California Wine regions Flashcards

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Name the main California Wine regions

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North Coast AVA
Central Coast AVA
South Coast AVA
Sierra foothills AVA
Central Valley
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Factors influencing the California climate:

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Temperate climatic zone
Close to Pacific Ocean
Icy Humboldt current
Hot Central Valley
Mediterranean climate
Spring frosts
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Name the California Wine grapes

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Sauvignon Blanc
Chardonnay
Merlot
Cabernet Sauvignon
Pinot Noir
Zinfandel
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Tell me about California’s Zinfandel

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Deemed as ”California’s native variety”
1870's – was number 1 in acreage in CA 
Its versitile
Some vines are over 100 years old
1980 lost favour
2001 Carole Meredith (an American grape geneticist and was a professor at the Department of Viticulture and Enology of University of California, Davis) traced its DNA ancestry to an Indigenous Grape Croatia of Croatia Crljenik Kasteljanski.and identified it being the same as Primitivo
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Crljenik Kasteljanski pronunciation.

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“sirl-yen-ack kastelanski”

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Trends in California Viticulture

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Massive replanting in the 90's
Denser plantings
variety of clones
Open & controlled foliage
Specific irrigation
Better suiting of grape varietal to site.
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California’s climate

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Coastal = medditeranean. (long hot Summers with little rain and mild winters)
The icy cold Humbolt Current of the Pacific cause a fog. As the inland air warms and rises, cold fog is sucked in to fill the space as far as 240km inland, cooling the land as it goes.
Coolling maintains good acid levels, long hang-time and flavour develpoment.
The cooler coastal areas are better suited to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Spring frost risk damaging buds. fans and spraying water is used to counter.

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