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WSET Level 3 Exam Prep 2025 | 150+ Questions | Grape Varieties, Winemaking, Wine Laws – Advanced Wine Guide | Diploma & Sommelier Training

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This 2025 edition of the WSET Level 3 Award in Wines exam prep guide features over 150 professionally structured questions and answers, fully aligned with the current syllabus and exam standards set by the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET). The material is curated to support candidates preparing for both theory and tasting components of the Level 3 certification. Topics span across: Viticulture and vine physiology, including climate, soils, and vineyard practices Winemaking techniques for red, white, rosé, sparkling, and fortified wines Grape varieties and regional styles from classic Old World and New World regions (France, Italy, Germany, USA, Australia, South Africa, Chile, etc.) Wine tasting technique using the Systematic Approach to Tasting (SAT) Wine faults, storage conditions, and bottle aging potential Legal frameworks, including EU and non-EU wine classification systems (PDO, PGI, AVA) This document is highly beneficial for WSET Level 3 candidates, aspiring sommeliers, wine educators, and hospitality professionals pursuing advanced knowledge in wine. It also supports students enrolled in diploma-level wine certifications, beverage management programs, and those working toward careers in wine retail, importing, or consultancy. Keywords: WSET Level 3 wine theory exam advanced wine knowledge grape varieties wine laws viticulture winemaking systematic tasting wine education sparkling wine fortified wine wine classification sommelier prep wine regions tasting grid

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4. / Name 2 most important species of vine - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Vitis vinifera -

eurasian

American vines

4. / Disadvantage & Advantage of american vines ? - 🧠ANSWER

✔✔Unattractive flavour of the wines


But resistant to phylloxera - used for rootstocks


4. / What is phylloxera ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Vine pest (insect) that attacks

vine's root

Native from north america

,4. / When was phylloxera introduced in europe ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔End of

19th century


4. / How phylloxera destroy the vines ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Infection enter

through the feeding wounds - vine is weakened and over a few year dies


4 / Places in the world without phylloxera ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Yes : chile,

some parts of argentina and south australia.


4. / How to fight phylloxera ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Strict quarantine for non

affected areas.

- plant american species or hybrid

- Grafting vitis vinifera onto rootstock of american vines


4. / What are the 2 grafting techniques existing ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bench

grafting - in nurseries

Head grafting - in vineyards


4. / What is the advantage of head grafting ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Quickly

change an establish vineyards to a new grape variety taking advanyage of

established root syst

,Grape at next vintage / instead of waiting 3 years

Considerably cheaper than replanting


4. / Four sections of vines ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Green parts


One year old wood

Permanent wood

Roots


4. / What are the leaves responsible for ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Photosynthesis


4. / What is photosynthesis process ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Plant use sunlight to

convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen


4. / What are vine flowers representing ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Vine reproductive

organs - both male and female


4. / What is inflorescences ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A bunch of vine flowers that if

pollinated will become the bunch of grape.


4. / What is a buds ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An embryonic shoot for the following

year forming at the joint of the leave and the shoot


4. / What are the roots functions ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- absorb water


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, - absorb nutrients

- anchor vine

- store carbohydrates to survive winter


4. / Criteria for selecting a grape variety ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Taste


Quality of fruit

Budding time

Ripening time

Resistance to diseases

4. / Can a variety be grown or propagated through seeds ? - 🧠ANSWER

✔✔No


4. / Name 2 techniques to grow or propagate grape variety without loosing

unique qualities - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cutting


Layering

4. / Out of the 2 techniques used to grow grape variety which one is most

common today ? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cutting - due to phylloxera risk

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