CERTIFIED SOMMELIER UPDATED FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Cote Challonaise ACs - ✔✔- Bourgogne Aligote Bouzeron (Aligote)
- Rully (AC & Premier Cru)
- Mercurey (AC & Premier Cru)
- Givry (AC & Premier Cru)
- Montagny AC (white only)
- Premier Cru if more than 11.5% alcohol
✔✔Maconnais ACs - ✔✔- Macon
- Macon-Superieur
- Macon-Villages
- Saint-Veran
- Pouilly-Loche
- Pouilly-Vinzelles
- Pouilly-Fuisse
✔✔Beaujolais ACs (5) - ✔✔- Beaujolais AC
- Beaujolais Nouveau AC
- Beaujolais-Superieur AC
- Beaujolais Villages AC
- Beaujolais Cru AC
✔✔Beaujolais Cru ACs (10) - ✔✔- Saint Amour
- Julienas
- Chenas
- Chiroubles
- Moulin a Vent
- Fleurie
- Morgon
- Regnie
- Brouilly
- Cote de Brouilly
✔✔Burgundy (Climate) - ✔✔- Semi-continental (four seasons; climate issues like frost,
rain at harvest, hail)
✔✔Basis for Burgundy AOC - ✔✔Terroir
✔✔Soil in Cote d'Or - ✔✔Limestone (best whites) and Marl (best reds)
✔✔Champagne Grapes - ✔✔- Chardonnay
- Pinot Noir
- Pinot Meunier
,✔✔Champagne Location - ✔✔90km northeast of Paris
✔✔Airen - ✔✔Most widely planted grape in the world
✔✔Primary Spanish White Varietals - ✔✔- Airen
- Viura (Macabeo)
- Chardonnay
- Verdejo
- Albarino
✔✔Primary Spanish Red Varietals - ✔✔- Tempranillo (Tinto Fino, etc.)
- Carinena
- Garnacha
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Mencia
- Monastrell
✔✔Cava Varietals - ✔✔- Xarel-lo
- Macabeo
- Parellada
- Chardonnay
✔✔Spanish Wine Classifications - ✔✔- Vino de Mesa (VdM)
- Vino de la Tierra (VdIT): 60% from region
- Denominacion de Origen (DO)
- Denominacion de Origen Calificada (DOCa, DOC, DOQ): Rioja and Priorat in 1988;
Ridera del Duero pending
- DO Pagos: single estates only
✔✔DO Pagos Estates - ✔✔- Dominio de Valdepusa, Finca Elez, Pago Guijoso, Dehesa
del Carrizal (Toledo), Senorio de Arinzano (Navarra), Bodegas Otazu (Navarra)
✔✔Noble - ✔✔Aged 12 months in bottle or barrel
✔✔Anejo - ✔✔Aged 24 months in bottle or barrel
✔✔Rias Biaxas - ✔✔- Maritime climate
- 90% Albarino planted
✔✔Rias Biaxas Sub-Zones - ✔✔- Val do Salnes
- O Rosal
- Condado do Tea
- Soutomaiort
- Ribeira do Ulla
, ✔✔Rueda - ✔✔Produces aromatic whites from Verdejo plus Sauvignon Blanc and Viura
✔✔Ribera del Duero - ✔✔- West of Rioja on the River Duero
- Red wines from Tempranillo (Tinto del Pais) and Bordeaux varietals
- Wines are richer and fuller than Rioja wines with good aging potential
✔✔Northwest Spain: Notable Regions - ✔✔- Galicia (Rias Biaxas)
- Toro
- Rueda
- Ribera del Duero
✔✔North Central Spain: Notable Regions - ✔✔- Rioja DOCa (sub-zones are Rioja Alta,
Rioja Alavesa, Rioja Baja)
- Navarra
✔✔North Central Spain: Primary White Varietals - ✔✔- Viura
- Malvasia
- Garnacha Blanca
- Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Verdejo
✔✔North Central Spain: Primary Red Varietals - ✔✔- Tempranillo
- Graciano
- Mazuelo (Carinena)
✔✔Red Rioja Quality Levels & Requirements - ✔✔- Vino Joven: no aging requirements
- Vino de Crianza: one year in barrels, one year further aging
- Reserva: one year in barrels, two years further aging
- Gran Reserva: two years in barrels, three years further aging
✔✔Navarra - ✔✔- Borders Rioja
- Known for Rosado wines
- Five sub-districts
- Reds based on Garnacha, Tempranillo, Cabernet, Merlot
- Whites based on Viura with Malvasia and Chardonnay
✔✔Rioja DOCa Sub-Zones - ✔✔- Rioja Alta
- Rioja Alavesa
- Rioja Baja
✔✔Northeast Spain - ✔✔- Regions: Penedes and Priorat DOCa
- Mediterranean
- Home of Catalunya and Barcelona
✔✔Penedes - ✔✔- Center of Cava production
