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Both Tank and Bottled-Fermented Sparking Wines start with what? - Correct Answers ✅Still Base Wine, usually light in alchohol, and processes add approximately 1-2% abv What is Tank Method? - Correct Answers ✅part of fermentation takes place in sealed tank, which prevents any carbon dioxide gas from escaping True or False: The base wine could be partially fermented must, where the last part of the fermentation takes place in a sealed tank - Correct Answers ✅True What is Prosecco? - Correct Answers ✅A sparkling wine from NE Italy, and it's usually made using the tank method What grape variety is used for Prosecco? - Correct Answers ✅The Glera grape, which gives a medium body, dry or off dry sparkling wine with stone fruit flavor What does Spumante mean? - Correct Answers ✅fully sparkling wine What does frizzante mean? - Correct Answers ✅lightly sparkling wine

What is Conegliano-Valdobbiadene DOCG? - Correct Answers ✅a premier sparking wine from NE Italy What is Asti DOCG? - Correct Answers ✅a sweet fruity light bodied sparkling wine from Piedmont, and it's made from Muscat Flavors: peach, grape, rose What is Sekt? - Correct Answers ✅German word for sparkling wine, both made in Germany and Austria What are characteristics of Sekt? - Correct Answers ✅Most are simple, inexpensive tank-method wine Medium/Dry, light in body, floral and fruity Generally uses cheap base wines sourced from anywhere in the EU What is the main quality advantage of Bottled Fermentation? - Correct Answers ✅Through extended contact with dead yeast, the wines can gain bready, biscuity flavors

What is a base wine? - Correct Answers ✅A still wine that is blended with sugar and yeast and then bottled, sealed and stored. What is second fermentation? - Correct Answers ✅Takes place, in which the wine increases slightly in alcohol, and CO2, which cannot escape from the sealed bottle, becomes dissolved in the wine. What is yeast autolysis? - Correct Answers ✅Most important part of bottle fermentation. The yeast self digest, release flavours into the wine. Flavours are described as autolytic. What is disgorge? - Correct Answers ✅The process of removing the yeast sediments after fermentation and aging in bottle. What is the traditional method? - Correct Answers ✅Bottle is slowly tipped and jiggled so the yeast cells slide into the neck of the bottle. The plug of yeast in the neck is frozen, and pops out when the bottle is unsealed. The bottle is topped up with wine and sugar. What is dosage? - Correct Answers ✅The amount of sugar added, which determines the sweetness of the final bottled product. What is Brut? - Correct Answers ✅A very small amount of sugar is used

What is the transfer method? - Correct Answers ✅Method to remove the yeast. Empty the entire contents of the bottles into a tank under pressure, then filtered, and rebottled. Not permitted in Champagne or Cava. Which grape varieties are used in Champagne to make sparkling wine? - Correct Answers ✅Pinot Noir, Meunier, Chardonnay What is Champagne's condition like? - Correct Answers ✅Cool climate, chalky soils, which allow sparkling wines to have high acidity, medium body, and light alcohol. The weather varies from vintage to vintage, and the grapes do not fully ripen. What are non-vintage wines? - Correct Answers ✅a blend of different vintages for quality and consistency What is vintage Champagne? - Correct Answers ✅A portion of the best wine of exceptional years make vintage Champagne. What is the minimum legal period of yeast autolysis? - Correct Answers ✅15 months

What are Grandes Marques? - Correct Answers ✅famous Champagne houses Describe Vintage Champagne - Correct Answers ✅Complex, intense fruity and autolytic flavors with vegetal, nutty or honeyed complexity from bottle age. What is Cremant? - Correct Answers ✅Indicates sparkling wine made in France. The Loire is a major region for production. Where in the Loire Valley is Cremant made? - Correct Answers ✅Saumur, where Chenin Blanc is the main grape variety. It has high acidity, green and citrus fruit flavors, with some autolytic character. What is Cava? - Correct Answers ✅Spanish term for traditional- method sparkling wines. The main grape varieties are local Spanish ones. What are Cava's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Fairly neutral fruit flavors, hint of pear, medium acidity, and very little autolytic complexity

Characteristics of Sparkling Reds in Australia? - Correct Answers ✅made with Shiraz, full bodied, with medium acidity, and intense black and red berry fruit notes. What are 3 ways for yeast to stop processing sugar into alcohol? - Correct Answers ✅1. Remove yeast, using a fine filter to ensure none remain 2.Yeast could be poisoned using sulfur dioxide

