Broadbent Port and Madeira Exam 2003

BROADBENT SELECTIONS, INC
PORT & MADEIRA TEST
And Answers

PORT
1. 1 point each
List six classical styles of Port
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2. 1 point each
Name five grape varietals used for Port
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3. 1 point each
Name five port houses sold by Broadbent Selections, Inc.
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4. 2 points
It normally takes most red wines of the world about 2-3 weeks to undergo full fermentation. In the production of Port, (which of course is fortified) approximately how long does it take for fermentation to be completed?
Answer: 24 to 48 Hours

5. 2 points each
Name the 3 main areas of the Douro in which grapes are grown for Port
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6. 1 point each
List the top five vintage years for Port declarations, from the first half of the 20th century.
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7. 1 point each
List the top five vintage years for Port declarations, from the second half of the 20th century.
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8. 4 points
Differentiate between LBV and Traditional LBV
Answer: LBV is fined and filtered and Traditional is not. Traditional (called “unfiltered” also is bottled with a driven cork and in an opaque vintage porto bottle. Traditional throws a sediment and is capable of aging almost as long as a vintage. Traditional is only made in good years. Regular LBV is mass produced from lesser vineyards and are bottled with stopper corks.

9. 1 point
What style of LBV is produced by Ferreira?
Answer: Traditional (or unfiltered)

10. 1 point
Name the most respected Portuguese family owned Port producer?
Answer: A. A. Ferreira

11. 1 point each
What is the name given to Ferreira’s 10 year and 20 year tawnies?
Answer: Quinta do Porto, Duque de Braganca

12. 10 points
List as many reasons as you can that Ferreira’s 20 year tawny is considered the finest of all tawny Ports.
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13. 2 points

What is a Crusted Port?
Answer: Blend of two or three young vintages bottled between 2 and 4 years of age ie. a mixture of a couple of different vintages.

14. 5 points
Name the sweetest style of white Port?
Answer: Lagrima; which refers to the tears of Christ which were reported to be sweet, not salty.

15. 1 point
Name one of the two soil types in which Port vines are grown
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16. 1 point
What is a Barca Velha?
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17. 1 point for the first answer, five points for the second
Name two rivers in the Port region
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18. 2 points
In what town is Port commonly stored and aged before shipping?
Answer: Vila Nova de Gaia

19. 3 points
Explain “autovinifications”
Answer: The type of stainless steel tank used predominately in the Douro to ferment and pump the fermenting juice over the cap to extract more color and tannin from the grapes. Invented in Portugal. It works by trapping gases in a pressure tank. The build up releases a trigger every 15 minutes which then pumps the wine from the bottom of the tank to spray it over the skins floating on top.

20. 1 point per benefit
What are the benefits of bottling some Port in black opaque glass?
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21. 1 point
What is the correct glassware for Port?
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22. 2 points
What does AA in front of Ferreira mean? (Deduct 20 points for saying Alcoholics Anonymous)!
Answer: Antonia Adelaida

23. 1 point
What is a Lagar?
Answer: Foot treading fermentation trough

24. 1 point
Are Port grapes harvested by machine or hand?
Answer: By hand

25. 1 point each
Name five unique selling points for Ferreira
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26. 1 point per wine in correct order, up to 5 points per explanation
List in order of quality and explain each of the following:
Answer:
1) Barca Velha
2)Reserva
3)Vinha Grande
27. Up to 5 points
How is Port made?
Answer:Grapes are picked and during fermentation neutral grape spirits are added to “fortify” the wine, arresting fermentation, and raising the alcohol to 20% and keeping the wine sweet.

28. 1 point each
What is the difference between Ruby and Tawny?
Answer: Ruby is predominately aged in stainless steel or in a less oxidative environment while Tawny is aged in wood. Ferreira priduces their Ruby by barrel aging the wines for 3 years and not mixing young red port with white port.
Also, aged tawny is an acceptable variation to this answer.

29. Up to 10 points
Who was Dona Antonia and list some facts about her?
Answer: Dona Antonia was the 4th generation Ferreira. She descends from both the Spanish and the Portuguese royal families. She was widowed in her 30′s taking over the wine company and credited with making it the premier company in Portugal. She was the leading business person in her day building the first schools, roads, hospitals in the Douro Valley in an era when it was much less common for women to do this.
Etc etc

30. 1 point each
List three types of Port that may require decanting
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31. 1 point
Name the #1 selling Port in Portugal
Answer: Ferreira

32. 2 points
Ferreira’s Port sales are # 3 or # 5 or # 7 worldwide?
Answer: 5

33. 2 points
Ferreira’s share of the domestic Portuguese market in Portugal is:
Answer:

Answer: C

34. 2 points
The owner of Ferreira is:

Salvador Guedes

Jorge Guimaraes

Huish Bauer

Answer: Salvador Guedes
(Jorge is the manager of Ferreira’s exports)

35. 3 points
Which of the following are under the same ownership as Ferreira?

