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Level 1 sommelier exam questions well answered already passed What is the main species of wine grapes - correct answer ✔✔Vitis vinifera What is a green harvest - correct answer ✔✔Pruning bad grapes in order to send nutrients to the healthy ones Name 4 vineyard pests - correct answer ✔✔Phylloxera, mealybug, mites, glassy winged sharpshooter Name 4 vine diseases - correct answer ✔✔Powdery mildew, downy mildew, leaf roll virus and fanleaf degeneration, pierces disease What is brix - correct answer ✔✔Sugar measurement of grapes Sugar+ yeast= - correct answer ✔✔Co2+alcohol+flavor+aroma+heat What is chaptalization - correct answer ✔✔Adding sugar to unfermented grape must to increase the alcohol content after fermentation What is carbonic maceration - correct answer ✔✔Whole grapes are fermented in a co2 rich environment prior to crushing What is malolactic fermentation - correct answer ✔✔The conversion of malic acid into softer lactic acid, can often give a buttery taste What is a stelvin - correct answer ✔✔A screw cap Wines in burgundy are defined mainly by what - correct answer ✔✔Their producers Negociant - correct answer ✔✔Merchants who do not own the vineyard land, but will buy grapes and or finished wine for blending and bottling under their own label Domaine - correct answer ✔✔The entire process from growing the grapes to bottling and ageing the wines takes place at the domaine itself What are the main grapes in burgundy - correct answer ✔✔Pinot noir and chardonnay Chablis climate - correct answer ✔✔Continental (high in acid) Chablis soil - correct answer ✔✔Kimmeridgian clay/limestone (mineral) What are the five distinct regions of burgundy - correct answer ✔✔Chablis, cote d'or, maconnais, cote chalonnaise, Beaujolais Soil of cote d'or - correct answer ✔✔Marl and limestone What grape dominates cote de nuits - correct answer ✔✔Pinot noir What grape dominates cote de beaune - correct answer ✔✔Chardonnay What aoc has the most grand crus in cote de nuits - correct answer ✔✔Gevrey-chambertin (9) Highly regarded vintages of cote de nuits - correct answer ✔✔02,05,09,10,11,12 Highly regarded vintages of the cote de beaune - correct answer ✔✔02,05,09,10,11,12 What region of the cote chalonnaise makes the wine from aligote - correct answer ✔✔Bouzeron Famous region in maconnais that makes wine from chardonnay - correct answer ✔✔Pouilly-fuisse Left bank - correct answer ✔✔Medoc is main (cab 70%) Right bank - correct answer ✔✔St Emilion and pomerol are main with 70% merlot 30% cab franc What was the classification of Medoc and in what year - correct answer ✔✔In 1855 Napoleon III, commissioned the union de Bordeaux to classify its best wine for display at the universal exhibition in Paris Name the 5 first growths of the Medoc - correct answer ✔✔Chateau lafite-Rothschild, chateau latour, chateau mouton-rothschild, chateau margaux, chateau haut-brion (graves) What was the only change to the Medoc classification and when did it happen - correct answer ✔✔Chateau mouton-rothschild was promoted from 2eme to 1er cru in 1973 Name the main aoc's of medoc - correct answer ✔✔Haut-medoc, saint estephe, pauillac, saint Julien, listrac and moulis, margaux, What are the primary grapes of the Rhone - correct answer ✔✔Viognier, roussanne, marsanne, and syrah Mistral winds are typically how fast - correct answer ✔✔50-70mph Roussanne and marsanne give what smells to a wine - correct answer ✔✔Red apple, tropical fruit What grapes are primary in southern Rhone - correct answer ✔✔Grenache, Syrah, mourvedre What does chateauneuf-du-pape mean - correct answer ✔✔Castle of the pope Name 4 Rhone appellations - correct answer ✔✔Chateauneuf-du-pape, gigondas, vacqueyras, beaumes- de-venise What red grapes does Languedoc and roussillon produce - correct answer ✔✔Cinsault and mourvedre mainly Vin doux naturel - correct answer ✔✔Wine produced by adding distillate to fermenting must Vin de liqueur - correct answer ✔✔Produced by adding distillate to unfermented must What is the major white grape used in Loire valley - correct answer ✔✔Chenin blanc (vouvray) out of touraine aoc What is the botytrised wine made from chenin blanc in anjou (Loire valley) - correct answer ✔✔Bonnezeaux What are the noble varieties of Alsace - correct answer ✔✔Riesling, gewurztraminer, Muscat, pinot gris What is vendange tardive VT - correct answer ✔✔Late harvest wines from a single noble variety (not always sweet) What is selection de grains nobles SGN - correct answer ✔✔Botrytis wines from quality single noble variety What are the notable GIs from south Australia - correct answer ✔✔Barossa valley, Eden valley, McLaren vale, Clare valley, coonawarra What are the primary grapes in New Zealand - correct answer ✔✔Chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, pinot