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WSET DIPLOMA D1 NEWEST 2026-2027 ACTUAL
EXAM COMPLETE 250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (100%VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+|BRAND NEW!!
What are advantages of herbicides? Disadvantages? -
ANSWER-- cheap, effective, little soil damage
- poisoning, discourage ecosystems, weed resistance,
increase in vine vigor, not allowed in organic & BD
viticulture
What is the IFOAM? - ANSWER-- International Federation
of Organic Agriculture Movements
- sets standards for all organic certification bodies
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What % of European vineyards are farmed organically?
What % of organic viticulture takes place in Europe? -
ANSWER-- 10%
- 85%
What are the advantages of organic viticulture? What are
the disadvantages? - ANSWER-- health of vines & soil,
disease resistance, reduction of chemical treatments, cost
savings on synthetic chemicals
- lower Y, significantly lower Y in difficult years, more
reliance on copper sprays, cost and time spent on
certification
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Whose work is biodynamic viticulture based on? -
ANSWER-Rudolf Steiner & Maria Thun
What is Preparation 500? - ANSWER-Horn Manure: cow
manure in put into a cow's horn & buried, then dug up and
the contents are "dynamised" (stirring the contents of the
horn into water (creating a vortex and then reversing it) so
that the water memorizes the power of the preparation),
then sprayed onto the soil as a homeopathic compost
What is Preparation 501? - ANSWER-Horn Silica: cow's
horn filled with ground quartz (silica) and buried, then dug
up, dynamised and sprayed onto the soil, believed to
catalyse humus formation and encourage plant growth
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Define precision viticulture - ANSWER-makes use of data
collected from the vineyard (soil, vigour, topography, plant
growth) to respond to changes from plot to plot and from
row to row
What is variable-rate application technology? - ANSWER-
Interventions in the vineyard are targeted based on data
collected
What goes into soil preparation when establishing a
vineyard? - ANSWER-- rock removal
- subsoiling
- root removal
- weed management
WSET DIPLOMA D1 NEWEST 2026-2027 ACTUAL
EXAM COMPLETE 250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (100%VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+|BRAND NEW!!
What are advantages of herbicides? Disadvantages? -
ANSWER-- cheap, effective, little soil damage
- poisoning, discourage ecosystems, weed resistance,
increase in vine vigor, not allowed in organic & BD
viticulture
What is the IFOAM? - ANSWER-- International Federation
of Organic Agriculture Movements
- sets standards for all organic certification bodies
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What % of European vineyards are farmed organically?
What % of organic viticulture takes place in Europe? -
ANSWER-- 10%
- 85%
What are the advantages of organic viticulture? What are
the disadvantages? - ANSWER-- health of vines & soil,
disease resistance, reduction of chemical treatments, cost
savings on synthetic chemicals
- lower Y, significantly lower Y in difficult years, more
reliance on copper sprays, cost and time spent on
certification
,3|Page
Whose work is biodynamic viticulture based on? -
ANSWER-Rudolf Steiner & Maria Thun
What is Preparation 500? - ANSWER-Horn Manure: cow
manure in put into a cow's horn & buried, then dug up and
the contents are "dynamised" (stirring the contents of the
horn into water (creating a vortex and then reversing it) so
that the water memorizes the power of the preparation),
then sprayed onto the soil as a homeopathic compost
What is Preparation 501? - ANSWER-Horn Silica: cow's
horn filled with ground quartz (silica) and buried, then dug
up, dynamised and sprayed onto the soil, believed to
catalyse humus formation and encourage plant growth
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Define precision viticulture - ANSWER-makes use of data
collected from the vineyard (soil, vigour, topography, plant
growth) to respond to changes from plot to plot and from
row to row
What is variable-rate application technology? - ANSWER-
Interventions in the vineyard are targeted based on data
collected
What goes into soil preparation when establishing a
vineyard? - ANSWER-- rock removal
- subsoiling
- root removal
- weed management
