Australia Flashcards
What is the state of the country’s first vineyards?
New South Wales, planted in 1788
What are the zones of New South Wales?
Northern Slopes Northern Rivers Hunter Valley Central Ranges Southern New South Wales South Coast Western Plains Big Rivers
What are the GIs of the Big Rivers zone?
Murray Darling
Perricoota
Riverina
Swan Hill
What are the GIs of the Central Ranges zone?
Cowra
Mudgee
Orange
What is the GI of the Hunter Valley zone?
Hunter
What is the GI of the Northern Rivers zone?
Hastings River
What is the GI of the Northern Slopes zone?
New England Australia
What are the GIs of the South Coast zone?
Shoalhaven Coast
Southern Highlands
What are the GIs of the Southern New South Wales zone?
Canberra District
Gundagai
Hilltops
Tumbarumba
Wine Australia
A government authority established in 1981 as the Australia Wine and Brandy Corporation, maintains oversight over the wine industry, regulating its label language, defining geographical boundaries of wine regions, moderating exports and trade, and promoting the product at home and abroad
Label Integrity Program
Introduced by Wine Australia for the 1990 vintage, requiring any wines labeled by variety, vintage, or region to contain a minimum 85% of the stated grape, year, or region, respectively. If multiple varieties are to be listed on the label (i.e., Grenache-Syrah-Mourvèdre) the grapes must be listed in order of proportion in the blend. All components making up a minimum 85% of the blend must appear on the label, and no listed grape may be in lower proportion than an unnamed variety
What is the main city in Victoria?
Melbourne
What type of oak barrel was most commonly used in Australia until recent times?
300-liter American hogshead
Which Champagne house established a branch in Victoria?
Moët & Chandon saw the Yarra Valley’s promise; they started the Australian Domaine Chandon here in 1987
What was the first vintage of Penfold’s Grange?
1951 (Max Schubert)
Breakdown Australian wine law
Appellations are subdivided into zones, regions, and sub-regions. Both regions and sub-regions are defined by Wine Australia as single tracts of land, comprising at least five independently owned vineyards of at least five hectares apiece, with a minimum output of 500 tons of wine grapes annually
What is the name of the mountain range in New South Wales?
The Great Dividing Range
Describe wine production in Riverina
Heavily irrigated, represents Australian industrial viticulture at its most efficient
Casella, the producer of Yellowtail sources its fruit from Riverina
“Hunter Riesling”
Semillon, an example is Tyrrell’s “Vat 1”
What are some of the grapes that grow in the Hunter GI?
Semillon
Verdelho
Cabernet Sauvignon
Shiraz
What soils divide the Yarra Valley GI?
Grey-brown sandy loam and red basalt-derived soils
What two GIs in the North East Victoria zone are famous for sweet-fortified wines
Rutherglen and Glenrowan
The Muscat of Rutherglen Network
Formed in 1995, a producers’ syndicate which developed a voluntary four-tier classification system for the wines based on age, sweetness, and complexity. The ages and residual sugar ranges for each category are indicative of each classification, but not absolute. Producers are responsible for classifying their own wines, based on taste alone, and member wines are denoted by the inclusion of a stylized “R” logo on the label.
What are the eight zones of South Australia?
Far North Limestone Coast Lower Murray Fleurieu Barossa Mount Lofty Ranges Adelaide Superzone (includes Mount Lofty Ranges, Barossa, and Fleurieu) The Peninsulas
Name a GI of Limestone Coast
Coonawarra
Padthaway
Name a GI of the Lower Murray zone
Riverland (bulk wine)
Name a GI of Mount Lofty Ranges zone
Clare Valley
Name a GI of the Barossa zone
Barossa Valley
Eden Valley
What was the first vintage of “Hill of Grace”
1958
Langton’s
Australia’s leading wine auction house, created its “Classification of Australian Wine” in 1990 to detail top-performing, investment-grade Australian wines. The classification is now in its fifth installment
Name five wines in Langton’s “exceptional” category
Torbreck "RunRig" Shiraz Penfolds “Bin 707” Cabernet Sauvignon Leeuwin Estate “Art Series” Chardonnay Grosset "Polish Hill" Riesling Penfolds “Grange” Henschke “Hill of Grace” Shiraz
What seven states comprise the Commonwealth of Australia?
South Australia New South Wales Victoria Western Australia Tasmania Queensland Northern Territory
What are the top five varieties in Australia in order of planting?
Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon Chardonnay Merlot Semillon
Barossa Old Vine Charter
a self-regulated classification of vineyard age in the region. The Charter, based on a model developed internally by Yalumba, introduced four age categories: Old Vines (at least 35 years of age), Survivor Vines (at least 70 years of age), Centenarian Vines (at least 100 years old) and Ancestor Vines (at least 125 years old).
“Sparkling Burgundy”
A fizzy red style dating to the end of the 19th century. Edmund Mazure produced Australia’s first Sparkling Burgundy in the Adelaide Hills in 1888—and his wine likely included at least some Shiraz—but the Victorian producer Great Western popularized the style.
