WSET Human factors 2

Question 1

when does the winemaker bottle their wines if they wants to keep the primary fruit aromas? and how as the wine been stored?

Answer 1

after only a few months, stored in a insert vessel

Question 2

what characteristics does a wine need to have to survive medium or long-term ageing?

Answer 2

sufficient (tillräckliga) levels of tannin, acidity or alcohol, flavours that will develop in interesting ways

Question 3

when can blending take place?

Answer 3

at any stage during the winemaking process

Question 4

what does blending allow the winemaker?

Answer 4

to adjust the balance of the wine

Question 5

how can you attain consistency and style in a wine?

Answer 5

by blending

Question 6

how can you achieve the same style of a certain wine year after year?

Answer 6

-many blending options: fermenting the wine in different vessels, using different grape varieties, vineyard plots, vintages, malolactic conversion

Question 7

what are the three main ways to clarify a wine?

Answer 7

sedimentation, fining, filtration

Question 8

what is sedimentation?

Answer 8

when the gross lees has settled in the bottom of the vessel the wine can gently be pumped into a different vessel, this is known as racking

Question 9

what does sedimentation rely on?

Answer 9

gravity