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Bottles, Barrels, and Glasses Flashcards

1
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What is the traditional bottle used in Alsace?

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Flûte d’Alsace / Vin du Rhin

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What is the traditional bottle for Vin Jaune and what is its volume?

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Clavelin

620mL

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3
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What is the volume of a barrique bordelaise?

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225L

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What is the volume of a Bordelais tonneau?

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900L or 4 times the volume of a barrique

also 100 cases of wine

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5
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What is the volume of a Burgundian pièce?

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228L

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6
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What is the traditional barrel in Chablis called and what is its volume?

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Feuillette

132L

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What is the volume of a feuillette in the Cote d’Or?

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114L

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What is a quartaut used for and what is its volume?

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Used for topping up or perhaps the small produce of a Grand Cru in Burgundy

57L

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9
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What is the volume of a standard Cognac barrel today?

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350L

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What is the volume of a standard Champagne barrel today?

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205L though many bring in barrels from Burgundy

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What is the volume of a demi-muid and where is it most often found?

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600L

Southern Rhone; CDP

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12
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What is the traditional barrel used in the Mosel and what is its volume?

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Fuder

1,000L

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13
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What is the volume of a Stück, Halbstück, and Dopplestuck?

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Stück = 1200L
Halbstück = 600L
Dopplestück = 2400L
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14
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What is the volume of a bota chica? Where is this used and for what purpose?

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500L

Used for shipping in Jerez

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15
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What is the volume of an American Butt in Jerez?

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between 600-650L

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16
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What is the size of a pipe for Madeira? Marsala?

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Madeira = 418L
Marsala = 423L
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17
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What is the size of a pipe of Port for shipping? What is the size of a pipe for maturation in Vila Nova de Gaia?

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Shipping Pipe = 534.24L

Maturation Pipe = 580-630L but usually around 620L

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18
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What is the size of a Pipe in the Douro Valley for recording the yield of a vineyard?

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550L

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What is the volume of a carato and where is this used?

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synonym for Barrique but 225L in volume

Used in Italy

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20
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What is the traditional barrel for Vin Santo production in Italy and what is it’s volume?

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Caratelli

Between 50-225L

21
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What is the most common wood used for the production of Caratelli barrels?

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Chestnut is the most common though acacia, cherry, and juniper are not unknown.

22
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What are tini, what are they used for, and where?

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Large conical wooden vats used for fermentation in Italy.

23
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What is the volume of a tonneau outside of Bordeaux?

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Around 500L but between 300-700L

24
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What is the name of the traditional production barrel of Tokaji and what is its volume?

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Gönci = 136L

25
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What is the volume of a an American Hogshead barrel and what wine producing country is it most commonly associated with?

A

300L

Australia

26
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What is the volume of a puncheon?

A

450 or 500L

27
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What is a bocksbeutel and where is it used? What was its original purpose?

A

Flattened flask used in the German wine regions of Franken and Baden (Ortenau)

Its original purpose was to guarantee the authenticity of Würzburger Steinwein prior to WWI. Following the war it became a common bottle of Franken.

28
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What is the volume of a Marie-Jeanne? What is the also known as?

A

2.25L or equivalent to 3 standard bottles

Tappit Hen

29
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What is the volume of a Tappit Hen and where is it used?

A

2.25L and used traditionally for Port

aka Marie-Jeanne

30
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What is a Jéroboam known as in Bordeaux? What is the volume?

A

Double Magnum

3L or the equivalent to 4 standard bottles

31
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What is the volume of a Methuselah and what is it called in Bordeaux?

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6L or the equivalent of 8 standard bottles

Called an Impériale in Bordeaux

32
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What is the volume of a Salmanazar?

A

9L or the equivalent of 12 bottles or a case of wine

33
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What is the volume of a Balthazar?

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12L or the equivalent of 16 bottles

34
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What is the volume of Nebuchadnezzar?

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15L or the equivalent of 20 bottles

35
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What is the volume of a Bordelais Jéroboam since 1978? What is this bottle size called in Burgundy and Champagne?

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4.5L or the equivalent of 6 bottles or 1/2 case of wine

Called a Rehoboam in Burgundy and Champagne

36
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What is the volume of a Piccolo? What is this also known as?

A

0.1875L or 1/4 of a standard bottle

aka quarter bottle, pony, snipe, split

37
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What is the volume of a quarter and where is this bottle used?

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0.2L; used in Champagne

38
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What is the name of a bottle that holds a volume of 5L?

A

McKenzie

39
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What is the volume of a Melchior and what is it known as in Champagne?

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18L or the equivalent of 24 standard bottles

Known as a Solomon in Champagne

40
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What is the volume of a Sovereign? Where is this used?

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35 bottles or 26.25L

Used exclusively for Champagne

41
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What is the volume of a Primat? What is it also known as?

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27L or 36 standard bottles

42
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What is the volume of a Melchizedek or Midas?

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30L or the equivalent of 40 bottles

43
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What is the traditional bottle of Jura that is not the clavelin?

A

Jurassienne

44
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What are garrafões?

A

Plastic, squat bottles used in Vinho Verde

45
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What is the traditional straw bottle of chianti?

A

Fiasco

46
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What is the traditional tulip-shaped glass for Sherry?

A

copita

47
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What is a dolium?

A

large earthenware vessel used in Ancient Roman times with a capacity of several thousand liters.

48
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What cross created Dornfelder?

A

Helfensteiner x Heroldrebe

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