Switzerland Study Guide

Question 1

What 4 countries border Switzerland?

Answer 1

France, Germany, Italy, and Austria

Question 2

What are the four national languages of Switzerland?

Answer 2

French, German, Italian, and Romansch

Question 3

What are the four French-speaking cantons of Switzerland in the west?

Answer 3

Valais
Vaud
Geneva
Neuchâtel

Question 4

Ticino is an Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland that specializes on what grape?

Answer 4

Merlot

Question 5

What is the most cultivated white grape variety in Switzerland?

Answer 5

Chasselas

Question 6

The grape Johannisberg is known as what in France?

Answer 6

Sylvaner

Question 7

What are the three most planted white grapes in Switzerland?

Answer 7

Chasselas, Müller-Thurgau, and Johannisberg (Sylvaner)

Question 8

What are the two most planted red grapes in Switzerland?

Answer 8

Pinot Noir and Gamay

Question 9

What are two are the two most commonly found indigenous grapes of Switzerland?

Answer 9

White Amigne of Vétroz
Petite Arvine (Vallee d’Aosta)

Question 10

What % of wine is consumed domestically in Switzerland?

Answer 10

90% of total production

Question 11

What is the most important canton in Switzerland for wine production? What percent of the nation’s total output comes from here?

Answer 11

Valais

over 40%

Question 12

What river are the vineyards of Valais clustered around making it the river’s northernmost appellation?

Answer 12

Rhône River

Question 13

What is Chasselas known as in Valais? What is it called in Vaud?

Answer 13

Fendant (Valais)
Dorin (Vaud)

Question 14

What are the 6 regional AOCs of Vaud?

Answer 14

Chablais
La Côte
Lavaux
Vully
Bonvillars
Côtes de l'Orbe

Question 15

What are the two grands crus of Vaud?

Answer 15

Dézaley and Calamin

Question 16

What are the two traditional appellations for Vaud wine and their corresponding grapes?

Answer 16

Dorin (Chasselas)

Salvagnin (blends of Gamay, Pinot Noir, and the crossings Gamaret and Garanoir.

Question 17

What is Dôle? From Where

Answer 17

a blend of Pinot Noir and Gamay
Valais

Question 18

Vin des Glacier?

Answer 18

Valais Specialty
Rèze, one of Switzerland’s oldest indigenous grapes
a maderized wine stored in high altitude soleras

Question 19

What is Salvagnin

Answer 19

Blend from Vaud
lend: Min. 10% Pinot Noir, Min. 50% Gamay, Min. 20% Gamaret and/or Garanoir (crossings)

Question 20

Charte Grain Noble ConfidenCiel:

Answer 20

A label seal of quality for traditional sweet wines, created in 1996
Minimum Must Weight: 130° Oechsle (no chaptalization)
Minimum Aging: 12 months in wood
Valais

Question 21

What is Ermitage

Answer 21

Marsanne

Question 22

Foehn

Answer 22

Alpine wind
warm and dry