CANADA Flashcards
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- CLIMATE: CONTINENTAL
- AVERAGE ANNUAL TEMP. ARE LOW / AVERAGE DAYTIME TEMP. IN JULY & AUGUST ARE OFTEN VERY H
- LARGE LAKES GO SOME WAY TO MODERATE TEMP. EXTREMES/ BUT WINTERS ARE COLD & TEMP MAY DROP FAR BELOW ZERO FOR LONG PERIODS=CREATING SUITABLE COND. FOR ICEWINE PROD.
ONTARIO : HAS 3 DVAs = MOST IMP: NIAGARA PENINSULA
- ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN CORNER OF LAKE ONTARIO
- LAKE COOLS DOWN & HEATS UP MORE SLOWLY THAN THE SURROUNDING LAND=EXTENDS THE GROWING SEASON IN THE AUTUMN=ALLOW GR TO RIP. FULLY & DELAYS BUDBURST IN THE SPRING, HELPING TO MIN. FROST DAMAGE
- AIR FLOW HELPS TO REDUCE FUNGAL DISEASE
- RIESLING: DOES WELL HERE/ FRESH, FRUITY, DRY, OFF-DRY WHITES & FINEST ICEWINES
- ANOTHER GR VAR COMMONLY USED FOR ICEWINE: VIDAL/THIS HYBRID IS HARDY, LITTLE CHARACTER WHEN MADE IN DRY STYLE/ IT CAN MAKE HQ ICEWINES ALTHOUGH WITHOUT THE ACID STR. & AROMATIC COMP. OF THOSE MADE FR RIESLING
- CHARDONNAY: GOOD Q DRY/ PURE FRUIT & RESTRAINED OAK
- BLACK VAR: SOME PROD. ARE MAKING VERY HQ W FROM PINOT NOIR/ PLANT OF CAB. SAUV, CAB. FRANC, MERLOT ARE INCREASING
BRITISH COLUMBIA: IT HAS 5 DVAs, THE MOST IMP. OF WHICH IS THE OKANAGAN VALLEY:
- HUGE DVA LIES IN A RAIN SHADOW BETWEEN 2 MOUNTAIN RANGES=RESULTS IN VERY LOW ANNUAL AVERAGE RAINFALL & SEMI-DESERT ENVIRONMENT
- DAY LENGTHS THROUGHOUT THE GROWING SEASON ARE EXT. LONG DUE TO THE NORTHERN LATITUDE & THIS PROLONGS THE TIME IN WHICH PHOTOSYNTHESIS CAN TAKE PLACE=AIDING GR RIP.
- LARGE GLACIAL LAKES= HELP TO MOD. TEMP & EXTENDS THE GROW. SEASON, ENABLING SUCCESSFUL RIP. OF WHITE GR IN THE NORTH & BLACK GR IN THE SOUTH
- MOST W. P. VAR: MERLOT, PINOT GRIS, PINOT NOIR, CHARDONNAY
- ICEWINE: ALSO PROD HERE: USUALLY FROM RIESLING OR VIDAL
