Wine Quiz 2

The Mosel is one of Germany’s great Riesling terroirs, named after the river which flows through it.

Semillon is associated with Bordeaux in France, but is never found in an Alsace wine.

Though in theory any grape could be fortified or made as a sparkling wine, Viognier always makes a white wine (dry and sweet).

Chateauneuf-du-Pape is one of the best known grapes from the southern vineyards of the Rhone Valley.

These are bth Australian regions: Margaret River in Western Australia, Clare in South Australia.

There are different methods used to produce it, but the fizz in all sparkling wines is caused by Carbon Dioxide.

Iceine or Icewein is made by harvesting frozen grapes when the temperature dips to -7 celcius. This can be recreated artificially, but the best are naturally harvested in areas with very cold winters.

Bottle shape B is the only one used in Burgundy, though it can also be found elsewhere.

Sercial is one of the four main grapes for the production of the highest quality Madeira wines.

The purpose of Chaptalisation is not to make the wine sweet: sugar is ‘food’ for yeast, which it converts to alcohol.

Auslese wines are made from late-picked, sometimes Botrytised fruit, and the wines are usually noticeably sweet.

The Finger Lakes are in upstate New York, not too far from the Canadian border.

The most famous appellation of Tuscany, Chianti Classico runs from Florence in the north to Siena in the south.

The Quinta in Portugal is similar in meaning to ‘Chateau’ or ‘Domaine’ in France.

Literally, ‘Late Harvest’, meaning the grapes were picked later in the season, usually to make sweet wine.

Developed in South Africa, this cross-bred grape makes red, rose and sometimes sparkling and fortified wines.

Mouton-Rothschild campaigned for decades to be upgraded to Premier Cru, finally succeeding in 1973.

These are grape varieties specially developed to ripen well and accumulate plenty of sugar even in cooler climates.

The Medoc is home to some of Bordeaux’s most famous wines, lying just off the Atlantic coast in France.

All the rest are fortified wines, made with the addition of brandy, while Barolo is a red wine from the north of Italy.