North America Flashcards
Discuss the first planting of Pinot Noir in Oregon
1961, Richard Sumner plants the Hillcrest vineyard in the Umpqua Valley to Pinot Noir
Oregon’s southernmost wine growing region? Is it Oregon’s warmest? Highest?
a) Rogue Valley
b) Yes
c) Yes
In which state did the glacial Lake Missoula form?
Montana
Describe the common soil composition of WA as a result of the Missoula floods
Basalt bedrock buried by the floods, covered by flood-deposited sedimentary layers, w/ sandy loess topsoils; very fertile soils necessary in such climates
Explain dual trunk training
Growers train two separate trunks on the same vine in parallel just an inch or two apart from the ground up. Channels winter damage to just one of the trunks allowing the bine to survive
In qhich AVA’s were Lett and Coury’s first pinot plantings, respectively?
a) Lett - 1966 Dundee Hills
b) Coury - 1965 Chehalen Mountains
What is Washington State’s largest winery? What % of production is it accountable for?
a) Chateau Ste. Michelle
b) 60%
This grape is the focus of the Ancient Lakes of Columbia Valley?
Riesling
What is unique to the Lake Chelan AVA? What is grown there?
a) The only Columbia Valley AVA found outside the impacted area of the Missoula floods
b) Pinot Noir and RIesling
This winery is the world’s largest producer of Riesling?
Chateau Ste. Michelle
At which parallel do all of WA’s central and eastern wine regions fall at or above?
46th
Three reasons why phylloxera is incredibly uncommon in Washington?
1) Pests can’t survive frigid winters
2) Inhospitable sandy soils
3) Great physical distances between vineyards
The climate event largely responsible for the formation of the Willamette Valley’s soil makeup?
Missoula Floods
The geographical feature provides the Columbia Basin with its even shadow?
Cascade Mountains
Willamette’s smallest AVA? Found where?
a) Ribbon Ridge AVA
b) Contained within the Chehalen Mountains AVA
This gap in the Coastal Range dramatically effects the WIllamette’s climate?
Van Duzer Corrider
Five significant vineyards in the Eola-Amity Hils and winery that sources from them?
a) Steven Springs - Evening Land
b) Jerusalem Hill - Serene
c) Temperance - Walter Scott
d) Justice - Bethel Heights
e) Freedom Hill - Ken Wright/ St. Innocent
Oregons first planting of Pinot Gris?
David Lett’s 1966 planting
This AVA is the heart of Idaho wine productions? Given AVA status in what year?
a) Snake River AVA
b) 2007
This is where you would find the majority of WA wineries east of the Cascades?
Columbia Basin (watershed of the Columbia RIver)
Oregon’s first Chardonnay planting?
David Jett’s in 1965
These two regions form the Southern Oregon AVA?
a) Umpqua Valley
b) Rogue Valley
The 2 successful white grapes of the Columbia Gorge?
a) Chardonnay
b) Gewurztramimer
This influential collection of vitners formed in Washington in 1962? What did they go on to create?
a) Associated Vitners
b) Columbia WInery
Where is the flood river valley found?
Columbia Gorge AVA
The most important vineyard in the Horse Heaven Hills? 2 producers that source from it?
a) Champoux Vineyard (1972)
b) Quicelda Creek and Andrew Will
Where does Washington rank in terms of vinifern production in the US?
2nd
In 2013, approximately how many wineries were found in Washington?
850
Known as the father of Washington wine?
Dr. Walter Clore
This climate factor reduces fungal pressure in the damp Columbia Gorge?
High winds
This was the grape that first gained national recognition for Washington?
Reisling
This winery was responsible for thrusting WA into the spotlight for merlot? When?
a) Leonetti
b) Early 1990’s
The Dijon clones arrived in Willamette in this year? By whose order? Name all five?
a) 1984
b) David Adelsheim
c) 113, 114, 115, 667, 777
Is chaptelization legal in OR?
Yes
Behind Jete and Coury, these were 3 highly influential vegners in the Willamette Valley in the late 60’s, early 70’s?
a) Dick Erath - 1969
b) Dick Ponzi - 1970
c) David Adelsheim - 1972
The year Drouhin came to Oregon?
