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What are the county’s and their respective AVAs of the Far North in California?

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Humboldt- Willow Creek
Trinity- Trinity Lakes
Shasta- Inwood Valley & Manton Valley

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What are the counties that make up the North Coast region of California?

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Mendocino
Sonoma
Napa
Lake

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What rivers is Mendocino county at the confluence of?

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Russian and Navarro Rivers

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What are the AVAs of Mendocino County?

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Mendocino
Covello
Dos Rios
Eagle Peak Mendocino County (2014)
Redwood Valley
Potter Valley
Anderson Valley
Cole Ranch
McDowell Valley
Yorkville Highlands
Mendocino Ridge
Pine-Mountain Cloverdale Peak

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What is the smallest AVA in California?

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Cole Ranch AVA- it does not have any wineries

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What is the minimum elevation for vineyard sites in Mendocino ridge AVA?

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1200ft

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Where did Louis Roederer start making sparkling wine in California?

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Anderson Valley AVA

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What AVA in Mendocino is shared with Sonoma?

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Pine-Mountain Cloverdale Peak

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What are the AVAs of Sonoma County?

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Sonoma Coast
Petaluma Gap
West Sonoma Coast
Fort Ross-Seaview
Rockpile
Northern Sonoma
Alexander Valley
Dry Creek
Knights Valley
Russian River Valley
Chalk Hill
Green Valley
Fountain Grove District
Sonoma Valley
Bennet Valley
Moon Mountain
Sonoma Mountain
Carneros

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In what AVA are Peay, Occidental, and Marcassin located?

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Sonoma Coast AVA

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Name 2 wineries with vineyards in the West Sonoma Coast AVA?

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Littorai
Banshee

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I’m which AVA is Failla located?

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Fort Ross Seaview

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What is the elevation range for wines coming from the West Sonoma Coast?

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400 to 1800ft

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What fault line forms the ridge of the West Sonoma Coast?

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The San Andreas Fault

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What AVAs overlap the Sonoma Coast AVA to the North and South?

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To the North the Russian River Valley
To the South Carneros

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What AVA lies within the Sonoma Coast AVA?

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Peteluma Gap

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17
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What is the Freestone area?

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A sheltered valley in the heart of the Sonoma Coast AVA

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18
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What grape varietal is Rockpile AVA best known for?

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Zinfandel

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19
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What man made feature effects the Rockpile AVA?

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Lake Sonoma

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What is the predominant grape varietal of the Alexander Valley?

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Cabernet Sauvignon

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21
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Where is Silver Oak based?

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Alexander Valley

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What are the AVAs within other North Sonoma Coast AVA?

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Alexander Valley
Dry Creek
Knights Valley
Chalk Hill
Russian River Valley
Green Valley

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23
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What grape is Dry Creek Valley known for?

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Zinfandel

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24
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Where is Peter Michael winery?

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Knights Valley AVA

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25
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What are the sub-AVAs of the Russian River Valley AVA?

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Chalk Hill
Green Valley

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Where would you find Gold-Ridge sandy loam soils? What are they?

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In the Russian River Valley
A fine-grained sandy loam known for its excellent drainage

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27
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In what AVA are Joseph Swan and William-Selyem based?

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Russian River Valley

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28
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Where is Mantanzas Creek winery located?

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Bennet Valley AVA

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29
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List 4 wineries owned by Jackson family wines in Sonoma

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La Crema
Kendall-Jackson
Matanzas Creek
Vérité

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30
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Who own Marcassin winery?

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Helen Turley and John Wetlaufer

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31
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What two counties does the Peteluma Gap AVA span?

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Sonoma and Marin

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32
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What is the first vintage that wine may be labeled as Petaluma Gap AVA?

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2018

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33
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List the AVAs of Napa Valley

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Calistoga
Diamond Mountain
Howell Mountain
Spring Mountain
Saint Helena
Rutherford
Chiles Valley
Oakville
Atlas Peak
Yountville
Stags Leap
Mount Veeder
Oak Knoll
Wild Horse Valley
Coombsville

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34
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What is the hottest Napa Valley AVA?

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Calistoga

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Where are Chateau Montelena, Twomey, and Larkmead wineries based?

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Calistoga AVA

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36
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List the mountain AVAs of Napa

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Diamond Mountain
Howell Mountain
Spring Mountain
Atlas Peak
Mount Veeder

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37
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List 3 wineries on Howell Mountain

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Dunn Howell Mountain
La Jota (Jackson Family)
O’Shaughnessy

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38
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What is the elevation range for vineyards on Howell Mountain?

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1400 to 2600ft

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39
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What was there first establishes nested AVA of the Napa Valley? When?

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Howell Mountain. 1983.

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40
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What is the coolest and wettest of the Napa Valley AVA?

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Spring Mountain due to exposure to the Pacific

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41
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What mountain range separates Napa and Sonoma Valley?

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The Mayacamas

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42
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What is the elevation range for Spring Mountain?

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600 to 2600ft

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43
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Where is Cain winery?

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Spring Mountain

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44
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Where are the following wineries based-
Corrison, Charles Krug, Heitz, and Turley

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Saint Helena AVA

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45
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Where is the Tychson Hill Vineyard?

