Black Grapes

Question 1

Merlot

Answer 1

Dry, medium acidity, medium tannin, light to full body.
Just ripe: strawberry, red plum, green Bell pepper
Ripe: cooked blackberry, black plum
Oak, matured: dried fruit, tobacco

Question 2

Cabernet Sauvignon

Answer 2

Dry, high acid, high tannin, medium to full body.
Blackcurrant, black cherry, mint, green Bell pepper.
Oak, matured: dried fruit, earth, forest floor.

Question 3

Syrah/shiraz

Answer 3

Dry, medium to high acidity, medium to high tannin, medium to full body.
Just ripe: black cherry, blackberry, black pepper.
Ripe: liquorice
Oak, matured: leather, meat, earth.

Question 4

Pinot Noir

Answer 4

Dry, high acidity, low to medium tannin.
Strawberry, raspberry, red cherry.
Subtle oak: smoke, cloves.
Matured: forest floor, mushroom.

Question 5

Gamay

Answer 5

Dry, high acidity, low to medium tannin, light body.

Raspberry, red cherry, red plum, banana, candy.

Question 6

Grenache/garnacha

Answer 6

Dry, low acidity, low to medium tannin.
Strawberry, red plum, red cherry, white pepper, liquorice.
Oak, matured: earth, meat, dried fruit.

Question 7

Tempranillo

Answer 7

Dry, medium acidity, medium tannin.
Strawberry, red cherry, blackberry, black plum.
Oak: vanilla, smoke, cedar.
Matured: mushroom, leather, dried fruit.

Question 8

Nebbiolo

Answer 8

Dry, high acidity, high tannin.
Red cherry, red plum, dried herbs, rose, violet.
Oak or not, matured: mushroom, tobacco, leather.

Question 9

Barbera

Answer 9

Dry, high acidity, low to medium tannin.

Red cherries, red plum, black pepper.

Question 10

Corvina

Answer 10

Valpolicella
Dry, high acidity, low to medium tannin.
Red cherry, red plum.

Question 11

Sangiovese

Answer 11

Chianti
Dry, high acidity, high tannin.
Red cherry, red plum, dried herbs.
Oak, matured: meat, leather.

Question 12

Montepulciano

Answer 12

Dry, medium acidity, high tannin.

Black plum, black cherry

Question 13

Zinfandel/primitivo

Answer 13

White Zinfandel: med-sweet, pink, strawberries, raspberries.

Red Zinfandel/primitivo
Dry, medium to high acidity, medium to high tannin, full body.
Blackberry, black plum, raisin, prune.
Oak: vanilla, coffee.
Matured: earth, meat.
**some grapes raisin before others ripen giving higher sugar, dried fruit.

Question 14

Pinotage

Answer 14

Dry, high acidity, medium tannin, medium to full body.
Strawberry, raspberry, red cherry.
Oak, matured: coffee, chocolate, smoke.

Question 15

Carmenere

Answer 15

Dry, medium to high acidity, high tannin, full body.
Just ripe: green Bell pepper, tomato leaf.
Ripe: blackberry, eucalyptus.
Oak, matured: coffee, chocolate.

Question 16

Malbec

Answer 16

Dry, low to medium acidity, high tannin, full body.
Blackberry, black plum.
Oak: clove, vanilla
Matured: dried fruit, meat.