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What are the major American grape species?

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Vitis Labrusca (Concord)
Vitis Aestivalis (Norton)
Vitis Rotundifolia (Scuppernong)
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What was America’s first AVA?

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Augusta, Missouri (1980)

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When did Napa Valley gain AVA status?

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1981

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Who oversees the AVA system?

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Originally the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF);
Currently the Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)

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What are the required % for County or State labeled wines?

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Vintage: 85%
Varietal: 75%
Location: 75%

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What are the required % for AVA labeled wines?

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Vintage: 95%
Varietal: 75%
Location: 85%

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What % of grapes must be from the state to label Calfornia, Oregon, or Washington?

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CA and OR: 100%

WA: 95%

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What % is required to varietally label vitis labrusca wines?

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51.00%

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What % is required to list a single vineyard?

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95.00%

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What is required to qualify a wine as Estate Bottled?

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100% of the wine must come from grapes grown on land owned or controlled by the winery, and the vineyards and the winery itself must be within the same AVA.

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What AVAs are between San Francisco and Monterey?

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San Francisco Bay
Livermore Valley (within San Francisco Bay)
Ben Lomond Mountain (within Santa Cruz Mtns)
Santa Cruz Mountains
Santa Clara Valley
Pacheco Pass
San Ysidro District

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Which AVA southeast of SF is NOT included in the Central Coast? What other larger AVA is it excluded from?

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Santa Cruz Mountains

San Francisco Bay

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What was the first AVA to be designated by altitude, and what are its minimums? Why?

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Santa Cruz Mountains, 1981.
Best vineyards are planted on steep ridges above the reach of the fog; altitude and ocean breezes collaborate to create a long, cool, growing season.
400ft-800ft, depending on where you are on the boundary.

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What are the AVAs of Monterey County?

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Monterey
Carmel Valley (coastal, direct maritime influence)
Chalone (east, inland side of the mountains)
Santa Lucia Highlands
Arroyo Secco
San Bernabe
San Lucas
San Antonio Valley (surrounds San Antonio Lake)
Hames Valley

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What major river runs north through Paso, San Lucas, Hames, Bernable, Arroyo Seco, and Monterey? Largest river in the central coast!

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Salinas River

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Who owns the single vineyard in San Bernabe? How large is it?

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Delicato Family Vineyards

5,000acres (2,020 ha)

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Where is San Benito County? What are the nested AVAs?

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East of Monterey
Mount Harlan
Cienega Valley
Lime Kiln Valley (within Cienega Valley)
Paicines (east of Cienega)

Part of Pacheco Pass is in San Benito County, but nested within the larger San Francisco Bay AVA.

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18
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What mountains separate the Central Coast from the Central Valley?

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The Diablo Range

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Who is the sole producer of Mount Harlan? What vineyards do they farm?

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Calera
(clockwise from 12; all approx 2200-2400ft)
Sellek, Reed, de Villiers (1997 block), Jensen, Hills, Ryan

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What mountain ranges bracket Monterey (and separate it from San Benito in the east)?

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Santa Lucia Range
Sierra de Salinas
Gabilan Range

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Who founded Mer Soleil? What wines are produced? What is their relationship to Belle Glos?

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The Wagner family (Caymus).
Mer Soleil is run by Charlie Wagner II, producing Mer Soleil Reserve and Silver (unoaked).
Belle Glos is run by Charlie’s brother Joe Wagner, producing vineyard designate Pinot Noirs in Sonoma and the Central Coast.

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What are the AVAs of San Luis Obispo?

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Paso Robles
York Mountain
Edna Valley
Arroyo Grande Valley

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What are the sub-AVAs of Paso Robles? When did they come into effect?

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Adelaida District, San Miguel District, Paso Robles Estrella District, San Juan Creek
Paso Robles Willow Creek District, Templeton Gap District, El Pomar District, Paso Robles Geneseo District
Creston District, Paso Robles Highlands District
Santa Margarita Ranch
2014

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What AVAs of Paso Robles are Region II?

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Adelaida District (II-III)
Paso Robles Willow Creek District
Templeton Gap District
El Pomar District
Santa Margarita Ranch
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Which AVAs of Paso Robles are Region IV?

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San Juan Creek
Paso Robles Geneseo District
Paso Robles Highlands District

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Paso Robles: Climate and Soils (general)

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Maritime near the coast, becoming more continental to the east.
Bifurcated by Santa Lucia Range in the west and La Panza Range in the east.
Mix of granitic and sedimentary in the hills; alluvial soils with some calcaire in the valleys.

