Wine IQ
Test Your Wine Knowledge: Wine IQ Quiz
Are you a wine enthusiast looking to put your knowledge to the test? Dive into our Wine IQ quiz, designed for both novice wine drinkers and seasoned sommeliers alike. With 11 engaging questions, you'll have the opportunity to expand your understanding of wine, vineyards, and the art of winemaking.
Challenge yourself with questions about:
- Wine professionals and their roles
- The science behind winemaking
- Hands-on vineyard practices
- Wine bottles and barrels
These hospitality professionals tirelessly oversee wine lists, make recommendations to diners, uncork bottles, pour wine and much more:
Sommeliers
Sous Chefs
Concierges
Cellarologists
Many winery owners employ the help of these wine-science professionals, whose degrees demand a mastery of chemistry and microbiology:
Enologist
Decanters
Viticulturists
Cellar Rats
Wine barrels are made by coopers. What do they do to the inside of each barrel to tame the raw woodiness and mellow the tannins?
Coat the wood with flavored waxes
Toast the staves with fire or an oven
Season the barrels with old wine before filling them with the newest vintage
Salt-bake each barrel
A winemaker may perform bâtonnage, the careful process of stirring the lees (dead yeast cells produced during winemaking) back into a wine after they settle at the bottom of a barrel during fermentation. What does this do to the wine?
Imparts smoky, spicy notes to the wine
Sharply increases the wine's acidity
Give the wine's tannis a dusty quality
Increases flavor, aroma, and texture
In Champagne and at other sparkling wine houses, what is the name of the person responsible for gently turning and upending each bottle until all of the sediment has collected in the neck of the bottle?
Dosager
Tirager
Twister
Riddler
Why might a winery choose to hire a team of hardworking grape pickers to harvest vineyards by hand instead of using a mechanical harvester?
They trust humans to harvest the grapes more gently and discard diseased grap bunches
Mechanical harvesters are banned in their appellation
The terrain of the wineyard is too steep or difficult for mechanical harvesting
All of the above
Overseeing tastings, hosting events, encouraging direct-to-consumer sales and being the public face of a wine estate are often in the job description for which of these winery workers?
Courtiers
Viticulturists
Tasting room managers
Winery dogs
How many bottles of wine are in a case?
6
12
8
24
Vineyard owners might call upon the expertise of professionals to help them with “vine training,” which means:
Hand-harvesting grapes with expensive but unparalleled precision
Deliberately exposing wines to certain diseas and pests to reduce grapp yeilds and improve wine quality
Playing music for the vines
Tellising and shaping the growth of the vine to encourage ideal grape growth
How much wine is in a bottle?
750ml
1000ml
500ml
700ml
How much wine is in a single barrel?
50 gallon
75 gallons
60 gallons
10 gallons
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