WSET Diploma Level 4 Fortified wines Sherry questions with answers

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WSET Diploma Level 4 Fortified wines
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Sherry questions with answers
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Sherry geography - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔- Low
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latitude 36 - low altitude 0-90 meter above sea level
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- Hot Mediterranean climate: hot dry summers and mild,
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relatively rainy winters
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- Atlantic Ocean: Poniente > cooling humid wind from the
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west > influence in the summer
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Levante > hot, drying wind > from the south, north Africa
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> makes climate more arid
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- Cloudfree days: lots of sun = good but: shade needed to
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protect from sunburn
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Sherry, winds - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔Poniente >
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cooling humid wind from the west > influence in the
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summer
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Levante > hot, drying wind > from the south, north Africa
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> makes climate more arid
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,Sherry: soils - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔Albariza:
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limestone - silica - clay: retains and releases rain water
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from winter gradually > higher planting density possible
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(no need for concentration of flavours)
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- forms crust when dry > helps to reduce evaporation
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from soil surface
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- white > reflects light back into the canopy > aiding
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ripening of the grapes
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Barros: more clay // //

Arenas: sandy //

Sherry grape varieties - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔-
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Palomino = Palomino Fino = Listán > 99%
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- Moscatel = Muscat of Alexandrië, less than 1 %, around
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Chipiona, on ARENAS soil
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- Pedro Ximénez (PX), less than 1 % > Montilla
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Zona de Producción - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔= Marco
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de Jerez
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- +/- 7.000 ha where grapes for the DO Jerez- Xérèz-
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Sherry or DO Manzanilla-Sanlúcar de Barrameda may
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come from
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, - Exception: PX may be grown in Montilla, but maturerd in
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de Zona de Crianza for the DO J-X-S
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-Jerez Superior: better vineyards - albariza soil - 90% of
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total area
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// - Jerez Zona
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Pagos - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔different smaller
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delimited areas in the Zona de Producción
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Training system Sherry - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔Vara y
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Pulgar = replacement can pruning, now replaced by
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cordon trained and spur pruned
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Max yield for sherry production - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔80 hl/ ha , common 60-70 hl/ha
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Asperia - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔the working of the
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soil after each harvest to create a series of troughs/gullies
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down
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each of the rows to catch the winter rainwater
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