Australia Flashcards
Where is the Murrembidgee irrigation area and why is it a thing?
New South Wales>Riverina
West of Great dividing range (Arid on the West of New South Wales)
Who owns Yellow Tail?
Casella
Who makes Noble One and where?
De Bortoli, Riverina
List the regions top/bottom of hunter valley
New South Wales>Hunter Valley>Hunter> Upper Hunter Valley Lower Hunter Valley> Pokolbin Broke Fordwhich
Who makes “Vat 1”?
Tyrrells
Semillon
The GI known for growing old vine Verdelho
New South Wales>Hunter Valley>Lower Hunter Valley>Broke Fordwhich
What’s up with Clonakillla?
Makes Shiraz Vignier called “Canberra District Shiraz”
Where is Tumbarumba?
Notable grapes?
Alpine cool climate so sparkling wines, chardonnay, pinot noir
New South Wales>
Southern New South Wales>
Tumbarumba
Breakdown Southern New South Wales
Canberra
Gundagai
Hilltops
Tumbarumba
Name 4 old vine bottlings in Barossa
Langmeil Freedom Vineyard (1843 Shiraz) Cirillo Grenache 1850 Hewittson Mataro from Koch families Old Garden Vineyard 1853 Penfold Lot 42 Cab S 1888 Tricentenary Grenache, Yalumba, 1889
Age designation in Barossa
Old vine with charta in front
Hanging off of vines from top
Old man
Old man with wounds
Nicolas with penny head
Mulan ancestor room in charta column
Old vines35
Survivor70
Centenarian100
Ancestor125
Name of famous Barossa liqueur
Seppeltsfeild’s Paras, 100 yr
Paras as liquor bottle in field of pelts
Name 4 top bottlings from Barossa
Penfolds Grange
Elderton “The Command”
Torbreck Runrig, The Laird
Top Semillion from Barossa Valley
Peter Lehman, Margaret
GIs of Adelaide Superzone
Barossa (right hand side of culdesac) Bar with Rosa Brooks in front, Eden garden on right, smaller garden floating above)
Fleurieu (Big flower on left side of subdivision,
*McClaren Ferrari,
Creek starts running around left corner, in the creek:
*Cow horn waving hi in gay voice
*Different types of currency
around the corner a *flower pointing to crotch
*In road a patch of dirt with kangaroo on it
Mount lofty ranges (W loft with shooting range in front)
Clare Valley (Clare Underwood shooting at range) She has a veil made of water, she’s standing on a polished glass hill (water vale, polish hill)
Around corner to right and down the street hills shaped like kangaroos (Adelaide Hills)
Inside the hills a picadilly restaurant and in front of hills woods with monocles for leaves (Picadilly Valley, Lenswood)
Hills fade out into open plains with kangaroos jumping on them (Adelaide Plains)
Dead Kangaroo at start of Monroe’s driveway (end of super zone)
Non Superzone GIs of South Australia
Down middle of Monroe’s driveway giant lime cliff like British coast (Limestone Coast)
Down the driveway three trashcans being rumaged through by a racoon (coonawarra) on red soil, under red soil key limes
Pads leading thaway through the gate (Padthaway) In garage doorway a rat
On the Toyota Corolla a mountain of belgian whitbier gambling with dice (Mnt. Gambier)
On ford ranger a mountain of Benson bacon (*Mount Benson) hanging on back wall a *Robe
Outside of Garage on right Bill Murray pointing to crotch (Lower Murray)
Giant river flowing out of his crotch (Riverland)
Florida and Baja Cali painted on Wall (*The Peninsulas)
Post South Australia mind map
After Peninsulas a Whale on the ground (New South Whales)
In right corner hunter from FC4 with smaller Hunter on top of fence above him (Hunter Valley zone, Hunter Region)
Turn left in middle of fence a ford truck looking sandwich with empty pockets (Broke Fordwhich)
Above on fence…. awww shit it’s another tiny hunter (upper hunter valley)
In corner a trash can filled with poke style tuna salad (Pokolbin)
NSW turn left from Pokolbin
Backdrop a mountain range with big center target (Central Ranges)
Ghee container filled with mud (Mudgee)
Very high in the sky like the sun an Orange (Orange, highest region in Australia)
Cow with the Eye of RA branded on the side.
