Napa Valley Flashcards
What are the five large AVAs of California?
North Coast
Central Coast
South Coast
San Francisco Bay
Sierra Foothills
What are the 16 sub AVAs of Napa Valley?
Mountain Appellations:
Mount Veeder
Howell Mountain
Spring Mountain District
Diamond Mountain
Atlas Peak
Valley Floor:
Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley
Stags Leap District
Yountville
Oakville
Rutherford
Calistoga
St. Helena
Other:
Coombsville
Los Carneros
Wild Horse Valley
Chiles Valley
Who was largely responsible for pioneering the movement towards quality and standards of wine making in the 1950s?
André Tchelistcheff (Beaulieu Vineyards)
Name several prominent wineries in Napa between 1930 and 1950
Beringer (1876)
Beaulieu (George Latour) (1900)
Inglenook (1879)
Mayacamas (1889)
Stony Hill (1952)
Louis M. Martini (1933)
Charles Krug (1861)
What is the climate of Napa Valley?
Mediterranean
What are the two main entry points for fog in Napa Valley?
San Pablo Bay
Chalk Hill Gap
In what year was the Napa Valley AVA established?
1981
What are the three primarily geological formations on which Napa sits?
Great Valley Sequence
Franciscan Assemblage
Napa Volcanics
Where is volcanic soil concentrated in Napa Valley?
In the northern part of the valley north of St. Helena
What AVA stretches from Napa into Sonoma?
Los Carneros
Napa County forbids plantings on any slopes greater than how many degrees?
30º
