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Wine and Spirits
Wine Bible
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Undergraduate 4
07/22/2008

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What Flavor can not be tasted if you have a head cold?
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Strawberry
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What continent makes the most wine?
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Europe
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The color of a young red wine is most likely to be
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ruby
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The color of a mature white wine is likely to be
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deep gold
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The phrase table wine in America means
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It has 7-14 percent alchohol
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A wine with high alchohol will seem to have more
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body
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Crispness refers to the amount of____ in a wine
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acidity
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What do "good legs" on a wine mean?
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High Alchohol
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Where on the tounge does a person generally taste sweetness?
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tip
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A wine that is not totally dry has what in it?
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residual sugar
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A wine with 15% alchohol would most likely be
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full bodied
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Wine from which of these grapes is likely to have the least tanin:
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Riesling
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The best soil for grapevines is:
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Soil with good drainage
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By which method do many winemakers in America get Oak flavor in their wines without buying expensive Oak barrels?
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by adding Oak chips
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If you squeeze a Merlot grape what color juice will come out?
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clear
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Almost all good vineyards are within the following bands of latitude
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30-50 degrees
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We refer to the climate of a region and to the ____ of a small area within that region
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microclimate
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Concerning wine, a "clone" is:
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a cutting of a grapevine
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What is phylloxera
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a bug which eats vine roots
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What would make a wine taste most oaky?
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small new barrels
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Tannin in wine can come from:
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grape skins, grape stems, and grape seeds
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Malo-lactic-fermentaion, by which malic acid in wine is converted to lactic acid can make a Chardonnay taste:
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buttery
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What makes wines turn brown?
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oxidation
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A wine made from grapes grown in a vineyard FAR FROM the equator is likely to be:
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light bodied with lean, tart flavors
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Wine barrels are usually made from what?
Definition
oak
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Rivers affect vineyards by:
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providing air currents which reduce the chance of frost and reflecting light onto the vines
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When a vineyard worker cuts excess parts off of vines this is called:
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pruning
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A heavy storm in the SPRING can
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knock off the vine's flowers
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At some top vineyards, workers cut off excess grape clusters so that the remaining clusters will have more flavor, this is called
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green harvesting
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Some growers trellis their grapevines carefully on stakes or wires to enhance the ripening process. This is called
Definition
canopy management
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Which of these vine species is not reccomended for rootstocks?
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Vinifera
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Which of these factors is not part of terroir?
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skill of the winemaker
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Which of these wine problems is not a mildew?
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Pierce's disease
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Which of these statements is true of malo-latic fermentation?
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It creates diacyl
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Proper wine making sequence
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Crushing, Fermenting, Pressing, Blending
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  1. Which of these is not used in fining?
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diatomaceous earth
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Which of these climates is likely to have more extreme seasons (i.e. hotter summers and colder winters)
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continental
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What is a barrique?
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A french barrel
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What is the largest French Region?
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Bordeaux
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A negociant is:
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a person/company who makes wine from purchased grapes
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Four red grapes grown in bordeaux in order of vines they have in bordeaux

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Merlot, Cab Sab, Cab Franc, Petit Verdot
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What is the highest ranked wine catagory in France?
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AOC
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The soil in the Graves section of Bordeaux is
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gravel
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What makes Sauternes a sweet wine?
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botrytis
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