Fortified wines and sweet wines

Question 1

What vinicultural practices create sweet wines?

Answer 1

Late Harvest
Drying grapes
Noble Rot
Freezing Grapes

Arresting fermentation (residual sugar)
Fortifying
Chilling
Chilling and SO2

Adding sweetness back (sussreserve)

Question 2

Explan how Botrytis Cinerea affects grapes

Answer 2

Dehydrates grapes, concentrates sugars and changes flavor profile. Oxidation

Question 3

Give examples of late harvest and botrytized wines

Answer 3

Sauternes

ALSACE
Vendange Tardive
Selection de Grain Nobles

LOIRE
Quart de Chaume
Bennezeaux
Chenin Moelleux

GERMANY
Auslese (may have bot)
Beerenaulese
Trockenbeerenauslese

Question 4

Give example of dried grapes sweet wines

Answer 4

Passito
Recioto
Vin Santo

Question 5

Is Eiswein botrytized

Answer 5

No, or minimally.

Question 6

How is wine fortified?

Why fortify wines?

Answer 6

By adding neutral grape spirits

To preserve the wine.

Question 7

Give examples of Vin Doux Naturel

Answer 7

Muscat de Beaume de Venise

Banyuls