Common Questions Flashcards
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German pradikatswein levels in ascending order?
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Kabinett, spatlese, auslese, beerenauslese, eiswein, trockenbeerenauslese
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Main grape variety for rosé wines?
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Grenache
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Asti wine: what is the colour, style and aroma?
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Lemon, sweet and light bodied, aroma is pronounced and floral
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Flavour of Carmenere?
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Spicy and herbaceous
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Flavour of Zinfandel?
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Black fruit, prune and liquorice
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Flavour of Pinot noir?
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Strawberry, raspberry, farmyard
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Flavour of Brunello di Montalcino?
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Plum, Earth, tomato, tea
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Flavour of Chateauneuf du Pape?
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Red fruit, black pepper, leather
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Aroma of Sauv Blanc?
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Gooseberry and grass
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Aroma of Chardonnay?
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Citrus fruit, butter cream when oaked
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Aroma of Riesling?
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Honey, petrol
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Aroma of Pinot noir?
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Strawberry, raspberry, poo
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Aroma of Shiraz?
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Black pepper
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Aroma of Cabernet Sauvignon?
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Blackcurrant, mint
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Aroma of merlot?
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Plum, black fruit, chocolate
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Aroma of Grenache?
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Leather, high alcohol, thin skin (not much colour)
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Aroma of torrontes?
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Floral, green fruit
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Aroma of Sangiovese?
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Cherry, high acidity
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Aroma of Riesling/Gewurtztraminer?
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Lychee, rose water
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Key region: valdepenas. Where is it?
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Spain
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Key region: muscadet. Which specific region in France, what grape, what colour and is it dry or sweet?
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Loire valley, melon Blanc, dry white
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Key region: Eden valley. Where and what wine type?
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Australia, Riesling
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Key region: Baden. Where and what type of wine. What’s notable about the wine?
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Germany, perfumed Pinot noir
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Characteristics of American oak?
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Imparts more flavour, stronger, vanilla and coconut
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Characteristics of french oak?
Subtle, toast and nutty
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Characteristics of small new oak barrels?
Impart most flavour
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Characteristics of oak essence?
Cheap way to infuse oak
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Grapevines need... (Six things)
Good drainage (most important), co2, water, warmth, sunlight, nutrients
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Can machine harvesting produce good quality grapes?
Yes
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Would a higher yield (more bunches) produce a better or worse quality fruit than lower yield?
More dilute.
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Where on the tongue do we detect sweetness?
Tip of tongue
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How do we detect tannins when tasting?
Dry gums, taste of bitterness
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Climate in a landmass?
Hotter summers, cooler winters
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Climate near an ocean?
Tends to be moderate temperature
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What does a cool climate mean for the wine?
More acidity, less alcohol, not as rich
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What does a hot climate mean for the wine?
Less acidity, more alcohol, richer
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During a season, do acids decrease/increase? Do sugars increase/decrease?
Acids decrease. Sugars increase
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Blending. What goes with cab sav?
Merlot (esp in Bordeaux, hawkes bay NZ and Maipo valley in chile)
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Blending. What goes with Syrah?
Grenache (eg. Southern Rhone - Chateauneuf du pape)
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Blending. What goes with Semillion?
Sauv Blanc (eg Sauternes)
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There are four different ways to make sweet wine.
Sun dry the grapes.
Stop fermentation early.
Botrytis.
Iced grapes.
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Name four full bodied long lived wines
Brunello di montalcino, Barolo, cru classe Bordeaux, barossa Shiraz
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Name three white burgundies (Chardonnays)
Meursault, Montrachet, Pouilly fuisse
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What are ideal tasting conditions (three)
Good natural light.
No odours (smoking/perfume).
White background.
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Where do they use gyropalettes?
Champagne
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Where do the lightest and most elegant Rieslings come from?
Mosel, Germany
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Sherry. When is it fortified?
At the end of fermentation
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Sherry. Dry or sweet?
Always dry unless cream or artificial sweetener is added.
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Sherry. Name the two main styles and brief characteristics.
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Fino pale (blanket of flor protects).
Oloroso (oxidised, no flor, brown colours)
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Name all four styles of sherry.
Fino - pale, manzanilla - pale, amontillado - deep amber, oloroso - brown
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Port. When is it fermented?
Halfway through fermentation with spirit
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Is port sweet or dry?
Always sweet
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What are the two main styles of port and characteristics?
Tawny (aged in a barrel for 10/20/30/40 years). Pale and tawny in colour.
Vintage, purple, long lines, may need to put down.
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How many units are eliminated in one hour?
1
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I unit is how many mg of alcohol?
10mg
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What would denote a fault?
Corked (smells of cardboard, musty).
| Oxidised (dull, stale, sherry)
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What does this mean on a label? Moelleux
Medium sweet (french)
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What does this mean on a label? Sec
Dry (french)
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What does this mean on a label? Halbtrocken
Medium dry (German)
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What does this mean on a label? Trocken
Dry (German)
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Spain oak ageing in order of increasing age
Crianza, reserva, gran reserva
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Where would you find a wine made sur lie?
