WSET Flashcards
Rose d’Anjou grape
Grolleau
More MLC by temp and so2 levels
More with warmer and no SO2
Sauv blanc acidity and aromaticity
Highly aromatic
High acidity
VORS Sherry age
30 years
Full body, blossom and apricot grape
Viognier
Alicante Bouschet wines
High color
High tannins
Taurasi grape
Aglianico
Central Otago climate
Continental
High diurnal range in growing season
Diurnal range
Day vs night temps
Buds for spur pruning
2-3
Cote rotie viognier %
up to 20
Sparkling saumur grapes
Range
Northern rhone black grape
syrah
Asti grape
Muscat Blanc a Petit Grains
Tasmania climate
Cool maritime
BA sweetness
Sweet only
Months nonvintage champagne on lees
12
Brunello di Montalciano DOCG grape
Sangiovese
Pinot noir early/late bud and ripen
Early budding
Early ripening
Cava method
tranditional
Touriga national yeilds and tannins
Low yields
High tannins
Southern hemisphere fruit set
Nov to Dec
Greatest number of high quality port
Cima Corgo
Priorat climate and rainfal
Hot climate
Low rainfal
Montagne de Reims and Cote des Bar
Pinot Noir
Southern Rhone most widely planted
Grenahce
Argentina most widely planted grapes
Malbec
Bonarda
Graciano
Black grape from spain
Terra rossa soil
Coonawarra
Barrida country
Portugal
Yarra valley
Pinot noir
Gisborn and Hawkes bay island
North Island (New Zealand)
Rutherglen
Fortified muscat
Barbaresco DOCG aging
2 years
St Laurent wines similar to
Pinot Noir
Rotten egg and cabbage
Reduction
Rutherglen
Fully developed, aged muscat
Madrian wine grape
Tannat
European vines
Vitis vinifera
American vines
3 species
Phylloxera
Aphid-like insect
Vine shoot into ground to make new plant
Layering
Vine shoot section used to make new plant (in nursery)
Cutting
Grapes naturally mutate and using one of those mutations to make new plants (Ex: Pinot blanc and Pinot Gris are mutations of Pinot Noir)
Clonal selection (clones)
Pollen from male + flower of female = new varieties (costly, time consuming, 100’s of seeds, 2-3 years)
Crossing
Parents from different species (usually one from American - ex: Vidal in Canada)
Hybrid
American vines sticky sap protection
Phylloxera
Root stock + vitis vinifera
Grafting
Trunk + bud/cutting new variety = new fruit next season
Grafting
Between leave and shoot - become shoot/leave/flower/tendrils the following year
Bud
Buds -> shoots one year
Shoots -> the following year
One-year-old wood
Fruit comes from what structure this year and last year
Shoots
Buds
One-year-old wood with 8-20 buds
Cane
One-year-old wood + 2-3 buds
Spur
No phylloxera
Chile
Argentina
South Australia
Bunch of vines flowers
Inflorescence
Bud burst, new shoots, flowering
Spring
Flowering, fruit set
Summer
Ripening, veraison, harvest, return to dormancy
Autumn
Too cold to grow
10 deg
Defining factor of where grapes can grow
Heat
Warm ocean currents
Humboldt Current (Chile)
Benguela Current (S Africa)
Gulf Stream (NW Europe)
Soils (high stone or rock, dark or absorbent delay
Budburst
Diff between hottest and coldest months
Continentality
Temp difference between day and night
Diurnal range
Temps to damage/kill
- 20 degrees Celsius
Protect graft point from winter freeze
Earthing up
Spring frost affects
Crop yeilds
Heaters, wind machines, sprinklers, thoughtful design protect from
Spring frost
Cold temp in spring delay and shorten
Budburst and flowering/fruit set
Growing season
Summer hot temps
Slow activity
Prevent ripening
Death
Sunlight benefits
Growth/ripening
Flowering/fruit set
Latitude, seas and lake and aspect affect
Sunlight
Low levels affect flowering/fruit set, reduce crops, slow photosynthesis (clouds), stop ripening but to much sunburn/bitter flavor
Sunlight (clouds)
Limiting water benefits
Grape ripening
Disrupts transpiration, stops photosynthesis, leaves wilt, grapes don’t ripen, weaken/kill vine
Drought
Too many shoots/leaves, increase shading (ripening), kill roots, disrupt flowering/fruit set (reduce crops), fungus, swell berries, split berries, rot
Too much water
Hail
Mendoza
Temperature, sunlight rainfall averaged over several years
Climate
Avg temp in growing season: 16.5 or less
Cool climate
Average temp during growing season 16.5 - 18.5
Warm climate
Average temp during growing season 18.5 - 21
Warm climate
Average temp during growing season >21
Hot climate
Most variance between hottest and coldest months
Continental climate
Cool to mod temp with low continentality, rain all year
Maritime climate
Low continentality with warm dry summer
Mediterranean Climate
Grape budding and ripening for cool continental
Late/early
Organic matter (ex: decomposting leave), rich nutrients, excellent water retention
Humus