Wset 2 Wine And Spirits

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Examples of fortified wines

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Port, Muscatde Beaumes de Venise and Sherry

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Flor is a layer of yeast that protects which wine from air?

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Fino sherries

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Which style of Port should always be decanted?

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Vintage

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Late bottled Vintage means

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The wines come from a single years harvest

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Where as other styles of Port should be served at room temperature, this style is best served lightly chilled?

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Tawny

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The aim of distillation is

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To increase the alcohol level in the liquid by separating the alcohol from the alcoholic liquid (most of which is water)

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Pot stills final spirit is

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Characterful in flavor, and low in strength

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Cognac must be

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Double-distilled in a pot still

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Bourbon must be made in Kentucky? T or F?

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False

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Bourbon must be filtered through sugar maple charcoal? T or F?

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False

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Malt whiskey is made using only?

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Barley

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To be called a Tequila, a spirit must?

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Be from The delimited Tequila region in Mexico and 51% blue agave

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What has to happen to grain that does not happen to grapes before fermentation can begin?

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The grains must have their starch converted to sugar usually by coarsely grinding the grains and mixing with hot water

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London Dry Gin must be produced bu

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Re-distilling the neutral spirit in a pot still with juniper and other botanicals

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When tasting and evaluating spirits, you should add room temperature water to release the

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Aromas

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When tasting spirits for evaluation purposes, should you swirl the glass?

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No.

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What cooler regions of Chile are emerging as a source of herbaceous, fruit-led premium Sauvignon Blanc?

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Casablanca and San Antonio

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The classic region for Pinot Gris in France is

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Alsace

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Name two Vins Doux Naturels from Southern France

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Muscat de Beaumes de Venise and Muscat de Rivesaltes

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Describe Kabinett Rieslings style

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Light in body, with high acidity and green fruit notes. They usually have medium sweetness and light alcohol, but can be dry with medium alcohol

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Where in Argentina would you find premium Cabernet Sauvignon?

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Mendoza

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What is the process that softens harsh acids?

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Malolactic fermentation

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Which are important villages in Burgundy for Pinot Noir?

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Gevrey-Chambertin, Nuits-saint-George, Beaune, Pommard

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What is the proper service temperature for sparkling wines like champagne, Cava and Asti?

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6-10° C (43-50° F)

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In New Zealand, which is an important area for premium Chardonnay?

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Marlborough

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What are main appellations of the Hunt Medoc?

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Pauillac and Margaux

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Which Sonoma AVA has a reputation for soft-textured, full-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon?

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Alexander Valley

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Describe characteristics of Syrah

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Deeply colored with medium or high levels of tannins and medium acidity. Usually full-bodies and have a black fruit and dark chocolate character.

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What is the light, high-acid white grape used to make Gavi DOCG wines?

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Cortese

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Name the wines from north-east Italy made from Garganega. These wines are medium in body and unoaked with floral notes and flavors of green fruit (pear, red apple) and white pepper

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Soave

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In general, spirits distilled to a lower alcoholic strength, like those produced using a pot still...

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Contain more impurities and more flavor character

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This variety produces soft, full-bodied, and aromatic wines. The best example are from a region in France where they are low in acidity and high in alcohol, with delicate fruit and floral aromas( peach, pear, apricot, violet) and spicy notes.

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Viognier

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The least expensive champagnes will generally see the minimum legal period of yeast autolysis in the bottle. What is the minimum legal period of this bottle fermentation process?

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12 months

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This grape is important in Bordeaux where it is commonly blended with Sauvignon Blanc to make dry wines and sweet wines

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Semillon

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The most famous wines from Italy’s Piemonte region are

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Barolo and Barbaresco

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These style Ports are very long-lived wines. The grapes come from the very best vineyards and are only made in good years. They are bottled unfiltered, after a short period in large oak vessels.

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Vintage Ports and single Quinta Vintage Ports

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These sherries are made by taking a Fino or Manzanilla and adding more spirit to increase the alcohol to kill off the flor

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Amontillado

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These Spanish wines are bottled the year following the vintage for immediate release, and indicate wines that have not been aged in oak for the minimum required to be called Crianza.

