WSET Level 3 -Study Set 2025 Update 100 % Solved
Structure vines used to grip a supporting structure - ✔✔What are tendrils?
Once they sense a supporting structure, they wind tightly around it to keep the shoot upright
- ✔✔What
do tendrils do?
It is the plant's reproductive organ - ✔✔What is the importance of flowers on a grapevine?
Both female and male - ✔✔What type of reproductive organs do flowers on the grapevine
contain?
Bunches of flowers - ✔✔What are inflorescences?
A berry and the inflorescence will be come a bunch of grapes - ✔✔What does a flower that is
successfully pollinated become?
Wind or animals - ✔✔How does pollination of the grapevine happen?
A bud found between the leaf and shoot - ✔✔What is an embryonic shoot?
Inside their casing during the growing season - ✔✔Where does a bud mature?
A miniature version of all the structures that will become the shoot, leaves, flowers, and
tendrils in the
following year - ✔✔What does a bud look like at the end of the growing season?
,Shoots that have turned woody during the winter after they have grown - ✔✔What is one
year old
wood? When is it formed?
Because vines will normally only produce fruit on shoots that grow from buds that developed
the
previous year - ✔✔Why is it important to manage the one year old wood?
Every winter the vine is pruned - ✔✔How is one year old wood cared for?
Long one year old wood containing 8-15 buds - ✔✔What is a cane?
Short one year old wood containing 2-3 buds - ✔✔What is a spur?
Wood which is more than 1 year old - ✔✔What is permanent wood?
Pruning - ✔✔How is the amount of permanent wood restricted in the vineyard?
Trunk and arms of the vine - ✔✔What is permanent wood made up of?
The arms of the vine - ✔✔What are cordons?
Cabernet Sauvignon - ✔✔Which grape is allowed to constitute 30% of the blend in a red wine
from
Provence?
Languedoc - ✔✔Where does the AC of Corbieres belong?
,Pessac-Leognan - ✔✔Where, in Bordeaux, would you find premium quality dry white wines
fermented
and matured in oak barrels producing a rich, nutty flavor?
Blended with Semillon because it adds distinctive herbaceous (grassy) aromas and high
acidity to
counterbalance flabbiness of Semillon. - ✔✔In Bordeaux, what is Sauvignon Blanc blended
with? What
does it add to the blend?
60 - ✔✔How many different species of grapevine are there?
Vitis vinifera, Vitis riparia, Vitis rupestris, Vitis berlandieri - ✔✔What are the 4 most
important grapevine
species used in modern viticulture?
Vitis Vinifera - ✔✔What is the main Eurasian grapevine species?
Several thousand years - ✔✔How long has Vitis Vinifera been used in winemaking?
5,000-10,000 - ✔✔How many varieties of Vitis Vinifera are there?
Vitis riparia, Vitis rupestris, Vitis berlandieri - ✔✔What are the main North American
grapevine species?
None - ✔✔Which North American grapevine variety is used in winemaking?
, It is not resistant to Phylloxera. - ✔✔Why is "pure" Vitis Vinifera an inferior grapevine?
Grafting of rootstock - ✔✔What techniques can be used to make Vitis Vinifera resistant to
Phylloxera?
The new growth a vine produces each year. - ✔✔What is a shoot?
Along the length of each shoot - ✔✔Where can you find "nodes"?
A leaf and a flower OR leaf and a tendril - ✔✔What is contained at each node?
Where leaf stems join the shoot. - ✔✔Where do buds form?
The leaves - ✔✔What are the grapevine's "engine"?
Photosynthesis, which is the process by which plants use chlorophyll and energy to convert
water and
CO2 into sugar glucose and oxygen. - ✔✔What are leaves responsible for? Explain.
1) Combining small glucose molecules into larger carbohydrates creating the building blocks
for all
structures
2) Energy stored in glucose can be released when needed for other living processes
3) Concentrated in the fruit, to make them attractive to the animals, needed to propagate
seeds -
✔✔What are the three primary uses of the glucose produced in photosynthesis?
