WSET2 - Chapter 17 - Sweet Wines Flashcards
What are three methods to make a sweet wine?
Add sugar after fermentation, stop fermentation early, or some grapes just have enough sugar even after yeast die
How is Muscat de Beaumes made sweet?
Interrupting fermentation
What ways can you insure that grapes will have enough natural sugar to result in a sweet wine even after fermentation?
Dry them (late harvest) or freeze them (eiswine)
What is Recioto?
An italian sweet wine made with late harvest grapes
Name four wines that are made sweet by Noble Rot
Sauternes, Tokaji, Auslese, Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese
What are three grape varieties susceptible to Noble Rot?
Riesling, Semillon, Chenin Blanc
Where are Tokaji wines from?
Northern Hungary
Where are noble rot wines made in france?
Bordeaux and in Loire (e.g. from Chenin Blanc)
