WSET LEVEL 2 FINAL STUDY GUIDE
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.
✔ Examination Regulations. Answer: Guidance concerning the
examination, including weight of the learning outcomes content.
✔ Recommended Tasting Samples. Answer: A list provided to
candidates to enhance their learning experience.
✔ Sample Examination Questions. Answer: Examples of questions
that may appear on the examination.
✔ Qualification Aims. Answer: To provide a good level of wine
knowledge required to underpin job skills and competencies.
✔ Environmental Influences. Answer: Factors in the vineyard that
affect the style and quality of wine.
✔ Grape-Growing Options. Answer: Choices made in the vineyard
that can impact wine characteristics.
✔ Winemaking. Answer: The process of producing wine from
grapes.
,✔ Bottle Ageing. Answer: The maturation process of wine in bottles
that can affect its style and quality.
✔ Sparkling Wines. Answer: Wines that contain significant levels of
carbon dioxide, making them fizzy.
✔ Fortified Wines. Answer: Wines that have had a distilled spirit
added to them, increasing their alcohol content.
✔ Food and Wine Pairing. Answer: The practice of matching food
dishes with specific wines to enhance the dining experience.
✔ Entry Requirements. Answer: No restrictions on entry to the
WSET Level 2 Award in Wines.
✔ GLH. Answer: A total of 17 Guided Learning Hours, including 1
hour for the examination.
✔ Parts of a grape. Answer: Skin, pulp, seeds and stems.
✔ Skin. Answer: Provides colour, tannins, and flavours.
✔ Pulp. Answer: Contains sugar, acids, water, and flavours.
✔ Seeds and stems. Answer: Contribute tannins.
, ✔ Vine requirements. Answer: Warmth, sunlight, water, nutrients,
and carbon dioxide (CO2).
✔ Stages of grape formation. Answer: Flowering, fruit set, and
véraison.
✔ Ripeness. Answer: Stages include unripe grapes, ripe grapes, and
extra-ripe grapes (late harvest, raisined).
✔ General component changes. Answer: Changes in colour, sugar,
acid, and tannins as grapes ripen.
✔ General aroma and flavour changes. Answer: Differences in
aroma and flavour for white grapes and black grapes.
✔ General climatic influences. Answer: Cool, moderate, and warm
climates affecting vineyards.
✔ Other climatic influences. Answer: Latitude, altitude, mountains,
slope, aspect, soils, seas, rivers, air, fog, cloud, and mist.
✔ Weather influences. Answer: Drought, frost, hail, rain, sunlight,
and temperature.
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.
✔ Examination Regulations. Answer: Guidance concerning the
examination, including weight of the learning outcomes content.
✔ Recommended Tasting Samples. Answer: A list provided to
candidates to enhance their learning experience.
✔ Sample Examination Questions. Answer: Examples of questions
that may appear on the examination.
✔ Qualification Aims. Answer: To provide a good level of wine
knowledge required to underpin job skills and competencies.
✔ Environmental Influences. Answer: Factors in the vineyard that
affect the style and quality of wine.
✔ Grape-Growing Options. Answer: Choices made in the vineyard
that can impact wine characteristics.
✔ Winemaking. Answer: The process of producing wine from
grapes.
,✔ Bottle Ageing. Answer: The maturation process of wine in bottles
that can affect its style and quality.
✔ Sparkling Wines. Answer: Wines that contain significant levels of
carbon dioxide, making them fizzy.
✔ Fortified Wines. Answer: Wines that have had a distilled spirit
added to them, increasing their alcohol content.
✔ Food and Wine Pairing. Answer: The practice of matching food
dishes with specific wines to enhance the dining experience.
✔ Entry Requirements. Answer: No restrictions on entry to the
WSET Level 2 Award in Wines.
✔ GLH. Answer: A total of 17 Guided Learning Hours, including 1
hour for the examination.
✔ Parts of a grape. Answer: Skin, pulp, seeds and stems.
✔ Skin. Answer: Provides colour, tannins, and flavours.
✔ Pulp. Answer: Contains sugar, acids, water, and flavours.
✔ Seeds and stems. Answer: Contribute tannins.
, ✔ Vine requirements. Answer: Warmth, sunlight, water, nutrients,
and carbon dioxide (CO2).
✔ Stages of grape formation. Answer: Flowering, fruit set, and
véraison.
✔ Ripeness. Answer: Stages include unripe grapes, ripe grapes, and
extra-ripe grapes (late harvest, raisined).
✔ General component changes. Answer: Changes in colour, sugar,
acid, and tannins as grapes ripen.
✔ General aroma and flavour changes. Answer: Differences in
aroma and flavour for white grapes and black grapes.
✔ General climatic influences. Answer: Cool, moderate, and warm
climates affecting vineyards.
✔ Other climatic influences. Answer: Latitude, altitude, mountains,
slope, aspect, soils, seas, rivers, air, fog, cloud, and mist.
✔ Weather influences. Answer: Drought, frost, hail, rain, sunlight,
and temperature.
