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Quiz What is the main species of wine grapes

Ans: Vitis vinifera

Quiz What is a green harvest

Ans: Pruning bad grapes in order to send nutrients to the healthy ones

Quiz Name 4 vineyard pests

Ans: Phylloxera, mealybug, mites, glassy winged sharpshooter

Quiz Name 4 vine diseases

Ans: Powdery mildew, downy mildew, leaf roll virus and fanleaf degeneration,
pierces disease

Quiz What is brix

Ans: Sugar measurement of grapes

Quiz Sugar+ yeast=

Ans: Co2+alcohol+flavor+aroma+heat

Quiz What is chaptalization

Ans: Adding sugar to unfermented grape must to increase the alcohol content after
fermentation

Quiz What is carbonic maceration

, Ans: Whole grapes are fermented in a co2 rich environment prior to crushing

Quiz What is malolactic fermentation

Ans: The conversion of malic acid into softer lactic acid, can often give a buttery
taste

Quiz What is a stelvin

Ans: A screw cap

Quiz Wines in burgundy are defined mainly by what

Ans: Their producers

Quiz Negociant

Ans: Merchants who do not own the vineyard land, but will buy grapes and or
finished wine for blending and bottling under their own label

Quiz Domaine

Ans: The entire process from growing the grapes to bottling and ageing the wines
takes place at the domaine itself

Quiz What are the main grapes in burgundy

Ans: Pinot noir and chardonnay

Quiz Chablis climate

Ans: Continental (high in acid)

Quiz Chablis soil

Ans: Kimmeridgian clay/limestone (mineral)

Quiz What are the five distinct regions of burgundy

Ans: Chablis, cote d'or, maconnais, cote chalonnaise, Beaujolais

Quiz Soil of cote d'or

Ans: Marl and limestone

Quiz What grape dominates cote de nuits

Ans: Pinot noir