WSET LEVEL 2 UPDATED TEST EXAM MANUAL QUESTIONS
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✔✔Cask strength - ✔✔Particularly of malt whiskies, a spirit that has not been reduced
(watered down) to a bottling strength of around 40% ABV. These generally will not be
filtered and will be very high in alcohol; sometimes 75% ABV ( see also "overproof")
✔✔Casta (Portuguese) - ✔✔grape variety
✔✔Cave (French) - ✔✔Cellar (often underground) or wine-making establishment
✔✔Cave coopérative (French) - ✔✔Co-operative cellar
✔✔Cépage (French) - ✔✔grape variety
✔✔Cerasuolo (Italian) - ✔✔Cherry pink
✔✔Chai (French) - ✔✔Above-ground warehouse for storing wine, usually in barrels
✔✔Chambolle-Musigny (region) - ✔✔Commune AC in the Côte de Nuits famous for
Pinot Noir
✔✔Chaptalisation - ✔✔Must enrichment (adding sugar to the grape juice to increase
potential alcohol) specifically using beet or cane, named after Compte Chaptal, the
Napoleonic minister who advocated it's use.
✔✔Château (French) - ✔✔Producer in Bordeaux, generally, but not always, with
accompanying house.
✔✔Chaume (region) - ✔✔Loire AC region making sweet wines from noble-rot affected
Chenin-Blanc. The best part of this is Quarts de Chaume AC.
✔✔Chiaretto (Italian) - ✔✔Light or pale rosé
✔✔Cinsault (black grape variety) - ✔✔Black variety with savory, meaty flavors. Suits hot
conditions such as the southern Rhône (where it is blended with Grenache, Syrah and
Mourvèdre) and South Africa
✔✔Climat (French) - ✔✔A vineyard site
✔✔Clos (French) - ✔✔Historically, a walled vineyard, although the walls may no longer
exist,
, ✔✔Colombard (white grape variety) - ✔✔White variety grown in south-west France for
distillation, and for high-acid, appley dry whites.
✔✔Commune - ✔✔A small wine growing region, usually surrounding one village
✔✔Condrieu (region) - ✔✔Northern Rhône AC region making complex, expensive,
exotic dry and off-dry whites from Viognier (q.v.)
✔✔Consorzio (Italian) - ✔✔Producer's trade association, whose members' wines are
identified by an individually designed neck label
✔✔Continentality - ✔✔The difference between summer and winter temperatures
✔✔Co-operative cellar - ✔✔Winemaking (and sometimes bottling and marketing)
facilities that are jointly owned by a number of growers.
✔✔Cornas (region) - ✔✔Northern Rhône AC region making full-bodied reds from Syrah.
✔✔Cortese (white grape variety) - ✔✔Variety used in Northern Italy (especially Gavi) for
high-acid, unoaked dry whites with green and citrus fruit (pear,lemon)
✔✔Corton (region) - ✔✔Grand Cru AC in the Côte du Beaune, making red Pinot Noir)
and white (Chardonnay) wines. Includes Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru AC
✔✔Corvina (black grape variety) - ✔✔The main variety uses (along with Molinara and
Rondinella) for Valpolicella. High-acid, medium tannin and cherry and prune fruit.
✔✔Côte (French) - ✔✔Hillside
✔✔Côte Chalonnaise (region) - ✔✔Burgundy district making wines with some of the
style and quality of those from the Côte D'Or, but at lower prices. (see also Givry,
Mercurey, Montagny and Rully)
✔✔Coteau(x) (French) - ✔✔Slopes
✔✔Coteaux du Layon (region) - ✔✔Loire AC region making wines from noble rot
affected Chenin Blanc grapes.
✔✔Cru (French) - ✔✔A single 'growth', generally of quality. It might be a village or a
vineyard.
✔✔Cru Artisan (French) - ✔✔A rank of Bordeaux châteaux, below Cru Bourgeois (q.v.)
✔✔Cru Bourgeois (French) - ✔✔A rank of Bordeaux châteaux, below Cru Classé (q.v.)
AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Cask strength - ✔✔Particularly of malt whiskies, a spirit that has not been reduced
(watered down) to a bottling strength of around 40% ABV. These generally will not be
filtered and will be very high in alcohol; sometimes 75% ABV ( see also "overproof")
✔✔Casta (Portuguese) - ✔✔grape variety
✔✔Cave (French) - ✔✔Cellar (often underground) or wine-making establishment
✔✔Cave coopérative (French) - ✔✔Co-operative cellar
✔✔Cépage (French) - ✔✔grape variety
✔✔Cerasuolo (Italian) - ✔✔Cherry pink
✔✔Chai (French) - ✔✔Above-ground warehouse for storing wine, usually in barrels
✔✔Chambolle-Musigny (region) - ✔✔Commune AC in the Côte de Nuits famous for
Pinot Noir
✔✔Chaptalisation - ✔✔Must enrichment (adding sugar to the grape juice to increase
potential alcohol) specifically using beet or cane, named after Compte Chaptal, the
Napoleonic minister who advocated it's use.
✔✔Château (French) - ✔✔Producer in Bordeaux, generally, but not always, with
accompanying house.
✔✔Chaume (region) - ✔✔Loire AC region making sweet wines from noble-rot affected
Chenin-Blanc. The best part of this is Quarts de Chaume AC.
✔✔Chiaretto (Italian) - ✔✔Light or pale rosé
✔✔Cinsault (black grape variety) - ✔✔Black variety with savory, meaty flavors. Suits hot
conditions such as the southern Rhône (where it is blended with Grenache, Syrah and
Mourvèdre) and South Africa
✔✔Climat (French) - ✔✔A vineyard site
✔✔Clos (French) - ✔✔Historically, a walled vineyard, although the walls may no longer
exist,
, ✔✔Colombard (white grape variety) - ✔✔White variety grown in south-west France for
distillation, and for high-acid, appley dry whites.
✔✔Commune - ✔✔A small wine growing region, usually surrounding one village
✔✔Condrieu (region) - ✔✔Northern Rhône AC region making complex, expensive,
exotic dry and off-dry whites from Viognier (q.v.)
✔✔Consorzio (Italian) - ✔✔Producer's trade association, whose members' wines are
identified by an individually designed neck label
✔✔Continentality - ✔✔The difference between summer and winter temperatures
✔✔Co-operative cellar - ✔✔Winemaking (and sometimes bottling and marketing)
facilities that are jointly owned by a number of growers.
✔✔Cornas (region) - ✔✔Northern Rhône AC region making full-bodied reds from Syrah.
✔✔Cortese (white grape variety) - ✔✔Variety used in Northern Italy (especially Gavi) for
high-acid, unoaked dry whites with green and citrus fruit (pear,lemon)
✔✔Corton (region) - ✔✔Grand Cru AC in the Côte du Beaune, making red Pinot Noir)
and white (Chardonnay) wines. Includes Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru AC
✔✔Corvina (black grape variety) - ✔✔The main variety uses (along with Molinara and
Rondinella) for Valpolicella. High-acid, medium tannin and cherry and prune fruit.
✔✔Côte (French) - ✔✔Hillside
✔✔Côte Chalonnaise (region) - ✔✔Burgundy district making wines with some of the
style and quality of those from the Côte D'Or, but at lower prices. (see also Givry,
Mercurey, Montagny and Rully)
✔✔Coteau(x) (French) - ✔✔Slopes
✔✔Coteaux du Layon (region) - ✔✔Loire AC region making wines from noble rot
affected Chenin Blanc grapes.
✔✔Cru (French) - ✔✔A single 'growth', generally of quality. It might be a village or a
vineyard.
✔✔Cru Artisan (French) - ✔✔A rank of Bordeaux châteaux, below Cru Bourgeois (q.v.)
✔✔Cru Bourgeois (French) - ✔✔A rank of Bordeaux châteaux, below Cru Classé (q.v.)
