Principle Grape Varieties

Question 1

Whats is Proseco and key charachteristics

Answer 1

Sparkling wine from Italy
Sweet=Dry-Medium
Acid=High
Body=Light
Flavour=Green fruit-Pear
-Floral Aromas

Question 2

What is Cava and key falvours

Answer 2

Cava is a sparkling from spain
Sweet=Dry
Acid=High
Body=Light **
Flavours=Green fruit and Citrus.**
Apple-Lemon

Question 3

What is White Zinfandel

Answer 3

Its a rose wine from California

Question 4

Sauncerre

Answer 4

White wine Sauv Blanc from france
Sweet=Dry
Acid=High
Body=Medium
Flavour=Green Fruit-Apple
Herbs-Grass
NOT NORMALLY OAKED

Question 5

Chablis

Answer 5

French wine from coolest part of Burgundy (Chardonnay)
Sweet=Dry
Acid=High
Body=Light-Medium
Flavour=Apples, Lemons,White Flowers

Question 6

Burgundy/Bourgogne (White)

Answer 6

Chardonnay-Oaked or unoaked
Sweet=Dry
Acid=Medium-High
Body=Medium **
Flavour=Lemon-Peach-Vanilla**

Show riper fruits than chablis

Oaked and Unoaked

Question 7

Burgundy/Bourgogne (Red)

Answer 7

Pinot Noir
Sweet=Dry
Acid=High
Tannin=Low to Medium
Body=Light to Medium
Flavour=Rasberry, Red Cherry
Vanilla-Smoke (from the oak)

Question 8

Bordeaux

Answer 8

Cabernet and Merlot Blend (Left Bank-Right Bank)
Sweet=Dry
Acid=High
Tannin=High
Body=Medium-Full
Flavour=Blackcurrent-Blackberry
Cedar-Vanilla

Question 9

White Zin properties

Answer 9

Sweet=Medium
Acid=Medium
Alcohol=Low
Body=Medium
Flavour=Red Fruits
Strawberry and Rasberry

Question 10

What is Beaujolis and its key chraracteristics

Answer 10

Light red from France made from Gamay grapes.Sweet=Dry
Acid=Medium-High
Tannin=Low
Body=Light
Flavout=Red Fruits-Rasberry-Red Cherry

Question 11

What is Cotes du Rhone and its key characteristics

Answer 11

North=Syrah in this case
Sweet=Dry
Acid=Medium
Tannin=Medium
Body=Medium
Flavour=Strawbery-Red Plum, White Pepper
(Oaked and unoaked)

Question 12

Chianti

Answer 12

Italian red-Sangiovese
Sweet=Dry
Acid=High
Tannin=High
Body=Medium
Flavour=Red Cherry-Red Plum-Dried Herbs-cloves from the oak

Question 13

Rioja

Answer 13

Spanish wine-Tempranillo
Sweet=Dry
Acid=Medium
Tannin=High
Body=Medium to Full
Flavour=Strawberry-Cherry
Vanilla-Cedar (Oaked)

Question 14

Chateaneuf-Du-Pape

Answer 14

French wine blend mostly Grenache
Sweet=Dry
Acid=Medium
Tannin=Medium
Body=High
Flavour=Red fruit-Strawberry,clove/vanilla

Question 15

Sauternes

Answer 15

Bordeaux Sweet wine botritis
Sweet=Sweet
Acid=High
Body=Full
Flavour=Apricots-Honey-Preserved Lemon-Pineapple

Question 16

Sherry

Answer 16

Fortified white wine from spain. Dry-Medium or Sweet

Question 17

Port

Answer 17

Fortified wine from porttugal
Sweet, high alcohol,full bodied hight tannin with blackfruits/blackberry flavours