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Level 1 sommelier EXAM 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
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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