Mock 8 Flashcards
- Pfalz and Eden Valley are famous for?
a. Riesling
b. Fiano
c. Carmenere
d. Furmint
A
- Thin skin, high sugar and low acid is:
a. Cabernet Sauvignon
b. Grenache
c. Pinot Noir
d. Shiraz
B
- Puligny-Montrachet is:
a. Sweet, high acidity, floral
b. Dry, low alcohol, light body, green fruit
c. Medium tannin, black cherry and vanilla
d. Full body, complex citrus and tropical
fruit, oak and spice.
D
- Which statement is WRONG?
a. There are summer and winter pruning
b. High yield will dilute the concentration
c. Machine harvest can be used for
premium and inexpensive
d. Most vines are untrained
D
- Puglia produces?
a. White Zinfandel
b. Asti
c. Pinot Grigio
d. Primitivo
D
- Amontillado has what flavours:
a. Fig, prune, chocolate
b. Bread, walnut, caramel
c. Biscuit, lemon and pineapple
d. Herbaceous, buttery, nutty
B
- Which of the following is made by noble rot?
a. Tokaji Aszu
b. Mosel Kabinett
c. Icewine
d. Recioto di Valpolicella
A
- Grand Cru Classe in Bordeaux is?
a. The highest quality
b. Sparkling wine
c. Less premium than Cru Bourgeois
d. Has no ageing potential
A
- Which one is dry white with high acidity?
a. Sancerre
b. Sauternes
c. Gewurztraminer
d. Pinotage
A
- Adding what during winemaking can enhance
alcohol level?
a. Sugar
b. Acidity
c. Tannin
d. Oak chips
A
- Premium Pinot Noir come from?
a. Hermitage
b. Chile Central Valley
c. Pommard
d. Barbaresco
C
- Vinegar aroma comes from?
a. Lees contact
b. Malolactic Conversion
c. Cork taint
d. Appasimento
C
- Stellenbosch produces:
a. Prosecco
b. Premium Cabernet Sauvignon
c. Off-dry Riesling
d. Inexpensive Malbec
B
- Viognier is?
a. Pale colour, medium tannin, red cherry
and spicy
b. Light body, green apple and low alcohol
c. Medium to full body, high alcohol,
apricot and peach
d. Low alcohol sparkling
C
- Which stage occurs in Summer?:
a. Budburst
b. Veraison
c. Flowering
d. Harvest
B
- Which one is full body red with ageing potential?
a. Brunello di Montalcino
b. Cote du Rhone
c. Beaujolais Village
d. Soave
A
- Which grape is dominant is Saint Emilion?
a. Tempranillo
b. Malbec
c. Cabernet Sauvignon
d. Merlot
D
- Low acidity, full body and high alcohol white is
most likely:
a. Chablis Premier Cru
b. Malborough Sauvignon Blanc
c. Alsace Gewurztraminer
d. Hunter Valley Semillon
C
- Which one must come from a single year:
a. Vintage Champagne
b. Fino
c. Tawny Port
d. Cava
A
- Premium Pinot Grigio comes from?
a. Gavi
b. Delle Venezie
c. Chianti
d. Rias Baixas
B
- Which one is moderate and warm climate grape only:
a. Sauvignon Blanc
b. Shiraz
c. Gamay
d. Pinot Gris
B
- Mists can help
a. Decrease risk of fungus
b. Enhance ripening
c. Developing botrytis
d. Reflecting sunlight
C
- High acidity with green fruit is mostly a:
a. Late harvest Chenin Blanc
b. Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon
c. Sonoma Chardonnay
d. Chablis
D
- Which one about Vintage Port is correct:
a. Have thick deposit and need to decant
b. Dry to medium sweet red
c. Light in tannin
d. Low in alcohol
A
- Beaujolais Village is?
