Quiz expert - Cognacton english

1. How does cognac gets its golden colour?

From the tannins of the grape in the skin, pips and stems

From the distillation process

From the wood of the oak casks in which it is aged

2. What are queues (tailes)?

OR OR

Part that at the first distillation comes after the heart and at the second distillation after the secondes

Part that at the first distillation comes after the heart and at the second distillation after the brouillis but before the secondes

Same as secondes

3. How many liters of wine you need for one 0.7L bottle of cognac?

5

2

12

20

1

7

4. What kind of ‘Chai’ loses more alcohol?

A dry storage room

a humid storage room

5. The chauffe-vin in the middle of the picture is an obligatory part of the alambic.

Correct

False

6. The total extent of the cognac vineyard is now around 80.000 hectares. How much was it just before the outbreak of the Phylloxera crisis?

160.000 hectares

100.000 hectares

220.000 hectares

280.000 hectares

330.000 hectares

7. Balzac is the name of:

A grape variety used in the past for making cognac

A part of an alambic (pot still)

A French politician from the 19th century

A grape variety, a poltician or part of an alambic (can refer to all three)