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Revision Examination Tests
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CMS - ADVANCED SOMMELIER – CHAMPAGNE EXAM 2024-2025
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
Quiz What is Bidule?
Ans: A plastic cup that used to collect sediments during secondary fermentation in
the bottle.
Quiz What is muselet?
Ans: A wire cage that hold the cork to the sparkling bottle neck.
Quiz What is the prestige cuvee of Ruinart, Billecart-Salmon, G.H Mumm &
Delamotte?
Ans: Dom Ruinart
Elizabeth Salmon & Grand Cuvee
Cuvee R Lalou
Nicholas Louis Delamotte
Quiz What are the rules for Special Club members?
Ans: 1. RM Producer
2. Vinification and bottling must occur on the estate
3. Members must respect and uphold the Club's charter of the Club Trésors de
Champagne Rules for "Special Club" Wines
4. The "Special Club" is the top-of-the-range, prestige cuvée for all members
5. The Club Trésors will declare a vintage as being worthy of "Special Club" prestige
cuvées, then each member may decide individually whether or not to produce a
"Special Club" wine
6. All base wines and finished "Special Club" wines must undergo tasting analysis
All "Special Club" bottles share an identical label and bottle shape
, Quiz Tirage cannot occur until when?
Ans: After 1st Jan the year following the harvest.
Quiz When does degorgement happen?
Ans: 12 months after tirage.
Quiz Can a champagne producer produce 100% of his entire production as vintage?
Ans: No. Only 80%.
Quiz Elevage requirements for NV & Vintage?
Ans: 15 and 36 months respectively.
Quiz Name two still wine AOP in champagne.
Ans: Coteaux de Champenoise
Rose de Riceys
Quiz What is the oldest champagne house?
Ans: Grosset for still
Ruinart for sparkling
Quiz What is the different between vin de cuvee and vin de taille?
Ans: 1st pressing of grapes from champagne production 2050l and 2nd 500l
respectively.
Quiz What is unique about champagne labels compare to other french appellation?
Ans: AOC and AOP is not mandatory after the region name.
Quiz What is weinfuhrer?
Ans: Nazi German soldiers looting wines during the WW2.
Quiz What is Prestige Cuvee in French?
Ans: Tete de Cuvee.
Quiz Which altitude is champagne at and what climatic conditions it falls under?
Ans: 48th parallel with Atlantic influence.
Quiz What is bouvreux?
Revision Examination Tests
“Come all for this Greatness”
... 100% Correct Ans ...
CMS - ADVANCED SOMMELIER – CHAMPAGNE EXAM 2024-2025
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
Quiz What is Bidule?
Ans: A plastic cup that used to collect sediments during secondary fermentation in
the bottle.
Quiz What is muselet?
Ans: A wire cage that hold the cork to the sparkling bottle neck.
Quiz What is the prestige cuvee of Ruinart, Billecart-Salmon, G.H Mumm &
Delamotte?
Ans: Dom Ruinart
Elizabeth Salmon & Grand Cuvee
Cuvee R Lalou
Nicholas Louis Delamotte
Quiz What are the rules for Special Club members?
Ans: 1. RM Producer
2. Vinification and bottling must occur on the estate
3. Members must respect and uphold the Club's charter of the Club Trésors de
Champagne Rules for "Special Club" Wines
4. The "Special Club" is the top-of-the-range, prestige cuvée for all members
5. The Club Trésors will declare a vintage as being worthy of "Special Club" prestige
cuvées, then each member may decide individually whether or not to produce a
"Special Club" wine
6. All base wines and finished "Special Club" wines must undergo tasting analysis
All "Special Club" bottles share an identical label and bottle shape
, Quiz Tirage cannot occur until when?
Ans: After 1st Jan the year following the harvest.
Quiz When does degorgement happen?
Ans: 12 months after tirage.
Quiz Can a champagne producer produce 100% of his entire production as vintage?
Ans: No. Only 80%.
Quiz Elevage requirements for NV & Vintage?
Ans: 15 and 36 months respectively.
Quiz Name two still wine AOP in champagne.
Ans: Coteaux de Champenoise
Rose de Riceys
Quiz What is the oldest champagne house?
Ans: Grosset for still
Ruinart for sparkling
Quiz What is the different between vin de cuvee and vin de taille?
Ans: 1st pressing of grapes from champagne production 2050l and 2nd 500l
respectively.
Quiz What is unique about champagne labels compare to other french appellation?
Ans: AOC and AOP is not mandatory after the region name.
Quiz What is weinfuhrer?
Ans: Nazi German soldiers looting wines during the WW2.
Quiz What is Prestige Cuvee in French?
Ans: Tete de Cuvee.
Quiz Which altitude is champagne at and what climatic conditions it falls under?
Ans: 48th parallel with Atlantic influence.
Quiz What is bouvreux?
