Fortified wine - MA Questions 22.08.20

Question 1

Name the white and the red grapes used in the wines of Carcavelos.

Answer 1

Whites: Arinto, Ratinho, and Galego Dourado. Reds: Castelão and Preto Martinho (Negra Mole).

Question 2

What is the minimum ageing in cask for Colheita Port?

Answer 2

Min 7 years.

Question 3

Who owns the following Single Quintas?
Quinta da Foz 
Quinta do Roêda 
Quinta do Seixo 
Quinta do São Luiz

Answer 3

Quinta da Foz – Calem
Quinta do Roêda – Croft
Quinta do Seixo – Ferreira
Quinta do São Luiz – Kopke

Question 4

What are the communes of production for Moscatel de Setubal?

Answer 4

Setúbal, Palmela, Montijo, Castelo.

Question 5

What is “lei do terço”?

Answer 5

A decree restricting sales of Port to one-third of a house’s total inventory annually.

Question 6

Name 3 grapes preferred for white port production.

Answer 6

Gouveio, Malvasia Fina, Viosinho, Rabigato, Esgana Cão, and Folgasão.

Question 7

Which port house is known to have pioneered rose Port?

Answer 7

Croft.

Question 8

How are the terraces known on Madeira?

Answer 8

Poios.

Question 9

What are the three types of companies involved in the Madeira trade?

Answer 9

Production companies; Shipping companies; Partidistas.

Question 10

What is the percentage required for vintage Madeira if a variety is included on the label?

Answer 10

100%.

Question 11

What does estágio mean?

Answer 11

Min 90 days of rest for Madeira following the Estufagem process before being transferred to cask for ageing.

Question 12

What does armazens de calor mean?

Answer 12

Rooms warmed by nearby tanks or steam pipes where the wine is kept for a more delicate variation of the Estufagem process; lower temperatures over a longer period, sometimes up to one year. Madeira Wine Company is chiefly using this technique.

Question 13

After how many years may Canteiro wines be bottled?

Answer 13

3 years.

Question 14

What is the minimum ageing for Madeira Frasqueira?

Answer 14

Min 20 years.

Question 15

What is the minimum ageing for Colheita Madeira?

Answer 15

Min 5 years.

Question 16

Name the communes of production for Sherry that are not part of the Sherry Triangle.

Answer 16

Chipiona, Rota, Trebujena, Puerto Real, Chiclana de la Frontera, Lebrija.

Question 17

What is the minimum ageing in solera for Sherry? How about previous 2010?

Answer 17

2 years; 3 years.

Question 18

What are the minimum average age for VOS and VORS Sherry?

Answer 18

20 years; 30 years.

Question 19

Explain the difference between Manzanilla and Manzanilla Pasada.

Answer 19

Manzanilla is typically bottled around 3 to 5 years resulting into a fresher style. Manzanilla pasada is a richer Manzanilla where the flor starts to fade usually bottled around 6 to 7 years.

Question 20

Place the below pagos in the right commune.

Macharnudo 
Miraflores 
Carrascal 
Añina 
Balbaina 
Los Tercios

Answer 20

Macharnudo – Jerez
Miraflores – Sanlúcar de Barameda
Carrascal – Jerez
Añina – Jerez
Balbaina - El Puerto de Santa María
Los Tercios - El Puerto de Santa María

Question 21

Name two sub-types of Albariza soil.

Answer 21

Tosca de Antehojuelas, Tosca Cerrada, Tosca de Barajuelas, Albariza Parda, Albariza Tajón, Lustrillo.

Question 22

What are the three stages of quality that the must is divided in Sherry?

Answer 22

Primera yema – free run juice
Segunda yema – press wine
Monsto prensa – poorer quality press wine used for distillation.

Question 23

What does desfangado mean?

Answer 23

A system of racking in Sherry.

Question 24

How are the Sherry wines classified following fermentation?

Answer 24

Palo and marked with a slash are wines destined to become Fino or Manzanilla; Gordura, marked with a circle and destined to become Oloroso styles.

Question 25

What is mitad y mitad?

Answer 25

A mixture of grape spirit and mature sherry used to fortify the young wines in order to avoid shocking.

Question 26

What is Sobretabla?

Answer 26

Is the intermediary stage of six months to one year for wines that develop under flor. During this time their evolution might be redirected.

Question 27

What is sancocho? How about arrope?

Answer 27

Vino de color, a combination of boiled, reduced syrup and fresh must reduced to one third used for adjusting the color of Sherry. Arrope is reduced to one fifth.

Question 28

What is sifone?

Answer 28

A mistelle produced by fortifying the unfermented must of overripe grapes used to adjust color and sweetness in Marsala.

Question 29

What is the minimum ageing for Marsala Vergine Stravecchio?

Answer 29

Min 10 years.

Question 30

What is the minimum Residual Sugar for Marsala Dolce?

Answer 30

Min 100 grams/liter.

Question 31

Which grapes are used to produce Marsala Rubino?

Answer 31

Perricone, Calabrese (Nero d’Avola), Nerello Mascalese with a max 30% of white grapes (Grillo, Catarrato, Inzolia and Damaschino).

Question 32

What is concia?

Answer 32

The addition of mosto cotto (cooked must); only allowed in ambra style.

Question 33

If stated on the label, what does the vintage for Marsala refers to?

Answer 33

The year of fortification.

Question 34

What is the minimum ageing for Rivesaltes Hors d’Age?

Answer 34

Min 5 years.

Question 35

What is the maximum residual sugar for Banyuls Grand Cru Sec?

Answer 35

Max 54 grams/liter.

Question 36

What is the minimum residual sugar for Muscat Beaumes de Venise?

Answer 36

Min 100 gr/l (110 prior to 2011).

Question 37

Name 2 PDOs for Vermouth.

Answer 37

Vermouth de Chambéry, Vermouth di Torino.

Question 38

What is Rueda Palido?

Answer 38

Fortified wine from Rueda aged biologically for min 3 years in wood.

Question 39

What is Vimblanc?

Answer 39

Vi de licor from Tarragona made from overripe grapes.

Question 40

Where would you find the producer Massandra?

Answer 40

Crimea, Ukraine.