a. Deep colour with cooked red plum
b. Traditional method sparkling
c. Full body with red cherry
d. Low tannin with strawberry
D
- Riesling can be made as:
a. Eiswein
b. Prosecco
c. Napa full body white
d. Elgin high alcohol white
A
- Pinot Noir is famous in:
a. Casablanca Valley
b. Oakville
c. Croze-Hermitage
d. Coonawarra
A
- Trockenbeerenauslese is:
a. Can be dry or sweet
b. Highest grape sugar level
c. Medium alcohol, medium acidity
d. High volume wine
B
- Gooseberry and asparagus are usually find in:
a. Chenin Blanc
b. Sauvignon Blanc
c. Albarino
d. Glera
B
- 20-32°C is?
a. Icewine harvest temperature
b. White wine serving temperature
c. Red wine fermentation temperature
d. Red wine maturation temperature
C
- Muscat can be found in:
a. Champagne
b. Asti
c. Oloroso
d. Tawny Port
B
- Cabernet Sauvignon is dominated in
a. Pauillac AOC
b. Pomerol AOC
c. Bordeaux AOC
d. Sauternes AOC
A
- Which taste make the wine more acidic, drying, bitter and less sweet?
a. Salty
b. Umami
c. Acidic
d. Spicy
B
- Hawke’s Bay is famous for?
a. Merlot
b. Zinfandel
c. Sangiovese
d. Grenache
A
- Gavi is a?
a. Sweet wine from Veneto
b. Sparkling wine from Piemonte
c. White wine from Piemonte
d. Red wine from Veneto
C
- How to make the red wine become softer in
tannin and develop drid fruit aroma?
a. Bottle ageing
b. Lees contact
c. Riddling
d. Fortification
A
- Prosecco and Asti are both produce by:
a. Tank method
b. Traditional method
c. Noble rot
d. Late harvest
A
- Vieilles vignes is:
a. Grand Cru
b. In the Spain DO system
c. Young vines
d. Not legally defined
D
- Nebbiolo can be?
a. Off-dry, high alcohol, black cherry
b. Pale colour, low acidity, strawberry
c. High tannin, high acidity, red cherry
d. Low alcohol, citrus and tropical fruit
C
- Which can increase body and add flavour?
a. Early harvest
b. Acidification
c. Lees contact
d. Stainless steel maturation
C
- Viognier and Grenache can be:
a. Found in Cote Rotie
b. Blended with Syrah
c. Planted in cool climate region
d. Made as sparkling wine
B
- Premium Tempranillo is famous in:
a. Maipo Valley
b. Mendoza
c. Central Otago
d. Ribera del Duero
D
- Which one is a term in South Africa only?
a. Cap Classique
b. Grand Cru Classe
c. Joven
d. Vendage Tardive
A
Important Regions for Sauv Blanc
Sancerre AOC & Pouilly-Fume AOC (Loire Valley)
Dry, High Acidity, w/ aromas of Green Fruit (apple), and herbacious notes (grass & asparagus), sometimes wet stones
Also Touraine AOC
Trockenbeerenauslese is
german term for “selected dried berry harvest”
dried through “Botrytis”
Grapes are harvested by
Hand or Machine.
Neither is fundamentally better/worse for wine quality.
Only exception is where vineyards are on steep slopes, such as Cote Rotie in Northern Rhone (Shiraz).
Alsace AOC
famous for late picked Pinot Gris.
Dry-med sweet
Med acidity
Med-full body
Peach/Mango/Ginger
Can develop Honey in the bottle.
Best examples come from Grand Cru vineyards
How to store wine
Corked = on side, to ensure cork stays in contact with wine to avoid drying
Screwcap = standing up
Chardonnay is
white grape varietal that grows in cool, moderate and warm climates (all).
huge range of dry wines from cheap to premium.
can evolve for decades in the bottle
famous in Puligny-Montrachet (Cote de Beaune, Burgundy)
Classico means
Grapes grown in historic centre of region
typically located in the hilliest part of region, and produces wines with more concentrated flavour than those from the broader region
Pinot Grigio is
light-med body white or rose
served chilled at 7-10C
Fiano is
Italian white from Fiano di Avellino DOCG from the Campagnia region (Napoli)
med acid
med-full body
stone fruits (peach) & tropical (melon/mango)
usually stored inert vessels, sometimes with lees (bread/biscuit) or oak (smoke)
v good/outstanding can develop complex honey in bottle
