WSET LEVEL 4 LATEST 2026 PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
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✔✔Vine species:
The most important species are? - ✔✔Vitis vinifiera & American vines
✔✔What is different between vitis vinifiera and the American vines? - ✔✔The Amarican
vines are resistant to Phylloxera.
✔✔What dose "Phylloxera" mean? - ✔✔A vine pest that attacks the vines roots
✔✔how many years dos it take before the vines flowered and produces grapes ? -
✔✔2-3 years
✔✔Crossings:
explain what a crossing is - ✔✔When a new variety is produced from tow parents of the
same species.
✔✔How many grape varietys are used as a crossing? give a exampel - ✔✔Technically
every grape variety.
Exempel : carbernet sauvingnon is a crossing of carbernet franc and sauvingnon blanc.
✔✔Hybrids:
Explain was a hybrid is - ✔✔Is a vine whose parents come from two different vine
spicies
✔✔Explain what grafting is - ✔✔a technique used to join a rootstock to a v.vinifiera
variety.
✔✔What is the most comment technique ? - ✔✔bench grafting
✔✔Grafting:
What is the second commend one? Explain what that is - ✔✔Head grafting. tow canes
are held secure with tape,
✔✔What a vine needs:
explain how the growing season start and ends. - ✔✔Budburst in spring. Under late
spring and early summer the vine flowers and small grapes form. As the summer
progresses the grapes grown but are still hard in texture, green in colour, with haigh
levels of acidity and low levels of sugar. In the late summer or early autumn the grapes
starts to ripen. After the grapes are harvest in autumn the growing season is coming to
a end.
✔✔A vine need 5 things - ✔✔heat, sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, nutrients
AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Vine species:
The most important species are? - ✔✔Vitis vinifiera & American vines
✔✔What is different between vitis vinifiera and the American vines? - ✔✔The Amarican
vines are resistant to Phylloxera.
✔✔What dose "Phylloxera" mean? - ✔✔A vine pest that attacks the vines roots
✔✔how many years dos it take before the vines flowered and produces grapes ? -
✔✔2-3 years
✔✔Crossings:
explain what a crossing is - ✔✔When a new variety is produced from tow parents of the
same species.
✔✔How many grape varietys are used as a crossing? give a exampel - ✔✔Technically
every grape variety.
Exempel : carbernet sauvingnon is a crossing of carbernet franc and sauvingnon blanc.
✔✔Hybrids:
Explain was a hybrid is - ✔✔Is a vine whose parents come from two different vine
spicies
✔✔Explain what grafting is - ✔✔a technique used to join a rootstock to a v.vinifiera
variety.
✔✔What is the most comment technique ? - ✔✔bench grafting
✔✔Grafting:
What is the second commend one? Explain what that is - ✔✔Head grafting. tow canes
are held secure with tape,
✔✔What a vine needs:
explain how the growing season start and ends. - ✔✔Budburst in spring. Under late
spring and early summer the vine flowers and small grapes form. As the summer
progresses the grapes grown but are still hard in texture, green in colour, with haigh
levels of acidity and low levels of sugar. In the late summer or early autumn the grapes
starts to ripen. After the grapes are harvest in autumn the growing season is coming to
a end.
✔✔A vine need 5 things - ✔✔heat, sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, nutrients