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Saint Helena AVA

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46
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What are the vineyards sites of Diamond Creek?

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Gravelly Meadow
Red Rock Terrace
Volcanic Hill
Lake

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47
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Who owns Hundred Acre?

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Jayson Woodbridge

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48
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Who make Deep Time and Kayli Morgan?

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Hundred Acre

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49
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Where is the To-Kalone vineyard?

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Oakville AVA

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50
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When was Robert Parker’s wine advocate first published?

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1978

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51
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When was Wine Enthusiast first published?

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1979

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52
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When was the Judgement of Paris? Who won?

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1976
Chateau Montelena Chardonnay 1973
Stags Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V 1973

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53
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What was Napa Valley’s first vineyard? Who planted it?

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Rancho Caymus
George Culvert Yount
1838

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54
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Who founded Beaulieu Vineyards? When?

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Georges de Latour. 1900

55
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Name 3 notable winemakers at Beaulieu

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Andre Tchelistcheff
Robert Mondavi
Mike Grgich
Joe Heitz

56
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What are the notable single vineyard wines from Turley?

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Hayne Vineyard
Uberroth Vineyard

57
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Where does Tattinger make sparking wine in California?

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Carneros

58
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Who makes Les Pavots? From what varietals?

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Peter Micheal. Bordeaux blend from Knights Valley AVA.

59
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Opus one is a partnership between what wineries?
What was the 1st vintage?

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Mondavi and Mouton Rothschild
1979

60
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What is the second wine of Opus One?

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Overture

61
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Who established Ingelnook winery? Where and when?

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Gustav Niebaum
1879
Rutherford

62
Q

What is “Rutherford dust”?

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The distinctly grainy tannins associated with the wines from Rutherford AVA

63
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Who makes Scallop Shelf Pinot Noir? Where?

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Peay. The Sonoma Coast.

64
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Where is Mayacamas Winery?

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Mount Veeder

65
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Where is Schramsberg winery?

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Diamond Mountain

66
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Where is Hyde Vineyard?

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Carneros AVA (on the Napa side)

67
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Where is Gallo Family wines based?

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Dry Creek AVA, Sonoma

68
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Who was the original owner of the To-Kalone vineyard?

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Hamilton Walker Crabb (Hermosa Vinyards)

69
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Where is the Au Paradis Vineyard?

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Oakville AVA

70
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Where is Martha’s Vineyard?

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Oakville AVA

71
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Name the 6 vineyards from Andy Beckstoffer’s Heritage series

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To Kalone (Oakville)
Missouri Hopper (Oakville)
Las Piedras (St.Helena)
Dr.Crane (St.Helena)
Bourn (St.Helena)
Georges III (Rutherford)

72
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Where is Scarecrow?

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Rutherford

73
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Who makes the wines at Scarecrow?

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Celia Welch

74
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What is the second wine at Scarecrow?

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M. Étain

75
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Who makes Old Sparky Beckstoffer Tokalone?

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Schrader

76
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What is Screaming Eagle’s second wine?

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Second Flight (usually around 50% Merlot)

77
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What brand owns Ravenswood, Mount Veeder, and Robert Mondavi wineries?

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Constellation

78
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What brand owns William Hill, Ghost Pines, and Edna Valley Vineyard?

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E&J Gallo

79
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What brand owns Beaulieu, Chalone, and Blossom Hill?

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Diageo

80
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What brand owns Beringer, Stag’s Leap, and Chateau St Jean?

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Treasury

81
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Where would you find Savoy, Cerise, and Ferrington vineyards?

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Anderson Valley AVA

82
Q

What was the 1st vintage of Harlan Estate?

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1990

83
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What is the second wine of Harlan Estate?

A

The Maiden

84
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When was Bond started? By whom?

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1977
Bill Harlan and Bob Levy

85
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List the vineyard sites for the Bond wines

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Pluribus (spring mountain)
Quella (St. Helena benchland)
Melbury (St.Helena benchland, N shore of lake Hennesy)
St.Eden (North of Oakville in Vaca mountains)
Vecina (Oakville - Western Foothills)

86
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What is the second wine of Bond?

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The Matriarch

87
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What was the 1st vintage of Heitz Martha’s Vineyard?

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1966

88
Q

What are the Heitz vineyards in Rutherford AVA?

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Trailside
Bella Oaks

89
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Where is Haynes vineyard?

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Coombsville AVA
Made by Arnot Roberts and Enfield

90
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What contributes to the cooler temperatures of the Coombsville AVA?

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It sits in the foothills of the Vaca mountains - spreading up the slopes of Mount George - and it’s proximity to the San Pablo bay exposes it too cool breezes and fog

91
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What is special about the situation of that Stags Leap AVA?

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It’s a valley within a valley that sits on one on Napa Valley’s few alluvial fans.
The Palisades and the knolls create a wind tunnel here that extends the growing season considerably

92
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I’m what AVA is Dominus located?

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Yountville

93
Q

Who founded Screaming Eagle? When?

A

Jean Phillips
1992

94
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Who owns Screaming Eagle today?

