WSET LEVEL 3 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Languedoc
Answer: Where does the AC of Corbieres belong?
●● Pessac-Leognan
Answer: Where, in Bordeaux, would you find premium quality dry
white wines fermented and matured in oak barrels producing a rich,
nutty flavor?
●● Blended with Semillon because it adds distinctive herbaceous
(grassy) aromas and high acidity to counterbalance flabbiness of
Semillon.
Answer: In Bordeaux, what is Sauvignon Blanc blended with? What
does it add to the blend?
●● 60
Answer: How many different species of grapevine are there?
●● Vitis vinifera, Vitis riparia, Vitis rupestris, Vitis berlandieri
,Answer: What are the 4 most important grapevine species used in
modern viticulture?
●● Vitis Vinifera
Answer: What is the main Eurasian grapevine species?
●● Several thousand years
Answer: How long has Vitis Vinifera been used in winemaking?
●● 5,000-10,000
Answer: How many varieties of Vitis Vinifera are there?
●● Vitis riparia, Vitis rupestris, Vitis berlandieri
Answer: What are the main North American grapevine species?
●● None
Answer: Which North American grapevine variety is used in
winemaking?
●● It is not resistant to Phylloxera.
Answer: Why is "pure" Vitis Vinifera an inferior grapevine?
●● Grafting of rootstock
,Answer: What techniques can be used to make Vitis Vinifera resistant to
Phylloxera?
●● The new growth a vine produces each year.
Answer: What is a shoot?
●● Along the length of each shoot
Answer: Where can you find "nodes"?
●● A leaf and a flower OR leaf and a tendril
Answer: What is contained at each node?
●● Where leaf stems join the shoot.
Answer: Where do buds form?
●● The leaves
Answer: What are the grapevine's "engine"?
●● Photosynthesis, which is the process by which plants use chlorophyll
and energy to convert water and CO2 into sugar glucose and oxygen.
Answer: What are leaves responsible for? Explain.
, ●● 1) Combining small glucose molecules into larger carbohydrates
creating the building blocks for all structures
2) Energy stored in glucose can be released when needed for other living
processes
3) Concentrated in the fruit, to make them attractive to the animals,
needed to propagate seeds
Answer: What are the three primary uses of the glucose produced in
photosynthesis?
●● Structure vines used to grip a supporting structure
Answer: What are tendrils?
●● Once they sense a supporting structure, they wind tightly around it to
keep the shoot upright
Answer: What do tendrils do?
●● It is the plant's reproductive organ
Answer: What is the importance of flowers on a grapevine?
●● Both female and male
Answer: What type of reproductive organs do flowers on the grapevine
contain?
●● Bunches of flowers
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Languedoc
Answer: Where does the AC of Corbieres belong?
●● Pessac-Leognan
Answer: Where, in Bordeaux, would you find premium quality dry
white wines fermented and matured in oak barrels producing a rich,
nutty flavor?
●● Blended with Semillon because it adds distinctive herbaceous
(grassy) aromas and high acidity to counterbalance flabbiness of
Semillon.
Answer: In Bordeaux, what is Sauvignon Blanc blended with? What
does it add to the blend?
●● 60
Answer: How many different species of grapevine are there?
●● Vitis vinifera, Vitis riparia, Vitis rupestris, Vitis berlandieri
,Answer: What are the 4 most important grapevine species used in
modern viticulture?
●● Vitis Vinifera
Answer: What is the main Eurasian grapevine species?
●● Several thousand years
Answer: How long has Vitis Vinifera been used in winemaking?
●● 5,000-10,000
Answer: How many varieties of Vitis Vinifera are there?
●● Vitis riparia, Vitis rupestris, Vitis berlandieri
Answer: What are the main North American grapevine species?
●● None
Answer: Which North American grapevine variety is used in
winemaking?
●● It is not resistant to Phylloxera.
Answer: Why is "pure" Vitis Vinifera an inferior grapevine?
●● Grafting of rootstock
,Answer: What techniques can be used to make Vitis Vinifera resistant to
Phylloxera?
●● The new growth a vine produces each year.
Answer: What is a shoot?
●● Along the length of each shoot
Answer: Where can you find "nodes"?
●● A leaf and a flower OR leaf and a tendril
Answer: What is contained at each node?
●● Where leaf stems join the shoot.
Answer: Where do buds form?
●● The leaves
Answer: What are the grapevine's "engine"?
●● Photosynthesis, which is the process by which plants use chlorophyll
and energy to convert water and CO2 into sugar glucose and oxygen.
Answer: What are leaves responsible for? Explain.
, ●● 1) Combining small glucose molecules into larger carbohydrates
creating the building blocks for all structures
2) Energy stored in glucose can be released when needed for other living
processes
3) Concentrated in the fruit, to make them attractive to the animals,
needed to propagate seeds
Answer: What are the three primary uses of the glucose produced in
photosynthesis?
●● Structure vines used to grip a supporting structure
Answer: What are tendrils?
●● Once they sense a supporting structure, they wind tightly around it to
keep the shoot upright
Answer: What do tendrils do?
●● It is the plant's reproductive organ
Answer: What is the importance of flowers on a grapevine?
●● Both female and male
Answer: What type of reproductive organs do flowers on the grapevine
contain?
●● Bunches of flowers
