Practice Quiz #1 Intro Flashcards
What are the three tastes in Wine?
Sweet Sour Bitter
What are the three sources that can effect a wines flavor?
1) Grapes 2) Fermentation 3) Maturation and Aging
What species of grapes make the most wine?
Vitis Vinifera
Name three grapes that have high Tannin.
Any three of these: Nebbiolo Cabernet Sauvignon Syrah Shiraz
What is Terroir?
-Terroir- is how the “somewhereness” of a particular region or vineyard tastes, including soil, geography, sunlight, weather, climate and surrounding plantlife and other elements.
What is Brix?
The winemaker’s measure of sugar content in grapes.
What is Pylloxera?
A grape louse that can kill the entire plant.
What is Noble Rot?
-Botrytis cinera- A mold that slowly pierces grape skins, allowing their water content to evaporate which gives the wine a more intense flavor.
Sugar + ______ = ______ + Carbon Dioxide
Sugar + YEAST = ALCOHOL + Carbon Dioxide
What are the alcohol percentages in sparkling wine, table wine and fortified wine?
1) Sparkling Wine: 8-12% 2) Table Wine: 8-15% 3) Fortified Wine: 17-22%
What is Must?
A mixture of grape juice and skins.
How do Red Grapes make White Wine?
Winemaker’s remove the skins of Red Grapes and make White Wine out of the pulp.
What is Maceration?
Soaking the Skins the extract Aromas, Tannins and Color.
What is Chaptalization?
The process of adding more Sugar to the Must so the Yeast generates more Alcohol in the final wine.
What is Residual Sugar?
When some of the Natural Sugars in the Must remain unfermented by the Yeast.
Where does Tannin come from?
Tannin comes from the Skin, Pits and Stems of the Grapes.
What does the Vintage on a Bottle indicate?
The Vintage indicates the Year the growers Harvested the Grapes. The “Harvest Year.”
What are two factors that will affect whether a wine will last for more than five years?
1) The Grape Varietal. 2) The Vintage. 3) Where the Wine comes from. 4) How the Wine was made. 5) Storage Conditions.
What is “Corked” Wine?
When Trichloroanisole (TCA) from the cork has spoiled the Wine.
Why do Vintners use Sulfur Dioxide in the wine-making process?
As an antioxidant, preservative, as a disinfectant to prevent unwanted Oxidation and to inhibit the action of bacteria or wild yeast.
What is “Vertical Tasting?”
Comparing Wines from different vintages.
What happens to the Color of White Wines as they age?”
As they age, White Wines GAIN color.
What happens to the Color of Red Wines as they age?
Red Wines LOSE Color as they age
What is the difference between Aroma and Bouquet?
1) Aroma is the smell of The Grapes in the Wine. 2) Bouquet is the Total Smell of the Wine (usually found in Older Wines)
Why would you swirl wine before smelling it?
To allow oxygen to aerate the wine, releasing the esters and aldehydes that combine with oxygen to yield the wine’s Aroma and Bouquet.
What is MOG?
Matter Other than Grapes
