Grab bag Flashcards
Constantia uses what varietal?
Muscat a Petit Grains Blanc (Muscat a Frontignan)
Is Zinfandel a legally approved synonym for Primitivo in the UNITED STATES?
No, only EU.
Moscato d’Asti uses which type of Muscat?
Muscat a Petits Grains Blanc
Process where materials move from one part of plant to another
Translocation
Process which water evaporates through openings on underside of leaves
Transpiration
Process which sugar is broken down and converted into biological energy?
Respiration
What causes poor fruit set/shatter?
Coulure
Fungal disease known as Powdery Mildew?
Oidium
Fungal disease known as Downy Mildew
Peronospora
Millerandage causes?
abnormal fruit set causes grape bunches to have higher proportion of small, seedless berries mixed with normal sized berries.
Alicante Bouschet is a cross of?
Petit Bouschet x Grenache
What is Garnacha Tintorera
Alicante Bouschet
Mesoclimate translates to?
A Vineyards climate
Microclimate translates to?
section of a vineyards climate (individual rows)
Vines need how many inches of water annually?
20-30 inches
Viral vine diseases are spread by?
Propagating infected cuttings
Bacterial diseases are usually spread by?
Insects and animals
Estimate Total Alcohol in future wine by taking this % of the Brix Value
55%
What is Baumé?
French measurement to estimate potential alcohol in wine
Rudolph Steiner?
Invented Biodynamics in the early 20th century
Biodynamics?
Alignment of planets and phases of the moon direct course of work done in the vineyard and winery.
Fruit Day
Leaf Day
Flower Day
Root Day
9 special preparations
Name 2 Sustainable Winegrowing certifications in CA
Lodi Rules
Napa Green
What is the 1st growth cycle of the vine? What temperature does it need to be for this to happen?
Weeping
50 F
Bud break to harvest is typically how many days?
140-160 days
Photosynthesis slows at what temp?
50 F
What is Debourbage
Letting newly pressed juice settle for a day or 2 before fermentation begins
What is Pipeage
Punching down
What is Delestage
Rack and Return
Does Rosé typically go through Malo?
No
What is a mevushal wine?
A kosher wine that if red of limitations once it leaves the winery
Most common strain of yeast for winemaking
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Describe Rutherglen
Fortified muscat a petit grains blanc
What is Cuve Close?
Another name for the Charmat Method
What’s in the Liquer de Tirage
Sugar, yeast
OG rack for riddling
Pupitre
Describe the Asti Method
One fermentation in tank, stopped before complete for frizz ante, low alcohol. Then sterile filtered and bottled
extra sec RS levels
12-17 g/l
sec RS levels
17-32 g/l
demi-sec RS levels
32-50 g/l
Describe Method Ancestral/Method Rural
Base wine incomplete ferment. Put in bottle and sealed.
Finishes fermentation in bottle with 6-7 g/l RS
No disgorging.
1-3 atm
Pet Nat is also known as
Method Ancestrale
Downside to carbing a wine vs natural CO2
Does not integrate into the wine naturally= larger short-lived bubbles
500 ml bottle is called?
Jennie
3L of Champagne?
3L of Still wine?
Jeroboam
Double Magnum
4.5 Liter Champagne
4.5 Liter Still wine?
Rehoboam
Jeroboam
6 Liter?
Methuselah
9 Liter?
Salmanazar
12 Liter?
Balthazar
15 Liter?
Nebuchadnezzar
18 Liter?
Solomon
How do you remember Champagne bottles sizes from 3L to 15L
Jerry (Jeroboam)
Receives (Rehoboam)
Meticulous (Methuselah
Salmon (Salmanazar
from
Baltic (Balthazar
Nebulas (Nebechadnezzar
Traditional press for Champagne?
Wide, flat basket press