Practice Quiz #1 Intro

Question 1

What are the three tastes in Wine?

Answer 1

Sweet Sour Bitter

Question 2

What are the three sources that can effect a wines flavor?

Answer 2

1) Grapes 2) Fermentation 3) Maturation and Aging

Question 3

What species of grapes make the most wine?

Answer 3

Vitis Vinifera

Question 4

Name three grapes that have high Tannin.

Answer 4

Any three of these: Nebbiolo Cabernet Sauvignon Syrah Shiraz

Question 5

What is Terroir?

Answer 5

-Terroir- is how the “somewhereness” of a particular region or vineyard tastes, including soil, geography, sunlight, weather, climate and surrounding plantlife and other elements.

Question 6

What is Brix?

Answer 6

The winemaker’s measure of sugar content in grapes.

Question 7

What is Pylloxera?

Answer 7

A grape louse that can kill the entire plant.

Question 8

What is Noble Rot?

Answer 8

-Botrytis cinera- A mold that slowly pierces grape skins, allowing their water content to evaporate which gives the wine a more intense flavor.

Question 9

Sugar + ______ = ______ + Carbon Dioxide

Answer 9

Sugar + YEAST = ALCOHOL + Carbon Dioxide

Question 10

What are the alcohol percentages in sparkling wine, table wine and fortified wine?

Answer 10

1) Sparkling Wine: 8-12% 2) Table Wine: 8-15% 3) Fortified Wine: 17-22%

Question 11

What is Must?

Answer 11

A mixture of grape juice and skins.

Question 12

How do Red Grapes make White Wine?

Answer 12

Winemaker’s remove the skins of Red Grapes and make White Wine out of the pulp.

Question 13

What is Maceration?

Answer 13

Soaking the Skins the extract Aromas, Tannins and Color.

Question 14

What is Chaptalization?

Answer 14

The process of adding more Sugar to the Must so the Yeast generates more Alcohol in the final wine.

Question 15

What is Residual Sugar?

Answer 15

When some of the Natural Sugars in the Must remain unfermented by the Yeast.

Question 16

Where does Tannin come from?

Answer 16

Tannin comes from the Skin, Pits and Stems of the Grapes.

Question 17

What does the Vintage on a Bottle indicate?

Answer 17

The Vintage indicates the Year the growers Harvested the Grapes. The “Harvest Year.”

Question 18

What are two factors that will affect whether a wine will last for more than five years?

Answer 18

1) The Grape Varietal. 2) The Vintage. 3) Where the Wine comes from. 4) How the Wine was made. 5) Storage Conditions.

Question 19

What is “Corked” Wine?

Answer 19

When Trichloroanisole (TCA) from the cork has spoiled the Wine.

Question 20

Why do Vintners use Sulfur Dioxide in the wine-making process?

Answer 20

As an antioxidant, preservative, as a disinfectant to prevent unwanted Oxidation and to inhibit the action of bacteria or wild yeast.

Question 21

What is “Vertical Tasting?”

Answer 21

Comparing Wines from different vintages.

Question 22

What happens to the Color of White Wines as they age?”

Answer 22

As they age, White Wines GAIN color.

Question 23

What happens to the Color of Red Wines as they age?

Answer 23

Red Wines LOSE Color as they age

Question 24

What is the difference between Aroma and Bouquet?

Answer 24

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)

Question 25

Why would you swirl wine before smelling it?

Answer 25

To allow oxygen to aerate the wine, releasing the esters and aldehydes that combine with oxygen to yield the wine’s Aroma and Bouquet.

Question 26

What is MOG?

Answer 26

Matter Other than Grapes