The Sweet Wine Quiz - How well do you know your Sweet wine? WSET style questions.

Hi everyone, welcome back to The Grape Explorer. I just realised I've forgotten my wine glass, but I will continue on regardless. Today is quiz day, we are going to be doing a quiz all about sweet wine. 10 questions to test your knowledge. If you're new to the channel, welcome, I'm The Grape Explorer. I do wine education, product reviews and lots of wine tasting, so if you're interested in wine, consider subscribing. Let's jump straight into question one then. The traditional way to stop fermentation while sugar is still present is with the addition of grape spirit. What's this process called? Is it A, distillation? Is it B, sweet fermenting? Is it C, capitalisation? Or is it D, fortification? Get you off on a technical start today, I think. The process here is known as fortification, so the correct answer is D. Moving on to question two then. I hope your German language skills are up to the test. Edelpfau in German is better known as what? Is it A, noble rot? B, sweet wine? C, grey rot? Or D, botrycised? The correct answer is in fact A, noble rot. The Germans refer to it as Edelpfau. Question three, and your awareness of locations is put to the test now. So, saturn can be found along which river? Is it A, the Seine? B, the Garonne? C, the Dordogne? Or D, the Rhône? Classic WSET level two question here, because two of these you can probably discount immediately. The Seine and the Rhône, leaving you with the Garonne and the Dordogne. Well, those of you that went for the former, Garonne, have another one correct. Well done. Now, moving a little further east through Europe to Hungary, how well do you know your Hungarian grapes? Which of the following grapes would you not find in a Hungarian tocay? Is it A, harszlevelu? Is it B, ferment? Is it C, chaga muscatali? Or is it D, ufark? Tocay, beautiful. Quite expensive, actually. Delicious stuff, though. Really, really sweet. Amazing. I love sweet things. The one grape that isn't found in the blend used in tocay wines is actually D, it's ufark. So, if you've gone for that one, well done. Now, question five, and as I often say on these videos, just showing you the awareness of how many countries produce a version of sweet wine. In Italy, the drying of grapes after picking is known as which method? Is it A, ripasso? Is it B, dolce? Is it C, passito? Or is it D, classico? What is your knowledge of Italian wine like? Do you know your ripassos from your passitos? Because those are probably the two that you're needing to choose between here to get the right answer. The correct answer here is, in fact, C, it is passito. Now, somewhere very close to my heart, somewhere that I holiday quite often, forms part of question six. The vineyards of Malaga in southern Spain grow mostly what for their sweet wines? Is it A, pedro jimenez? Is it B, muscat of alexandria? Is it C, palomino? Or is it D, viola? I deliberately chose two that are very popularly grown around Malaga. Muscat of alexandria is also a very popular grape around in that area. But it's not the correct answer. The correct answer is actually A, it is pedro jimenez. Now, onto question seven. Those of you who saw the wine definitions quiz a few weeks ago know that I really enjoy my wine words, and this is a good example of that. So, drying grapes on the vine is a process known by what name? Is it A, lente d'eau? Is it B, formopsis? Is it C, passerilage? Or is it D, morissement d'eau? You know, I really think I struggled there with formopsis. I don't even know what it is. It could be a made-up word. The correct answer is actually C, it is passerilage. Now, question eight, remaining in France. Vouvray is in the Loire Valley making sweet wines from which grape? Is it A, chenin blanc? Is it B, muscat? Is it C, sauvignon blanc? Or is it D, melon blanc? I deliberately picked grapes you would find in the Loire just to make it that bit trickier. I've done a video about this particular grape, really versatile, sweet, dry, sparkling, aged, it does the lot. It is, of course, chenin blanc, which is answer A. Question nine, other side of the world. What is the red-coloured variant of the Moscato grape that grows in Victoria, Australia? Is it A, Rutherford muscat? Is it B, Rutherglen muscat? Is it C, Sutherglen muscat? Or is it D, Sutherford muscat? Well, it all comes down to whether you want to put S or R before the entire word. That's going to cut out a couple of answers, potentially. In this case, the correct answer is actually B, it is Rutherglen muscat. Finally, on to question 10, where there are only three available answers. Which is the sweetest tocay? Is it A, samorodni? Is it B, azu? Or is it C, essenzia? If someone wants to help me out with the pronunciation of answer A, please let me know in the comments section below. The correct answer in this case is actually C, it is essenzia. So, how did you get on with sweet wine? Was it too easy, too hard? Let me know in the comments sections below. All of you guys keep smashing these quizzes at the moment. I think I'm making them too easy. I'm going to have to up the level of difficulty for future videos, I think, but let me know how you got on. As for now, I don't have a glass to pick up, but I'm going to say see you all again soon. I'm the Grape Explorer. Cheers!