What Is Wine

Question 1

What is the process that turns grapes into wine

Answer 1

Alcoholic fermentation

Question 2

What do sugar plus yeast produce

Answer 2

Ethanol plus carbon dioxide plus heat. This is the formula for alcoholic fermentation. Sugar+yeast=ethanol + carbon dioxide + heat

Question 3

What is the common winegrape species

Answer 3

Vitis vinifera also called the wine grape

Question 4

What is saccharomyces cerevisiae

Answer 4

The yeast usually use to ferment wine

Question 5

What is the gas that makes bubbles and champagne and beer

Answer 5

Carbon dioxide

Question 6

What are the three main acids found in wine grapes?

Answer 6

Tartaric, Citric and Malic

Question 7

What part of the grape do the tannins come from

Answer 7

The skin seeds and stems of wine grapes

Question 8

What is a tannin

Answer 8

A sensation of astringency. Astringency is best described as a drying out of the palate. Canon supply red wine with their structure. They add a degree of complexity

Question 9

What is viticulture

Answer 9

The art and science of growing grapes for wine making.

Question 10

What is pH of acid in wine

Answer 10

2.9 to 3.8

Question 11

What is Terroir?

Answer 11

French word that describes the impact of the environment on a particular wine - the flavors that the vineyard itself will contribute to a wine

Question 12

What is viniculture

Answer 12

The winemaking practices and procedures used to produce wine

Question 13

What is the specific alcohol found in wine beer and spirits

Answer 13

Ethanol

Question 14

The warmer the fermentation, the faster the yeast ferments. True or false

Answer 14

True

Question 15

True or false. The tannins found in wine grapes serve to balance out the sugar.

Answer 15

False - acidity balances out the sugar or sweetness not tannins

Question 16

What civilization developed advanced trellising systems?

Answer 16

Greek

Question 17

Name four fortified wines

Answer 17

Port & Madeira from Portugal, sherry from Spain, and marsala from Sicily

Question 18

What do they Bordeaux in England

Answer 18

Clarets

Question 19

When was the innovation The cork introduced

Answer 19

In the 1600s, on introduction of the cork fortified wines stopped being necessary, many winemakers discontinued fortification

Question 20

What was the name of the scientists proved that yeast cells actually were responsible for fermentation

Answer 20

Louis Pasteur

Question 21

What is the name of the insect that nearly wiped out all the wine grapes in the world

Answer 21

Phylloxera - an aphid that is nearly microscopic. It feeds on the roots and leaves of grape vines.

Question 22

WHat is the name of the scientist that discovered how to save wine grapes from phylloxera? Where did he make this discovery

Answer 22

Thomas Munson, of Denison, Texas. Discovered the proper rootstock to graft with the wine grape Vitis vinifera so that it could resist the insect phylloxera

Question 23

What was the name of the tasting that changed the worlds view on winemaking in California? And on what date did that take place

Answer 23

The Spurrier Tasting or the judgement of Paris on May 24, 1976

Question 24

Which procedure effective solved the problem of phylloxera

Answer 24

Graftingl

Question 25

In what region did the wine grape origin begin

Answer 25

Mesopotamia or Iran & Iraq

Question 26

What ancient culture spread wine through out Europe

Answer 26

The Romans

Question 27

Who kept wine culture alive during the dark ages

Answer 27

The Catholic Church