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Joven

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Montepulciano d’ Abruzzo DOC is made from what grape and in what town?

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Montepulciano grape in the town of Abruzzo in central Italy

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Put these in order of highest to lowest hierarchy

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Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Cotes du Rhône villages AC, cotes du Rhône AC

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Hunter Valley, McLaren Vale, and Barossa Valley are known for what grape?

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Shiraz

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Put these in order of highest to lowest hierarchy

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Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru; Gevrey Chamberin Clos Saint-Jacques Premier Cru; Gevrey-Chamertin; Bourgogne AC

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Vouvray is made from 100%

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Chenin Blanc

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High-acid foods should generally be matched with high-acid wines, otherwise the wines can taste too soft and flabby. T or F?

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True

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The pairing of acidic wines with fatty Or oily foods provides a pleasant sensation of the acidic wine ‘cutting through’ the richness of the food. T or F?

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True

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Dishes high in umami should be paired with

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Wines that are more fruity than tannic as the umami in the food will emphasize the bitterness of the tannins, and champagne

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This is the most important grape variety for premium wines in Argentina?

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Malbec

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This is a very important grape in Chile. It was from Bordeaux.

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Carmenere

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Pinotage comes from

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S. Africa

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Put in order of aging from youngest to oldest.

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Joven, Crianza, Reserva, Gran Reserva

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Where would you find Primitivo and Aglianico?

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Southern Italy

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What are the most famous wines from Piemonte?

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Barolo and Barbaresco

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Name the complex, full-bodied wine made from grapes that have been partially dried to concentrate their flavors with high alcohol and high tannins.

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Amarine della Valpolicella

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This grape is intensely floral with tropical and stone fruit, musty seeet spices, and can be dry, of-dry, or medium in style and full-bodied, with high alcohol and low acidity

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Gewurztaminer

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Name a white wine made from Garganega

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Soave

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Vouvray and South Africa are both known for this grape

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Chenin Blanc

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The classic region for wine called Pinot Gris is

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Alsace

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Typical Pinot Grigio is

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Dry, medium or light in body, with medium acidity and neutral character

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Verdicchino is described as

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High acid, medium bodied white with flavors with lemon, fennel and bitter almond

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What is the most widely planted grape in Italy?

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Trebbiano

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What is the white wine in Piemonte made from the high acid grape Cortese?

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Gavi

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This grape produces soft, full-bodied and aromatic wines, low in acid, and high in alcohol with delicate fruit and floral aromas (peach, pear, apricot, violet) and spicy notes.

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Viognier

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This grape produces a medium bodied white wine in a range of styles from sweet to dry, but always with high acidity in the Loire and medium bodied, mostly dry-off-dry wines with high acidity despite the hot climate in S. Africa

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Chenin Blanc

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Chianti Classico DOCG and Brunello di Montalcino DOCG are

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From Tuscany and made from Sangiovese

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Name Italian red grapes

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Nebbiolo

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Yeast autolysis in sparkling wine production is related to?

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Lees

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Disgorgement in sparkling wine production is related to?

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Riddling and Gyropalettes

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Methods Cap Classique refers to the traditional method of sparkling wine production where?

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In South Africa

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The amount of sugar added to the sparkling wine to top it up after disgorgement that determines the sweetness of the final bottled product is called?

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Dosage

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If a sparkling wine is produced in France outside of Champagne using the traditional method it is called?

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Cremant

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Prosecco is usually made using which sparkling wine production method?

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Tank method

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Prosecco is made from what grape?

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Glera

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Asti DOCG is made from what grape?

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Muscat

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Which of these is NOT a method used to make a sweet wine?

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Do a second fermentation

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Puttonyos indicates?

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The level of sweetness in Tokaji wines

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What is the main grape of Sauternes?

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Semillon

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This description applies to which? “Honey, dried apricot, rye bread, sweet biscuits, cabbage, orange marmalade, pineapple, and mushrooms”

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Aromas of Nobel rot

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Botrytis Cinera needs damp, misty mornings to encourage the growth and spread of the mold and...

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Warm, dry afternoons to speed the drying out of the grapes