Wine and Cheese Fill-in-the-Blank

Complete the Following Sentences from Wason, Betty. Giving a Cheese and Wine Tasting Party. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1975.

1. Blue cheese gets its colored veining from ___________________________________.
2. Cabernet Sauvignon is a grape variety which originated in ___________________________________.
3. When a wine bottle has a screw cap it usually means the wine___________________________________.
4. The best kind of cracker for tasting cheese is ___________________________________.
5. The name of England’s most famous cheese is ___________________________________.
6. Beaujolais is a wine from the ___________________________________ region of France.
7. The wine region known as Naples Valley is located in ___________________________________.
8. Sherry wine originated in ___________________________________.
9. The largest wine company in the world is___________________________________.
10. The reason red wines generally age better and live longer than white is ___________________________________.
11. One of the greatest American wine connoisseurs was ___________________________________.
12. In 1850 the American state that had the most flourishing wine industry was ___________________________________.
13. Today the state that leads all others in cheese production is ___________________________________.
14. Montrachet is the name of both a cheese and a wine produced in ___________________________________.
15. France is particularly noted for its ___________________________________ cheeses.
16. The Hungarian term puttonyo, applied to Tokaj wine, means ___________________________________.

ANSWERS

1. A microorganism
2. The Bordeaux wine region
3. Has been pasteurized
4. Blank unsalted
5. Stilton
6. Burgundy
7. New York state
8. Spain
9. Gallo
10. Because of the tannin content
11. Thomas Jefferson
12. Ohio
13. Wisconsin
14. The Burgundy region of France
15. Soft ripened
16. “Bags,” meaning the number of bags of aszu concentrate in each lot of wine