In corner Frozen river on top flowing down, river gets smaller and eskimo hastening the melt of the river (Northern Rivers ZONE Hasting river REGION)
NSW in yard turning left again towards house
After corner with N. Rivers ZONE
Game of thrones wall on side of house (Northern slopes ZONE)
At foot of slope New England fisherman in yellow pants w/Aussie accent (New England Australia)
Back door to house a beach with cowboy hat and spurs on ground (South Coast)
A shoal pops up and wraps a higher coast (Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands REGIONS)
NSW into back door Monroe house
Giant /river flowing left (Big Rivers ZONE) breaking into two waters, on bill murray, the other bill murray dressed as mom bidding on ghee (Murray River and Murrumidgee River)
In corner
water turns right and turns into water shaped nymph (Riverina REGION)
Skipping to far wall a barracuda sipping perrier (Perricoota REGION)
Next to door bill murray and a hill of swans both in Victorian dresses
NSW through doorway into living room
Whale in hole in ground (Southern NSW ZONE)
Turn right into living room a giant can with bear arms/head (Canberra REGION)
In corner a Top spinning on grassy hill (Hilltops)
Turn left in middle of wall a gai building a gundam model (Gundagai REGION)
In right corner Pooh with rumba in one hand, champer bottle in other (Tumbarumba REGION makes good champers)
Monroe house into bedroom
Bedroom door Queen (Victoria STATE)
past fire oil koala in right corner a circle of dresses holing up Phillip Skinner spraying them with spray bottle (Port Phillip ZONE)
In bathroom door a pirate saying Yarr! (Yarra REGION) he’s cool, has bee flying around Vougeot bottle
At sink Baja and Florida getting ready for morning (Mornington Peninsula REGION)
Right corner bathroom long skinny can of ghee (Geelong Region)
Back wall bathtub sun burying itself (Sunbury REGION)
In left corner greek guy shooting at gun range (Macedon Range)
Monroe house Back in bedroom from Bath room
Central park (Central Victoria ZONE)
In park indigo colored Ben (Bendigo REGION)
Left in middle of wall Heath bar in Coast (Heathcote)
On bed in middle of room a soccar goal burning (Goulburn Valley)
At foot of bed a Gambero covered in periodic style salt [Na] in puddles of water (Nagambie Lakes SUB REGION)
Left corner of room top half of goal burning (Upper Goulburn)
Above mountains with plane strathing bogie targets (Strathbogie Ranges)
Left wall Monroe bedroom
Left wall NE USA map (North East Victoria ZONE)
In front Glen with arms wide open, muscat style on ground (Rutherglen)
Out door turn right in living room Glen Rowing a rowboat (Glenrowan)
next to him a deep valley, snow peaks on top with skiing (Alpine Valleys) beach below with empty price tag [?] (Beechworth) In valley is burger king (King Valley)
Down living room wall right of bedroom
Middle of wall a map of NW USA
Bill Murray in dress and Swan Hill (Murray Darling, Swan Hill, also in NSW big rivers)
Down living room hall Monroe
Old West, Granpa holding John Wayne doll holding DRC as champagne bottle (Grampians REGION Great Western SUBREGION)
Hen with tshirt on (Henty)
Other side of hall two knees with fire coming out [pyro knees] (Pyrenees)
Ronald Reagan (Gippsland ZONE)
Further down hall
Yosemite Sam birthing [Perth] a bunch of swans which form a valley [Swan District REGION > Swan Valley SUBREGION]
Orange peels on the ground
Greater Perth hills>Perth Hills
Swan Hill>Swan Valley
Peel
Near doorway to piano room
Yosemite on a plate of huevos rancheros [South West Australia ZONE]
River going into room with Margaret floating down river [Margaret River REGION]
Will cuts off river abruptly [Wilyabrup REGION] drinking a red bordeaux, covered in red dust
Behind will a [wall cliff] turn left into piano room a giant golden triangle instrument on corners bruce lee with trophy [leeuwin] three men in capes telling state secrets [cape mentelle] starteck ship [voyager] chardonnay ringing bell
vasse felix bird flying overhead
Inside piano room
after golden triangle
General sanders on dirtbike back reads [great southern REGION]
back left corner a barking mountain [Mount Barker]
Turn right guru with pores on him [poronguru]
doorway coppenhagen river front [denmark] Jessica alba kneeding biscuits [albany] in door way a globe [geographe]
right corner a forest with a bunch of mrs blackstones [Blackwood]
Jim Burton drinks a pimms [Pemberton]
turn right Maanchi using a muppet [Manjimup]
What is “The command”
Barossa Shiraz from Elderton
freedom vineyard is?
