Test Questions
This is the grape variety used to make Vouvray in the Loire Valley.
What is Chenin Blanc
This is the temperature range at which red wines typically ferment.
What is 20–32°C?
One of the top producers of Elegant white wines, yet home to less than 1.5% of the world's vineyard population
What is Germany?
This is the name for the phenomenon where wine tastes different depending on what music is playing in the room.
What is the Sonic Seasoning effect?
These are 3 out of the 7 styles of Sherry
What is
Manzanilla, FINO, Amontilado, Palo Cortado, Oloroso, Cream, Pedro Ximénez?
This German term on a label means the wine is dry.
What is Trocken
These two Australian region is famous for its premium dry Riesling.
What is Clare Valley or Eden Valley?
This country has more indigenous grape varieties than any other nation on earth.
What is Italy
This person said, "Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This country drinks more Champagne per capita than any other in the world.
What is the United Kingdom?
This is the Bordeaux commune on the left bank, known for Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant wines
What is Pauillac?
This French Alsace term means late harvest.
What is Vendanges Tardives?
Location of the steepest vineyard in the world
What is Mosel?
This devastating louse nearly wiped out all of Europe's vineyards in the late 1800s, and the solution — grafting European vines onto American rootstock — is still used today.
What is Phylloxera?
This is the term for the dimple at the bottom of a wine bottle, and it originally served this practical purpose.
What is a punt? originally helped glassblowers shape the bottle and later helped collect sediment?
This is the term used on a Tokaji Aszú label to indicate sweetness level."
What is Puttonyos?
This is the AOC in France's Northern Rhône where Viognier is grown.
What is Condrieu?
This country is the world's largest wine producer by volume.
What is China?
This grape's name translates literally to 'little unknown one'.
What is Primitivo?
This ancient Egyptian pharaoh was buried with wine jars labeled with vintage, region, and winemaker — making them arguably the world's first wine labels.
Who is Tutankhamun?
This is the PGI labelling term used in Germany, which is a quality category and NOT a wine region.
What is Landwein?
On the right bank of Bordeaux, this commune produces Merlot-dominant wines, while across the river Pauillac does the same with Cabernet Sauvignon.
What is St. Emilion?
This country has the oldest continuously operating winery in the New World, dating to 1597.
What is Mexico? (the Casa Madero winery in Coahuila)
This Bordeaux grape's name is simply the French word for blackbird, possibly because blackbirds were so fond of eating its sweet berries before harvest.
What is Merlot?
This is the record for the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold at auction, and the grape variety it was made from.
What is a 1945 Romanée-Conti, a Pinot Noir from Burgundy (sold for $558,000 at Sotheby's in 2018)?