WSET LEVEL 1 WINE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What fruit is wine made from? - (answer)Grapes
What microorganisms turn the grape juice into alcohol? - (answer)Yeast
What part of the fruit gives wine its color? - (answer)Skin
What process turns the grape juice into wine? - (answer)Alcoholic Fermentation
What are the two principle types of grapes? - (answer)Black and white grapes
What part of the grape looks the same for all grapes? - (answer)The pulp or flesh of the grape
All grapes start out as what color skins? What happens when they change color? - (answer)All start with
green skins. Black grapes turn to purple skins. White grapes change to golden skins.
What do the skins have? How do they taste? - (answer)Skins- Tannins, dry and bitter
What does the pulp have? How does it taste? - (answer)Pulp- soft and fleshy, same color regardless of
the grape, sweeter and makes mouth water
What is the pulp- grape juice made of? - (answer)Sugar, water and acid
Eaten together the skin and pulp create what effect? - (answer)A balanced effect in your mouth
White wines are made from? - (answer)The juice of the grape pulp only
Red wines are made from? - (answer)The juice and the skins of the grape
,WSET LEVEL 1 WINE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the formula for alcoholic fermentation? - (answer)yeast + sugar(grape)=alcohol + carbon dioxide
When does alcohol production stops? - (answer)When the yeast has eaten all the sugar or when the
alcohol level becomes too toxic for the yeast (15% ABV)
Within certain limits, the more sugary the grapes the more ______ is possible to occur - (answer)Alcohol
After alcoholic fermentation, the _____ stays in the wine and the ____________ _____________
releases into the atmosphere - (answer)Alcohol, Carbon Dioxide
Where can yeast be found? - (answer)Naturally growing on the skins of the grapes, or added to the
grape juice by the wine maker
Resting alcohol level in wine after alcoholic fermentation is measured by? - (answer)ABV
What does ABV stand for? 10% ABV? - (answer)Alcohol by volume. 10% of the liquid is alcohol.
Two PRODUCTS of fermentation? - (answer)Alcohol and carbon dioxide
How and where are grapes grown? - (answer)Grapes are grown in bunches on vines
Grapes have a _______ growth that is linked to __________ - (answer)Cyclical, seasons
Every year a grape vine _________ in the _____________ - (answer)Flowers, spring
The _________ become grapes when they ripen in the __________ - (answer)Flowers, summer
Grape are picked in what seasons? - (answer)Late summer or autumn
, WSET LEVEL 1 WINE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What season do vines rest? - (answer)Winter
In the springtime, grape vines form clusters of many small flowers, true or false: each flower will
become a grape - (answer)TRUE
After flowering & turning into grapes-- what season and what do they look like? - (answer)spring to
summer, small, green and hard
Grapes ripen in what season? What happens? - (answer)Summer, warmth and sunshine effects the
grape
As grapes ripen, what changes occur?
Grapes swell with ___________
Sugar levels in the grapes ____________
Acid levels in the grapes ___________
Flavors become ___________
White grapes change from __________ to _________
Black grapes change from ________ to ___________ - (answer)Water, rise, fall, riper, green to golden,
green to dark purple
Think of the ripening of a grape like fruits like: - (answer)Banana or mango
-first green and firm
-tastes different compared to a brown banana or orange mango
Wine need just the right amount of _________ & ___________. If it is too _________ or too _________
this cant be done. - (answer)Sunslight and warmth. Hot or cold.
What fruit is wine made from? - (answer)Grapes
What microorganisms turn the grape juice into alcohol? - (answer)Yeast
What part of the fruit gives wine its color? - (answer)Skin
What process turns the grape juice into wine? - (answer)Alcoholic Fermentation
What are the two principle types of grapes? - (answer)Black and white grapes
What part of the grape looks the same for all grapes? - (answer)The pulp or flesh of the grape
All grapes start out as what color skins? What happens when they change color? - (answer)All start with
green skins. Black grapes turn to purple skins. White grapes change to golden skins.
What do the skins have? How do they taste? - (answer)Skins- Tannins, dry and bitter
What does the pulp have? How does it taste? - (answer)Pulp- soft and fleshy, same color regardless of
the grape, sweeter and makes mouth water
What is the pulp- grape juice made of? - (answer)Sugar, water and acid
Eaten together the skin and pulp create what effect? - (answer)A balanced effect in your mouth
White wines are made from? - (answer)The juice of the grape pulp only
Red wines are made from? - (answer)The juice and the skins of the grape
,WSET LEVEL 1 WINE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the formula for alcoholic fermentation? - (answer)yeast + sugar(grape)=alcohol + carbon dioxide
When does alcohol production stops? - (answer)When the yeast has eaten all the sugar or when the
alcohol level becomes too toxic for the yeast (15% ABV)
Within certain limits, the more sugary the grapes the more ______ is possible to occur - (answer)Alcohol
After alcoholic fermentation, the _____ stays in the wine and the ____________ _____________
releases into the atmosphere - (answer)Alcohol, Carbon Dioxide
Where can yeast be found? - (answer)Naturally growing on the skins of the grapes, or added to the
grape juice by the wine maker
Resting alcohol level in wine after alcoholic fermentation is measured by? - (answer)ABV
What does ABV stand for? 10% ABV? - (answer)Alcohol by volume. 10% of the liquid is alcohol.
Two PRODUCTS of fermentation? - (answer)Alcohol and carbon dioxide
How and where are grapes grown? - (answer)Grapes are grown in bunches on vines
Grapes have a _______ growth that is linked to __________ - (answer)Cyclical, seasons
Every year a grape vine _________ in the _____________ - (answer)Flowers, spring
The _________ become grapes when they ripen in the __________ - (answer)Flowers, summer
Grape are picked in what seasons? - (answer)Late summer or autumn
, WSET LEVEL 1 WINE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What season do vines rest? - (answer)Winter
In the springtime, grape vines form clusters of many small flowers, true or false: each flower will
become a grape - (answer)TRUE
After flowering & turning into grapes-- what season and what do they look like? - (answer)spring to
summer, small, green and hard
Grapes ripen in what season? What happens? - (answer)Summer, warmth and sunshine effects the
grape
As grapes ripen, what changes occur?
Grapes swell with ___________
Sugar levels in the grapes ____________
Acid levels in the grapes ___________
Flavors become ___________
White grapes change from __________ to _________
Black grapes change from ________ to ___________ - (answer)Water, rise, fall, riper, green to golden,
green to dark purple
Think of the ripening of a grape like fruits like: - (answer)Banana or mango
-first green and firm
-tastes different compared to a brown banana or orange mango
Wine need just the right amount of _________ & ___________. If it is too _________ or too _________
this cant be done. - (answer)Sunslight and warmth. Hot or cold.