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Paso Robles: Mountains and Rivers

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Santa Lucia Range (west), La Panza Range (east)
Huerhuero-La Panza fault (Geneseo), Rinconada fault (Sant Margarita Ranch)
Salinas River, Estrella River, San Juan Creek, Huerhuero Creek

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What was the first winery established in the Central Coast?

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Ascencion Winery, founded 1882 by Andrew York in what is now York Mountain.

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29
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Where does the California coastline turn east?

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Point Conception

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Santa Ynez Valley encompasses what sub-AVAs?

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Sta. Rita Hills
Ballard Canyon
Los Olivos
Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara

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What are the AVAs of Santa Barbara County?

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Santa Maria Valley
Sta. Rita Hills
Santa Ynez Valley
Ballard Canyon
Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara
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What and where is Los Alamos?

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An unofficial winegrowing region in Santa Barbara, between Santa Maria and Santa Ynez. Runs along the Solomon Hills.

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Santa Barbara: Mountains

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San Rafael and Sierra Madre to the northeast
Santa Ynez along the South Coast
Santa Rita Hills, Purisima Hills (internal)

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Where are the oldest Syrah plantings in Santa Barbara?

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Black Bear Block at Zaca Mesa Winery (1978)

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Where is Temecula?

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California’s South Coast - between Irvine and Escondido

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Where is Gary’s Vineyard? Name producers.

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Santa Lucia Highlands
Kosta Browne Pinot Noir
Lucia Pinot Noir
Miner Pinot Noir

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Where is Pisoni? What lines do they produce?

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Santa Lucia Highlands
Pisoni Estate (Pinot Noir from Pisoni Estate vineyard)
Lucia (vineyard designate PN, Chard, and Syrah from the three vineyards farmed by Pisoni: Pisoni, Gary’s Soberanes)

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Where is the Sawyer-Lindquist vineyard?

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Edna Valley

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Where is Alban Vineyards? When was it established? Name three wines produced.

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Edna Valley, established 1990 by John Alban.
All Rhone varieties: Viognier, Roussanne, Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre.
Syrah: Seymour’s, Reva, Lorraine, Patrina
Grenache: Pandora Proprietary
Mourvedre: Forsythe

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Where is Bonny Doon located? First vintage of the flagship wine?

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Santa Cruz Mountains
1984 Cigare Volant

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Where is Wente Vineyards? What are its claims to fame?

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Livermore Valley
“oldest continuously operating, family-owned winery in the USA”
Original source for the Wente clone, sourced from Montpellier in 1912 and then proliferated.

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Who owns Chalone Vineyard?

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Diageo (2005)

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Who produces Le Moulin Rouge Pinot Noir, and where?

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Peter Michael, SLH

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Where is the Peter Martin Ray vineyard?

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Santa Cruz Mountains

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Where is Scheid Vineyards? How much acreage do they own?

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Monterey (up and down the Salinas Valley)
4,200 acres

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Where is Tablas Creek?

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Paso Robles (Adelaida District)

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47
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Where is Bien Nacido vineyard?

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Santa Maria Valley

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Where is Sanford & Benedict? When was it planted? Who owns it now?

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Sta. Rita Hills, 1971
Terlato, who also owns Sanford Winery

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Demands from which winery caused the abbreviation of Santa Rita Hills, and when?

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Santa Rita (Chile)
2006
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Where is Sea Smoke? What wines do they produce?

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Sta. Rita Hills
Vineyard designate Pinot Noirs: Southing, Botella, Ten
Also Chardonnay, Sea Spray Blanc de Noirs

51
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Where is Sebastiano Vineyard?

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Santa Barbara, right on the line of Sta. Rita Hills (half in, half out).

52
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Where are Vogelzang and McGinley vineyards?

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Happy Canyon

53
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Where is Zaca Mesa, and when was it founded? Name three wineries that grew out of it.

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Santa Ynez Valley, 1972 (vines planted 1973)
Byron (Ken Brown)
Ojai (Adam Tolmach)
Au Bon Climat (Jim Clendenen)
Qupe (Bob Lindquist)
54
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Where is Sine Qua Non located? What was their inaugural vintage and wine?

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Santa Barbara (fruit sourced from around the county)
1994 Queen of Spades (Syrah)
55
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Who owns Jonata?

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Stan Kroeneke - sister winery to Screaming Eagle, located in Santa Ynez Valley

56
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Where is Pisoni?

What lines do they produce?

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  • Santa Lucia Highlands
  • Pisoni Estate
    • Pinot Noir from Pisoni Estate vineyard
  • Lucia
    • vineyard designate PN, Chard, Syrah from the three vineyards farmed by Pisoni
      • Pisoni
      • Gary’s
      • Soberanes
57
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Where is the Sawyer-Lindquist vineyard?

