Argentina Flashcards
What is the climate of Argentina?
Continental
What is Zonda?
A fierce, dusty, hot afternoon wind that blows down from the mountains in the late spring and early summer, sometimes affecting flowering.
What estate has some of the worlds highest vines at 3,000 meters above sea level in Salta?
Donald Hess Colomé estate
What is the average national elevation for vineyards in Argentina?
Approximately 900 meters above sea level
What are the most important red grapes in Argentina?
Malbec
Bonarda
Cabernet Sauvignon
Syrah
Merlot
Tempranillo
What is Argentina’s second most planted grape varietal?
Bonarda
Also identified as Savoie’s Corbeau-A variety known as Charbono in the United Sates
What is Argentina’s most planted white grape?
Pedro Giménez
What are the white grape varietals in Argentina?
Pedro Giménez, Torrontes, Chardonnay, and Chenin Blanc
What does Reserva imply on a wine label in Argentina?
A minimum of 6 months aging for white wine and a minimum of 1 year for red wine
What does Gran Reserva imply on a wine label in Argentina?
At least 1 year aging for white wine and 2 years for red wine
Where was the Mendoza Chardonnay clone developed?
University of California at Davis
The winemaking areas of Argentina are divided among what northwestern provinces?
Central province Cuyo (three quarters of the country’s wine production occurs here)
Southern province Patagonia
What cooler mountain climate is to the north of Cuyo and Patagonia?
Salta
What department within Salta is increasingly appearing on bottles of Torrontes?
Cafayate
Who produces the Torrontes wine “Crios”?
Susana Balbo
What two prominent producers based in Cafayate that are Arnaldo Etchart’s new project?
Michel Rolland
Yacochuya
What province is directly south of Salta?
Catamarca
What are the three provinces of Cuyo?
Mendoza
La Rioja
San Juan
La Rioja:
The northernmost province of Cuyo. Its most famous wine region is the Famatina Valley.
Torrontes is the most cultivated grape
San Juan:
Argentina’s second largest wine producing province.
The 7 Valleys:
Tulum
Zonda
Ullum
Jachal
Calingasta
Pedernal
Fertil
Where is Bonarda sometimes called Barbera Bonarda?
San Juan
What are the subregions of Mendoza?
Valle de Uco
Northern Mendoza
Eastern Mendoza
Central Mendoza
Southern Mendoza
What is the soil and climate of Mendoza?
Soil is loosed alluvial sand over clay
Zonda wind helps keep phylloxera and other diseases at bay
The climate is desert like, irrigation is necessary in the traditional form of furrow irrigation
What is Furrow Irrigation?
A technique developed by the Incas, in which the rivers water, swelled by Andes snowmelt, is directed through the vineyards in channels-or by modern methods of drip irrigation.
What two departments in Central Mendoza provide some of the best traditional sites for Malbec?
Luján de Cuyo
Maipú
Chardonnay and Semillon are successful in what department of the Uco Valley?
Tupungato
What two Southern Mendoza departments is Chenin Blanc the principal grape?
San Rafael
General Alvear
South of Mendoza, what are the three provinces of Patagonia?
La Pampa
Rio Negro
Neuquén
Torrontes and Semillon perform well here with chalky soils and a cooler climate
What southern state in Brazil does most of the country’s viticulture activity take place?
Rio Grande do Sul
On the Argentinean border
Within Rio Grande do Sul, what region accounts for approximately 90% of Brazilian wine?
Serra Gaúcha
Name three other southern wine regions in Brazil:
Sao Joaquim
Serra do Sudeste
Campanha
What tropical wine growing region in Brazil are wine growers able to harvest twice a year?
Sao Francisco
In what year did the subregion of Vale dos Vinhedos within Serra Gaúcha receive its first Orgin Indication?
2002
What country is South America’s fourth largest producer?
Uruguay
What grape varietal did the Frenchman Don Pascual Harriague introduce to Uruguay?
Tannat-rechristened Harriague
The dominate red varietal for quality wines
