Mendocino Flashcards
What are the two main rivers of Mendocino County?
Russian River
Navarro River
What Mendocino AVAs are not nested in Mendocino AVA?
Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak AVA
Dos Rios AVA
Covelo AVA
Eagle Peak Mendocino County AVA
What are the furthest north Mendocino AVAs?
Covelo AVA
Dos Rios AVA
Why did Mendocino AVA decrease in size? What year?
It decreased so as to not overlap with the new Eagle Peak Mendocino County AVA in 2014
What are the “monopole” AVAs of Mendocino?
Cole Ranch AVA- Esterlina
McDowell Valley AVA- McDowell Valley winery
What is the smallest AVA in America?
Cole Ranch AVA
189 acres (76.49 ha)
Less than a quarter of a square mile
What AVAs are nested in Mendocino AVA?
Anderson Valley AVA Potter Valley AVA Redwood Valley AVA McDowell Valley AVA Yorkville Highlands AVA Cole Ranch AVA part of Mendocino Ridge AVA
What is the minimum elevation of Mendocino Ridge AVA?
1,200 ft (365.8 m)
What was the first AVA in Mendocino? What year?
McDowell Valley AVA 1981
Mendocino AVA was in 1984
What is the most recent AVA of Mendocino? What year?
Eagle Peak Mendocino County AVA
2014
When did Roederer Estate begin?
Started in 1982
First Brut debuted in 1988
L’Ermitage in 1989
Roederer Estate L’Ermitage specs
Usually ~50/50 PN/Chd
uses ~4-5% reserve wines from a back vintage
Base wines are aged in large French oak
Spends ~5 yrs on the lees
What is Duckhorn’s Anderson Valley property called?
Goldeneye
Name 3 vineyards in Anderson Valley AVA
Cerise Vineyard
Ferrington Vineyard
Savoy Vineyard
Bearwallow (Chd)
Where is Alder Springs Vineyard? How many varieties are grown there?
Far northern Mendocino County
39 different grapes. Rhone, PN, Chd, picpoul, ferment, tannât, falanghina, etc