world’s Oldest Shiraz, by langmeil 1843
T/F Victoria was hit by phyloxera
True, 1877
Port Phillip Zone climatic features
Regions within
Cooled by wind and proximity to water (cooler than Bordeaux)
Near Macedon ranges elevation happens,
Geelong, Macedon ranges, Mornington Peninsula, Sunbury, Yarra Valley
Yarra grape and producer overview
Cool, Red outnumber white but Chardonnay most planted Variety, Pinot Noir in behind, Syrah and Cab taking up the rear
Yerring and De Bortoli producers
Where is beech worth?
in Victoria
What is Caley?
Yalumba blend
inaugural 2012
Cab s, Shiraz, from Coonawarra
2 seriously great blends Yalumbe
Signature Blend
The Caley
Who makes Tom Cullity
Vasse felix, Margaret River
Cab, Malbec, Petite Verdot
Name a top Chard from Yarra Valley
864 Funder & Diamond Drive Block Chard
by Oakridge
Who makes 864 Funder & Diamond Drive Block
Oakridge
Chardonnay
Yarra Valley
Where is Vasse Felix located
Margaret River
Max Shubert is?
Guy who Started Grange in 50’s
Australia 2010
Rain Broke drought
otherwise good fine whatever
Australia 2011
rainy, lots of mold, worst in 25 years
whites are exceptions, intense cIare Riesling
Australia 2013
intensly hot, like… hottest ever
Vines faired well though
Australia 2014
Weather all over the place but generally fine
Australia 2015
aww shit fire
some Smoke taint in Adelaide hills
great long balanced growihg season other wise
Australia 2016
compressed vintage, warm summer
slightly lower alcohols
Where is Henschke located
Eden Valley
location and top 3 cuvees Torbreck
Barossa
Run Rig (120-160 yr old vines)
The Laird
Descendent
Who makes Astralis
Clarendon Hills
Single Vineyard Syrah
McLaren Vale
Where is leeuwin based
Margaret Cuvee
Art Series Chardonnay
who planted Mnt Pleasant
Maurice O’shea
Hunter
Bass Philips
Gippsland Pinot Noir
What does Clarendon Hills make
Astralis Shiraz
McLaren Vale
Who makes Astralis
Clarendon Hills Shiraz,
Who makes a good Pinot Noir in Gippsland
Bass Phillips
What does Bass Phillips do?
Exceptional (literally)
Pinot Noir from Gippsland
Who makes Diana Madeline
Cullen
Cab/Merlot from Margaret River
Where is Polish Hill
Clare Valley
By Grosset
L. Exceptional Riesling
Grosset Polish Hill Clare Valley
subs of Adelaide Hills
Lenswood
Picadilly Valley
Where is Para Liqueur based?
Seppeltsfield in Barossa Valley
Name a producer of Sparkling shiraz
Rockford in Barossa
Where is Peter lehmann based
Barossa
“Margaret” is 1929 Semillon vines
Who makes “Margaret”
Peter Lehman
1929 Semillon
Pewsey Vale beets
Planted in Eden Valley 1847 by Joseph Gilbert
What is CSIRO
technique using Zero pruning to restrict yields
label percentages Australia
85% top to bottom
Majella is based where?