3. Fortify (add alcohol) during fermentation What are Vin Doux Naturels? - Correct Answers ✅Sweet fortified wines from Southern France such as: Muscat de Beaumes de Venise Muscat de Rivesaltes What are characterisitcs of Muscat de Beaumes de Venise and Muscat de Rivesaltes? - Correct Answers ✅unaged, intense fruity aromas (grape, peach, perfume). Medium/full-bodied, and sweet, with high alcohol and medium or low acidity Where is Moscatel de Valencia from? - Correct Answers ✅Spain

Where is Rutherglen Muscat from? - Correct Answers ✅Northern Victoria, Australia What are the tasting notes for Rutherglen Muscat? - Correct Answers ✅Aged for a long period in oak, which oxydizes. Dried fruit and kernel flavors (raisin, prune, fig, dried apricot, coffee, toffee). Sweet, full bodied, with high alcohol and med or low acidity What is süssreserve? - Correct Answers ✅unfermented grape juice, used to sweeten medium or sweet German wines When do yeasts die? - Correct Answers ✅When alcohol reaches 15% What are 3 ways to concentrate sugar in grapes? - Correct Answers ✅1. Dry the grapes

2. Noble Rot
3. Freeze the grapes How are grapes dried? - Correct Answers ✅They shrivel on the vine, or are laid out in well-ventilated, dry spaces that encourage evaporation.

What is Botrytis cinerea? - Correct Answers ✅Noble rot, it attacks the skins, weakens skins, speeding up evaporation of water. The mold adds its own unique flavors What does Botrytis need? - Correct Answers ✅ripe, healthy grapes, damp, misty mornings, warm dry afternoons to speed the drying out of the grapes Which grape varieties are susceptible to noble rot? - Correct Answers ✅Semillon, Riesling, Chenin Blanc What are tasting notes of botrytis wines? - Correct Answers ✅dried apricots, ryebread, pineapple, sweet biscuit, cabbage, orange marmalade, pineapple, mushroom Describe Sauternes - Correct Answers ✅region south of Graves AC in Bordeaux. Semillon is the main grape variety. Full bodied wines have high alcohol and citrus stone fruit and botrytis flavor (lemon, peach). Hint of new oak: vanilla, toast, coffee. What is Tokaji? - Correct Answers ✅wine from NE Hungary, the most famous are Tokaji Aszú.

What are puttonyos? - Correct Answers ✅Level of sweetness in the wine. The sweetest is 6. Describe Tokaji - Correct Answers ✅Amber in color, full bodied, sweet, medium alcohol, dried fruits, sweet spices (orange peel, orange marmalade, dried apricots, raisins, cinnamon, ryebread). With age, gain notes of nut, coffee, caramel, and honey True or False: In order to be classified as a BA or a TBA, the levels of sugar in the most are so high that they can normally be achieved with the help of botrytis. - Correct Answers ✅True Where can botrytis affected sweet wines be made in the Loire, and what grape varietal? - Correct Answers ✅Vouvray AC; Chenin Blanc Which Alsacatian grape varietals can be affected by botrytis? - Correct Answers ✅Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Muscat Which Australian grape varietals can be affected by botrytis? - Correct Answers ✅Semillon; Riesling What is Eiswein? - Correct Answers ✅Sweet wine that is made from grapes crushed while still frozen so that ice crystals can be removed, leaving an intensely concentrated sugary grape syrup.

What are the characteristics of Eiswein? - Correct Answers ✅pure, pronounced, varietal-fruity flavors, high acidity, full body and syrupy sweetness. Where is Eiswein made? - Correct Answers ✅Canada, Germany, Austria What do healthy grapes need? - Correct Answers ✅CO2, Sunlight, water, warmth, and nutrients What is climate? - Correct Answers ✅Weather conditions (temperatures, rainfall, sunshine) What do Hot Climate Grape Wines have? - Correct Answers ✅more alcohol, fuller body, more tannin, less acidity What do cool climate grape wines have? - Correct Answers ✅less alcohol, lighter body, less tannin, more acidity What tasting notes does a chardonnay have in a cool climate? - Correct Answers ✅Green fruit (apple, pear), citrus, high acidity, dry

