Wines Of The World - Chapter 1

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Chapter 1

Wine, for this book and this course is made from what fruit?

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Grapes

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____________ is a natural process that acts to stabilize grape juice and protect it from spoilage, allowing it to be stored as wine for later consumption.

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Fermentation

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______ was always safe to drink even when the local water supply was contaminated because of _________.

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Wine, fermentation

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While many societies have regarded wine as essential and healthful, others have shunned its use and consider it _____.

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sinful

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Popular belief is that wine was first consumed in the area of ________, which today is Iran, around 5000 to 6000 BC.

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Persia

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____________ is the species of grape that is most often used for the production of wine.

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Vitis-vinifera

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By 3000 BC, wine making from _______ had begun.

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Grapes

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By 2000 BC, wine had become an important part of _______ culture.

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Greek

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Early Greeks stored their wines in containers called ______________.

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Amphorae

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The Greek deity __________ was created in honor of wine.

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Dionysus

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The Romans took grape growing or __________ and wine making to a new height.

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Viticulture

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The Romans began the practice of _________ vines off the ground by training them to grow up trees.

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trellising

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The study of wine making is called ________.

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Enology

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Roman viticulture and wine making followed closely on the heels of the Roman ______ as they pushed the boundaries north and westward.

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legions

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By AD 250, the _________ were growing grapes in Languedoc, Burgandy, and Bordeaux and other regions of Europe.

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Romans

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The Roman god of wine is _________.

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Bacchus

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The physician Galan freely prescribed wine______________________________.

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in moderated doses as a cure for most illnesses

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Galan felt that the ________ the wine, the better was the cure, provided it had not spoiled.

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older

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During the middle ages, the practice of agricultural activity on any meaningful scale fell to the _____________.

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Catholic Church

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In the early seventh century, Pope _________, instructed the monastic orders to expand wine production and the planting of wine grapes again began to spread.

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Gregory the Great

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During the reign of _______________, medieval viticulture and enology reached a peak.

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Charlemagne (768-814)

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A marriage between Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine and then when Henry and his son Richard (the Lion Hearted) ruled England, it created enormous thrust for the wine of ______.

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France

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In 1429, lead by Joan of Arc, the French drove the English out of _____________ Valley, and in 1453, they expelled them from ____________.

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Loire, Bordeaux

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Sparkling wine is often referred to as __________.

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Champagne

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The Benedictine monk credited with the discovery of Champagne is _______________.

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Dom Perignon

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Louis _________ used wine in many of his experiments and determined that the fermentation of grape juice into wine was the result of action by microorganisms.

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Pasteur

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In the second half of the 19th century, disaster struck in the form of a root louse, __________.

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phylloxera

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In the United States, the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages was outlawed by ____________ from 1919 until 1933.

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Prohibition

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___________ was also called the 18th amendment or the _________________ Act.

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Prohibition, Volstead

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In _____________ in the 1950's and the 1960's , they started naming wines after the grape varieties they were made of, instead of naming their wine after geography like previously was done.

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America

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Global competition from new wine regions has put pressure on producers in traditional regions, such as ________ and __________ to keep their prices competitive.

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California, Europe

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Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot are called international ________________________.

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Varietals

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Wine like many other agricultural products exhibits a _________ and _________ economic pattern.

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boom, bust