wine labeled DGO?
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Bulgaria. Declared Geographic Origin.
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What are Controliran wines?
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Bulgarian wine term. Controliran is a superior controlled appellation of origin within a DGO, and each Controliran wine must be produced from the appellation’s permitted grape varietals. Maximum yield and residual sugar content is defined for each Controliran.
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What does "barik" mean?
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Bulgarian term used on labels if the fermentation occurred in oak casks of 500L or less in volume
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What is a significant Controliran appellation of Struma River Valley?
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Harsovo.
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What is the main and indigenous grape of the Controliran known as Harsovo in Struma River Valley DGO?
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Melnik
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Name two noteworthy Controliran appellations in the Danubian Plain?
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The more noteworthy Controliran appellations include Suhindol and Svichtov in the Danubian Plain
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What are the most widely planted international varieties in Bulgaria?
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Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot
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What are the two most widely planted indigenous varieties in Bulgaria?
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Gamza (Kadarka) & Mavrud
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Rubin is a crossing of what two noble international varietals? Where is it being produced?
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Nebbiolo x Syrah . Bulgaria is producing this varietal.
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What are the two most cultivated white varietals of Romania?
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Fetească Albă and Fetească Regală
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Where is Romania?
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Romania sits north of Bulgaria, touching the Black Sea on its Eastern coast. South of the Ukraine and Moldova. It's western borders are formed by Hungary and Serbia.
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What are the most cultivated indigenous red varietals of Romania?
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The indigenous red grapes Feteasca Neagra, Burgund Mare, and Băbeasca Neagră achieve higher quality. Rosioara (Bulgaria’s Pamid grape) is used mostly for table wine.
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What are the three subcategories of DOC's that you will see on a label of Romanian wine? What do they each tell you?
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DOC-CMD: grapes harvested at full maturity
DOC-CT: late-harvested grapes DOC-CIB: botrytis-affected grapes |
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What is the most significant region of Transylvania?
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Tarnave DOC, where they use Feteasca grapes and Traminer Rosé
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In what region of Romania is Dealu Mare?
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Muntenia in the Southeast.
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What is Grasa de Cotnari? Where is it found?
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In Moldavia, Romania. It is a grape varietal used to make Cotnari DOC wine, probably the most famous wine of Romania. a Botrytized dessert style.
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What is Murfatlar DOC
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DOC found in Dobrogea in Romania. Southeast.
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What style of wine is produced in Eger?
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Bikaver
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Wines from Nemea are produced from what grape?
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Agiorgitiko
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What region is known for red wines in Northwestern Hungary?
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Sopron
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What two regions are allowed to produce Bikaver?
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Eger and Szekszard
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Bikaver means?
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Bull's Blood
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Kékfrankos is the Hungarian name for which grape?
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Blaufrankisch
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Austria's Burgenland is contiguous with which Hungarian region?
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Sopron
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Tokaj is situated at the confluence of what two rivers?
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Tisza and Bodrog Rivers
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Aszú grapes are:
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Grapes harvested with high levels of sugar that have been afflicted with botrytis cinerea.
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What is the name of Vega Sicilia's Tokaj project?
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Tokaj Oremus
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What are the two Great First Growths of Tokaj?
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Szarvas and Mézes Mály
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What is a puttony?
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The containers used to hold hand-picked grapes to be used in the production of Tokaji wine. Holds approximately 25kg.
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What is a gonc?
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a Hungarian oak cask of approximately 136 L used in the production of Tokaji wine.
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Describe the production process of Tokaji.
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The aszú grapes are by law handpicked individually. The esszencia, or free-run juice, is drained off. The aszú is then trampled into a paste, or dough, and a number of puttony containing aszú paste is mixed with gönci barrels of must or base wine from non-aszú grapes. The number of puttony added to a gönc (a Hungarian oak cask of approximately 136 L) determines the final sweetness of the Tokaji Aszú wine, and it is labeled accordingly. The wine rests in cask for a minimum two years and undergoes an additional year of bottle age prior to release.
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What is the minimum RS for Tokaji naturesszencia? Previously what was it?
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450g/L. Previously it was only 250g/L.
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What are the minimum RS levels for 3,4,5, & 6 Puttonyos Tokaji wine? What bout aszúesszcencia?
