Weekly Wine Quiz: A Cepage By Any Other Name…

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Our next round of quizzes will focus on cepages, or wine grape varieties, and the various aliases by which they are known throughout the world. For our first cepage synonym, we will look at a grape that is well known for its wine, but also well known for being well known by many other names.

A Cepage By Any Other Name…

Can you identify the most common name for the grape also known as Tinto Madrid and Tinto Fino?

Answer forthcoming in the comments later.

Cheers – and good luck!

Comments

Joel Ohmart

Friday, 10 February, 2012 at 11:55

Survey says… Tempranillo!!

Tempranillo also has about a billion other synonyms. We grow the stuff so I have to know these things (with foot planted securely in mouth if I am incorrect).
- 1WineDude
  
  Friday, 10 February, 2012 at 12:18
  
  Thanks, Joel – I will say this, I had a joke on the WSET exams which was that if you had no idea what the variety was based on name, guess Tempranillo and statistically you'd have a good shot at being right ! :)
  - Joel Ohmart
    
    Friday, 10 February, 2012 at 13:13
    
    I honestly don’t know how anyone keeps any Varietal from the Iberian Peninsula straight! There are so many names for most of the major varietals over there.
    - 1WineDude
      
      Friday, 10 February, 2012 at 13:55
      
      :). Well, I think within sub regions it's easy. Across all of them? Not so much!
Barbara

Friday, 10 February, 2012 at 14:03

The answer is B-Cabernet!! Glad to discover the 1 Wine Dude Site!
- 1WineDude
  
  Friday, 10 February, 2012 at 15:29
  
  Thanks, Barbara! Glad to have you here!
1WineDude

Friday, 10 February, 2012 at 18:52

And so, here 'tis!

Wine Quiz Answer: D. Tempranillo

Tempranillo, best-known as the main grape in Spanish Rioja red wines, has at *least* fifteen synonyms – many of them being used within the Iberian peninsula only. It also goes by Tinto Madrid, Tinto Fino, Tinto Roriz (used in many Portuguese wines), Cencibel, Tinto de la Rioja, Ull de Llebre and Tinto de Toro (among others, of course!).

Cheers!
Hampers from Brendan

Sunday, 12 February, 2012 at 23:44

I think it is tempranillo – very fashion forward at the moment!
- 1WineDude
  
  Monday, 13 February, 2012 at 6:52
  
  Hampers – correct, but late ;-).

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