What tasting notes does a chardonnay have in a moderate climate? - Correct Answers ✅Citrus, stone fruit, melon, med/high acidity, dry What are tasting notes does a chardonnay have in a hot climate? - Correct Answers ✅Tropical fruit (peach, banana, pineapple, mango), medium acidity, dry What are Chardonnay's Classical Regions? - Correct Answers ✅Chablis, Puligny-Montrachet, Mersault, Mâcon, Pouilly-Fuisse What is the purpose for Malolactic Fermentation? - Correct Answers ✅To soften harsh acids. Comes from wine-making techniques, dairy flavor What are lees? - Correct Answers ✅dead yeast cells left behind after fermentation has finished. True or False: Lees can be stirred through Chardonnay to add creamy texture - Correct Answers ✅True True or False: Flavours of toast, vanilla and coconut do not occur because of oak treatment - Correct Answers ✅False

What is Chablis and where is it located? - Correct Answers ✅Burgundy. Cool climate. Limestone soil. Describe a Chardonnay from Chablis - Correct Answers ✅Bone Dry, high acidity, green fruits, citrus, smoky, flinty, mineral signature. No detectable oak. Where in the Cote d'Or is chardonnay produced and what characterisitcs? - Correct Answers ✅Southern half known as the Cote de Beaune: Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet Full bodied, complex, different flavours including citrus, white stone, and tropical fruit, oak, spice, and savoury notes What is produced in Mâconnais? - Correct Answers ✅Chardonnay from Macon, Pouilly-Fuissé. Describe Chardonnay from Mâcon - Correct Answers ✅light, melon, citrus, little or no oak Describe Chardonnay from Pouilly Fuissé - Correct Answers ✅Full bodied, pineapple, melon and oak flavors Where is Chardonnay produced in Australia? - Correct Answers ✅Premium region; Yarra Valley, Adelaide Hills, Margaret River

Where is Chardonnay produced in New Zealand? - Correct Answers ✅Premium region; Hawke's Bay, Gisborne, Marlborough Where is Chardonnay produced in Chile? - Correct Answers ✅Premium region: Casablanca Where is Chardonnay produced in Argentina? - Correct Answers ✅Premium region; Mendoza Where is Chardonnay produced in South Africa? - Correct Answers ✅Premium region; Coastal Region Where is Chardonnay produced in the US? - Correct Answers ✅Premium region; California: Costal Region, Sonoma, Caneros Where is Bulk Chardonnay made? - Correct Answers ✅SE Australia, Western Cape, California, Central Valley (ChileO, Pays d'Oc IGP, Val de Loire, S. Italy, Argentina Describe classic Australian Chardonnay - Correct Answers ✅Pronounced fruit (fresh citrus, melon), well integrated oak

Describe classic New Zealand Chardonnay - Correct Answers ✅concentrated citrus, tropical fruit, high acidity, pronounced oak flavor Describe classic California Chardonnay - Correct Answers ✅full bodied, intense, rich citrus, ripe peach flavors, flavors. Some can be very savoury What white grape variaties can Chardonnay be paired with? - Correct Answers ✅Chenin Blanc, Semillon, Viognier What is Pinot Noir? - Correct Answers ✅black grape with thin skins, wine that are usually light in color with low to medium levels tannins What are characteristics of Pinot Noir in cool climates? - Correct Answers ✅Vegetal (cabbage, wet leaves), high acid, low tannin Given the right balance, what can Pinot Noir exhibit? - Correct Answers ✅red fruit (strawberry, raspberry, cherry), vegetal and animal nuances (wet leaves, mushroom, gamey-meaty aromas) What are characteristics of Pinot Noir in moderate climates? - Correct Answers ✅red fruit, med/high acidity, low/medium tannins

What should a Pinot Noir from Burgundy have? - Correct Answers ✅medium bodied red with a balance of red-fruit and savory aromas, light tannins, and medium to high acidity. Where is Pinot Noir grown in France? - Correct Answers ✅Burgundy: Cote de Nuits (Gevrey-Chambertin, Nuits St. Georges); Cote de Beaune (Beaune, Pommard) What is Spätburgunder? - Correct Answers ✅German Pinot Noir Where is Spätburgunder grown? - Correct Answers ✅Germany: Baden and Pfalz What characteristics does Spätburgunder have? - Correct Answers ✅Pronounced, perfumed red berry fruit and light tannins Where is Pinot Noir grown in New Zealand and what are its characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Martinborough, Central Otago, Marlborough Full bodied, lower acidity, more intense fruit (cherry, strawberry), spicy notes Where is Pinot Noir grown in Australia? - Correct Answers ✅Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula

