FWS Quiz Flashcards
(136 cards)
1
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What is a multiregional IGP in S France and which regions?
A
Méditerranée IGP
Shared with Rhone Valley, Provence and Corsica
2
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Where can the set of regulations and production standards for each appellation be found?
A
Cahier des Charges
3
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Under continued wet conditions, Botrytis cinera will turn into….
A
Gray Rot
4
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What is the most common training method in S France?
A
Gobelet
5
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What wine making step adds toasty, bread dough aromatics to finished wine?
A
Sur lie aging
6
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What are the 5 major rivers?
A
Loire - longest
Seine
Garonne
Rhône
Dordogne
7
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How many seasons does the Mediterranean climate have?
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2 seasons only
8
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What are the major winds in France?
A
Westeries
Mistral - North
South Wind
Tramontane / Cers
Marin / Autun - South
9
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Name the estuary in Boredeaux?
A
Gironde Estuary
10
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What French wine region was particularly ravaged during WW1?
A
Champagne
11
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What is France’s largest AOC by value?
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Champagne
12
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When was it legal to sell a bottle of wine in France?
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1728
Bottled wines were only sold at the abbey. All wines had to be shipped in barrels until 1728, when Louis XV issued royal decree and allowed the transport of champagne wines in baskets of 50 and 100 bottles
13
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When did Europe’s mini Ice Age happen?
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Middle Ages
14
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What Alsace wine is least likely to be blended product?
A
Pinot Gris
15
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In Alsace Pinot Vrai and Klevner refer to…
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Pinot Blanc
16
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What is Melon de Bourgogne know in Loire?
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Muscadet
17
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What is Chardonnay know in Bourgogne?
A
Beaunois
18
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What is the minimum % for a variety to be listed on the label in Alsace?
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100%
19
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What logo would you expect to find on a bottle of biodynamic wine?
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Demeter - Germany and oldest 1928
Biodyvin - France 1995
20
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Cloudy cold wet weather at flowering can cause…
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Coulure - poor fruit set
21
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What was created to recognize different terroirs in Champagne?
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Echelle des Crus
22
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Champagne made only from white grapes?
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Blanc de Blancs
23
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Name for top bottling from a producer?
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Prestige Cuvée
24
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Champagne made only from black grapes?
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Blanc Noir
25
Champagne made only from the fruit of one village?
Single-cru
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A peer-review prestige cuvée?
Special Club
27
Champagnes that spend many years on their lees before disgorgement?
Late-Disgorged
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Why is champagne blended?
Hedge against marginal climate
29
The Côte des Bar is largely planted to....
Pinot Noir
30
What is incorrect pairing:
1. Côte des Bar - Kimmeridgean
2. Côte des Blanc - Chalk
3. Vallée de la Marne Rive Guache & Droite - sand, marls, clays
4. Vitryat - Sands, marl, clays
4. Vitryat is a bastion for CHALK
31
Méthode Champenois can be referred to as...when used outside of Champagne
Méthode Traditionnelle
32
What are the main types of sparkling wine in France?
1. Champagne
2. Crémant
3. Mousseuc
4. Pétillant
33
Which Beaujolais Cru is the highest, coolest and last place to harvest?
Chiroubles
34
in Beaujolais, hand-harvesting is
required for
Nouveau and
Beaujolais Cru AOCs
35
Jura, the eastern uplift of the Saône Graben has soils that
Are the exact reverse of Bourgogne with 20% limestone and 80% clay
36
What does not match:
1. Sous Voile - with ullage
2. Ouillé - without ullage
3. Vin de Paille - yellow wine
4. Macvin - fortified grape must
3 Vin de Paille is known as "Straw Wine"
37
The Seyssel and Roussette de Savoie AOCs are crafted from...
Altesse
37
Crémant de Savoir is typically crafted from
Jacquère & Altesse
38
Machine harvest or hand picking:
1. Chablis
2. Cóte d'Or
3. Côte Chalonnaise
4. Mâconnais
1. Chablis = Machine
2. Cóte d'Or = Hand
3. Côte Chalonnaise = Hand
4. Mâconnais = Machine
39
T/F
most Maconnais and Chablis wines are fermented and matured in neutral vats?
