Wine Quiz 1

Georgia has evidence of the oldest winemaking, though some other countries not in our list of choices, including Iran, claim this too.

Like almost all of the famous classics of European wine, Rioja is named after the place where it is made.

Chablis is always made from Chardonnay – and only Chardonnay.

This is wine released from the grape pulp by pressing – not generally regarded as being of the best quality

Oak trees at around 150- to 200-years-old are preferred by the best French coopers.

This is a natural process by which harsh malic acid is transformed into softer lactic acid.

A stemmed glass with a ‘tulip’ shape is ideal for wine tasting.

Chianti is the most famous appellation within Tuscany, not far from the city of Florence.

This process pumps red wine from the bottom of a tank to to be sprayed over the top of the tank. The purpose is to break the cap of floating skins and grape pips and re-submerge it into the wine.

A barrique in Bordeaux is a small barrel holding 225 litres of wine – around 300 standard bottles.

Late Bottled Vintage Ports are aged for a long time in large wooden barrels before being bottled.

Because the juice of almost all grapes, green, red or black, is clear, white wine can be made from any colour of grapes as long as you separate the juice from the skins before fermentation.

Grand Cru signifies the highest ranked classification of Burgundy wines, both red and white.

These are three of the best known communes of the Medoc, the ‘Left Bank’ of Bordeaux in France

This is ‘riddling’ or ‘remuage’, the process of encouraging the dead yeast cells in bottles of Champagne into the neck of the bottle, before disgorgement.

Madeira is heated as a stage of the winemaking process, said to replicate the effect of heat on the wine as it made long sea voyages across the equator in times gone by.

This is one of Chile’s oldest wine regions, close to the capital city of Santiago.

This is the northern half of the Cote d’Or in Burgundy, famed mostly for its red Pinot Noir wines

Pouilly-Fume is a Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire, all the others are Chardonnays from Burgundy.

These are both wine growing regions in central and south California