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Name 3 wine regions on New Zealand’s North Island
Aukland, Northland, and Hawks Bay.
Name three dessert wines whose grapes are affected by botrytis cinerea?
Sauternes, Tokaji Aszu and Trockenberenauslese.
What is the primary red grape of Bandol?
Mourvèdre
Name a Rose only AOP in France
Tavel AOP
What is Cap Classique?
South African sparking wine, made according to the traditional method (Méthode Champenoise).
What are the GI’s of Tasmania?
One: Tasmania!
If a Greek wine is labeled OPE, what is the style of wine?
O.P.E (Onomasía Proeléfseos Eleghoméni) is equivalent to ‘Controlled Appellation of Origin’ or the French ‘V.Q.P.R.D.’ There are currently seven qualified regions or products, all of them for sweet wine (including Samos).
What is Van Der Hume?
SA liqueur with tanegerine flavoring
What is Washington State’s Largest and what is it’s smallest AVAs?
Columbia Valley AVA, Red Mountain AVA.
Graach an der Mosel’s ‘Josephshöfer’ is the alleinbesitz of whom?
Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt
Name a method of dealing with mildew in the vineyards
Cut leaves, enable air flow around grapes
Use of mined or elemental sulfur
What conditions are beneficial for wine storage?
Keep bottles on their sides Cool Moderate humidity Dark Free of vibration Consistent environment
Define punching down & state its purpose
Breaks up the cap and mixes juice for better color and tannin extraction
Define cold soak & state its purpose
Bringing temperature of fresh grapes down to prevent fermentation and allow skin color and flavor extraction
What is the difference between oxidative and reductive wine making?
Oxidative is fermentation in the presence of oxygen.
This allows removal of oxidized elements so wine can age better.
Reductive is fermentation in the absense of oxygen.
This allows the fruity characteristics to be kept intact but results in shorter shelf life.
Name 3 steps to pairing wine with food
Match the overall intensity of the food and wine
Identify the key ingredients of the food
Decide whether to compare or contrast
Name a fining agent
Egg whites, gelatin, silica, pig snouts!
What is cold stabilization?
Chilling wine prior to bottling. This causes tartaric acid to crystallise out, thereby avoiding the formation of tartrate crystals, specifically potassium hydrogen tartrate, when the wine is in the bottle.
Name food/wine pairing considerations
If food is smoked, bring on the oak
Beat the (spicy) heat with sweet
Wine as sweet as the food
Match ethnicity (e.g., France, Italy)
Match regionality (e.g., Chavignol goat cheese with Sancerre)
Match the occasion or weather (if hot, low alcohol and high acid – acid quenches our thirst)
Drink what you like (pair wine with people rather than food; good food goes with good wine–even if they don’t go well together)
Pelliculaire (cold soak) Obtains more flavor in the wine Adds depth to the wine Adds intense color to the wine All of the above
Adds intense color to the wine
The quantity of must permitted to be extracted from 157kg of grapes?
100 l
Where is Salta?
Northern Argentina.
Volnay is a red wine only AOC. True or False.
True: Volnay is a red wine only AOP, but Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, and Blanc can be blended in up to 15%
In what county is the Fiddletown AVA found?
Amador county.
What is the word for crusher in France?
fouloir
Chinon AOP, in addition to Cab Franc, what other grape and what max %?
Cabernet Sauvignon -10%
what are large cask used to age wine called in Alsace?
Foudre
What are the primary river of the following regions?
a. Franken:
b. Vouvray:
c. Rioja:
d. Wachau:
e. Porto:
f. Sonoma:
A. Franken: Main
B. Vouvray: Loire
C. Rioja: Ebro
D: Wachau: Donau
E. Porto: Douro
F: Sonoma: Russia River
What 3 AVA’s does Washington state share with Oregon?
Columbia Valley, Walla Walla, Columbia Gorge
Name 3 AOP’s in the Cote de Beaune that are reserved for the production of red wines only?
volnay pommard blagny
What is the largest demarcated wine appellation in the world?
Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA
What 2 official Chablis Grand Cru’s comprise both parts of the Unofficial 8th Grand Cru Of Chablis? And which producer is the sole producer from this unofficial grand cru?
la Moutonne is a monopole of Domaine Long-Depaquit, made up of parcels from Les Preuses and Vaudesir.
What is the French term for ‘fully sparkling’?
Mousseux
What do the following all have in common: Martinez | Brooklyn | Aviation | Last Word | El Floridita?
They are all cocktails that contain Maraschino Liqueur.
What is the smallest AVA in America?
Cole Ranch AVA in Mendocino county…monopole of Esterlina.
What does Teinturier mean? Name one.
Teinturier, a French language term meaning to dye or stain, is a wine term applied to grapes whose flesh and juice is red in colour due to anthocyanin pigments accumulating within the pulp of the grape berry itself.
Alicante Bouschet.
What is a dôle wine?
A blend of Pinot noir and Gamay produced in the Valais canton of Switzerland.
