The Wine Professional's Quiz
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Some questions are simple, some are more difficult.
Pick the single best answer of the group.

To pass, you must get 13 out of 15 correct.
In 5 minutes.

1) Which does not belong?

Malbec

Pressac

Cot

Mouvedre

2) Who is given credit for bringing Vinifera vines to California?

A. J. Winkler

Maynard Amerine

Leon Adams

Agoston Haraszthy

3) What chemical is NOT found in wine as a result of oak aging:

Gallic Acid

Folic Acid

Benzoic Acid

Vanillic Acid

4) A Rubber Boot or Cooked Cabbage odor alerts you that the grapes were picked with a high:

Alcohol level

Sugar level

pH level

SO2 Level

5) Beaune is in the:

Cote d'Or

Cote Rotie

Cote de Nuits

Cote des Blancs

6) What is the approximate brix grapes are picked at for a dry table wine (12-13% alc.)?

0-10

11-20

21-30

31-40

7) In what approximate time period did the Phylloxera infestation of Europe take place?

1750-1800

1801-1850

1851-1900

1901-1950

8) Of these, the region in Germany that consistently produces the most expensive wines is the:

Nahe

Mosel-Saar-Ruwer

Rheinhessen

Grosslage

9) Which does not belong?

Lafite

Ausone

Haut-Brion

Petrus

10) Napa Valley is what direction from San Luis Obispo?

North

South

East

West

11) 15) You taste a crisp white wine with subtle shades of green. You smell no oak but you do smell fresh cut grass. You know that the wine is likely to be from:

Burgundy

Touraine

Rheinpfalz

Piedmont

12) Which is a NOT a grape of Burgundy?

Aligote

Pinot Blanc

Pinot Meunier

Gamay

13) Which of the following is out of order in the red wine making process?

Crushing

Pressing

Macerating

Pumping Over

14) The original Vinifera grape variety is almost certainly:

Sylvaner

Pinot Noir

Merlot

Muscat

15) Which is NOT a disease?

Botrytis

Phylloxera

Oidium

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