Muscadet (melon Blanc grape)
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Ageing classifications for tequila in increasing age
Plata (silver), reposado (aged 2 months), anejo (aged 1 year+)
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What happens if you add press wine to new made wine?
Increase tannin content
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Classic food match: Sauternes
Fois gras
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Classic food match: port
Stilton
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Classic food match: fino
Olives
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Classic food match: Malbec
Rare steak
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Which country is this appellation? IGT
Italy
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Which country is this appellation? Vino de la terra
Spain
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Which country is this appellation? AC
France
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Which country is this appellation? Vino rosso
Italy
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Which country is this appellation? Vino blanco
Spain
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Which country is this appellation? Vin de pays
France
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Which country is this appellation? Pradikatswein
Germany
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What's a similar wine to: meursault
Montrachet
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What's a similar wine to: pommard
Gevrey chambertin or Nuits Saint georges
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What's a similar wine to: Sancerre
Pouilly fume
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What's a similar wine to: Saint emillion
Pomerol
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Pouilly fuisse: what region and what grape
Macon, burgundy. Chardonnay.
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What grape? Bordeaux ac
Merlot
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What grape? Chablis ac
Chardonnay
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What grape? Paulliac and Margaux ac
Cabernet with some merlot
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What grape? Vouvray
Chenin Blanc
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What grape? Muscadet
Melon Blanc
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What grape? Hermitage & cote rotie
Syrah
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What grape? Chateauneuf du pape
Grenache, syrah, Mourvèdre
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What is the style of Trebbiano
Dry white wine
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What is the style of fino sherry
Bone dry fortified from palomino grapes
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What is the style of Beaujolais
Light fruity red, gamay grapes
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What is the style of verdicchio
Dry crisp Italian white
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What is the style of tokaji
Lusciously sweet wine from botrytis, Hungary
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What is flor?
Yeast that determines style of sherry. Made in the solera system.
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Three examples of traditional method sparking wines?
Champagne (France).
Cremant (France).
Cava (Spain).
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Two examples of tank method sparkling wines
Asti (sweet, Italy), Prosecco (dry, Italy).
| Sekt (Germany).
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Whereabouts do you find cognac and Armagnac?
Cognac - North of Bordeaux.
| Armagnac - south of Bordeaux.
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What are the ascending ageing limits of cognac?
VS, VSOP, XO
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Whereabouts would you find: bolgheri
Tuscany
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Whereabouts would you find: gimbletts gravels
Hawkes bay, NZ
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Whereabouts would you find: valdepenas
Spain
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Whereabouts would you find: gisborne
NZ
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Whereabouts would you find: rais baixas
Spain
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Whereabouts would you find: priorat
Spain
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Whereabouts would you find: La Mancha
Spain
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Whereabouts would you find fume Blanc
California
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Base material for: cognac
Grapes
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Base material for: scotch whisky (and what is minimum ageing)
Barley. 3 year.
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Base material for: bourbon
Grain (mostly mature)
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Base material for: rum
Molasses
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Base material for: tequila
Agave (plata is pure. Anejo is aged)
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Base material for: vodka
Any fermentable material, eg potato
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Base material for: gin
White spirit (flavoured with botanicals)
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Fermentation temp and time for: White
12-22 degrees, 2-4 weeks maceration
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Fermentation temp and time for: red
20-32 degrees, 1-2 weeks maceration
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Fermentation temp time for: rosé
12-22 degrees, skin contact for 12-36 hours
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To what does a light wine refer?
8-15% alcohol (except Douro where light wines are actually full bodied reds)
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What is the style of white Rioja?
Full bodied, nutty and oaky. Like burgundy (one of the few whites that is oaked).
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What is the style of a generic Bordeaux AC?
Merlot. Medium bodied with tannins. Often drunk young.
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What affects costs for the producer in the vineyard? (Four things)
Land prices.
Labour.
Yield size.
Yield selection.
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What affects costs for the producer of the winery? (Four things)
Equipment.
Barrels.
Storage time.
Storage space.
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What is punching down and pumping over?
Colour extraction and tannin in the fermentation process.
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What is the difference between climate and weather?
Climate: over thousands of years (eg maritime). Weather: what happens this year.
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At what degrees latitude are most of the world's vineyards located?
30-50 degrees north and 30-50 degrees south.
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Whereabouts (region) is the term cru bourgeois used?
Bordeaux only.
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What is the cheaper method of imparting flavour into gin and what's it called?
Essence. Cold compounding.
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What is a superior method of flavouring gin?
London dry gin (soaking the botanical, usually juniper)
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What process makes a wine vegan or not
Fining
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What is chaptalisation?
Process of increasing the alcohol
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Name regions of North Rhone (three)
Cote rotie
Crozes-hermitage
Hermitage
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Name regions of southern Rhone
Cotes du Rhone (+villages)
| Chateauneuf du pape
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What's is Ribera del duero
DO of Spain
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Muscat grape is in... (Three)
Beaumes de venise
Moscatel de Valencia
Rutherglen
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Which country has wines of the Origin Scheme?
South Africa
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Asti - how is the production different?
Not made from wine, made from
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Sherry - what grape?
Palamino