Where is Pinot Noir grown in the US and what are its characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅California: Sonoma, Santa Barbara, Caneros. Full bodied, intensely fruity, pronounced animal and vegetal characteristics (leather, meat, wet leaves). Oregon Where is Pinot Noir grown in Chile what are its characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Casablanca, San Antonio Intensely fruity, strawberry Where is Pinot Noir grown in South Africa? - Correct Answers ✅Coastal Region What can Pinot Noir be blended with? - Correct Answers ✅Red Burgundies, Gamay, Chardonnay for Sparkling Wines What is Cabernet Sauvignon? - Correct Answers ✅a black grape that gives deeply colored wines that have lots of tannin, acidity, and strong aromas What are typical flavors of Cabernet Sauvignon? - Correct Answers ✅black fruits (black currant, black cherry), herbaceous notes (bell

pepper, mint, cedar). Oak softens tannins adding smoke, vanilla, coffee, high acid, dry What are typical flavors of Cabernet Sauvignon in a moderate climate? - Correct Answers ✅black fruits (black currant, black cherry), herbaceous notes (bell pepper, mint, cedar), high acid, dry What are typical flavors of Cabernet Sauvignon in a hot climate? - Correct Answers ✅fuller bodied, black cherry, less herbaceous notes, softer tannins, high acid, dry True or False: Because of intense fruit flavor, high levels of tannin and acidity, Cabernet Sauvignon is not a good variety for making wines that age well - Correct Answers ✅False What is Merlot? - Correct Answers ✅Black grape variety, less aromatic, less intense flavors, lighter tannins and acidity than Cab, but more body, higher alcohol What is International style Merlot's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Black fruit (blackberry, black plum, black cherry), full body, medium or low acidity, high alcohol, medium of gentle tannins. Super ripe grapes display fruitcake, chocolate

What is cool/moderate Merlot's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅red fruit (strawberry, red berry, plum), some herbal notes (mint), and a little more tannin and acidity than the international style What is Bordeaux's climate like? - Correct Answers ✅Moderate, maritime climate with long autumns Which 3 rivers lie in Bordeaux? - Correct Answers ✅Gironde, Garonne, Dordogne Where is Cabernet Sauvignon grown in France? - Correct Answers ✅Bordeaux's left bank: Medoc, Haut Medoc (Pauillac, Margaux), Graves (Pessac-Leognan) What are Cabernet Sauvignon's characteristics when grown in Bordeaux? - Correct Answers ✅med/full body, long length, black fruit, toasty oak Aged: vegetal, tobacco, cedar What is the soil like in Bordeaux? - Correct Answers ✅gravel mounds that grain water away and retain heat with high levels Where is Cabernet Sauvignon grown in Australia and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Coonawarra, Margaret River

mint, eucalyptus, black fruit, oak, toast, vanilla Where is Cabernet Sauvignon grown in New Zealand and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Hawke's Bay Cab/Merlot blends, cedar, black currant Where is Cabernet Sauvignon grown in the US and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Napa Valley soft ripe tannin, black cherry, oak flavor, fruit cake Where is Cabernet Sauvignon grown in Chile and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Central Valley green bell pepper, black currant leaf Where is Cabernet Sauvignon grown in Argentina and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Mendoza meat leather; Modern style: more fruity Where is Cabernet Sauvignon grown in South Africa and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Stellenbosch less intense fruit, more herb

Where is Cabernet Sauvignon made in Bulk? - Correct Answers ✅Pays d'Oc IGP, Central Valley (CA), Central Valley (Chile), Mendoza, SE Australia, Western Cape What blends with Cabernet Sauvignon? - Correct Answers ✅Merlot: Margaret River (AUS), Hawke's Bay (NZ) Shiraz, Malbec, Carmenere What is Merlot like in a hot climate? - Correct Answers ✅Black fruit, low acid, med tannin What is Merlot like in a moderate climate? - Correct Answers ✅red fruit, medium acid, light/med tannin Where is Merlot made in France and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Bordeaux's Right Bank: St. Emilion, Pomerol med tannin, med acidity, red fruit character (plum, red berry) with age: cedar, tobacco Where is Merlot made in Australia and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Coonawarra: mint/eucalyptus, black cherry, oak notes (toast, vanilla)