A

Stan Kroenke

95
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Who is the current winemaker at Screaming Eagle? Who came before?

A

Nick Gislason
Heidi Barrett

96
Q

Where is Matanzas Creek winery?

A

Bennet Valley in Sonoma

97
Q

Where is lake Sonoma?

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East of Rockpile and at the North end of Dry Creek Valley

98
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At what elevation are Mount Veeder vineyards?

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400ft to 2,630 ft

99
Q

What are the lakes of Napa Valley?

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Lake Berryessa
Lake Henessey

100
Q

What are the AVAs of Lake County?

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Clear Lake
Benmore Valley
High Valley
Big Valley District
Kelsey Bench
Red Hills
Guenoc Valley

101
Q

I’m what AVA in Far Niente?

A

Oakville

102
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What is special about the Napanook vineyard? Who owns it now?

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Napanook is the site where George Yount originally planted Cabernet Sauvignon in what is now Yountville.
Dominus owns the property today.

103
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What is the oldest continuously operating winery in Napa?

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Beringer (1876)

104
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Where is Wente vineyards?
What are its claims to fame?

A

Livermore Valley
Wente clone Chardonnay
Oldest family owned continuously operating winery in the US

105
Q

What counties does the Lodi AVA span?

A

Yolo, Sacramento, and San Joaquin

106
Q

What are the sub AVAs of Santa Cruz?

A

Ben Lomond Mountain
Santa Cruz Mountains

107
Q

Which AVA South East of San Francisco is NOT included in the central coast?

A

Santa Cruz Mountains

108
Q

What are the AVAs of Alameda and contra costa counties?

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Livermore Valley
La Morinda
Santa Clara valley
San Ysidro District

109
Q

Livermore valley is best known for grape cuttings from where?

A

Sauvignon Blanc cuttings from d’Yquem

110
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What are the sub AVAs of the Sierra Foothills?

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Yuba
North Yuba
El Dorado
El Dorado
Fairplay
Amador
Shenandoah Valley
Fiddletown

111
Q

Who was the original winemaker at Ridge Vineyards?

A

Paul Draper

112
Q

Where is Bonny Doon located? What was the first vintage of their flagship wine?

A

Santa Cruz Mountains
Cigare Volant (Syrah)
1984

113
Q

What AVAs are between San Francisco and Monterey?

A

Alameda County
San Francisco Bay
Livermore valley
Santa Clara
Santa Clara Valley
Pacheco Pass
San Ysidro district
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Mountains
Ben Lomond Mountain

114
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What are the major vineyard sites for Ridge?

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Montebello (Santa Cruz)
Geyserville (Alexander Valley)
Lytton Springs (Dry Creek Valley)
East Bench (Dry Creek Valley)

115
Q

Where is the Calera Vineyard?

A

Mount Harlan AVA in the Gabilan Mountains AVA in San Benito County

116
Q

What two counties is the Chalone AVA split between?

A

Monterey and San Benito

117
Q

Where is Tablas Creek?

A

Paso Robles in SLO county

118
Q

List the AVAs of Monterey county

A

Carmel
Santa Lucia Highlands
Arroyo Secco
San Bernabe
San Lucas
Hames Valley
San Antonio

119
Q

I’m what county is the Saint Lucia Highlands?

A

Monterey

120
Q

Where is Gary’s vineyard? What grapes is it notable for?

A

Santa Lucia highlands AVA in Monterey County
Pinot Noir

121
Q

What valley runs through the Monterey AVA?

A

The Salinas Valley

122
Q

What country has the longest growing season in California?

A

Saint Barbera County

123
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In what county does Sin Qua Non source their grapes?

A

Santa Barbara

124
Q

What was Sin Qua Non’s first wine?

A

Queen of Spades 1994

125
Q

Where is Mer Soleil Vineyard?

A

Santa Lucia Highlands AVA in Monterey county

126
Q

In what county is Paso Robles AVA?

A

San Louis Obispo

127
Q

List the AVAs of Santa Barbera County

A

Santa Maria Valley
Santa Ynez Valley
Ballard Canyon
Santa Rita Hills
Los Olivos
Happy Canyon
Alisos Canyon

128
Q

Where is the Sanford and Benedict vineyard?

A

Santa Rita Hills AVA in Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County

129
Q

Where is Bien Nacido vineyard?

A

Santa Maria Valley in Santa Barbara County

130
Q

Where is Zaca Mesa winery?
Name 3 wineries that grew out of it

A

Santa Ynez Valley
Ojai (Adam Tolmach)
Au Bon Climat (Jim Clenenden)
Qupe (Bob Lindquist)

131
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Where is Alban vineyard? What grape varietals are planted there?

A

Edna Valley in San Louis Obispo
Rhône varietals

132
Q

List the AVAs of Los Angeles County

A

Antelope Valley of the California High Dessert
Malibu Coast
Leona Valley
Saddle Rock Malibu
Sierra Pelona Valley
Malibu Newton Canyon

133
Q

Who created The Prisoner wine?
Who owns it now?

A

Orin Swift and winemaker Dave Phinny
Constellation Brands

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