noir, cab sav According to ttb laws in the US what is the minimum varietal composition - correct answer ✔✔75% (except in Oregon 90% if pinot noir or pinot gris) What are 3 other requirements of ttb laws - correct answer ✔✔95% vintage year, 95% stated vineyard, 85% stated ava What does ttb stand for - correct answer ✔✔Tax and trade bureau What ava is shared by Napa and Sonoma - correct answer ✔✔Carneros What are the most important Italian wines - correct answer ✔✔Barolo and barbaresco from nebbiolo Barolo is what grape - correct answer ✔✔100% nebbiolo Where are Barolo and barbaresco from - correct answer ✔✔Piedmont What is the most important red grape from abruzzi - correct answer ✔✔Montepulciano What is cannonau made from and where - correct answer ✔✔Grenache, sardinia What are the primary grape varieties of Germany - correct answer ✔✔Riesling and spätburgunder (pinot noir) also müller-thurgau and sylvaner What is an anbaugabiet - correct answer ✔✔A major growing region in Germany (13 currently) What are the major grapes of rheinhessen - correct answer ✔✔Müller-thurgau, sylvaner, and Riesling What is grauburgunder - correct answer ✔✔Pinot gris What is weissburgunder - correct answer ✔✔Pinot blanc What are Austria's major grapes - correct answer ✔✔Riesling, grüner veltliner, ...zweigelt, st. Laurent Major French wine regions - correct answer ✔✔Bordeaux, burgundy, Rhone valley, Loire valley, Alsace, champagne, Languedoc-Roussillon Northern Rhone aocs - correct answer ✔✔Côte rotie, condrieu, chateau-grillet, st Joseph, Crozes hermitage, cornas, st peray Australia regions - correct answer ✔✔Western Australia, northern territory, south Australia, Queensland, new south Wales, Victoria, Tasmania What might cause evidence of gas in a wine - correct answer ✔✔Excess SO2 or sulfur dioxide at bottling, CO2 from fermentation trapped in a bottle What wines would you find gas evidence - correct answer ✔✔Normally young whites in a cool climate, i.e. Riesling, Albariño, pinot grigio What region would you find "stickies" - correct answer ✔✔Rutherglen Australia What is the study of vinification - correct answer ✔✔Eonology What latitudes does wine thrive in - correct answer ✔✔The 30th and 50th parallels What is battonage - correct answer ✔✔Stirring of the lees What is cold stabilization - correct answer ✔✔Fining out tartrates What is racking - correct answer ✔✔Moving wine from one barrel to the next Where do you find a blue hue - correct answer ✔✔Warm climates or with carbonic maceration (Beaujolais) What is the opposite of sancerre with the same grape - correct answer ✔✔Pouilly fume What was the first aoc - correct answer ✔✔Chateauneuf du pape What French region has the most grand crus - correct answer ✔✔Cote de nuits What is a monopole - correct answer ✔✔A parcel of land under single ownership Name a village in the cote de nuits - correct answer ✔✔Volnay Name the hierarchy of Beaujolais - correct answer ✔✔Beaujolais, Beaujolais nouveau, Beaujolais villages, Beaujolais cru What is en primeur - correct answer ✔✔Annual offering of Bordeaux as futures What does entre-deux-mers produce - correct answer ✔✔White wine only, sauvignon blanc, Semillon, Muscadelle What two places use sur lie aging most - correct answer ✔✔Muscadet and champagne What is chinon and bourgeuil - correct answer ✔✔Cab franc What does cornas produce - correct answer ✔✔100% Syrah (northern Rhone) What is the aoc furthest south in southern Rhone - correct answer ✔✔Gigondas What cocktail is made with prosecco - correct answer ✔✔Bellini What are the Italian wine levels - correct answer ✔✔Classico, riserva, superiore Moscato d'asti/asti produces - correct answer ✔✔Sparkling and semi sparkling wines (piedmont) What does piedmont mean - correct answer ✔✔Foot of the mountain What is Lombardy known for - correct answer ✔✔Franciacorta Grapes of Greece - correct answer ✔✔Assyrtiko (w) moschofilero (w) xinomavro (r) agiorgitiko (r) Name 4 grand cru vineyards in cote chalonnaise - correct answer ✔✔Mercurey, bouzeron, givry, rully Where is pouilly-fuisse - correct answer ✔✔Maconnais Name a white grape from marches - correct answer ✔✔Verdicchio What is the coolest region in Australia - correct answer ✔✔Yarra valley in victoria Where is priorat - correct answer ✔✔Northeast Spain What are the German wine levels - correct answer ✔✔Landwein, qualitatswein, pradikatswein Where is Stellenbosch; - correct answer ✔✔South africa Cool climate characteristics - correct answer ✔✔Grapes less ripe, less sugar produced, acidity remains high, less alcohol potential, flavors are tart and lean less ripe and juicy Warm climate characteristics - correct answer ✔✔Grapes ripen fully, more sugar produced, acidity is lower, higher alcohol potential, flavors are ripe, lush, juicy There aromatic grapes - correct answer ✔✔Muscat, gewürztraminer, torrontes