Wine Quiz Back to Work: Another Wine Jobs Quiz May 02, 2025 1 of 12 RIGHT! WRONG! Also called a wine steward, this person manages a restaurant’s cellar, writes the wine list, helps diners choose wines and oversees all aspects of wine service: Cellar rat Tastevin Sommelier Maître fromager The United States has a three-tier system for alcohol sales. Which is not one of the three tiers? Producers Distributors Retailers Consumers Winemakers sometimes enlist harvest workers—and even friends, family and customers—to join in this traditional method of crushing grapes, which is still commonly used in parts of Portugal: Foot trodding Maceration Pump over Punch down Michel Rolland, Thomas Rivers Brown, Andy Erickson and Jean Hoefliger are all notable examples of this under-the-radar but often-crucial winery job: Accountant Consultant Vineyard manager Therapist Winemakers use this tool to sample unfinished wine from a barrel: Wine ladle Wine thief Wine siphon Wine straw Traditionally, a dedicated team of workers separates healthy, ripe grapes from flawed ones by hand on a sorting table. Today, many winemakers use what machine to accomplish the task? Spinning cone Basket press Mechanical harvester Optical sorter In Champagne, it was once common for small farmers to sell their grapes to large négociant houses. Today, some of these growers have gone out on their own to make and sell their own wine, earning them this moniker: Riddler Maître de chai Récoltant-manipulant Rebel Before founding Harlan Estate in the Napa Valley, Bill Harlan flew acrobatic planes, raced cars, sailed around the world and hitchhiked through Africa. He also worked as what? Plumber Poker player Real estate developer B and C True or False: A sommelier must have taken classes and received a certification from an official licensing body. True False Some winemakers choose to severely limit the amount of oxygen a wine is exposed to during the winemaking process to achieve particular flavors. What’s this style called? Anti-oxidative Reductive Protectionist Low intervention A cellar worker might don rubber boots, climb into a vat of fermenting wine and use a tool resembling a huge potato masher to perform which step commonly used in red wine production? (Hint: In English, it’s known as a “punch-down.”) Pigeage Élevage Remontage Frappage In Sauternes, harvest workers pick individual grapes and bunches in multiple passes, only when they have been perfectly infected with noble rot. What are those passes called? Searches Fait passés Fugues Tris Next Results Your score is Retake this quiz
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