Wine Appreciation Test 1 Exam Questions and answers (202472025)
What is wine? - ✔✔Fermented grape juice containing varying % of alcohol together with ether
and esters that give it bouquet and flavor
What is Professor Simon's favorite definition of wine? - ✔✔"Something that invigorates or
intoxicates"
What is fermentation? - ✔✔Biological phenomena which causes sugar to be transformed into ethyl
alcohol and carbon dioxide
Fermentation Formula - ✔✔Water + Sugar + Yeast = Alcohol + Carbon Dioxide
What do skins of grapes do? - ✔✔Create natural yeast cells (even though today we have various
yeast strains)
Vitis Vinifera - ✔✔European grape vines
Vitis Labrusca - ✔✔American grape vines
How wine is made? - ✔✔Grow grapes, harvest grapes, stemming, crushing, fermenting, aging,
collage and fining
Types of grapes: - ✔✔Red and white
Growing grapes: Step 1 - ✔✔Must have a winter for vines to go dormant (not dying)
Growing Grapes: Step 2 - ✔✔Bud break after the winter
Growing Grapes: Step 3 - ✔✔Flowering grows into the grape cluster
, Growing Grapes: Step 4 - ✔✔Veraison (when green turns red)
Must: - ✔✔Non-fermented grape juice
Enology: Winemaker - ✔✔Very scientific process; use modern computerized facilities
Length of fermentation: - ✔✔A week or two
Can you make a red wine from a white grape? - ✔✔No
Percent of wines that need to age: - ✔✔3%
Cooperage: - ✔✔The industry of making barrels
Coopers: - ✔✔People who make the barrels
Can you make a white wine from a red grape? - ✔✔Yes
Aging a wine: - ✔✔Bottles, barrels or casks (types of wood, aging and toasting of barrels)
Collage or Fining a wine: - ✔✔Colloidal matter added to wine (gelatin or egg whites)
Main three white grapes: - ✔✔Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay
Main three red grapes: - ✔✔Pinot Noir, Merlot, Carbernet Sauvignon
What is wine? - ✔✔Fermented grape juice containing varying % of alcohol together with ether
and esters that give it bouquet and flavor
What is Professor Simon's favorite definition of wine? - ✔✔"Something that invigorates or
intoxicates"
What is fermentation? - ✔✔Biological phenomena which causes sugar to be transformed into ethyl
alcohol and carbon dioxide
Fermentation Formula - ✔✔Water + Sugar + Yeast = Alcohol + Carbon Dioxide
What do skins of grapes do? - ✔✔Create natural yeast cells (even though today we have various
yeast strains)
Vitis Vinifera - ✔✔European grape vines
Vitis Labrusca - ✔✔American grape vines
How wine is made? - ✔✔Grow grapes, harvest grapes, stemming, crushing, fermenting, aging,
collage and fining
Types of grapes: - ✔✔Red and white
Growing grapes: Step 1 - ✔✔Must have a winter for vines to go dormant (not dying)
Growing Grapes: Step 2 - ✔✔Bud break after the winter
Growing Grapes: Step 3 - ✔✔Flowering grows into the grape cluster
, Growing Grapes: Step 4 - ✔✔Veraison (when green turns red)
Must: - ✔✔Non-fermented grape juice
Enology: Winemaker - ✔✔Very scientific process; use modern computerized facilities
Length of fermentation: - ✔✔A week or two
Can you make a red wine from a white grape? - ✔✔No
Percent of wines that need to age: - ✔✔3%
Cooperage: - ✔✔The industry of making barrels
Coopers: - ✔✔People who make the barrels
Can you make a white wine from a red grape? - ✔✔Yes
Aging a wine: - ✔✔Bottles, barrels or casks (types of wood, aging and toasting of barrels)
Collage or Fining a wine: - ✔✔Colloidal matter added to wine (gelatin or egg whites)
Main three white grapes: - ✔✔Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay
Main three red grapes: - ✔✔Pinot Noir, Merlot, Carbernet Sauvignon
