Wine Quiz 20

Vin Gris – literally ‘grey wine’, is not grey, but a rosé wine which is normally a very pale pink, though can be a deeper pink.

Friuli is in north-east Italy, north of Venice and running right to the border with Slovenia. It is mostly famous for white wines.

Though the bulk of Cava does come from Penedes, in fact it can be made in many Spanish regions, including Rioja and Navarra.

Qvevri are clay pots buried underground, used to ferment and age wine. Historically this was done in the country of Georgia, but such pots are increasingly being used by artisan winemakers around the world.

These terms, along with Crémant, are used by various French regions for sparkling wines.

These appellations span hundreds of kilometres, from close to the Austrian border down to close to the Tunisian coast

Tempranillo goes by many names: it’s also called Tinta Roriz in Portugual and Tinta de Toro in Spain for example.

The ‘Butler’s thief’ allows you to remove the cork from a bottle by wiggling the levers down the side of the cork and twisting it out – no corkscrew required.

Napa and other regions of California’s wine country suffered from wildfires in early October, that also claimed over 40 lives, and more fires broke out in December.

Controversy surrounds who actually owns Trump winery, its own website claiming it is Donald Trump’s son, Eric, whilst The Trump Organisation lists it as an owned asset.

A system known as Échelle des Crus rates ever village in Champagne, and vineyards wihin 100-point villages are classified as Grand Cru.

Coravin is a market-leading device for preserving wine by withdrawing wine through a hollow needle, but not removing the cork.

Rutherglen is home of superb fortified Muscats and ‘Tokays’, especially aged wines – some wines more than 100 years old.

Invented by Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, in this process sugar is added to the must before fermentation, not to sweeten it, but to boost the eventual alcohol level post-fermentation.

There is nothing wrong here: Musigny is a Grand Cru of Burgundy, which can be red or white in a bottle this shape, and Musigny was made in 1990.

Bandol is in Provence, the others are hundreds of kilometres away, in southwest France.

Petite Champagne is in fact a Cognac, not a wine, so glass D is the perfect shape.

Gobolet, or ‘Bush Vines’, grow as a low bush with no supporting wires.

Tras-os-Montes in Portugal, means ‘Beyond the Mountains’, Kakheti is the main wine region of Georgia, Eger makes Hungary’s famous ‘Bull’s Blood’, Serra Gaúcha is Brazil’s main wine region and Emporada is in northeast Spain.

In the Ancestral Method partially fermented wine is placed in individual bottles, but without any added yeast or sugar as in the Traditional Method. The other big difference is that Ancestral Method wines are not disgorged, so may be lightly cloudy.