Sparkling wine

Question 1

What gas is used to make the “bubbles”

Answer 1

CO2

Question 2

What two methods are used to make sparkling wine?

Answer 2

1: Bottle Fermination
2: tank fermentation

Question 3

What method does Champagne and Cava use?

Answer 3

Bottle Fermination-traditional method

Question 4

Traditional Method of bottle fermination?

Answer 4

Base wine+ sugar+ yeast gets sealed into a bottle- CO2 is dissolved creating bubbles

Question 5

How do Lees end up in the bottle?

Answer 5

Yeast Autolysis- time wine spends with Lees contact during second fermination

Question 6

What is riddling?

Answer 6

lees are moved to the neck of the bottle. horizantle bottle to verticle.

Question 7

What 3 grapes are used for Champagne AOC

Answer 7

pinot noir, chardonnay, meunier

Question 8

What is the legal minimum amount Champage must sit in their lees

Answer 8

12 months- dry, high acidity, apple, autolytic notes (bread)

longer times makes it- green fruit, citrus fruit, and autolytic notes (bread)

Question 9

What is liqueor d’expedition?

Answer 9

After disgorgment- the removal of lees they fill the top of the wine with sugar and wine before resealing with a cork

Question 10

What is dosage?

Answer 10

amount of sugar/sweetness- aka brut and demi sec

Question 11

Where is Cava from ?

Answer 11

Catayluna, Spain

Question 12

Climate of Champagne?

Answer 12

Cool

Question 13

Climate of Catayluna

Answer 13

warm- harvest early to retain high acidity

Question 14

What does South Africa label their sparkling wines that use the traditional bottle method?

Answer 14

Method Cap Classique

Question 15

What other grape varities does Africa use?

Answer 15

Chenin Blanc

Question 16

When is tank fermentation used

Answer 16

When winemaker doesn’t want autolyic aromas usedm Makes wine taste more like the wine grape variety than autolytic aromas

Question 17

Asi Method is from where?

Answer 17

Piemonte Italy

Question 18

Asi Method?

Answer 18

Grape Juice in a tank with yeast to ferment, let CO2 Out, go back to fermenting to create CO2, then stop fermentation to filter out yeasts= low alcohol sweet sparkling wine

Question 19

What method is Prosceco made with?

Answer 19

tank method

Question 20

What base grape is used for Proseco?

Answer 20

Glera- light to medium bodied wine with apple and ,elon flavors. typically dry to off dry

Question 21

Where is Asti DOCG found

Answer 21

Piemonte

Question 22

What grape is used in asti

Answer 22

Muscat or Muscato- floral aromas, flavors of grapes, peaches and pears,