Fortified Wines

Question 1

What grape is used for most sherry?

Answer 1

Palomino

Question 2

What blending system is used for Sherry production?

Answer 2

Solera

Question 3

What is a solera system?

Answer 3

Collection of old-oak casks containing wines of different ages

Question 4

Three styles of dry sherry?

Answer 4

Fino
Oloroso
Amontillado

Question 5

Fino sherry ages under what?

Answer 5

Flor

Question 6

Ageing a sherry under a flor is what kind of ageing?

Answer 6

Biological ageing

Question 7

Flor protects sherry from what?

Answer 7

Oxidation

Question 8

Fino sherry characteristics (colour)

Answer 8

Pale lemon

Question 9

Fino sherry characteristics (nose)

Answer 9

Apple, almonds

Question 10

Fino sherry characteristics (taste)

Answer 10

Flavours derived from the flor (bread dough)

Question 11

What sherry is most influenced by the flor?

Answer 11

Fino

Question 12

What sherry is most vulnerable to oxidation once the bottle is opened?

Answer 12

Fino

Question 13

What sherry does not involve flor?

Answer 13

Oloroso

Question 14

Oloroso characteristics (colour)

Answer 14

Brown

Question 15

Oloroso characteristics (taste)

Answer 15

Dried fruits and notes of oxidation (walnuts, caramel)

Question 16

Amontillado sherry production

Answer 16

Ages under flor before refortification and ages oxidatively until bottling

Question 17

Amontillado characteristics (colour)

Answer 17

Deeper than Finos

Question 18

Amontillado characteristics (taste)

Answer 18

Flor flavours and oxidative flavours

Question 19

What are the oxidative flavours in Sherry production?

Answer 19

Walnuts and caramel

Question 20

What name is given to sweetened Fino sherry?

Answer 20

Pale Cream

Question 21

For Sherry, Medium and Cream are used for what sherries?

Answer 21

Amontillado or Oloroso

Question 22

What is Pedro Ximenez?

Answer 22

Sweet Sherry made from sun-dried Pedro Ximenez grapes

Question 23

What is often used to sweeten Cream sherries?

Answer 23

Pedro Ximenez

Question 24

In Port production, what happens during fermentation?

Answer 24

Interrupted by adding grape spirit
Yeast is killed and wine is therefore sweet and high in alcohol

Question 25

What are the typical flavours of ruby-style ports?

Answer 25

Cooked black fruits

Question 26

What is the difference between Late Bottled Vintage and Reserve Ruby?

Answer 26

LBV contains wines from a single vintage

Question 27

What kind of port has low tannins?

Answer 27

Inexpensive Ruby Ports

Question 28

What does LBV stand for?

Answer 28

Late Bottled Vintage

Question 29

Why are tawny ports given their name?

Answer 29

Their tawny colour

Question 30

Inexpensive ports share what chemical characteristic?

Answer 30

Low tannins

Question 31

Tawny ports develop their colour from what?

Answer 31

Extended oxidative ageing in small barrels