Wine Quiz 12

Glera is the grape that makes Prosecco, though it’s name was changed: at one time it was called ‘Prosecco’ too.

The Wine Advocate is Robert Parker, ex-lawyer turned wine critic.

Not far from Sydney, the Hunter Valley is in New South Wales.

Prosecco’s sales are booming, but Champagne still leads the sparkling wine sector. But Prosecco is a geographical area in northern Italy.

Armagnac, from the southwest of France, is a type of Brandy made from Ugni Blanc, Folle Blanche, Colombard and Bacco.

A Kir Royale mixes Champagne with cassis; there are any variations using other fruit liqueurs or wines.

Garnacha – or Grenache – is behind the great Priorat wines.

This is a fragment of the label from Chateau Margaux.

Remontage pumps wine from bottom to top of a tank of fermenting red wine, keeping the floating ‘cap’ of skins and pips submerged to aid extraction of flavour, colour and tannin.

Bladderwrack is a type of seaweed, but not used by Biodynamic farmers.

DIAM is a brand of cork, made from treated cork fragments, and guaranteed to be coark-taint free.

The Vosges Mountains cast a rain shadow over Alsace, normally allowing long and dry summers and autumns.

Made in the Chablis area of Burgundy, Sauvignon St Bris is indeed made from Sauvignon Blanc, whilst Chablis itself is made from Chardonnay.

These are all sub-regions of Central Otago in New Zealand.

This is Lombardy, home of Franciacorta amongst other Italian wines.

Vin Clair is the light, acidic wine produced by the first fermentation, that will go on to become Champagne after its second fermentation.

These are newer, more northerly regions in Chile.

This is a grape and a region in Slovenia, part of the former Yugoslavia and just across the border from Friuli in northern Italy.

These are minor, but commercially produced, grape varieties that are permitted in Champagne.

A bit of a stinker this: Fleurie is a wine region in France, but Fleurieu is in South Australia, not far from Adelaide.