Vini,Viti, Grape Flashcards
Where the first wines produced
Neolithic Era between 5000 to 7000 B.C
Where did Viti Vinifera originate from?
Mesopotamia - The Fertile Crescent between the Tigris & Euphrates River
Who was the Egyptian deity whom the Egyptians believed was responsible for wine and harvest?
Osiris
Who was the Greek God of wine whom was believed to be responsible for the conversion of grape juice into wine?
Dionysus
Who was the Roman God of wine, whom they believed was responsible for wine and that divine intervention caused its production?
Bacchus
What invention was created in the 1600’s as a new innovation for wine storage?
Key Hint: Produced from a Oak Tree
Cork
Who was the French Physician who work was concerned with how grape Vines should be grown, pruned, trellised, and cares for?
Key Hint: A Cane Training System named after him
Dr. Jules Guyot
Who was the French Chemist who with the new invention the “microscope” in 1857 proved that microscopic yeast cells were actually responsible for Fermentation?
Dr. Louis Pastuer
What is the grape native to the region stretching from New England to the Mississippi River Valley and was used in an experiment in the early 1860’s France that carried the insect phylloxera?
Vitis Labrusca
What is name of the microscopic insect related to the aphid that feeds on the roots and leaves of grape vines
Key Hint: Almost whipped out french Vineyards when it landed there
Phylloxera
What is it called to splice one grape species (say, vinifera) onto another species (say, rupestris)?
Grafting
What do you call a rootstock that was created to help Vines survive and fight diseases?
Resistant Rootstock
Texas horticulturalist who created (developed) a rootstock that was resistant to phylloxera?
Thomas Munson
What is the French Term for Old Vines
Vielle Vignes
What is the name of the Englishman who conducted the Spurrier Tasting
Steven Spurrier
What is the name of the famous informal wine tasting in which California wines beat French Wines? This tasting put California on the map world wide
Judgement in Paris (Spurrier Tasting)
What was the 18th Amendment to the U.S Constitution, known as the Volstead Act, made the “manufacture,sale, and transportation of intoxicating Liqour” a formal crime?
Prohibition
What is the name of the Ancient place known as the “Land of Wine” due to the Vines thriving wherever they were planted?
Enotria - Greek Name for Italy
What were the Ancient Greek tall and large pottery vessels used to store liquids, including wine?
Amphorae
What do call agriculture that was applied to vitis vinifera as early cultures began to plant seeds in Vineyards outside of the plant’s native Homeland?
Fact: Once this happens growers gain control over the plant by dictating which seeds or plants are planted in a given vineyard
Domestication
What balances out the inherent sweetness of vinifera juice and the reasons that wines is such a good match food?
Fact: The 3 types found in wine grapes?
- Tartaric
- Citric
- Malic
Acid
What is the basic building block needed for alcoholic Fermentation?
Fact:
The more a liquid contains of this the more ethanol is produced
With this, it can produce alcohol as high as 17% alcohol by volume
Sugar
What is the product of Fermentation that delegate grape juice from wine?
Fact:
It is the alcohol found in all alcoholic beverages, from beer to vodka
This is what causes alcoholic beverages to have intoxicatingly effects
Plays a major role in the flavor profile and characteristics of wine
Ethanol
What is the name of the scientific Yeast used to conduct alcoholic Fermentation?
Fact:
This is also known as budding yeast brewer’s yeast, or bakers yeast
Also this yeast is used to make dough rise when baking bread
S. Cerevisiae (Saccharomyes Cerevisiae)
Fruit Juice + Fermentation = Wine
Barley and water + Fermentation = Beer
Rice and Water + Fermentation = Sakè
These are all examples of?
Fermentation styles of Alcohol
Two fermented sugars produced from Grapes
Fructose and Glucose
What is the process in which humans can only create alcohol for consumption?
The equation:
Sugar + Yeast = Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide + Heat
Fact:
When yeast comes in contact with sugar, it consumes the sugar molecules, breaking them down into two major waste products, “Ethanol & Carbon Dioxide.” The process also produces heat due to the yeasts metabolic activity.
Alcoholic Fermentation
What is a fermented beverage that’s is produced from the juice of any fruit usually grapes?
Wine