True
40
T/F
Oak Maturation is common for Côte d'Or and Chalonnaise
True
41
New oak barrels represent 75% or more in Bourgogne? T/F
False - New oak only used 20-50% of the time
42
Which of the following is not a Chablis Grand Cru -
1. Vaudesir
2. Valmur
3. Bougros
4. Corton
4. Corton
43
Which is an incorrect pairing:
1. Pommad - Village AOC
2. Chambolle-Musigny - Village AOC
3. Aloxe-Corton - Grand Cru AOC
4. Crément de Bourgogne - Regional AOC
3. Aloxe-Corton is a village while Corton is a Grand Cru
44
Which of these does not pair:
1. St Bris - SavBlanc
2. Bouzeron - Aligote
3. Montagny - Chardonnay
4. Marsannay - Chardonnay
4. Marsannay makes rosés so Pinot Gris or Pinot Noir (though Chardonnay is approved)
45
What is Bourgogne Passe-Tout-Grains?
A blend of Pinot Noir and Gamay
46
What are the 3 Golden Ages of Bordeaux
1. Henry Plantagenet
2. 1700s expansion
3. Robert Parker, Emile Peynaud
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What are warm soils?
Gravel and sand
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What are cold soils?
Clay and limestone
49
What is the difference between moelleux and liquoreux?
Both are late harvest
moelleux is semi-sweet
Liqoureux is sweet (botrytis)
50
Right or left bank?
Margaux
Left
51
Right or left bank?
Saint Estephe
Left
52
Right or left bank?
Barsac
Right or left bank?
53
Right or left bank?
Cadillac
Right
54
Which Bordeaux classification system ranks the wines not the châteaux?
Graves Classification
55
T/F
Prior to 1956 the red Bordeaux blend has more Malbec (Cot)
True
56
T/F
After 1956, red Bordeaux has more Merlot
True
57
T/F
Petit Verdot has fallen out of favor and has disappeared from the Bordeaux blends.
False - adds spice to blends
58
T/T
CabSav has replaced Cab Franc as the most widely planted of the Cabernets
True - 20% CabSav / 8% CabFranc
(Merlot 59%)
59
Which Central Loire AOC does not craft white from SavBlanc?
Pouilly-sur-Loire
60
What plain does the Upper Loire sit?
Limagne Plain
61
Which grape is not used to craft rosé in Loire?
Romorantin
62
Which of the following AOC is not in Touraine?
1. Chinon
2. Montlouis sur Loire
3. Coteaux du Loir
4. Menetou Salon
3. Anjou Saumur
4.Menetou Salon - Central Loire
63
Which of the following Loire AOCs crafts sweet botryzied desert wines?
1. Touraine Noble Joue
2. Samur
3. Bonnezeaux
4. Anjou Brissac
3. Bonnezeaux
64
Which of the following in SW France is white?
Merille
Fer Servadou
Petit Manseng
Duras
Petit Manseng
65
What SW grape of Basque Country Origin is similar to Cab Franc?
Fer Servadou
66
What SW AOC most closely resembles Bordeaux wines?
Bergerac
67
The only AOC in Provence to make more white than rosé
Cassis AOC
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Cassis AOC in Provence makes white wines from...
Marsanne (majority) + Clairette
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Year Pope Clement V moved to Avignon?
1309
70
Hundred Years war?
1337 - 1453
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1st Bottles allowed?
1728
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Exposition date that lead to Bordeaux Classification
1855
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Year AOC went into effect?
1936
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30 years war years?
1618 - 1648
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Introduction of sparkling wine in Limoux?
1531
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Years of
1. Powdery Mildew
2. Phylloxera
3. Downy Mildew
4. Deep Freeze
1. Powdery Mildew - 1852
2. Phylloxera - 1865
3. Downy Mildew - 1880
4. Deep Freeze - 1956
77
Chateau d'Yquem founded
1847
78
Lledoner Pelut is a hairy leafed variant of...
Grenache
79
The historic backbone of the Languedoc red blend is...
Carignan
80
Which appellation is not in Languedoc
Collioure
Corbieres
Minervois
Saint Chinan
Collioure is located in Roussillon
81
Which Vin Doux Naturel is produced in Roussillon?
