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Wine Tasting And Etiquette
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Subject
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 25 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What is the most familiar and frequently used sense?
Sight
INAPPROPRIATE for a professional wine tasting set up?
A savory taste sensation.
Smell
2. When evaluating a flight of wines - evaluate the of all the wines first - then quickly smell them all before evaluating each one at length.
Sight
color and appearance
aerate
Bitter
3. Place deodorizers in the room to scent the air
Brick reds
aerate
INAPPROPRIATE for a professional wine tasting set up?
Why a wine is decanted
4. Warming the glass (and the wine) by holding the bowl of the wineglass in your hands - Swirling the wine in the glass - Decanting the bottle before pouring the wine into the glass.
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5. What colors can indicate high pH in a wine?
62-68 degrees F
Gold notes in a white wine; blue notes in a red wine
INAPPROPRIATE for a professional wine tasting set up?
equal caliber
6. Pulling the cork and allowing the wine to stand open does little to help _____ a wine.
maximum sensitivity
color and appearance
1 -000
aerate
7. What is umami?
5-10%
pH
A savory taste sensation.
Pale yellow-greens
8. Humans are least sensitive to what taste sensation?
maximum sensitivity
pigmented
Sweet
Smell
9. What colors denote an older - mature red wine?
Brick reds
clarity
color and appearance
pigmented
10. In order to inspect a wine for ________ - hold the wine up to a bright light or use flashlight with a focused beam to check for particulate matter.
A savory taste sensation.
Pale yellow-greens
clarity
equal caliber
11. Humans are most sensitive to what taste sensation?
Bitter
variety
A savory taste sensation.
Sweet
12. Humans can identify 10 -000 different...
Will increase the release of a wine's aromatics?
Gold notes in a white wine; blue notes in a red wine
color and appearance
aromas
13. Aroma - although often used as a synonym for a wine's 'nose' - technically refers only to the scents of the grape ________ itself.
Will increase the release of a wine's aromatics?
variety
Smell
Sight
14. In normal breathing - what percentage of the air inhaled contacts the epithelium?
Sight
Sweet
Why a wine is decanted
5-10%
15. Intensely __________ wines usually possess high levels of extract and flavor.
pigmented
1 -000
Sight
INAPPROPRIATE for a professional wine tasting set up?
16. What colors indicate that a wine hails from a cool growing region or was made from unripe grapes?
Pale yellow-greens
ideal wine storage conditions
Gold notes in a white wine; blue notes in a red wine
Brick reds
17. The tongue map is a map of...
Sight
Bitter
maximum sensitivity
Brick reds
18. How many aromas can a human be trained to IDENTIFY?
Why a wine is decanted
Sweet
1 -000
Sight
19. A vibration-less environment - Constant temperature or minimal fluctuations in temperature - Minimal light exposure
INAPPROPRIATE for a professional wine tasting set up?
Bitter
ideal wine storage conditions
pH
20. To soften tannins - To allow more fruit flavors to emerge - To remove a wine from its sediment.
A savory taste sensation.
Why a wine is decanted
Smell
Sweet
21. When tasting sparkling wines whose base cuvees are of _______ - judge them by virtue of their bead and mousse...the smaller the bead and the more generous the mousse - the higher the quality of the sparkling wine.
Bitter
equal caliber
maximum sensitivity
aromas
22. Color is linked to...
62-68 degrees F
pH
Gold notes in a white wine; blue notes in a red wine
aerate
23. Within what temperature range should full-bodied reds be served?
Pale yellow-greens
Brick reds
62-68 degrees F
1 -000
24. What sense is the most important tool in wine evaluation?
Smell
62-68 degrees F
variety
clarity
25. What sense gives us the least accurate information about a wine?
Gold notes in a white wine; blue notes in a red wine
maximum sensitivity
Sweet
Sight