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Mike Fun Facts
100

The name used for the champagne winemaking 

What is Méthode Champenoise

100

The grape of Beaujolais 

What is Gamay? 

100

Has the steepest slopes to grow wine on

What is the Mosel?

100

The average alcohol content of sake

What is 15%

100

Went to the Harvard of Culinary Schools 

What is CIA? 

200

The protective layer in sherry winemaking 

What is flor?

200

The grape that grows in Jerez and is used in sherry winemaking

What is Palamino 

200

The white, chalky soil found in the sherry wine region of Jerez

What is Albariza?

200

The fungus in sake making

What is Koji

200

Originally from this state 

What is NJ 

300

The traditional large barrel for German Riesling  

What is Foudre?

300

The white grapes of the Northern Rhone 

What is Marsanne, Roussanne, Viognier 

300

Southernmost Champagne Village

What is the Cote des Bars?

300

Cloudy Sake

Nigori

300

First cooking job in NYC

What is Perry Street

400

The winemaking method where microbes eat sour acids and produce softer, more buttery acids

What is MLF, Malolactic Acid

400

The grapes used in Bugey Cerdon 

What is Gamay and Poulsard 
400

This Italian region is well known for Verdicchio

What is Le Marche?

400

The "old way" of making sake, Kidoizumi is well known for this process 

What is Yamahai

400

Mike's first serving job in NYC 

What is Barano 

500

The "bleed of method" 

What is Saignée

500

The grape that comes from Cahors, France  

What is Cot, Malbec

500

The region south of the Jura Mountains, known for wines made in the méthode ancestrale

What is Bugey Cerdon

500

Term for a master brewer 

What is a Toji

500

Mike's Grandma's name 

Jenny