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3 Puttonyos: 60 g/L
4 Puttonyos: 90 g/L 5 Puttonyos: 120 g/L 6 Puttonyos: 150 g/L Aszúesszencia (7-9 Puttonyos): 180g/L |
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What is Tokaji Szamorodni? Style and production requirements?
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Szamorodni means "as it comes". Produced from a mixture of aszú and non-aszú grapes. Rests in casks for a minimum of two years just like Tokaji Aszú. Can be dry or sweet.
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What are the terms for sweet and dry that are used in Tokaji labeling?
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édes (sweet) or száras (dry)
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What is the Circle of Mad?
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A small group of producers in Tokaji that are committed to elevating the status of dry wines of Tokaji.
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What other EU grapes have had their names altered due to the protection of Tokaji?
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Tocai Friulano became just Friulano. Tokay d'Alsace became just Pinot Gris.
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What main Slovenian wine region borders the Italian region of Friuli?
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Primorska
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What are the subregions of Primorska?
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1. Goriska Brda
2. Kras 3. Koper 4. Vipava |
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What are the three main wine regions of Slovenia?
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1. Primorska (Borders Friuli in Italy)
2. Podravje (Far NE) 3. Posavje (Southern border with Croatia) |
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What is the name for Pinot Grigio in Slovenia?
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Sivi Pinot
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Croatia's main winegrowing regions are:
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Istria to the North
Dalmatia to the South |
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What are the main regions of Slovakia?
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1. Malokarpatská (the Small Carpathian Wine Region)
2. Južnoslovenská (South Slovak wine region) 3. Nitrianska (Nitra wine region) 4. Stredoslovenská (Central Slovak wine region) 5. Východoslovenská (Eastern Slovak wine region) 6. Tokajská (Tokaj wine region) |
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Where would one find Bohemia (Čechy)?
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Czech Republic
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What are the two principal regions of wine production in the Czech Republic?
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Čechy/Bohemia (North) and Moravia (South)
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Where would you find a VOC?
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Czech Republic
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Where would you find Goumenissa? What are its grape requirements?
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Macedonia, Greece. Grape requirements are 80% Xinomavro and 20% Negoska
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What are the four Greek PDO's of Macedonia?
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1. Naoussa
2. Amynteo 3. Goumenissa 4. Slopes of Meliton |
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Where would you find the Debina grape?
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Zitsa PDO in Epirus, Greece. The only PDO of the Epirus region.
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Where would you find a wine labeled "Nychteri"? What does it mean?
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It is a dry white wine from Santorini that is produced with min 75% Assyrtiko. But additionally sees minimally 3mos of oak ageing.
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What is Malagousia and where would you find it?
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Native white grape of Greece that has been nurtured back to existence. Found in the PGI district of Thessaloniki in northern Macedonia.
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What are the three PDO's of Thessalia?
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1. Rapsani
2. Messenikola 3. Anchialos |
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What grapes and styles are found in Messenikola PDO?
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Dry reds from Min. 70% Mavro (Black) Messenikola, plus Carignan and Syrah
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What grapes and styles are found in the Rapsani PDO?
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Xinomavro, Stavroto (Ambelakiotiko), Krasato (traditionally each grape accounts for 1/3 of the vineyard)
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The three PDO's that can be found on the island of Cephalonia are:
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Robola
Mavrodaphne of Cephalonia Muscat of Cephalonia |
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What style of wine is Mavrodaphne of Cephalonia?
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Sweet Red
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What are the PDO's of the Peloponnese?
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1. Nemea
2. Mantinia 3. Patras 4. Monemvassia-Malvasia 5. Muscat of Patras 6. Mavrodaphne of Patras 7. Muscat of Rio Patras |
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What is Patras PDO? Grapes? Styles?
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Peloponnese region of Greece. 100% Roditis dry to medium sweet whites.
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What is Mantinia? Grapes? Styles?
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Peloponnese region of Greece. Min. 85% Moschofilero plus Asproudes. Dry whites. Still and Sparkling.
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What is Dafnes?
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PDO on the island of Crete. Produces dry and sweet red wines from Liatiko.
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Which two appellations are part of the Cyclades Islands?
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Paros and Santorini.
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Where is Verdea? What is the main grape of Verdea?
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Verdea is an oxidative white wine produced on the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea. Skiadopoulo is the predominant grape varietal.
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