Muscat de Riversaltes
82
What style of each VDN
1. Grenat
2. Rimage
3. Ambre
4. Tuile
5. Hor d'Age
1. Grenat- Reductive red
2. Rimage - Reductive Red
3. Ambre - Oxidative White
4. Tuile - Oxidative red
5. Hor d'Age - 5 year oxidated red or white
83
Which is not a DCG in Roussillon?
Caramany
Tautavel
Maury
Lesquerde
Maury AOC in Roussillon
84
2nd Largest AOC in France
Cotes du Rhone
85
Most vines in S Rhone are trained?
Gobelet
86
Admin entity in Rhone during the1600s that allowed Coste du Rhone
Vicariate of Uzes
87
What Rhone Valley AOC makes still and sparkling wines from Marsanne and Roussanne
Saint Peray
88
Which pairing is incorrect
Tavel - Rose only
Cornas - Red only
Hermitage - Red and White
CDR - Red only
CDR Can make dry white red rose
89
Abymes de Myans
1248
90
When was Savoie 1st annexed by France?
1792
91
When was Savoie last given to France under Napolean III
1860
92
How much grafting does Savoie do for France?
20% total - 30m pa
93
Name the towns that sit above the Abymes landslide
Apremont and Abymes
94
Barique size in
1. Bordeaux
2. Bourgogne
1. 225L
2. 228L
95
When did the Romans defeat Gaul?
52 BCE
In Alesia near Chablis
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Roman city in Bourgogne?
Autun
97
What German tribe arrived in Bourgogne in 450 CE
Burgondes and area became known as Burgundia
98
Phylloxera hit Bourgogne in what year?
1875
99
Year Bourgogne's boundaries were legally defined?
1930
100
AOC legislation ?
1936
101
The first official classification of Bourgogne vineyards was in...
1861
102
Average size of a Burgundy vineyard?
16.1ac / 6.5 HA
103
Coops (Cave de..), negociants and estates in Bourgogne?
16 Cave de...
266 negociants (52% sold via)
3,577 estates
15.5m cases annually
104
Small DCG of Bourgogne consisting of 6 communes and is red only
Côtes du Couchois
105
Auxerrois AOC that uses Cesar?
Irancy
106
What is the unofficial climat in Chablis?
Moutonne
107
Name a single site Lieu-Dit from the Regional Bourgogne AOC
Le Vaucrain
108
How many climats does Corton have?
28 climats
Clos de la Vigne au Saint - most famous
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What can Bourgogne Rosé be called?
Clairet
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Largest climat in Chablis
Les Clos
111
What is the most common farming method in Bourgogne?
Lutte raisonée - "reasoned struggle" min chemicals
112
Year France gained control of Franche-Comté?
1678
113
Where is cork grown in Provence?
Massif des Maures
114
1st Provence AOC?
Cassis
115
When did Provence become part of France
1486
116
What road did the Romans build to link Italy to Spain via France?
Via Domitia
117
When did the Canal Midi open?
1681
118
What was the 2nd Canal for S France?
Canal Lateral de la Garonne
1856
119
When did the rail lines open between Paris, Lyon and Marseillie
1855
120
What region was 1st to replant American rootstock after phylloxera hit?
Languedoc
121
Where and when was the 1st French wine Coop founded?
1905
Maraussan Coop in Languedoc
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How many coops in Languedoc?
150
123
When were Languedoc and Roussillon officially joined?
1972
124
What canal links Toulouse to Bordeaux?
Canal de la Garonne
125
% Organic in Languedoc
38%
126
How many departments does Languedoc cover?
4
Lozere
Gard
Herault
Aude
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When was the Paris Decree?
1577
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What does Loire mean?
Roman "Liger" means silt or sedimentation
129
What training is used exclusively for Meunier in Champagne?
Vallée de la Marne
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What training is required for Grand Cru and Premier Cru in Champagne?
Cordon or Chablis Only
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What is the rootstock for Chalky Soils?
41B
132
When were the specific cold periods in Champagne?
1650
1770
1850
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What region has the most Coops?
Champagne
134
Largest AOC
Champagne AOC
135
Corsica became France in...
1768
