WSET Level 1 EXAM Questions AND Correct Answers
a. Lightly Chilled _____ degrees Celsius
b. Chilled ______ degrees Celsius
c. Well Chilled ______ degrees Celsius - ✔✔a. 10-13
b. 7-10
c. 6-8
Are these wines from the North or South in Italy?
Primitivo, Aglianico, and Negroamaro - ✔✔South
Are Welschriesling, Laski Riesling and Olasrizling Rieslings? -
✔✔NO
Beaujolais is made from which grape? - ✔✔Gamay
Bordeaux is in the ________ part of France, and on the left
bank, which is regarded as the best is Haut Medoc, and within
this area are very famous villages and communes such as:
a,b,c,d.
,A bit further south of Bordeaux is another region that makes
great red and this is called ________ and has the very famous
village Pessac Leognan (white wine) within it. - ✔✔Southwest
a. Pauillac
b. Margaux
c. St. Estephe
d. St. Julien
Graves
Bulk Cabernet Sauvignon come from?
a,b,c,d - ✔✔a. South Africa (Western Cape)
b. South Eastern Australia
c. California (Central Valley)
d. Argentina (Mendoza)
Bulk Pinot Noir comes from this small Eastern European
country? - ✔✔Romania
Bulk Syrah and Grenache are made in which areas of Southern
France? - ✔✔Languedoc
Minervois
,Cabernet Sauvignon does very well in this valley in California?
- ✔✔Napa Valley
Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas of __________ and had high
levels of _________. - ✔✔1. black fruits (black cherry, black
currant) & herbaceous notes (bellpepper, mint, cedar)
2. tannin
Cava is from _________. - ✔✔Spain
Chardonnay likes cool, moderate and hot climates. Give an
example of each of these regions. - ✔✔Hot: Australia &
California
Moderate: Burgundy & California
Cool: Chablis in Burgundy
Cheap gins cold compound with botanicals such as juniper -
what do the more upmarket distilled gins and London dry gins
do? - ✔✔they do a second distillation
, Cote d'Or in Burgundy is made up of the _________ in the
North and the __________ in the South. - ✔✔Cote de Nuits
(North)
Cote de Beaune (South)
Dairy flavors are the side products of a process called? -
✔✔malolactic fermentation
Do the following villages of Burgundy make red or white
wine?
a. Gevrey Chambertin
b. Chablis
c. Meursault
d. Macon Villages
e. Nuits St. Georges - ✔✔a. Red (Pinot Noir)
b. White (Chardonnay)
c. White
d. White
e. Red
a. Lightly Chilled _____ degrees Celsius
b. Chilled ______ degrees Celsius
c. Well Chilled ______ degrees Celsius - ✔✔a. 10-13
b. 7-10
c. 6-8
Are these wines from the North or South in Italy?
Primitivo, Aglianico, and Negroamaro - ✔✔South
Are Welschriesling, Laski Riesling and Olasrizling Rieslings? -
✔✔NO
Beaujolais is made from which grape? - ✔✔Gamay
Bordeaux is in the ________ part of France, and on the left
bank, which is regarded as the best is Haut Medoc, and within
this area are very famous villages and communes such as:
a,b,c,d.
,A bit further south of Bordeaux is another region that makes
great red and this is called ________ and has the very famous
village Pessac Leognan (white wine) within it. - ✔✔Southwest
a. Pauillac
b. Margaux
c. St. Estephe
d. St. Julien
Graves
Bulk Cabernet Sauvignon come from?
a,b,c,d - ✔✔a. South Africa (Western Cape)
b. South Eastern Australia
c. California (Central Valley)
d. Argentina (Mendoza)
Bulk Pinot Noir comes from this small Eastern European
country? - ✔✔Romania
Bulk Syrah and Grenache are made in which areas of Southern
France? - ✔✔Languedoc
Minervois
,Cabernet Sauvignon does very well in this valley in California?
- ✔✔Napa Valley
Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas of __________ and had high
levels of _________. - ✔✔1. black fruits (black cherry, black
currant) & herbaceous notes (bellpepper, mint, cedar)
2. tannin
Cava is from _________. - ✔✔Spain
Chardonnay likes cool, moderate and hot climates. Give an
example of each of these regions. - ✔✔Hot: Australia &
California
Moderate: Burgundy & California
Cool: Chablis in Burgundy
Cheap gins cold compound with botanicals such as juniper -
what do the more upmarket distilled gins and London dry gins
do? - ✔✔they do a second distillation
, Cote d'Or in Burgundy is made up of the _________ in the
North and the __________ in the South. - ✔✔Cote de Nuits
(North)
Cote de Beaune (South)
Dairy flavors are the side products of a process called? -
✔✔malolactic fermentation
Do the following villages of Burgundy make red or white
wine?
a. Gevrey Chambertin
b. Chablis
c. Meursault
d. Macon Villages
e. Nuits St. Georges - ✔✔a. Red (Pinot Noir)
b. White (Chardonnay)
c. White
d. White
e. Red