Quinta do Crasto, Burmiester, Quinta do Roriz, Cockburn?
Sandeman, Offley, Tuke Holdsworth, Sogrape, Mateus Rose?
Churchill, Dow, Fonseca, Taylor-Fladgate?

Answer: 2

36. Up to 25 points
The following is a Port list:

Make a sales pitch to add a Port from Broadbent Selections or to replace one of the Ports with a Broadbent Selection

Answer: The best of many good answers was an argument that there is no young Vintage Port. Those who argued for a 10 year tawny showed that they did not know the competition, as Otima is just that. There are many great answers and the best got closest to 25 points.

37. 1 point
Who makes Broadbent Port?
Answer: Dirk Van Der Neipoort

38. 1 point each
What Vintages have been made into Broadbent Port?
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39. 1 point each for the first question, 5 points for the second
Name the three grape varieties used in Broadbent Port. Which of them was added to which years?
Answer:
1.Tinta Roriz
2.Tinta Amarella
3.Touriga Nacional (was added to 1997 and 2000)

MADEIRA

40. 1 point
Where is Madeira?
Answer: In the Atlantic, approximately 700 miles off the coast of Morocco, West Africa

41. 1 point
What nationality is Madeira?
Answer: Portuguese

42. 4 points
What is the first vintage of Madeira that could legally be called Colheita?
Answer: Broadbent shipped the 1995 but legislation was changed in 1994 to allow Colheita as a category. It is now possible to bottle wines older than 1994 as Colheita.

43. 1 point
Name one red grape for Madeira?
Answer: Tinta Negra Mole

44. 1 point each for the first five, 3 points each for the next two
Name seven white Madeira grapes
Answer:
1. Sercial
2. Verdelho
3. Terrantez
4. Bastardo
5. Bual
6. Moscatel
7. Malvasia or Malmsey

45. 1 point for each
Place the following in order of dry to sweet: Bual, Sercial, Malmsey, Verdelho.
Answer:
1)Sercial
2)Verdelho
3)Bual
4)Malmsey

46. 1 point
Besides the wines of Madeira, what is the other largest produce item grown on the island of Madeira?
Answer: Bananas

47. 5 points
In relation to Madeira what does “estufagem” mean?
Answer: A system of a heating the wine during aging by using coils inside the tanks to mimic its historic journey in the boats across the equator

48. 2 points
Where did the term “Rainwater” come from, in regards to Madeira?
Answer: Rainwater is a term used to describe a style of Madeira that comes from: A. Thomas Jefferson declared a wine as sweet as rainwater and it stuck. B. A cask was on the beach waiting to be shipped when a tropical storm came through and diluted the barrel which was not sealed and was such a hit that the diluted style was continued. Other theories abound, but none proven.

49. 4 points
By law, how long is Madeira required to be heated and how is it enforced?
Answer: 3 months enforced by the government that puts wax seals on all the tanks and casks for that period of time.

50. 1 point each
Name all the top producer’s of Madeira on the island that are either no longer prominent or are still thriving in business, NOT including Broadbent.
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51. 1 point each (possibility of 16pts)
List every category of Madeira
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52. Up to 15 points
Explain Colheita in as much detail as possible?
Answer: Colheita is a single vintage that is bottles between the ages of 7 years and 19 years. At 20 years that wine is entitles to be called Vintage.

53. 1 point
What is the minimum age required before selling a Vintage Madeira?
Answer: 20 years

54. 1 point
What famous American was known to have drunk a pint of Madeira every day for dinner?
Answer: George Washington

55. 1 point each correctly answered, 2 points deducted for each wrong answer
Which of the following are NOT connected to Madeira
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56. 1 point
At what time would it be most likely to go out to dinner in Madeira?
Answer: 10 pm

57. 5 points each
Explain two reasons why Madeira is the ultimate and most versatile of wines with desserts
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58. 1 point each
Name five accompaniments for Madeira
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59. 2 points
What does the word “Madeira” mean in Portuguese?
Answer: Wood or wooded land

60. 2 points
What is the name of the governing body that oversees Madeira production?
Answer: Istituto do Vinho do Madeira, Madeira Wine Institute

61. Up to 10 points
Explain why a chef should use true Madeira instead of domestic to cook with?
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62. Up to 5 points
Explain the positive reasons for Broadbent to have chosen the type of cork closure that they use on their Madeira?
Answer> Madeira is stored standing up and therefore doesn’t need a driven cork. The “t” top cork used by Broadbent is more practical for restaurants who serve Madeira by the glass and have to open and close the bottle constantly.

63. Up to 5 points
What is the ideal shelf positioning in a retail store for Madeira?
Answer: Eye Level next to Portugues Ports, dessert section, 50 cs end cap etc

64. 1 point
The famous cliff in Madeira is famous for being the:
Answer: Second highest in the world

65. 1 point for each correct answer, 1 point deducted for each incorrect answer:
Cross out whatever Madeira is NOT famous for: