Global Wine Industry & Wine Laws

Question 1

What percentage of the global vineyard is located in Europe?

Answer 1

56%

Question 2

The first alcoholic beverage that incorporated fermented grapes dates to

Answer 2

7000 BCE

Caucasus Mountains in western Asia

Question 3

What year was the Judgement of Paris competition?

Answer 3

1976

Question 4

What is the global volume of wine produced annually?

Answer 4

between 260 and 270 million hectolitres

Question 5

Europe produces what percentage of annual global volume of wine?

Answer 5

65% of global volume was produced in Europe

60% of global volume was produced in the EU

Question 6

South American produces what percentage of annual global volume of wine?

Answer 6

10%

Question 7

North America produces what percentage of annual global volume of wine?

Answer 7

9%

Question 8

What country has the most vineyard acreage?

Answer 8

Spain

Question 9

What country produces the most wine?

Answer 9

Italy

Question 10

What country consumes the most wine?

Answer 10

France

Question 11

What country exports (by volume) the most wine?

Answer 11

Spain

Question 12

What country imports (by volume) to most wine?

Answer 12

Germany

Question 13

What countries are the global heavyweights of the wine community?

Answer 13

Italy, France, Spain

Question 14

What two New World countries produce more than they consume and thus export their excess?

Answer 14

Australia & Chile

Question 15

Officially sanctioned wine regions are known generically as

Answer 15

appellations or geographic indications (GIs)

Question 16

What is the EU’s three tiered structure of wine categories of quality?

Answer 16

PDO, PGI and Wine

Question 17

What does PDO stand for?

Answer 17

Protected Designation of Origin

Question 18

What does PGI stand for?

Answer 18

Protected Geographic Indication

Question 19

When did the EU regulations take effect?

Answer 19

2009

Question 20

What is the highest level of the EU wine categories?

Answer 20

Protected Designation of Origin

Question 21

What is the second tier of the EU wine categories?

Answer 21

Protected Geographic Indication

Question 22

What is the lowest tier of the the EU wine categories?

Answer 22

Wine

Question 23

Quality Wine Produced in a Specified Region is the old term now known as

Answer 23

PDO, Protected Designation of Origin

Question 24

Grapes grown within a clearly defined area and produced in that area fall under what level of EU wine catagories?

Answer 24

PDO

Question 25

To qualify as a PGI at least _____ % of the grapes must come from the defined geographical area.

Answer 25

85%

Question 26

To qualify as a PGI wine the wine must be produced in the defined geographical area. T or F

Answer 26

True

Question 27

PGI wines can name vintage on the label if ____% of the grapes came from that vintage.

Answer 27

85%

Question 28

The lowest level of EU catagories can list variety and/or vintage on the label as long as a minimum of _____% is the named variety or vintage.

Answer 28

85%

Question 29

If 2 or 3 varieties are listed on the label ____% of the grapes must be from those 2 or 3 grapes.

Answer 29

100%

Question 30

Sparkling wines whose CO2 is derived from a secondary fermentation, disgorgement, and with a minimum of 9 months aging in the lees can be termed

Answer 30

Quality Sparkling Wine

Question 31

Sparkling wines whose sparkle is derived from the addition of CO2 are termed

Answer 31

Aerated Sparkling Wine

Question 32

Protections of an official appellation offer 2 things?

Answer 32

- restrict the use of a place name to the actual site | - impose limitations on what producers within the designated region can do.

Question 33

what is the function of the European Union with regard to the wine industry?

Answer 33

designed an umbrella framework that defined various terms and set certain standards yet allowed each country to mold its own system

Question 34

If the label says Sparkling Wine, describe the wine inside?

Answer 34

must contain minimum of 3 atms pressure from carbon dioxide may come from 1st or 2nd fermentation may not be injected CO2