Sweet Wines

Question 1

What’s the minimum RS for Quarts de Chaume?

Answer 1

• 85 g/l. (34 g/l prior to 2011)
• Passerillage or bortrities in tries
• 100% chenin blanc
• min pot alc 18% (11% acquired)

Question 2

What’s the minimum RS for Sauterns?

Answer 2

• 45 g/l
• Muscadelle, Sauvignon blanc, Sauvignon Gris, semillon
• min pot alc 15% (12% acquired)
• Barsac can be labeled as Sauterns
• Bortrities in tries

Question 3

What are the minimum RS levels for Rutherglen Muscat?

Answer 3

This will be the basic style,

• 180-240 g/l
• Muscat Blanc a petit Grains rouge aka rutherglen brown Muscat
• 3-5 years

Question 4

What’s the RS for Classic Rutherglen Muscat?

Answer 4

• 200-280 g/L

* 6-10 yrs

Question 5

What’s the minimum RS for Grand Rutherglen Muscat?

Answer 5

• 270-400 g/l

* 11-19 yrs

Question 6

What’s the minimum RS for Rare Rutherglen Muscat?

Answer 6

• 270-400 g/l

* 20+ yrs

Question 7

What’s the minimum RS for tokaj aszu eszencia?

Answer 7

AKA nectar

• min 450 g/l RS
• 2000 vintage 900+ g/l

Question 8

What’s the Min RS for Aszu?

Answer 8

Established on 2013 when all the puttonyos were abolished

•min 120 RS

Question 9

What’s the minimum RS for Aszu 3 puttonyos?

Answer 9

•60 g/L RS

Abolished in 2013

Increments of 30 till 6 puttonyos @150 RS

Question 10

What the minimum RS for Aszu 4 puttonyos?

Answer 10

•90 g/L RS

Increments of 30 till 6 puttonyos @150 RS

Question 11

Minimum RS for Aszu 5 puttonyos?

Answer 11

•120 g/l RS

Increments of 30 starting at 3puttonyos (60 RS) till 6 @ 150

Question 12

What’s the RS for Aszu 6 puttonyos?

Answer 12

•150 g/L RS

Question 13

What’s the minimum RS for aszuezencia (all together one word)??

Answer 13

• 180 RS

One tier over the 6 puttonyos

Question 14

Explain what a rainwater Madeira is

Answer 14

It’s basically a semi-sweet Madeira, something like a milder, lighter Verdelho (Sercial =Seco=driest)

Not legally defined invente by an American, possibly no irrigation or diluted by rain

Question 15

What’s the RS for Malmsey?

Answer 15

This is the sweetest Madeira

Malvasia (red and white grapes)
Grown in the lowest and warmest areas around cámara de lobos

•96-135 g/L RS

Question 16

What’s Vin Santo Liquoroso?

Answer 16

It’s a fortified type of Vin Santo made in Tuscany (trebbiano and Malvasia) straw wine

Question 17

What does Amabile mean on a label of Tuscan Vin Santo?

Answer 17

This will be on a Vin Santo Rose AkA ochio di Pernice,

And indicates a wine med-sweet or below Dolce but above abbocato (off-dry)

Located in Chianti

Question 18

What does abbocato mean?

Answer 18

Off-dry

For Vin Santo rose aka ochio di pernice this is one category before Amabile

Question 19

Typical aging for Vin Santo

Answer 19

3 years

Some qualify for riserva @ 4

Question 20

What’s the name for bortryties in Italian?

Answer 20

Muffa nobile

Question 21

Name a wine with bortryties from Italy

Answer 21

Muffato wines

Orvieto DOC in Umbria made of

• Grechetto
• Trebbiano

Can have some and be a muffato, they used to be known for that

Question 22

What does Rimage mean?

Answer 22

Often found on Banyuls, it simply means vintage

Banyuls -12mnths Oak aging
Grand Cru- 30 mnths

Colliure- dry wines from the same area

Question 23

Whats the name of the most regarded vineyard of tokaji?

Answer 23

Considered a grand cru,

Mézes Maly

Question 24

What’s the grape of Juraçon?

Answer 24

Sw France, one of the southernmost appellations made with petit manseng