Australia and New Zealand - MA Questions 30.05.20

Question 1

In which region is Clarendon Hills producer located?

Answer 1

McLaren Vale, Fleurieu Zone, South Australia.

Question 2

What are the conditions defining both Regions and Sub-Regions in Australia?

Answer 2

• single tract of land.
• must comprise at least 5 independently owned vineyards of minimum 5 hectares each.
• minimum 500 tons of grapes annually output.

Question 3

What are the additional production requirements for an Australian “Cream” fortified wine produced for the export market?

Answer 3

• must be produced using the solera system.

- must be aged in oak barrels for min 3 years.

Question 4

When was the multi state zone of South Eastern Australia authorized?

Answer 4

1996.

Question 5

How else is Riverina called?

Answer 5

Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.

Question 6

Who produces Yellow Tail?

Answer 6

Casella.

Question 7

In which region would you find the Brokenback Mountain Range?

Answer 7

Hunter, NSW, Australia.

Question 8

Who produces “Vat 1”? What is the grape?

Answer 8

Tyrell’s, Semillon.

Question 9

What are the sub-regions of Hunter?

Answer 9

Broke Fordwich, Pokolbin, Upper Hunter Valley.

Question 10

Where would you find the producer Clonakilla?

Answer 10

Canberra District, NSW, Australia.

Question 11

What are the regions of Big Rivers Zone in NSW?

Answer 11

Murray Darling, Swan Hill, Perricoota, Riverina.

Question 12

Where is Hilltops GI?

Answer 12

Southern New South Wales Zone, NSW, Australia.

Question 13

What is the name of the mountain range in Tumbarumba GI?

Answer 13

Snowy Mountains.

Question 14

Where is Nagambie Lakes GI?

Answer 14

Sub-region of Golburn Valley GI in Central Victoria Zone, Victoria, Australia.

Question 15

Where is Macedon Ranges GI?

Answer 15

Port Philip Zone, Victoria, Australia.

Question 16

Which Champagne producer started the production of sparkling wines in Yara Valley and when?

Answer 16

Moet et Chandon started Domaine Chandon in 1987.

Question 17

Which GI in Victoria is the coolest?

Answer 17

Mornington Penisnula GI in Port Philip Zone.

Question 18

Who is producing “1860” Shiraz? In which GI?

Answer 18

Tahbilk in Nagambie Lakes GI sub-region of Goulburn Valley GI in Central Victoria Zone, Australia.

Question 19

Which estate has the oldest Marsanne vines in Australia and possibly in the whole world?

Answer 19

Tahbilk in Nagambie Lakes GI.

Question 20

Age and residual sugar for Grand Rutherglen Muscat.

Answer 20

11 - 19 years; 270 - 400 gr/liter

Question 21

Where would you find the producer called Majella?

Answer 21

Coonawarra GI, Limestone Coast Zone, South Australia.

Question 22

Who produces “First Growth”? Where is it located?

Answer 22

Parker Estate. Coonawarra GI, Limestone Coast Zone, South Australia.

Question 23

What are the sub-segions of Adelaide Hills?

Answer 23

Lenswood GI, Picadilly Valley GI

Question 24

Where is Currency Creek GI?

Answer 24

Fleurieu Zone, South Australia, Australia.

Question 25

Which Zones form together the Adelaide Super Zone?

Answer 25

Fleurieu + Mount Lofty Ranges + Barossa

Question 26

Who is producing the Grenache based wine called “Eclipse”? Where is it located?

Answer 26

Drew Noon. McLaren Vale GI, South Australia, Australia.

Question 27

What are the unofficial sub-regions of Clare Valley?

Answer 27

Watervale Auburn and Polish Hill.

Question 28

How old must be the Survivor Vines according to the Barossa Old Vine Charter?

Answer 28

70+; Old Vines - 35+ years; Centenarian Vines - 100+ years; Ancestor Vines - 125+ years

Question 29

What was the first vintage of “Hill of Grace”?

Answer 29

1958

Question 30

What are the GIs of Queensland?

Answer 30

Granite Belt GI, South Burnett GI.

Question 31

Where can you find Chateau Hornsby?

Answer 31

Northern Territory, Australia.

Question 32

What are the regions of Greater Perth?

Answer 32

Peel GI, Perth Hills GI, Swan District GI.

Question 33

Name the 4 winemakers that made Grange to date.

Answer 33

Max Schubert, Don Ditter, John Duval, Peter Gago.

Question 34

Who produces the “Graveyard Shiraz”? Where is it located?

Answer 34

Brokenwood. Hunter Valley GI, NSW, Australia.

Question 35

What are the unofficial regions of Northern Tasmania?

Answer 35

Pipers River, Tamar Valley, North West Coast.

Question 36

In which region would you find the producer called Elsewhere Vineyard?

Answer 36

Southern Tasmania.

Question 37

What is “Albany Surprise”?

Answer 37

A hybrid which was the most planted grape in NZ in the 60s.

Question 38

What are the unofficial regions of Northland?

Answer 38

Kerikeri, Kaitaia, Whangarei.

Question 39

Which region in New Zealand is the lowest in hectares planted?

Answer 39

Waikato/Bay of Plenty.

Question 40

Where would you find Wanaka?

Answer 40

Unofficial sub-region in Central Otago, New Zealand.

Question 41

In which region of New Zealand you can find the producer called Schubert Wines?

Answer 41

Martinborough, Wairarapa, North Island.

Question 42

Where can you find the producer Esk Valley?

Answer 42

Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.

Question 43

Where can you find the producer Babich?

Answer 43

Auckland, New Zealand.

Question 44

What are the official sub-regions of Wairarapa?

Answer 44

Martinborough, Gladstone.

Question 45

Where can you find Bridge Pa sub-region?

Answer 45

Unofficial sub-region in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.