WSET Chapter 17 Sweet Wines

Question 1

What are three methods to make a sweet wine

Answer 1

Add sugar after fermentation, stop fermentation early, or some grapes just have enough sugar even after yeast die

Question 2

How is Muscat de Beaumes made sweet?

Answer 2

Interrupting fermentation

Question 3

What ways can you insure that grapes will have enough natural sugar to result in a sweet wine even after ferementation?

Answer 3

Dry them (late harvest) or freeze them (eiswine)

Question 4

What is recioto

Answer 4

An italian sweet wine made with late harvest grapes

Question 5

Name four wines that are made sweet by Noble Rot

Answer 5

Sauternes, Tokaji, Auslese, Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese

Question 6

What are three grape varieties susceptible to Noble Rot

Answer 6

Riesling, Semillon, Chenin Blanc

Question 7

Where are Tokaji wines from?

Answer 7

Northern Hungary

Question 8

Where are noble rot wines made in france?

Answer 8

Bordeaux and in Loire (e.g. from Chenin Blanc)