Structure vines used to grip a supporting structure - ✔✔What are tendrils?
Once they sense a supporting structure, they wind tightly around it to keep the shoot upright
- ✔✔What
do tendrils do?
It is the plant's reproductive organ - ✔✔What is the importance of flowers on a grapevine?
Both female and male - ✔✔What type of reproductive organs do flowers on the grapevine
contain?
Bunches of flowers - ✔✔What are inflorescences?
A berry and the inflorescence will be come a bunch of grapes - ✔✔What does a flower that is
successfully pollinated become?
Wind or animals - ✔✔How does pollination of the grapevine happen?
A bud found between the leaf and shoot - ✔✔What is an embryonic shoot?
Inside their casing during the growing season - ✔✔Where does a bud mature?
A miniature version of all the structures that will become the shoot, leaves, flowers, and
tendrils in the
following year - ✔✔What does a bud look like at the end of the growing season?
,Shoots that have turned woody during the winter after they have grown - ✔✔What is one
year old
wood? When is it formed?
Because vines will normally only produce fruit on shoots that grow from buds that developed
the
previous year - ✔✔Why is it important to manage the one year old wood?
Every winter the vine is pruned - ✔✔How is one year old wood cared for?
Long one year old wood containing 8-15 buds - ✔✔What is a cane?
Short one year old wood containing 2-3 buds - ✔✔What is a spur?
Wood which is more than 1 year old - ✔✔What is permanent wood?
Pruning - ✔✔How is the amount of permanent wood restricted in the vineyard?
Trunk and arms of the vine - ✔✔What is permanent wood made up of?
The arms of the vine - ✔✔What are cordons?
Cabernet Sauvignon - ✔✔Which grape is allowed to constitute 30% of the blend in a red wine
from
Provence?
Languedoc - ✔✔Where does the AC of Corbieres belong?
,Pessac-Leognan - ✔✔Where, in Bordeaux, would you find premium quality dry white wines
fermented
and matured in oak barrels producing a rich, nutty flavor?
Blended with Semillon because it adds distinctive herbaceous (grassy) aromas and high
acidity to
counterbalance flabbiness of Semillon. - ✔✔In Bordeaux, what is Sauvignon Blanc blended
with? What
does it add to the blend?
60 - ✔✔How many different species of grapevine are there?
Vitis vinifera, Vitis riparia, Vitis rupestris, Vitis berlandieri - ✔✔What are the 4 most
important grapevine
species used in modern viticulture?
Vitis Vinifera - ✔✔What is the main Eurasian grapevine species?
Several thousand years - ✔✔How long has Vitis Vinifera been used in winemaking?
5,000-10,000 - ✔✔How many varieties of Vitis Vinifera are there?
Vitis riparia, Vitis rupestris, Vitis berlandieri - ✔✔What are the main North American
grapevine species?
None - ✔✔Which North American grapevine variety is used in winemaking?
, It is not resistant to Phylloxera. - ✔✔Why is "pure" Vitis Vinifera an inferior grapevine?
Grafting of rootstock - ✔✔What techniques can be used to make Vitis Vinifera resistant to
Phylloxera?
The new growth a vine produces each year. - ✔✔What is a shoot?
Along the length of each shoot - ✔✔Where can you find "nodes"?
A leaf and a flower OR leaf and a tendril - ✔✔What is contained at each node?
Where leaf stems join the shoot. - ✔✔Where do buds form?
The leaves - ✔✔What are the grapevine's "engine"?
Photosynthesis, which is the process by which plants use chlorophyll and energy to convert
water and
CO2 into sugar glucose and oxygen. - ✔✔What are leaves responsible for? Explain.
1) Combining small glucose molecules into larger carbohydrates creating the building blocks
for all
structures
2) Energy stored in glucose can be released when needed for other living processes
3) Concentrated in the fruit, to make them attractive to the animals, needed to propagate
seeds -
✔✔What are the three primary uses of the glucose produced in photosynthesis?
