Label Reading

Question 1

Which of these items is not required on a US wine label

Answer 1

A logo

Question 2

What are the only two generic wines recognize by US law

Answer 2

Vermouth and Sake

Question 3

Because the generic semi generic and varietal names can be used by any winery wine producer may opt to register a proprietary name is a trademark for its exclusive use. T or f

Answer 3

T

Question 4

According to federal law when I single grape variety is listed on a bottle what percentage of the wine must come from the variety listed?

Answer 4

75%

Question 5

Where must a wines bottling data be stamped

Answer 5

On wine cases

Question 6

If a vintage date appears on the label what percentage of the wine with in the bottle must’ve been harvested and crushed in that year

Answer 6

95

Question 7

If the wines actual alcohol content is over 14% what percentage above or below their actual amount is allowed to be printed on the label

Answer 7

1% either way

Question 8

Which of the following label terms tells the consumer that the producer listed I have maximum control of the product in the bottle from vine to wine

Answer 8

Grown Produced and Bottles by

Question 9

For a wine to be labeled estate bottled what conditions must be met

Answer 9

Vineyard owned by a winery, within a single ava in which the winery itself is located

Question 10

Which of these terms is legally defined

Answer 10

Produced by

Question 11

Wine must be labeled contains sulfites if it contains at least a minimum of how many parts per million of sulfer compound

Answer 11

10 parts per million

Question 12

What item would appear only on an imported bottle of wine being sold in the US

Answer 12

Imported by

Question 13

If a vintage is listed on an Australian bottle of wine then 85% of the wine must be from that year true or false

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What are the Australian appellations called

Answer 14

Geographical Indications

Question 15

If a New Zealand wine has two or more varietals listed on the label what is the combined total of those varietals

Answer 15

75%

Question 16

The higher Designations and the EU labeling system are more specific about the geographic origin of the grapes t or f

Answer 16

T

Question 17

Wine labeled IGT is from what country

Answer 17

Italy

Question 18

French geographic designations can dictate what specific growing and winemaking practices

Answer 18

All the above

Which grapes planted
How the grapes are hervested
Winemaking techniques

Question 19

What category of Italian wine is considered an affordable wine that can be made from grapes grown anywhere in the country

Answer 19

VDT

Vino da Tavola

Question 20

What is the term for an Italian wine the receives extended aging before release

Answer 20

Riserva

Question 21

What category of Italian wine has the strictest limits on yield in the longest minimum of aging requirements

Answer 21

DOCG

Question 22

What is delineatex set of German vineyards that are similar enough to be grouped together called

Answer 22

A grossiage

Question 23

An einzellage may be divided among multiple owners true or false

Answer 23

T

Question 24

What is the must weight of a must with a specific gravity of 1.068

Answer 24

68 degrees oechsle

Question 25

A qbA wine may not be chaptalizex

Answer 25

F

Question 26

In ascending order from lowest to highest degree of ripeness what are the pradikat levels

Answer 26

kabinett
Spatlese
Auslese
Beerenauslese
Elswein
Trocken

Question 27

What is noble mixture

Answer 27

Edelzwicker

Question 28

Which category of French wine accounts for about half of all the wine produced in France

Answer 28

Appelation d origine controlee