Greece

Question 1

God of wine

Answer 1

Dionysus

Question 2

Greek word (origin) for sommelier

Answer 2

Oenohoos

Question 3

Highest point in Greece

Answer 3

Mt. Olympus, also separates Thessaly from Macedonia

Question 4

3 seas of Greece and location

Answer 4

• Ionian: to the west (separates Greece from Italy)
• Aegean: to the east
• Libyan/Crete: to the south

Question 5

Synonym of Pinot gris

Answer 5

Monemvassia

Question 6

Synonym of Agiorgitiko

Answer 6

St George

Question 7

Synonym of Cabernet franc

Answer 7

Tsapournakos

Question 8

This body of water separates Italy and Greece

Answer 8

Ionian Sea

Question 9

This wind blows very dry air from the north, typically between mid-May and late September in Greece.

Answer 9

Meltemi

Question 10

Name the 6 wine companies that have a historical importance in the creation of Greece’s modern wine laws

Answer 10

• Boutari: played an especially important role, establishing satellite wineries in many of Greece’s major appellations and sending its winemakers and vineyard managers to study in France far before that was commonplace
• Domaine Porto Carras: launched in 1970 and tapped famed Bordeaux enologist Émile Peynaud as its consultant
• Achaia Clauss, Kambas, Kourtakis, and Tsantali

Question 11

Greece’s largestappellations for dry redwines, dry white wines, sweet whites and sweet reds?

Answer 11

• Red: Nemea (in Peloponnese -> 100% Agiorgitiko)
• White: Patras (in Peloponnese -> 100% Roditis)
• Sweet white: Samos (in Aegean Islands / Rhodes / 100% Moschato Aspro (Muscat Blanc a Petit Grains)
• Sweet red: Mavrodaphne of Patras (not just Patras since Patras is only for dry reds!!)

Question 12

Key grape in Macedonia and Thessaly

Answer 12

Xinomavro

Question 13

Which white grape accounts for 90% of all plantings in Greece?

Answer 13

Savatiano

Question 14

Most planted red grape?

Answer 14

Agiorgitiko (5.28%)

Question 15

Key grape in Sterea Ellada (Central Greece)

Answer 15

Savatiano

Question 16

Top 3 grapes grown in Greece

Answer 16

• White: Savatiano (16.52%) — accounts for 90% of all plantings
• Pink: Rhoditis (14.34%)
• Red: Agiorgitiko (5.28%)
• The dominance of Savatiano and Roditis is in part due to their use as the base for Retsina

Question 17

What are the 2 PGI’s in Greece, which are also Traditional Appellations (Traditional PGI wines marry process and place, and, as the name implies, serve to preserve ancient methods of wine production).

Answer 17

• Retsina: traditional Athenian wine, which can only be produced in 15 locations within Greece; cannot be labeled with a vintage
• Verdea: an oxidized white wine from the Ionian island Zakynthos

Question 18

What is the sole appellation in Epirus in NW Greece and what is the grape? Styles produced?

Answer 18

• Zitsa
• 100% Debina grape (white)
• Still dry, fruity, crisp whites
• Sparkling dry and semi-sweet

Question 19

Santorini’s most widely planted white and red grape

Answer 19

• White: Assyrtiko

- Red: Mandilaria

Question 20

This Greek word could even be considered the forerunner to the sommelier

Answer 20

Oenohoos

Question 21

Naoussa is this Greek region’s most important appellation, what is the grape?

Answer 21

• Macedonia

- 100% Xinomavro

Question 22

Macedonia’s (2) regions that require 100% Xinomavro

Answer 22

Amnyteo and Naoussa

Question 23

Only appellation in Macedonia that makes dry whites and dry reds

Answer 23

Slopes of Meliton

Question 24

Only white wine region in Thessaly, what are the grapes?

Answer 24

• Anchialos

- 80% Rhoditis, 20% Savatiao

Question 25

This region in Thessaly requires Xinomavro to be co-fermented with two other red grapes (krassato, stavroto (ambelakiotiko)

Answer 25

Rapsani

Question 26

Single producer appellation for Domaine Carras

Answer 26

Slopes of Meliton (in Macedonia)

Question 27

Appellations in Macedonia

Answer 27

- P: Slopes of Meliton - A: Amynteo - N: Nemea - G: Goumenissa

Question 28

Appellations in Thessaly

Answer 28

- R: Rapsani - A: Anchialos - M: Messenikola

Question 29

These 2 appellations in Greece requires Xinomavro to be co-fermented with other red grapes

Answer 29

- Goumenissa (in Macedonia) | - Rapsani (in Thessaly)

Question 30

Name the 2 PDOs where the wines are not entirely dedicated to indigenous varieties

Answer 30

- Slopes of Meliton (Macedonia): can have CS + CF in reds | - Messenikola (Thessaly): can have Carignan + Syrah in reds

Question 31

What is Greece’s most planted grape variety?

Answer 31

Savatiano

Question 32

Greece's largest island?

Answer 32

Crete

Question 33

Peloponnese's most famous red wine region and grape?

Answer 33

Nemea (Agiorgitiko)

Question 34

Peloponnese is separated from the mainland by this body of water

Answer 34

Gulf of Corinthia

Question 35

Which appellation contains Greece's most area planted under vine at 29%?

Answer 35

Peloponnese

Question 36

What is Greece's largest white and red wine appellation?

Answer 36

White: Patras (100% Roditis) Red: Nemea (100% Agiorgitiko) **Both in Peloponnese