WSET Session 8

Question 1

What happens to sugar and yeast when making sparkling wine?

Answer 1

Converted into alcohol and carbon dioxide

Question 2

What happens to carbon dioxide during a sparkling wine’s second fermintation

Answer 2

Beomes trapped and is dissolved in the wine

Question 3

what are the two methods of fermentation for sparkling wine?

Answer 3

Bottle fermentation and tank fermentation

Question 4

Which method of fermentation is considered the traditional method?

Answer 4

Bottle fermentation

Question 5

What happens during bottle fermentation?

Answer 5

Base wine is bottled with yeast and sugar, then undergoes a second fermentation and yeast autolysis, then riddling, disgorgement, dosage and realsealing

Question 6

What is disgorgement?

Answer 6

Wine is frozen and lees are trapped in ice. When the bottle is opened the ice is forcefully ejected

Question 7

What is dosage?

Answer 7

a mixture of wine and sugar that is added to the bottle of sparkling to control sweetness level

Question 8

What are the two most famous examples of traditional method sparkling wines?

Answer 8

Champagne and Cava

Question 9

Which grapes are usually in Champagne?

Answer 9

Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Meuiner

Question 10

What grapes are usually in Cava?

Answer 10

Local varieties, Chadonnay, and Pinot Noir

Question 11

Where is Cava made?

Answer 11

Catalunya

Question 12

Where are traditional sparkling wines made?

Answer 12

USA, France, Spain, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand

Question 13

Brut

Answer 13

Only a small amount of sugar added

Question 14

Demi-Sec

Answer 14

Medium Sweetnes

Question 15

Vintage

Answer 15

Grapes from a particular year

Question 16

Non-Vintage

Answer 16

Wine made from a blend of grapes from previous years

Question 17

Cap Classique

Answer 17

Traditional method sparkling wine from South Africa

Question 18

How are sparkling wines made through tank fermentation?

Answer 18

Yeast and sugar are added to a dry base wine, then sealed in a tank for a second fermentation, lees are removed, bottled under pressure and the result is a dry sparkling wine

Question 19

Where is known for tank fermentation sparkling wines?

Answer 19

Prosecco

Question 20

What grape is used to make prosecco?

Answer 20

Glera

Question 21

What is the body fullness of Prosecco?

Answer 21

Light to medium

Question 22

What is the sweetness level of Prosecco?

Answer 22

Dry to off-dry

Question 23

What are some flavor characteristics of Prosecco?

Answer 23

Pear, melon and blossom

Question 24

What is the Asti method of making sparkling wines?

Answer 24

Grape juice is partially fermented in a pressurized tank and sealed to retain carbon dioxide, fermentation is stopped by filtration and the result is a low-alcohol sparkling wine

Question 25

Where are sparking wines made using the Asti Method

Answer 25

Asti, Piemonte

Question 26

How do you open a bottle of sparkling wine?

Answer 26

Remove foil, remove cage, twist bottle not cork

Question 27

How do you asses sparkling wines?

Answer 27

On color, aromas, flavors and quality

Question 28

Fortified wine

Answer 28

Wines that have additional alcohol added to them

Question 29

How do you get a sweet fortified wine?

Answer 29

Fortify during fermentation

Question 30

How do you get a dry fortified wine?

Answer 30

Fortify after fermentation

Question 31

Where is Sherry made?

Answer 31

Jerez, Spain

Question 32

What is used to make dry Sherry?

Answer 32

Palomino grapes

Question 33

What is used to make Sweet Sherry?

Answer 33

Dried Pedro Ximénez grapes or a blend of dry Sherry and a sweet component

Question 34

How do you make Fino Sherry?

Answer 34

Biologically aged a dry white wine to 15% abv under flor in solera system

Question 35

Solera

Answer 35

System of oak casks containing wines of different ages

Question 36

How do you make Amontillado Sherry

Answer 36

Biologically aged a dry white wine to 15% abv under flor in solera system, the refortify to 17% abv and age without flor in solera system

Question 37

How do you make Oloroso Sherry?

Answer 37

Oxidatively age a dry white wine without flor under the solera system

Question 38

What are the four styles of sweet Sherry?

Answer 38

Pale Cream Sherry, Medium Sherry, Cream Sherry, PX

Question 39

Where is Port from?

Answer 39

Port, Portugal

Question 40

How is Port made?

Answer 40

Rapid extraction of color and tannin, partial fermentation, fotification, and maturation

Question 41

What are the the three styles of Port?

Answer 41

Vintage Port, Ruby Port, and Tawny Port

Question 42

What are the three styles of Ruby Port?

Answer 42

Ruby Port, Reserve Ruby Port, Late Bottle Vintage Port

Question 43

Ruby Port

Answer 43

Sweet, simple, fruity Port with lower tannins

Question 44

Reserve Ruby Port

Answer 44

Better quality Port with strong flavor intensity

Question 45

Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) Port

Answer 45

Like Reserve Ruby but from a particular vintage

Question 46

How do you asses Fortified wines?

Answer 46

Color, aroma, flavor and quality