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38 Cards in this Set
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First region to receive doca status and which year? |
Rioja 1991 |
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What is Vinos de Pagos and when was introduced? |
Top quality wines from single estates (vineyards) produced in estate. 2003 |
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What is vino de la tierra? |
IGP table wine of delimited region, contain min 60% of delimited region |
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What is DOQ |
Denominacion de Origen Qualificada - same as DOCa but use in Catalan (priorat) |
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VCIG |
Vino de calidad con indicacion geografica - is for those which attempting to be upgraded to DOP, but they must wait min 5years |
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DOP |
Denominacion de Origen protegida- same as AOP in France |
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Aging terminology for DOP wines |
Noble min 18m aging in cask (less than 600l) or bottle Anejo min 24m aging in cask (less than 600l) or bottle Viejo min 36m aging, demonstrates marked oxidative character |
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DO Jumilla grape |
Monastrell |
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2 main grape varieties in Valdepenas |
Airen and Tempranillo |
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Grape of reserva and gran reserva in valdepenas |
Cencibel |
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Montilla Moriles style and grape |
White wine similar to sherry - solera, usually unfortified Sweet wines fortified and dry affected by flor PX |
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Montilla Moriles style and grape |
White wine similar to sherry - solera, usually unfortified Sweet wines fortified and dry affected by flor PX |
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Navarra styles and grapes, aging |
80% red and rose, 20% white Garnacha, Tempranillo Viura, Malvasia Crianza 36m (6m barrique) Reserva and gran reserva as rioja |
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5 sub districts of navarra |
Baja Montana; Ribera Alta; Ribera Baja; Tierra Estella; Valdizarbe |
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3 sub districts of penedes |
Baix penedes, medio penedes and alt penedes |
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Tarragon’s style of wine |
Tarragona classico licoroso- sweet red fortified wine matured in oak |
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Slate soil in priorat |
Licorella |
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Major grapes of priorat |
Garnacha and carinena |
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Style of montsant |
Similar to priorat same grapes |
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12 Villages of priorat |
La morera de montsant; gratallops; bellmunt del priorat; escaladei; porrera; poboleda; la vilella baixa; la vilella Alta; el Lloar; masos de falset; solanes del molar; torroja del priorat |
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5 sub zones of rias baixas |
Val do salnes; condado do tea; o rosal; soutmaior; ribeira do ulla |
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Oak in rioja |
American |
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Aging requirements for vino espumoso de calidad in rioja |
15m on lees Riserva 24m on lees Gran anada 36m on the lees |
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Aging requirements for red wine in rioja |
Crianza min 2y (1y oak) Reserva min 3y (1y oak 6m bottle) Gran reserva 5y (2y oak 2y bottle) |
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Aging requirements for blanco and rosado in rioja |
Crianza min 18m (6m in oak) Reserva min 24m (6 in oak) Gran reserva min 48m (6 in oak) |
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Aging requirements general do and doca |
Back (Definition) |
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What means joven? |
Wine sold year after harvest, little or no oak |
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What means vino generoso? |
Fortified wine |
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Sub zones of rioja |
Alta, oriental, alavesa |
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Sweetness designations for vino espumoso |
Brut nature 0-3 Extra brut 0-6 Brut 0-12 |
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What is vinedo singular? |
Single vineyard |
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Rueda and rueda superiore grapes |
Min 50% of local: verdejo, viura and SB (might be 100% sb) Superiore and espumoso min 85% verdejo |
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Red rueda grspes |
Tempranillo, cs, merlot, Garnacha |
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Toro grapes |
Red tinta de toro, Garnacha White Verdejo, Malvasia |
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Bierzo grapes |
White: godello, Malvasia, palomino, Dona blanca Red: Mencia, Garnacha, esaldina, merenzao |
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Grapes of cava |
White: macabeo, xarello, parellada, Chardonnay, Malvasia Red: Pinot noir, monastrell, Garnacha, trepat(only for rose) |
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Sweetness designations of cava |
Brut nature 0-3 Extra brut 0-6 Brut 0-12 Extra dry(extra sec) 12-17 Dry (sec) 17-32 Semi dry (semisec) 32-50 Sweet (dolce) +50 |
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Aging cava |
Min 9m on lees Reserva 18m on lees Gran reserva 30m on lees Cava de paraje calificado min 36m on lees |