Margaret River: high level tannins, black fruit, herb flavors (black currant, black currant leaf) Where is Merlot made in New Zealand and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Hawke's Bay: medium or high acidity and tannins, herb aromas (cedar, black currant leaf) Where is Merlot made in the US and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Napa Valley: full bodied, soft black fruit, fruitcake, oak flavors Where is Cabernet/Merlot blended in Chile and their characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Maipo Valley, Colchagua and Cachapoal: pronounced herbal characteristics (green bell pepper, black currant leaf), black fruit (black cherry, black berry) What is Carmenere? - Correct Answers ✅old, high quality variety, originally from Bordeaux but planted in Chile. Intense color, spiced black fruit flavors (blackberry, liquorice, pepper). Where is Merlot made in Argentina? - Correct Answers ✅Mendoza Where is Merlot made in South Africa and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Stellenbosch

Blended with Cabernet, less intense fruit and more herb flavors, high levels of tannin, and acidity Where is bulk Merlot produced? - Correct Answers ✅Pays d'Oc IGP, Central Valley (CA), Central Valley (Chile), Mendoza, SE Australia, Western Cape, Northern Italy What blends with Merlot? - Correct Answers ✅Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Carmenere What is Sauvignon Blanc - Correct Answers ✅aromatic white grape, displays strong aromas of green fruit and vegetation (gooseberry, elderflower, green bell pepper, asparagus). High in acidity, medium bodied, and almost always dry. No oak flavors What is Sauv. Blanc like in a cool climate? - Correct Answers ✅pungent, herbaceous, green fruit, high acid, dry What is Sauv Blanc like in a moderate climate? - Correct Answers ✅less pungent, stone fruit, med/high acidity, dry Where is Sauv. Blanc made in France? - Correct Answers ✅Loire: Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé; cool climate, dry, high acidity, medium

body, moderate or pronounced aromas, green fruit, herbaceous notes (gooseberry, grass, blackcurrant leaf, nettle), smokiness Bordeaux: "Bordeaux Blanc" Pessac-Leognan and Graves; blended with Semillon (dominating), can sustain fruit character, allow complexity to develop. SB brings aromatic fruit, acidity. Where is Sauvignon Blanc made in New Zealand and what is its characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Marlborough; dry, high acidity, passionfruit, gooseberry, green pepper, blackcurrant leaf, pungent, intense Where is Sauvignon Blanc made in Australia? - Correct Answers ✅Adelaide hills, intensely fruity, clean Where is Sauvignon Blanc made in US and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Napa Valley, known as Fumé Blanc, grass, asparagus, spicy, oaky flavors (toast, liquorice, vanilla) Where is Sauvignon Blanc made in Chile and it's characteristics? - Correct Answers ✅Casablanca and San Antonio: Herbaceous, fruit- led

Where is Sauvignon Blanc made in South Africa and it's characteristics?

• Correct Answers ✅Usually less intense than New Zealand, can age in bottle, toasty complexity. More intense than Bordeaux, herbaceous Where is bulk Sauvignon made? - Correct Answers ✅Val de Loire, Pays d'Oc IGPs, Chile, California, South Africa What is Riesling? - Correct Answers ✅Aromatic white grape, fruity, floral What is Riesling like in a cool climate? - Correct Answers ✅Green, citrus fruit, high acid, dry, med or sweet True or False: If the Riesling is harvested when ripe in cool climates, the wines have green fruit flavor (green apple, grape) with floral notes and sometimes a hint of lemon, lime - Correct Answers ✅True What is Riesling like in a moderate climate? - Correct Answers ✅Citrus stone fruit are more dominant than floral, high acid, usually dry What are some flavors of Rieslings? - Correct Answers ✅smoke, honey, tropical fruit, mineral, botrytis

Name Riesling's classic regions - Correct Answers ✅Germany: Mosel, Rheingau, Pfalz What is Qualitätswein? - Correct Answers ✅Basic Riesling, usually light, fruit and refreshing, with medium sweetness What is Prädikatswein? - Correct Answers ✅Wines are categorised according to sugar levels. They vary in style according to their particular prädikat What is a Kabinett Riesling? - Correct Answers ✅light in body, high acidity, apple, grape, medium sweetness, light alcohol What is Spätlese? - Correct Answers ✅Late Harvested Riesling. A bit more body, citrus, exotic fruit notes (lemon, pineapple) What is Auslese? - Correct Answers ✅Riesling with more body and exotic fruit notes (pineapple, mango) than Spätlese. Highest quality to appear as a dry wine. What is Beerenauslese? - Correct Answers ✅Late harvest Riesling made from noble rot