WSET LEVEL 2 REVIEW SET ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Fortified Wines - ✔✔Wines that have had a distilled spirit added to them, increasing
their alcohol content.
✔✔Parts of a grape - ✔✔Skin, pulp, seeds and stems.
✔✔Skin - ✔✔Provides colour, tannins, and flavours.
✔✔Pulp - ✔✔Contains sugar, acids, water, and flavours.
✔✔Seeds and stems - ✔✔Contribute tannins.
✔✔Vine requirements - ✔✔Warmth, sunlight, water, nutrients, and carbon dioxide
(CO2).
✔✔Stages of grape formation - ✔✔Flowering, fruit set, and véraison.
✔✔Ripeness - ✔✔Stages include unripe grapes, ripe grapes, and extra-ripe grapes
(late harvest, raisined).
✔✔General component changes - ✔✔Changes in colour, sugar, acid, and tannins as
grapes ripen.
✔✔General aroma and flavour changes - ✔✔Differences in aroma and flavour for white
grapes and black grapes.
✔✔General climatic influences - ✔✔Cool, moderate, and warm climates affecting
vineyards.
✔✔Other climatic influences - ✔✔Latitude, altitude, mountains, slope, aspect, soils,
seas, rivers, air, fog, cloud, and mist.
, ✔✔Weather influences - ✔✔Drought, frost, hail, rain, sunlight, and temperature.
✔✔Concentration of grape sugars - ✔✔Includes extra-ripe grapes, botrytis/noble rot
grapes, and frozen grapes.
✔✔Geographical indications (GIs) - ✔✔Terms used to indicate origin.
✔✔Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) - ✔✔A labelling term used in the European
Union.
✔✔Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) - ✔✔A labelling term used in the European
Union.
✔✔Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) - ✔✔A labelling term used in France.
✔✔Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) - ✔✔A labelling term
used in Italy.
✔✔Denominación de Origen Calificada (DOCa) - ✔✔A labelling term used in Spain.
✔✔Old Vine/Vieilles vignes - ✔✔A labelling term relating to vine age.
✔✔Alcoholic fermentation - ✔✔The process where yeast converts sugar into alcohol
and carbon dioxide.
✔✔Crushing - ✔✔The first stage in the winemaking process where grapes are crushed
to release their juice.
✔✔Fermentation - ✔✔The process where yeast converts sugars in the grape juice into
alcohol and carbon dioxide.
✔✔Pressing - ✔✔The stage where the fermented mixture is pressed to separate the
liquid wine from the solid grape materials.
✔✔Storage and/or maturation - ✔✔The process of storing wine in vessels to develop its
flavors and characteristics over time.
✔✔Blending - ✔✔The process of combining different wines to achieve consistency,
complexity, and style.
✔✔Packaging - ✔✔The final stage in winemaking where the wine is bottled or
packaged for sale.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Fortified Wines - ✔✔Wines that have had a distilled spirit added to them, increasing
their alcohol content.
✔✔Parts of a grape - ✔✔Skin, pulp, seeds and stems.
✔✔Skin - ✔✔Provides colour, tannins, and flavours.
✔✔Pulp - ✔✔Contains sugar, acids, water, and flavours.
✔✔Seeds and stems - ✔✔Contribute tannins.
✔✔Vine requirements - ✔✔Warmth, sunlight, water, nutrients, and carbon dioxide
(CO2).
✔✔Stages of grape formation - ✔✔Flowering, fruit set, and véraison.
✔✔Ripeness - ✔✔Stages include unripe grapes, ripe grapes, and extra-ripe grapes
(late harvest, raisined).
✔✔General component changes - ✔✔Changes in colour, sugar, acid, and tannins as
grapes ripen.
✔✔General aroma and flavour changes - ✔✔Differences in aroma and flavour for white
grapes and black grapes.
✔✔General climatic influences - ✔✔Cool, moderate, and warm climates affecting
vineyards.
✔✔Other climatic influences - ✔✔Latitude, altitude, mountains, slope, aspect, soils,
seas, rivers, air, fog, cloud, and mist.
, ✔✔Weather influences - ✔✔Drought, frost, hail, rain, sunlight, and temperature.
✔✔Concentration of grape sugars - ✔✔Includes extra-ripe grapes, botrytis/noble rot
grapes, and frozen grapes.
✔✔Geographical indications (GIs) - ✔✔Terms used to indicate origin.
✔✔Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) - ✔✔A labelling term used in the European
Union.
✔✔Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) - ✔✔A labelling term used in the European
Union.
✔✔Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) - ✔✔A labelling term used in France.
✔✔Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) - ✔✔A labelling term
used in Italy.
✔✔Denominación de Origen Calificada (DOCa) - ✔✔A labelling term used in Spain.
✔✔Old Vine/Vieilles vignes - ✔✔A labelling term relating to vine age.
✔✔Alcoholic fermentation - ✔✔The process where yeast converts sugar into alcohol
and carbon dioxide.
✔✔Crushing - ✔✔The first stage in the winemaking process where grapes are crushed
to release their juice.
✔✔Fermentation - ✔✔The process where yeast converts sugars in the grape juice into
alcohol and carbon dioxide.
✔✔Pressing - ✔✔The stage where the fermented mixture is pressed to separate the
liquid wine from the solid grape materials.
✔✔Storage and/or maturation - ✔✔The process of storing wine in vessels to develop its
flavors and characteristics over time.
✔✔Blending - ✔✔The process of combining different wines to achieve consistency,
complexity, and style.
✔✔Packaging - ✔✔The final stage in winemaking where the wine is bottled or
packaged for sale.
