General infoQ

Question 1

South Australia produces how much of Australia’s wine?

Answer 1

50%

Question 2

Until the 1960s, about how much of Australian wine was sweet?

Answer 2

About 80%

Question 3

What 3 grapes started demand for dry wine production?

Answer 3

Chardonnay Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon

Question 4

What 2 organizations have advanced the understanding of wine and grapes in Australia?

Answer 4

Australian Wine Research Institute - Adelaide Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization

Question 5

Who debuted Grange, when, and under what name?

Answer 5

1951 - Max Schubert - Grange Hermitage

Question 6

Who produces Astralis?

Answer 6

Clarendon Hills

Question 7

What was Wine Australia formerly known as?

Answer 7

The Australia Wine and Brandy Corporation

Question 8

What is the coolest and smallest state on the mainland?

Answer 8

Victoria

Question 9

What is the maritime zone that surrounds Melbourne?

Answer 9

Port Philip

Question 10

What is Victoria’s oldest wine region?

Answer 10

Yarra Valley GI

Question 11

When did Moet and Chandon start the Australian Domaine Chandon?

Answer 11

1987

Question 12

What peninsula is south of Melbourne?

Answer 12

The Mornington Peninsula

Question 13

What are the 3 inland Victoria zones

Answer 13

North East Victoria North West Victoria Central Victoria

Question 14

Which producer protected its vines from phylloxera?

Answer 14

Tahbilk

Question 15

What is the sticky network? How many tiers does it have?

Answer 15

The Muscat of Rutherglen Network 4

Question 16

How many zones are in South Australia?

Answer 16

8

Question 17

Coonawarra is within which zone?

Answer 17

Limestone Coast

Question 18

What is the only GI of Lower Murray?

Answer 18

Riverland

Question 19

What is traditionally used for barrel-aged Barossa Shiraz?

Answer 19

300 liter American Oak hogsheads

Question 20

Where is Penfolds?

Answer 20

Barossa Valley

Question 21

What is the main subregion of Western Australia?

Answer 21

Margaret River GI

Question 22

What is the name of the South Australia superzone? What 3 zones are part of it?

Answer 22

Adelaide Superzone Barossa Fleurieu Mount Lofty Ranges

Question 23

What are the 4 Barossa Old Vine Charter Age Groups? What are the minimum year requirements?

Answer 23

Old Vine - 35 Survivor Vine - 70 Centenarian Vine - 100 Ancestor - 125

Question 24

What white grapes are common in Southern Flinders Ranges?

Answer 24

Riesling Viognier

Question 25

What is the dominant soil of McLaren Vale?

Answer 25

red brown loam

Question 26

What are the soils of Coonawarra?

Answer 26

terra rossa, black rendzina and brown rendzina soil

Question 27

What are the unofficial subregions of Clare Valley GI?

Answer 27

Polish Hill Watervale Auburn Sevenhill Clare

Question 28

What is the warmest spot of Clare Valley? Coolest?

Answer 28

Sevenhill Polish Hill River

Question 29

What are the unofficial subregions of Northern Tasmania?

Answer 29

Pipers River Tamar Valley North West Coast

Question 30

What are the unofficial subregions of Southern Tasmania?

Answer 30

Derwent Valley Huon Valley Coal River/Richmond East Coast

Question 31

What are the 2 GIs of North West Victoria?

Answer 31

Murray Darling Swan Hill

Question 32

What are the 3 styles of fortified Rutherglen?

Answer 32

Topaque Muscat Tawny

Question 33

What is the soil of Rutherglen?

Answer 33

“Rutherglen” loam (preferred for fortified styles) and “Black Dog” fine sandy loam

Question 34

What is the main red grape of Mornington Peninsula?

Answer 34

Pinot Noir

Question 35

What is the main red grape of Yarra Valley?

Answer 35

Pinot Noir

Question 36

What are the unofficial subregions of Geographe?

Answer 36

Ferguson Valley Donnybrook Capel-Busselton Harvey

Question 37

What is the soil of Porongurup?

Answer 37

deep karri loam, derived from granite

Question 38

What is karri?

Answer 38

Eucalyptus

Question 39

What is the soil of Frankland River?

Answer 39

red soils derived from granite and gneiss