Coonawarra
Cab
Who makes Riddoch
Wynns
Coonawarra Cabernet
Name three Terra Rosa Cabs
Wynns John Riddoch
Parker Estate first Growth
Majella
Climate fleurieu
Mediterranean
Ocean current and lake Alexandrina
What is Mataro
Mouvedre
Who makes High Sands, what is it
where is it
Yangarra
Grenache
McLaren Vale
“Eclipse” beets
Drew Noon’s Grenache Shiraz blend, McLaren Vale and Langhorne Creek
Where is Clarendon Hills based
Fleurieu Zone
Makes Astralis
2 “subs” of Clare Valley
Watervale and Polish Hill
What is Watervale
One of 2 subs of Clare Valley
with Polish Hill
Mountain ranges around Barossa
Mount lofty Ranges
Traditional barrel in Barossa
American Hogshead 300 Liters
Great Southern Subs
Frankland River Denmark Mount Barker Albany Porongurup
Zones of Western Australia
Central Western
Eastern Plains
South West
west Australian South east coast
Sub region in Greater Perth
Swan Valley
Regions in Perth
Peel
Perth Hills
Swan District
Where is forest hill vineyard
Mount Barker in Great southern
Name 4 producers in Margaret River
Cullen “Diana Madeline”
Vass Felix “tom cullity”
leeuwin “art series”
Cape mentell
Mount Barker beets
one of five Great Southern sub region mountain side Riesling and Shiraz
Hottest appellation in Australia
Swan Valley
Ocean on the coast of Margaret river
Indian Ocean
willyabrup valley beets
area in Margaret river known for Cabernet
yallingup beets
area in North Margaret River
Cooled by Geograph Bay
Augusta beets
South Margaret Cooled by Antarctic waters
White focused
GI in Queensland
Granite Belt
South Burnett
vineyard near hill of Grace
Mount edelstone
Where is kilikanoon based
Clare Valley
Adelaide Hills beets
surprisingly cool
70% white
Piccadilly Valley great for Chard
Lenswood good for SB
Top appellation for SB South Australia
Lenswood in Adelaide hills
soft SB
Compare Adelaide plains to hills
Plains are intensly hot
Hills are cooler, nestled in Higher elevation
Mnt Gambier Borders which regions
Coonawarra N
Victoria’s Henty E
Where is Shaw + Smith Based?
Adelaide Hills
Name a vineyard in Langhorne Creek
Metala on the river bank
Planted by adams family
Where is Petaluma Winery based?
Picadilly Valley in Adelaide Hills
planted by Brian Croser
Great Chard
What is Topaque?
Name for Muscadelle in Rutherglea
Name for Muscadelle in Rutherglen
Topaque
Name a winery in king Valley
Brown Brothers who planted Milawa (super high elevation, 2600ft)
Who makes “patrician”
Broun Brothers in king Valley
Bubbles from Pinot Noir and Chard
Possibly world’s oldest Marsanne Vines
Nagambie lakes in Goulbourn Valley
Tahbilk owns
Climate Macedon Ranges
Very cool
Chard and PN
Strathbogie ranges
taught Rieslings
Where is paringa
old timer from Mornington peninsula
Where’s Main Ridge Estate
Mornington peninsula
Mornington Peninsula Climate
cooler than Burgundy in Summer
constant wind
Where is Chandon based Australia
Yarra Valley
What is Yattarna
“White Grange”
High proportion Tasmanian Chardonnay
Where’s Brown Bros.
Based in Victoria
Very important in Tasmania
Pinot is crazy fucking good
Where’s Tyrrell based?
Hunter Valley
Sub regions of Hunter
Broke fordwich
Pokolbin
Upper Hunter Valley
Sub regions of Hunter
Broke fordwich sandy alluvial (intense semillon) Pokolbin Volcanic (shiraz) Upper Hunter Valley (chardonnay)
Where is Semillon found Hunter
Sandy lower reaches
Who makes Vat 47
Tyrrell,
Hunter Chardonnay
Australia’s oldest operating winery
Windham estate Hunter
is Hunter valley Phylox free?
Yup
Who makes ILR Reserve
Brokenwood
Who makes ILR Reserve
Brokenwood Semillon
why does Semillon work in Hunter?
Super early picking, lots of cloud cover
where is Mount Canobolas
Volcano, Orange, highest point in Australia wine regions