A

Edna Valley

58
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Where is Alban Vineyards?

When was it established?

Name three wines produced.

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  • Edna Valley
  • est. 1990 by John Alban
  • All Rhone varieties: Viognier, Roussanne, Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre.
  • Syrah: Seymour’s, Reva, Lorraine, Patrina
  • Grenache: Pandora Proprietary
  • Mourvedre: Forsythe
59
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Where is Wente Vineyards?

What are its claims to fame?

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  • Livermore Valley
  • “oldest continuously operating, family-owned winery in the USA”
  • Original source for the Wente clone, sourced from Montpellier in 1912 and then proliferated
60
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AVA’s of Alameda County?

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Livermore Valley
San Francisco Bay

61
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AVA’s of Contra Costa County?

62
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AVA’s of Monterey County?

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Arroyo Seco
Carmel Valley
Chalone
Hames Valley
Monterey
San Antonio Valley
San Bernabe
San Lucas
Santa Lucia Highlands

63
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AVA’s of San Benito County?

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Cienega Valley
Lime Kiln Valley
Mt Harlan
Paicines
San Benito

64
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AVA’s of San Luis Obispo?

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Adelaide District
Arroyo Grande Valley
Creston District
Edna Valley
El Pomar District
Paso Robles
Paso Robles Geneseo
Paso Robles Highlands
Paso Robles Willow Creek
San Juan Creek
San Miguel District
Santa Margarita Ranch
Templeton Gap
York Mountain

65
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Which of the following AVAs has the highest minimum elevation?

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Rockpile AVA, Sonoma min. 800 ft

Howell Mountain AVA, Napa $$$ min. 1400 ft

Mendocino Ridge AVA, Mendocino min. 1200 ft

Santa Cruz Mountains AVA, not Central Coast AVA min 400

66
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What was the first AVA in San Diego County?

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San Pasqual Valley 1981

67
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Arrange these Paso Robles sub AVAs in order furthest west (1) to east (2)

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El Polmar 3

Adelaida District 1

York Mountain 2

Paso Robles Highlands District 4

68
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What sub AVA can we find the highest elevation in Paso Robles:

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Creston District 1000-200 ft

Paso Highlands District 1160-2086 ft

San Miguel District lowest point at 580 ft

Adelaida District $$$

69
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Furthest south AVA in Paso Robles?

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Santa Margarita Ranch AVA

70
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The longest river in the Central Coast, stretching 175 mi through Santa Lucia Highlands and emptying in the Monterey Bay is…..

A

The Salinas River

71
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Borrowing a prompt from Mark, what is the name of the Raj Parr project in Rancho Cucamonga?

A

Scythian Wine Co.

72
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Put these CA AVA in order North (1) to South (11) :

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Paso Robles 9

Sta. Rita Hills 11

Santa Maria Valley 10

Santa Lucia Highlands 7

Santa Cruz Mountains 5

Arroyo Seco 8

Monterey 6

Santa Clara Valley 4

Livermore Valley 3

Seiad Valley 1- furthest North in CA

Napa Valley 2

73
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What are the perimeters of the Central Coast AVA?

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Spans the entirety of the California coastline from San Francisvo Bay in the north to Santa Barbara county in the south

74
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Most widely-planted varietal of the Central Coast?

A

Chardonnay

75
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Characteristics of the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA?

A

Cool coastal climate
High-altitude vineyards between miles of redwood forests

76
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Name two famous vineyards of the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA?

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Ridge’s Monte Bello
Bonny Doon Estate Vineyard

77
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Characteristics of Livermoore VAlley AVA

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Warm inland, gravel soil, known for SB

78
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What AVA does the Wente Family produce from?

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Livermore Valley AVA
- SB cuttings are from d’Yquem

79
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What wine is mostly produced in Monterey AVA?

80
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Where is the Rhy’s Family Vineyard located?

A

Santa Cruz Mountains AVA

81
Q

Who is the winemaker for Ridge Vineyards?

A

Paul Draper

82
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Name the AVA’s of Montery County:

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Monterey
Santa Lucia Highlands
Arroyo Seco
San Lucas
Hames Valley
Chalone
Carmel Valley
San Antonio Valley
San Bernabe

83
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What are the two main valleys of Monterey County?

A

Salinas
Carmel

84
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What is the dominant grape of Monterey AVA?

A

Chardonnay represents 50% of plantings

85
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What is the specialty of Santa Lucia Highlands AVA?

