New Zealand General Flashcards
Climate of NZ’s North Island
- Comparable to Bordeaux: maritime
Climate of the northern regions of NZ’s North Island
(Northland, Aukland, Waikato/Bay of Plenty)
- moderate, rainy, maritime
- frost and rot are prevalant
Min % of region, varietal, and vintage listed on the label
- Regions are not legally defined
- Varietal & Vintage - 85%
2nd and 3rd most planted grapes in New Zealand
- Pinot Noir
- Chardonnay
NZ’s smallest area of production
Northland
Coolest region on the North Island of NZ
Gisborne
1st region to see sunlight each day
Gisborne
NZ region also known as Poverty Bay
Gisborne = Poverty Bay
NZ’s driest region
Hawkes Bay
- driest
NZ region that produces the most amount of red wine
Hawkes Bay
- Largest NZ producer of red wine
- Chardonnay most planted
Most planted red grape in Hawkes Bay
Merlot
1st varietal wine released in NZ
- Montana’s Gisborne Chardonnay
- 1973
Cloudy Bay Inaugural Vintage
1985
1st winery in NZ to commercially release a wine under screwcap
Kim Crawford; 2001
1st winery to release Marlborough, NZ Sauvignon Blanc
- Montana
- 1979
Only region in NZ to experience a continental climate
Central Otago
Region with New Zealand’s highest altitude vineyards
Central Otago
Company that controls 2/3 of Marlborough’s vineyards
Montana
Gimblett Gravels
- Located in Hawkes Bay
- 800 ha of deep shingle soils
- Ideal for high-quality Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon
Romeo Bragato
- Austrian viticulturist from Victoria
- End of the 19th cent charged w/ task of studying NZ’s vineyards and combating phylloxera
- Educated growers on merits of grafting vines onto disease-resistant American rootstock
- Identified many NZ’s modern wine regions (w/ exception of Marlborough)
Year wine shops were allowed to sell single bottles of wine
1955