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Cote Challonaise ACs - ✔✔- Bourgogne Aligote Bouzeron (Aligote)
- Rully (AC & Premier Cru)
- Mercurey (AC & Premier Cru)
- Givry (AC & Premier Cru)
- Montagny AC (white only)
- Premier Cru if more than 11.5% alcohol
✔✔Maconnais ACs - ✔✔- Macon
- Macon-Superieur
- Macon-Villages
- Saint-Veran
- Pouilly-Loche
- Pouilly-Vinzelles
- Pouilly-Fuisse
✔✔Beaujolais ACs (5) - ✔✔- Beaujolais AC
- Beaujolais Nouveau AC
- Beaujolais-Superieur AC
- Beaujolais Villages AC
- Beaujolais Cru AC
✔✔Beaujolais Cru ACs (10) - ✔✔- Saint Amour
- Julienas
- Chenas
- Chiroubles
- Moulin a Vent
- Fleurie
- Morgon
- Regnie
- Brouilly
- Cote de Brouilly
✔✔Burgundy (Climate) - ✔✔- Semi-continental (four seasons; climate issues like frost,
rain at harvest, hail)
✔✔Basis for Burgundy AOC - ✔✔Terroir
✔✔Soil in Cote d'Or - ✔✔Limestone (best whites) and Marl (best reds)
✔✔Champagne Grapes - ✔✔- Chardonnay
- Pinot Noir
- Pinot Meunier
,✔✔Champagne Location - ✔✔90km northeast of Paris
✔✔Airen - ✔✔Most widely planted grape in the world
✔✔Primary Spanish White Varietals - ✔✔- Airen
- Viura (Macabeo)
- Chardonnay
- Verdejo
- Albarino
✔✔Primary Spanish Red Varietals - ✔✔- Tempranillo (Tinto Fino, etc.)
- Carinena
- Garnacha
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Mencia
- Monastrell
✔✔Cava Varietals - ✔✔- Xarel-lo
- Macabeo
- Parellada
- Chardonnay
✔✔Spanish Wine Classifications - ✔✔- Vino de Mesa (VdM)
- Vino de la Tierra (VdIT): 60% from region
- Denominacion de Origen (DO)
- Denominacion de Origen Calificada (DOCa, DOC, DOQ): Rioja and Priorat in 1988;
Ridera del Duero pending
- DO Pagos: single estates only
✔✔DO Pagos Estates - ✔✔- Dominio de Valdepusa, Finca Elez, Pago Guijoso, Dehesa
del Carrizal (Toledo), Senorio de Arinzano (Navarra), Bodegas Otazu (Navarra)
✔✔Noble - ✔✔Aged 12 months in bottle or barrel
✔✔Anejo - ✔✔Aged 24 months in bottle or barrel
✔✔Rias Biaxas - ✔✔- Maritime climate
- 90% Albarino planted
✔✔Rias Biaxas Sub-Zones - ✔✔- Val do Salnes
- O Rosal
- Condado do Tea
- Soutomaiort
- Ribeira do Ulla
, ✔✔Rueda - ✔✔Produces aromatic whites from Verdejo plus Sauvignon Blanc and Viura
✔✔Ribera del Duero - ✔✔- West of Rioja on the River Duero
- Red wines from Tempranillo (Tinto del Pais) and Bordeaux varietals
- Wines are richer and fuller than Rioja wines with good aging potential
✔✔Northwest Spain: Notable Regions - ✔✔- Galicia (Rias Biaxas)
- Toro
- Rueda
- Ribera del Duero
✔✔North Central Spain: Notable Regions - ✔✔- Rioja DOCa (sub-zones are Rioja Alta,
Rioja Alavesa, Rioja Baja)
- Navarra
✔✔North Central Spain: Primary White Varietals - ✔✔- Viura
- Malvasia
- Garnacha Blanca
- Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Verdejo
✔✔North Central Spain: Primary Red Varietals - ✔✔- Tempranillo
- Graciano
- Mazuelo (Carinena)
✔✔Red Rioja Quality Levels & Requirements - ✔✔- Vino Joven: no aging requirements
- Vino de Crianza: one year in barrels, one year further aging
- Reserva: one year in barrels, two years further aging
- Gran Reserva: two years in barrels, three years further aging
✔✔Navarra - ✔✔- Borders Rioja
- Known for Rosado wines
- Five sub-districts
- Reds based on Garnacha, Tempranillo, Cabernet, Merlot
- Whites based on Viura with Malvasia and Chardonnay
✔✔Rioja DOCa Sub-Zones - ✔✔- Rioja Alta
- Rioja Alavesa
- Rioja Baja
✔✔Northeast Spain - ✔✔- Regions: Penedes and Priorat DOCa
- Mediterranean
- Home of Catalunya and Barcelona
✔✔Penedes - ✔✔- Center of Cava production
