WSET Diploma Unit 3 EXAM LATEST 2025 WITH ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+ 100% GUARANTEED PASS!
What are the top line factors in Argentina's history - (answer)- 1557: 1st recorded vineyard planted at
Santiago del Estero at the foothills of the Andes by Jesuit missionaries.
- 1561: Mendoza city founded
- 1569-89: development of vineyards in the province of San Juan (north of Mendoza)
- 17-19th: Use of dams & irrigation to make wines in growing quantity and more resistant to long
transportation
- 1852: French Pouget brings Malbec from France to Argentina.
- 19th: European immigrants incl. Italy, Spain, France w new vine varieties + development of transport
network (Mendoza-Buenos Aires railway) -> foundations of modern Argentinean wine industry
- 1930s: global recession
- 1943-1955: General Perón -> relative prosperity
- Mid 50s-80s: political unrest. Low quality table wines for high local consumption (90l/pers/yr).
- 1980-90s: Drop of local consumption + massive vine pull scheme + vineyard modernization + export
strategies but overvalued Peso hampered any chance to sell abroad90's: Winemaking technology &
expertise
- 2000s: Peso devaluation > both exports and foreign investment soared
What is the climate and weather of Argentina - (answer)- Viticulture possible due to cooling effect of
altitude.
- Highest vineyards in the world (900m avg).
- Semidesert w rainfall <250mm/yr, mainly in the summer (hail risk)
- High diurnal temperature range: from 10C at night to 40C in the day.
- Dry unpolluted air but hot, dry, very strong wind Zonda during flowering, low disease pressure.
What are the soils and Topography of Argentina - (answer)High proportion of sand
Maipú + Río Negro: more gravelly soils
What are the red grape varietals of Argentina - (answer)Reds (47% of plantings)
1. Malbec
, WSET Diploma Unit 3 EXAM LATEST 2025 WITH ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+ 100% GUARANTEED PASS!
2. Bonarda (17%)
3. Cabernet Sauvignon (13%)
4. Syrah (11%)
5. Tempranillo (10%)
For light fruity reds via carbonic maceration
6. Sangiovese (6%)
7. Merlot (5%)
8. Barbera (2%)
Describe Malbec - (answer)0- (36% of plantings)
- Smaller, tighter bunches vs. Bdx Malbec
- Best grown at slightly higher altitude
- Argentina's USP
- Malbec, the dominant red wine grape that accounts for 16% [?] of all plantings, seems more at home in
Argentina than in its Cahors homeland.
- From a total of 36,125 ha/89,266 acres of vines come deep-coloured, robust, fruity wines with enough
alcohol, weight, and structure to benefit from oak ageing, with different expressions in each wine
region.
- Introduced to Mendoza in 19th century from Bordeaux, potentially via Chile
- Mid-ripening
- Prunelard x Magdeleine Noire des Charentes
- Tannins have to be managed
Describe Bonarda - (answer)- More Bonarda in Argentina vs. Italy
- Actually linked to Savoie's Charbono or 'Corbeau
- The second most planted red wine variety in Argentina, with 18,882 ha/46,658 ac
- Douce Noire! Douce noir means "sweet black"
- Indigenous to the Savoie
VERIFIED ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+ 100% GUARANTEED PASS!
What are the top line factors in Argentina's history - (answer)- 1557: 1st recorded vineyard planted at
Santiago del Estero at the foothills of the Andes by Jesuit missionaries.
- 1561: Mendoza city founded
- 1569-89: development of vineyards in the province of San Juan (north of Mendoza)
- 17-19th: Use of dams & irrigation to make wines in growing quantity and more resistant to long
transportation
- 1852: French Pouget brings Malbec from France to Argentina.
- 19th: European immigrants incl. Italy, Spain, France w new vine varieties + development of transport
network (Mendoza-Buenos Aires railway) -> foundations of modern Argentinean wine industry
- 1930s: global recession
- 1943-1955: General Perón -> relative prosperity
- Mid 50s-80s: political unrest. Low quality table wines for high local consumption (90l/pers/yr).
- 1980-90s: Drop of local consumption + massive vine pull scheme + vineyard modernization + export
strategies but overvalued Peso hampered any chance to sell abroad90's: Winemaking technology &
expertise
- 2000s: Peso devaluation > both exports and foreign investment soared
What is the climate and weather of Argentina - (answer)- Viticulture possible due to cooling effect of
altitude.
- Highest vineyards in the world (900m avg).
- Semidesert w rainfall <250mm/yr, mainly in the summer (hail risk)
- High diurnal temperature range: from 10C at night to 40C in the day.
- Dry unpolluted air but hot, dry, very strong wind Zonda during flowering, low disease pressure.
What are the soils and Topography of Argentina - (answer)High proportion of sand
Maipú + Río Negro: more gravelly soils
What are the red grape varietals of Argentina - (answer)Reds (47% of plantings)
1. Malbec
, WSET Diploma Unit 3 EXAM LATEST 2025 WITH ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+ 100% GUARANTEED PASS!
2. Bonarda (17%)
3. Cabernet Sauvignon (13%)
4. Syrah (11%)
5. Tempranillo (10%)
For light fruity reds via carbonic maceration
6. Sangiovese (6%)
7. Merlot (5%)
8. Barbera (2%)
Describe Malbec - (answer)0- (36% of plantings)
- Smaller, tighter bunches vs. Bdx Malbec
- Best grown at slightly higher altitude
- Argentina's USP
- Malbec, the dominant red wine grape that accounts for 16% [?] of all plantings, seems more at home in
Argentina than in its Cahors homeland.
- From a total of 36,125 ha/89,266 acres of vines come deep-coloured, robust, fruity wines with enough
alcohol, weight, and structure to benefit from oak ageing, with different expressions in each wine
region.
- Introduced to Mendoza in 19th century from Bordeaux, potentially via Chile
- Mid-ripening
- Prunelard x Magdeleine Noire des Charentes
- Tannins have to be managed
Describe Bonarda - (answer)- More Bonarda in Argentina vs. Italy
- Actually linked to Savoie's Charbono or 'Corbeau
- The second most planted red wine variety in Argentina, with 18,882 ha/46,658 ac
- Douce Noire! Douce noir means "sweet black"
- Indigenous to the Savoie
