Climate

Question 1

Bordeaux

Answer 1

Moderate maritime
Hazards: inconsist vintages, high rain and humid
Good: rare spring frosts, gulf current extends season, sand dunes and forest
Soil: gravely left, clay right

Question 2

Burgundy

Answer 2

Cool continental Chablis, moderate lower
Hazards: rain during flowering and harvest, damp season, pring frosts, hail
Soil: limestone in dor, clay chablis

Question 3

Beaujolais

Answer 3

Mod continental
Good: bushes in gobelet for shade, high dournal
Soil: granate, low nutrients, good for peasent grape

Question 4

Alsace

Answer 4

Cool-mod continental
Hazards: drought some years, long harvesting times for different varietals
Good: voseges mountains (rain shadow), dry for low disease (organic), south east slopes, tained low on slopes and high in valley
Soil: variety, lots of terroir importance

Question 5

Loire

Answer 5

Cool maritime-continental
Hazards: rain during ripening period, rain during harvest, spring frosts more inland, vintage variation
Good: anjou warmer from mauges hills, river for heat+sun, slopes for heat+sun
Soil: Sandy in nuances, clay in anjou and tour Raine, chalky in sancerre

Question 6

N rhone

Answer 6

Moderate continental
Hazard: mistral
Good: massif mountains, side valleys protect mistral, stakes low for wind, slopes for sun, river
Soil: granate in hermitage

Question 7

S rhone

Answer 7

Moderate-warm continental
Hazards: flatter than north, worse mistral, drought
Good: bush trained grenache for heat and wind, trellising for Syrah, hills
Soil: big stones, galats in chat de pape

Question 8

Southern france

Answer 8

Warm Mediterranean
Hazards: drought, mistral and tramontane
Good: consistant weather, high diurnal, mild winters, low rain and disease, hills for draining, plains for fertility

Question 9

Germany

Answer 9

Cool continental
Hazards: wet summer, vintage variation
Good: dry autumn, long cool ripening time, can have botrys, trained vines for sun and airflow, river, high diurnal
Soil: best on stony slopes, slate in mosel

Question 10

Austria

Answer 10

Cool continental
Hazards: harsh winters, cool wind from north
Good: dry summers (organic), Danube river, misty lake for noble, warm wind from south

Question 11

Spain

Answer 11

North-west mod maritime
East Coast warm Mediterranean
Central hit continental

Hazard: heat and lack of water (opposite in NW)
Good: low disease, low density planting, bush trained, high altitudes for diurnal, east has sea moderation

Question 12

Northern italy

Answer 12

Mod continental, some med influences
Hazard: close to sea can have more rain and disease
Good: rivers and lakes, pergola canopy (shade and airflow), vsp more common, foothills

Question 13

Central italy

Answer 13

Hot Mediterranean (moderated to warm) 
Good: Coastal sea breezes, apennine for altitude

Question 14

Southern italy

Answer 14

Hot med (moderated to warm)
Hazard: humid on coast
Good: altitude, dry inland, bush against sun

Question 15

California

Answer 15

Hazard: lack of rain, too much cooling some years
Good: col current, cool breeze, mountains to protect, mist from Bay, dry autumn, altitude

Question 16

Chile

Answer 16

Warm Mediterranean
Hazard: Nino/niña
Good: dry sunny ripening season (sustainable), cooling Humboldt (may bring fog), shelter in central valley

Question 17

Argentina

Answer 17

Hazard: summer hail (netting), little rain, excessive heat
Good: LOTS of altitude, parral (canopy training), rain shadow but water from rivers, dry (organic)

Question 18

South Africa

Answer 18

Should be too hot, but:

Good: Cape Doctor, cooling benguela, mountains for altitude and aspect

Question 19

New zealand

Answer 19

Mod maritime (Otago is cool continental)
Hazards: can get too much rain (esp harvest), spring frost (and fall Otago)
Good: long and strong sunny days, cool sea breeze, long ripening period (Otago diurnal and cont)

Question 20

Australia

Answer 20

Mostly warm or hot (warm maritime Marg River, cool-mod in s Victoria and Tasmania)
Hazards: drought, bush fires (off flavours)
Good: most by sea, near Murray River system, or at altitude