A

Pinot Noir

86
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What county is Santa Lucia Highlands in?

A

Monterey County

87
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What county is San Antonio Valley located in?

A

Monterey County

88
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What mountain range is Chalone AVA located in?

A

Gabilan Mountains

89
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Which county is Mount Harlan AVA located in?

A

San Benito County

90
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Where is Calera winery located?

A

Mount Harlan AVA

91
Q

Which county is Paso Robles AVA located in?

A

San Luis Obispo County

92
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How many AVAs are nested with/in Paso Robles AVA?

93
Q

What does Paso Robles mean?

A

Pass of the oak trees

94
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Name the sub-AVA’s of Paso Robles AVA (11):

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  • Adelaida
  • Paso Robles Willow Creek
  • Templeton Gap
  • Santa Margarita Ranch
  • San Miguel
  • Paso Robles
  • Estrella
  • Paso Robles Genesco
  • El Pomar
  • San Juan
  • Highlands
  • Creston
95
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Describe the western reaches of the Paso Robles AVA?

A

Characterized by cooler marine air funneled through the Templeton Gap and more prevalent limestone/calcareous soils

96
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Describe the eastern reaches of the Paso Robles AVA:

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Soil is sandier and the climate in general is warmer and more arid

97
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Which famous winery owns a nursery in Paso Robles?

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Chateau Beaucastel
- Part owner of Tablas Creek
- provides clonal material from the Rhone to interested producers

98
Q

Who planted the first Syrah vines in Paso Robles AVA?

A

Gary Eberle

99
Q

Which county is York Mountain AVA in?

A

San Obispo County

100
Q

What county is Arroyo Grande AVA and Edna Valley AVA in?

A

San Obispo County

101
Q

Name the two major valleys in Santa Barbara County:

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Santa Maria Valley
Santa Ynez Valley

102
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When was the Gabilan Mountain AVA established? Nested AVA’s?

A

Mount Harlan AVA
Chalone AVA

103
Q

Name the AVA’s located w/in Santa Ynez Valley?

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Santa Rita Hills
Happy Canyon
Ballard Canyon
Los Olivos District

104
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What county is Sta. Rita Hills AVA and Happy Canyon AVA located in?

A

Santa Barbara

105
Q

Why does Sta. Rita Hills need to abbreviate their name?

A

a legal dispute w/ a Chilean winey of the same name in 2006

106
Q

Prominent vineyard in Santa Maria Valley AVA?

A

giant Bien Nacido Vineyard
- mid-1970’s, planted to PN, Chard, Syrah

107
Q

Chalone AVA is shared between what two counties?

A

Monterey
San Benito

108
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Santa Maria Valley is shared between what two counties?

A

Santa Barbara County
San Louis Obispo County

109
Q

Sub-AVA of the Santa Cruz Mountains:

A

Ben Lamond Mountain

110
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What two AVA’s are NOT included in the Central Coast AVA due to elevation:

A

Santa Cruz Mountains
sub-AVA Ben Lamond

111
Q

What AVA’s are located w/in Santa Ynez Valley AVA?

A

Sta. Rita Hills
Happy Canyon
Ballard Canyon
Los Olivos

112
Q

What AVA has the largest growing season of California?

A

Santa Barbara AVA

113
Q

What two counties share Livermore Valley AVA?

A

Alamela County
Contra Costa County

114
Q

In what county is Lime Kiln Valley AVA?

A

Lime Kiln Valley is w/in Paicines AVA in San Benito County

115
Q

In what county is Cienega Valley AVA?

A

San Benito

116
Q

Producers using Bien Nacido fruit:

A

Qupe
Bedrock
Twomey
Ojai
Chanin
Piedrassai
Tyler
Paul Lato
Byron
Au Bon Climat
Fess Parker
Railsback Freres
Lindquist

117
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What producers source from Sanford & Benedict vineyard?

A

Tyler
Fess Parker
Arnot Roberts
Deovlet
Racines
Au Bon Climat
Ken Brown
Sandhi
Chanin
Liquid Farm
Hitching Post

118
Q

In what county is San Ysidro AVA?

A

San Ysidro AVA is completely inside Santa Clara Valley AVA in Santa Clara County

119
Q

In what county is Mount Harlan in?

A

San Benito

120
Q

Where is Gary’s vineyard?

A

Santa Lucia Highlands

121
Q

Where is Sanford & Benedict?

A

Sta Rita Hills

122
Q

Where is Monte Bello?

A

Santa Cruz Mountains

123
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Winemaker for Ridge?

A

Paul Draper

124
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Winemaker for Au Bon Climat?

A

Jim Clendenen

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