Chile Areas

Question 1

Chile’s Región Vitícola from North to South

Answer 1

Atacama
Coquimbo
Aconcagua
Valle Central (Central Valley)
Sur (Southern Regions)
Austral

Question 2

Atacama: Subregions

Answer 2

Copiapo

Huasco

Question 3

Coquimbo: Subregions

Answer 3

Elqui
Limari
Choapa

Question 4

Aconcagua: Sub-regions

Answer 4

Aconcagua
Casablanca
San Antonio

Question 5

San Antonio: Zones

Answer 5

Leyda

Lo Abarco, Rosario, Malvilla

Question 6

Central Valley: Subregions

Answer 6

Maipo
Rapel
Curico
Maule

Question 7

Rapel: Zones

Answer 7

Cachapoal

Colchagua

Question 8

Curico: Zones

Answer 8

Teno

Lontue

Question 9

Maule: Zones

Answer 9

Claro
Loncomilla
Tutuven

Question 10

Sur: Subregions

Answer 10

Itata
Bio Bio
Malleco

Question 11

Austral: Subregions

Answer 11

Cautin

Osorno

Question 12

Which area of Maule was a major site for vineyard acreage in the 1800’s? In what GD and zone is it located?

Answer 12

Cauquenes
Entre Cordilleras
Tutuven

Question 13

What is the single most important DO area for Carmenère? Where is it located, and what GD does it belong to?

Answer 13

Peumo
Cachapoal
Entre Cordilleras

Question 14

Where is La Serena? What GD does it fall under?

Answer 14

Elqui Valley

Costa

Question 15

What and where are the highest viticultural areas in Chile? How high are they?

Answer 15

Vicuña and Paiguano
Elqui, Andes
500M-2000M

Question 16

What is the Costa designated area in Limari?

Answer 16

Ovalle

Question 17

What two areas of Aconcagua are outside the subregions?

Answer 17

Marga Marga
Zapallar
Both Costa

Question 18

In what area does the Aconcagua make a sharp hairpin turn, cutting off coastal air from the rest of the valley?

Answer 18

Quillota (Costa)

Question 19

What three areas make up the square sided amphitheater in the east of Aconcagua?

Answer 19

Santa Maria
San Esteban
Calle Larga
All Andes, between San Felipe and Los Andes.

Question 20

Where is Panquehue?

Answer 20

Aconcagua, Entre Cordilleras

Question 21

Which subregion of Aconcagua is designated a GD area in its entirety?

Answer 21

Casablanca

Question 22

Which three areas of Maipo are on the border of or within Santiago?

Answer 22

Santiago
Pirque
Buin
Puente Alto
All Andes

Question 23

What are the two most important areas of the Maipo Entre Cordilleras?

Answer 23

Isla de Maipo (De Martino)

Alhué

Question 24

What are the Costa areas of Colchagua?

Answer 24

Lolol
Paredones
Pumanque

Question 25

What are the Andes areas of Colchagua?

Answer 25

Chimbarongo | San Fernando

Question 26

Which two DO's of Colchagua expanded most significantly in the 1990's and 2000's? Which producers were responsible?

Answer 26

Lolol (Costa) Marchigüe (Entre Cordilleras) Viña Santa Cruz Montes

Question 27

Which producers are venturing up in to the Andes foothills in Colchagua, taking advantage of the basalt terraces and cool winds?

Answer 27

Siegel and Koyle (owned by the Undurraga family), planting in Los Lingues

Question 28

What is the viticultural area of Malleco, and what is it named for?

Answer 28

Traigúen, named for the only town of significance.