WINE REGIONS FRANCE

Question 1

Old World Wine regions

Answer 1

France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Greece

Question 2

New World Wine regions

Answer 2

North America ( WA, CA, OR…. In the USA, Canada,
Mexico)
South America (Chile, Argentina, Peru)
Australia, New Zealand
South Africa

Question 3

French wine laws

Answer 3

Vin de Table
Vin de pays or Indication Geographique
Protégée (IGP)
Vin Délimité de Qualité Supérieure
(VDQS)
Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC) or
Appellation d’Origine Protégée (AOP)

Question 4

Vin de Table

Answer 4

basic wine which amounts to
approximately 40% of the total wine
production of France.
‘Produce of France’ is printed on the
label without the name of grapes,
region, vintage etc.

Question 5

Vin de Pays

Answer 5

The wines of this category are made
from approved grapes of a specific
region.
It guarantees minimum alcohol
content, and the area of production
The official name of the appellation
would appear after the phrase ‘vin de
pays de….’

Question 6

Bordeaux regions

Answer 6

Medoc paulliac saint emillion sauternes

Question 7

Sauternes

Answer 7

Greatest sweet wine, grapes suffer from noble rot

Question 8

Burgundy wine regions

Answer 8

Cote de nuits, Cote de Beaune,Cote chalonnaise,chablis,beaujolais

Question 9

Alsace noble grape varieties

Answer 9

Riesling,sylvaner,pinot gris,Muscat,pinot blanc,gewurztraminer

Question 10

Rhone valley wine regions

Answer 10

Cote rotie,saint joseph,hermitage,st peray,chateauneuf du pape,tavel

Question 11

Loire valley wine regions

Answer 11

Nantes, anjou saumur, touraine

Question 12

The best known wines of pauillac

Answer 12

Chateau lafite, chateau Moulton Rothschild and chateau latour

Question 13

Famous grape varietals from rhone valley

Answer 13

Grenache, syrah,mourvedre,marselan(black)

Viognier,Marianne,roussane(white)