WSET Level 1 Award in Wines Exam with verified detailed answers

WSET Level 1 Award in Wines Exam with verified detailed
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What is Wine? - ✔✔Fermentation of grape juice
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Fermentation - ✔✔The process where yeast consumes sugar, resulting in the production
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of alcohol and carbon dioxide
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During fermentation yeast converts __________ . - ✔✔sugar into alcohol
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What are the 3 main types of wine? - ✔✔Still, sparkling, fortified
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How are wines named? - ✔✔Name of region or name of grape
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The bubbles in sparkling wine are a result of what? - ✔✔Carbon dioxide gas that is
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Name a sparkling wine from Italy - ✔✔Prosecco
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Name a sparkling wine from France - ✔✔Champagne
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Name a sparkling wine from Spain - ✔✔Cava
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Fortified wine have what added to them? - ✔✔Extra Alcohol
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When in the fermentation process for port is the spirit added? - ✔✔BEFORE fermentation
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has started
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,When in the fermentation process for sherry is the spirit added? - ✔✔AFTER
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fermentation is over || ||




Historically, why was extra alcohol added to wine? - ✔✔Extend shelf life
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Where does tannin come from? - ✔✔Grape skin
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Where does a wines colour come from? - ✔✔The skin
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At what alcohol % will yeast begin to die? - ✔✔15% --> once all the sugar is used
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If all of the available sugar has turned into alcohol. The wine would be categorized as
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what? - ✔✔Dry || ||




What are the 2 ways you can make medium sweet wine? - ✔✔Either stop fermentation &
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filter yeast or take dry wine and add sweet wine
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The majority of red and white wines are _________ wines. - ✔✔Dry
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Give an example of a dry white wine from New Zealand - ✔✔Sauvignon Blanc
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Give an example of a dry, full-bodied red wine from France w high level of alcohol -
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✔✔Chateauneuf-du-pape



Give an example of a medium rosé from California with a low level of alcohol - ✔✔White
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Zinfandel

, The majority of medium dry wines originate from where? - ✔✔Germany
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Sweet wines should have a good balance of what to what? - ✔✔Sugar to Acidity; acidity
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balances out the sweetness, stopping a wine from being unpleasantly sweet
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Give an example of a sweet wine from France - ✔✔Sauternes
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Give an example of a sweet wine from Portugal - ✔✔Port
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Give an example of a sweet wine from Italy - ✔✔Asti
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In relation to viscosity, light bodied wines are - ✔✔similar to water, thin
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Give an example of a light bodied white wine from Italy - ✔✔Pinot Grigio
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Give an example of a light bodied red wine from France - ✔✔Beaujolais
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Flavor characteristics of the white wines of Burgundy in France - ✔✔Chardonnay is the
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grape used and the wines are medium-bodied with high acidity and aromas of citrus
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(lemon) and stone fruits (peach). They may also have vanilla notes from maturation in
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oak.



Tannin makes the mouth feel _______ - ✔✔Dry
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Acidity creates a _________________ sensation - ✔✔Mouth watering
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What effect does sweet food have on wine? - ✔✔More drying and bitter, more acidic, &
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less sweet and fruity.
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