Brief History and Type of Wines

Question 1

What is wine-making?

Answer 1

A process of fermenting juices of ripe grapes

Question 2

What are the chemical reactions in process?

Answer 2

• Yeast converts natural sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide ( C02)
• CO2 either escapes into the air or is trapped in wine bottles to produce sparkling wine and Champagne.

Question 3

What are the combination of wine elements?

Answer 3

• Producer
• Vintage
• Varietal

Question 4

What is a producer?

Answer 4

An establishment of where wine is made. (typically, wines are made of diff combinations grapes from diff vineyard)

Question 5

What is vintage?

Answer 5

The year which the grapes are harvest (picked) and the staring of wine-making process.

Question 6

What is varietal?

Answer 6

Type of wine grapes used.

Question 7

What are the diff type of table wines?

Answer 7

• Red
• White
• Rose

Question 8

Define table wine?

Answer 8

Term to identify wines with alcohol content that doesn’t exceed 15% by volume

Question 9

Define still wine?

Answer 9

Wine which doesn’t contain bubbles.

Question 10

3 characteristic of red wines?

Answer 10

• hearty, full-bodied and typically dry ( wine lacks sweetness)

Question 11

What is the color of red wine?

Answer 11

Color range from:
Deep crimson red -> purple -> reddish-orange -> rust.
(Colors depends on type of grapes and the age of wine)

Question 12

What are the temperature of red wine when it served?

Answer 12

Typically served at temperature of 15 degree Celsius - 22 degree Celsius.
( red wine typically aren’t refrigerated)

Question 13

What’s the flavors range of white wine?

Answer 13

Ranging from very dry to very sweet.

Question 14

What’s the color range of white wines?

Answer 14

Color range from:

pale straw -> bright yellow -> gold

Question 15

Which type of white wines are usually served as dessert?

Answer 15

The sweetest white wines.

Question 16

What’s the temperature of white wine when served?

Answer 16

Temperature range between 10 - 15 degree Celsius.

Question 17

What/ how rose wines are made of?

Answer 17

It is made from red grapes. ( However, the juice is extracted from the grape skin earlier, thus leaving a palish color liquid.)

Question 18

What’s the color of rose wine?

Answer 18

Color range:
Pale red -> pink -> salmon
( rose wine are a.k.a blush wines)

Question 19

What sort of taste do you get from rose wine?

Answer 19

• Light, fruity taste ( similar to white )

rose wine are not fermented long hence residual sugar resides

Question 20

What can we referred sparkling wine as?

Answer 20

” Champagne “

Only wines from Champagne region of France can be called as Champagne

Question 21

What’s the 3 types of sparkling wine?

Answer 21

• It comes in red, white, and blush.

Question 22

Define fortified wines?

Answer 22

• Wines which contain extra alcohol/ brandy.

Question 23

What’s the alcohol % of fortified wines?

Answer 23

Alcohol % between 17-19%

Question 24

What’s the legal alcohol limit of the fortified wines?

Answer 24

24%

Question 25

Define aperitifs? ( category of fortified wine)

Answer 25

• Aperitif (Latin: to open).

- Also known as aromatized as they’re flavored with herbs and spices.

Question 26

When is aperitif fortified wine drank?

Answer 26

• They are sip/ consume before dinner. ( To stimulate appetite and digestion)

Question 27

When’s dessert wines consume?

Answer 27

• its consume at end of meals.

Question 28

What’s the flavor and intensity of dessert wines?

Answer 28

• They’re rich, sweat and heavy

- Norm imbibed (consume, drank) in small quantities)

Question 29

What’s late harvest wine made of?

Answer 29

• made of over ripen grapes on vines for max sugar content.

Question 30

Are dessert wines fortified?

Answer 30

• No. however they’re listed in the dessert-wine category.

Question 31

What’s sake?

Answer 31

• Beverage made from rice.

Question 32

List of 3 sake categories.

Answer 32

• Hojonzo ,Junmai, Futsu-shu

Question 33

What is honjozo?

Answer 33

A premium sake with additional alcohol added to enriched it with smoother taste.

Question 34

What’s Junmai?

Answer 34

Its pure sake and classified according to the % level of rice hull removed in the polishing process.

Question 35

What’s futsu-shu?

Answer 35

Known as ‘house wine’ which is inexpensive sake.

Question 36

Define Sochu and names called in Japan, Korea, China.

Answer 36

• It means burned liquor.
  Japan - shochu
  Korea - soju
  China - shaojiu

Question 37

What’s Shochu made of?

Answer 37

It can be made of rice, barley, soba, buckwheat, sweet potatoes, tapioca and chestnuts.