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1. Arbois is the secondary grape you may find in a Vouvray.

2. Proper etiquette says that you should sip your soup from the side of the spoon so as to prevent slurping. Quiet please....

3. The syllabub dessert first made it's appearance in England during Elizabeth The First.

4. Cheval Blanc's principal grape variety is Cabernet Franc.

5. Bistrouille or Bistouille in Northern France is a combination of coffee and brandy. It can also be used to describe a poor quality brandy.

6. A Palindrome is when a word can be spelled the same backward and forward.

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Answers to Quiz

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1. To chaptalize a wine the winemaker adds sugar before or during the fermentation process to raise the alcohol percentage of the wine. We say the wine has been chaptalized when this is done. This is allowed under French law.

2. The pH of wines usually ranges around 3.5 on the scale of 1 to 10.

3. A jeroboam is 6 standard Bordeaux bottles or 4.5 litres.

4. Pili-Pili that hot pepper is found on the continent of Africa.

5. To soak in French is the verb tremper.

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1. When winemakers chaptalize a wine what is it they have done?

2. pH as you may know on a scale of 1 to 10 anything over 5 has less acid in it than something else lower than that number. Water for instance has a pH of 7. But pH is used to measure the acidity of a wine by winemakers to give them an idea of a wine's aging potential and colour over time. What is the usual ph range value of wine?

3. How many standard bottles in Bordeaux will fit into a jeroboam?

4. Pili-Pili is a small hot-tasting pepper? What continent is it found and used in cooking?

5. To soak something in French cooking is to what in French? What is the word for soak?

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