MS Questions July 6th 2024

Question 1

What is Chouchen?

Answer 1

Chouchen is an alcoholic beverage native to Brittany. A form of mead, it is made from the fermentation of honey in water.

Question 2

What is Izarra?

Answer 2

IZARRA Vert is made from a distillate of various plants and spices, and a double maceration of walnut husks and prunes.
After passing through a copper still, Armagnac Clé des Ducs, the brand’s historical supplier, is added to the distillates.
IZARRA Jaune is the result of the distillation of several plants and spices. Its final blend includes honey, added after the different macerations in alcohol and Armagnac. From the French Basque Country.

Question 3

Where would you find Domaine Hauvette?

Answer 3

Baux de Provence, Les Alpilles.

Question 4

Districts of the Northern Cape

Answer 4

Central Orange River
Douglas
Sutherland-Karoo

Question 5

What is the largest cooperative winery in South Africa?

Answer 5

Orange River Wine Cellars

Question 6

In which disctrict of South Africa would you find the producers Oak Valley and Kershaw?

Answer 6

Elgin, Cape South Coast, Western Cape.

Question 7

Where in Argentina would you find the Department IG Quebrada de Humahuaca?

Answer 7

Jujuy IG, North Region.

Question 8

Where in Argentina would you find Trevelin IG and Sarmiento IG ?

Answer 8

Chubut Province, Patagonia.

Question 9

What is Secano Interior?

Answer 9

Special DO for wines made from Pais or Cinsault in the non-irrigated areas of southern Chile between the Mataquito and the Bío-Bío rivers. (Rauco, Romeral, Molina, Sagrada Familia, Talca, Pencahue, San Clemente, San Rafael, San Javier, Villa Alegre, Parral, Linares, Cauquenes, Chillán, Quillón, Portezuelo, Coelemu or Yumbel)

Question 10

What are the subregions of Coquimbo?

Answer 10

Valle del Elqui DO
Valle del Limarí DO
Valle del Choapa DO

Question 11

What is the Chilean winery co-owned by Louis Michel Liger-Belair and Pedro Parra?

Answer 11

Aristos

Question 12

What does geschützte Ursprungsbezeichnung stand for? What are the gUs in Mosel?

Answer 12

Protected Denomination of Origin.
Uhlen Blaufüsser Lay gU
Uhlen Laubach gU
Uhlen Roth Lay gU

Question 13

What other gUs are there in Germany?

Answer 13

Bürgstädter Burg (in Franken)
Würzburger Stein-Berg (in Franken)
Monzinger Niederberg (in the Nahe)

Question 14

Which Anbaugebieten allow Chardonnay in their VDP Grosse Lage wines?

Answer 14

Saale-Unstrut and Sachsen

Question 15

What does the term Steillage mean in Germany?

Answer 15

Literally, steep site. A vineyard with an inclination of more than 30%

Question 16

What does the term Vorlese mean in Germany?

Answer 16

A pre-harvest before the main harvest to eliminate rotten or defective bunches.

Question 17

What does the term Biologische Säureabbau mean in Germany?

Answer 17

MLF

Question 18

What are the VCIGs of Castilla y Leon?

Answer 18

1. Valles de Benavente
2. Sierra de Salamanca
3. Valtiendas
4. Cebreros

Question 19

Which local red grapes apart from Mencia are used in Leon DO?

Answer 19

Prieto Picudo and Negro Sauri.

Question 20

How long would a Vino Espumoso “Gran Añada” be aged on the lees prior to disgorgement in Rueda DO?

Answer 20

36 months starting with the 2020 vintage

Question 21

What are the ageing requirement for Rueda Dorado and Rueda Palido?

Answer 21

Rueda Dorado - 4 years, including at least 2 years in oak
Rueda Palido - biologically aged for a minimum of 3 years in oak

Question 22

What differentiates Tinto from Tinto Tradicional in the Valdepenas DO?

Answer 22

Tinto requires a min. of 85% red varieties while Tinto Tradicional only requires 50%.

Question 23

Where would you find the producer Clonakilla?

Answer 23

Canberra District, NSW, Australia.

Question 24

What are the regions of Big Rivers Zone in NSW?

Answer 24

Murray Darling GI
Swan Hill GI
Perricoota GI
Riverina GI

Question 25

PDOs of Ionian Islands.

Answer 25

Robola of Cephalonia PDO
Mavrodaphne of Cephalonia PDO
Muscat of Cephalonia PDO

Question 26

What is the RS range for the semi-sweet wines of Nemea PDO?

Answer 26

17.5 - 45 g/l.

Question 27

What is the synonym for Muscat Blanc à Petite Grains in Hungary?

Answer 27

Sárgamuskotály

Question 28

Narince and Emir are grapes of which color? Where can they be found?

Answer 28

White grapes, Turkey.

Question 29

What is the parentage of Argaman?

Answer 29

A cross of Carignan and Souzão developed in Israel.

Question 30

What are the parents for Emerald Riesling?

Answer 30

Riesling and Muscadelle.

Question 31

What are the grapes used for Commandaria wines?

Answer 31

Mavro and Xynisteri.

Question 32

Where would you find Carmel Winery? Which famous figure is behind its founding?

Answer 32

Israel, Edmond James de Rothschild.

Question 33

Dizy, Hautvillers and Champillon are all 1er Cru villages in which subregion of Champagne?

Answer 33

Vallee de la Marne

Question 34

Give two Coteaux Champenois Cuvees produced from Meunier.

Answer 34

Any 2 of:
Charles Heidsieck ‘Coteaux Champenois’ in Ambonnay
Roger Coulon ‘Le Mont Moine’ in Vrigny
Benoit Dehu ‘La Rue des Noyers’ in Fossy

Question 35

What is the Coteaux Champenois produced by Larmandier-Bernier in Cotes de Blancs?

Answer 35

Vertus Rouge in Vertus from Pinot Noir.

Question 36

Who is producing Coteaux Champenois Blanc Perpetuité? What’s special about it and from which grape is made?

Answer 36

Drappier. Perpetuity is derived from a “perpetual reserve”. A barrel that receives a proportion of new wine each year to refresh the blend of previous vintages. This solera contains 13 wines, from 2002 to 2018. Here, the insolence of the young wine converses with the wisdom of the old, like cellmates for whom time is no longer counted. The imprint of perpetuity is comparable to a photo taken with a shutter open for a long time: it prints several temporalities, that of the hundred-year-old oak tuns of the Tronçais forest, and that of the multiple wines, some of which have been imprisoned for nearly 20 years. Still 100% pinot noir vinified as white, it is the descendant of the 17th century vins gris.