1987
This was the wine that brought attention to Oregon after strong finishes in Paris (‘79) and Beaune (‘80)?
David Lett’s Eyrie “South Block” 1975
These two geologic forces are responsible for shaping the bedrock found in the Columbia Basin?
a) Volcanic eruptions (17-6 mil years ago)
b) Missoula Floods (18-12,000 years ago)
The folded, uplifted bedrock of the Columbia Basin creates this climatic phenomenon encouraging grape-growing at altitude?
Temperature inversions
These two were the first to plant Pinot Noir in the Willamette Valley?
a) David Jett
b) Charles Coury
The year the Willemette Valley gained AVA status?
1983
How many AVAs are found in Oregon?
18
Rough percentage of total output that Pinot Noir accounts for in Oregon?
60%
Two severe vineyard threats in Willamette?
a) Bird Pressure - valley is on a highly populated migratory path
b) Phylloxera - arrived in 1990, most vineyards are own-rooted and not resistant
Prominent soil type of the Dundee Hills? Three significant vineyards?
a) Jory soils (volcanic w/ clay)
b) Abbey Ridge (Cameron); Thomas Vineyard (Thomas); Maresh (Arterbury Maresh); South Block at Eyrie
Yamhill-Carltons sole soil type? Its most important vineyard?
a) Marine sediment
b) Shea Vineyard
This AVA sits on the highest elevation of the Willamette Valley?
Chehalem Mountains AVA
These two cities mark the northern and southern border of the Willamette Valley?
a) Portland
b) Eugene
Oregon’s largest producing winery?
King Estate (Willamette Valley) - extension to include their vineyards was granted in 2016
Name the two Washington AVAs found outside the Columbia Valley?
a) Columbia Gorge
b) Puget Sound
Where would you find some of Washington’s only non-dry-farmed vineyards?
Columbia Gorge
This farming process is necessary in Washington’s eastern and climate?
Irrigation
In Washington State:
- 3 most planted white varieties
- 3 most planted red
a) Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Gris
b) Cabernet, Merlot, Syrah
The four major soil types of the valley, their compositions, and prominent example?
a) Uplifted marine sediment: sandstone and slate from the ocean floor; Willakenzie
b) Volcanic soils: basalt with high clay composition; Jory
c) Loess: glacier deposited reddish silt soils; Laurelwood
d) Missoula flood deposits: low lying, deep fertile soils; Woodburn
The following wineries were founded during which year? By who?
a) Amity Vineyards
b) Elk Cove
c) Bethel Heights
d) Cameron
e) Panther Creek
f) Thomas
a) Amity Vineyards - Myron Redford 1970 (first in Eola-Amity)
b) Elk Cove - Campbell family 1974
c) Bethel Heights - Casteel family 1977
d) Cameron - John Paul 1984
e) Panther Creek - Ken Wright 1986
f) Thomas - John Thomas 1984
What/where is Harrison Hill?
Cabernet block planted in 1963 found in the Upland vineyard on Snipes Mountain
The two subregions contained within the Umpqua Valley?
a) Elkton Oregon AVA
b) Red Hill Douglas County AVA
This conglomerate of two post-production Pugeot Sound wineries went on to form? Aided by?
a) Chateau Ste. Michelle
b) Andre Tchelistcheff
The Columbia Gorge’s best site? Planted when? Sourced by who?
a) Celilo
b) 1972 (Underwood Mountain)
c) Woodward Canyon Ken Wright
Puget Sound’s irst commercial vineyard was planted by? In what year? To what variety?
a) Lambert Evans
b) 1872
c) Island Belle (block labruseo hybrid)
This Walla Walla organization was found in 2004 to promote healthy, sustainable vineyard practices?
Venea - “the Winegrowers Sustainable Trust”
What is Washington’s driest AVA? What is grown there?
a) Wahluke Slope
b) Cabernet, Merlot, Syrah
Two of the Wahluke Slope’s most important vineyards?
a) Weinlau (Sagemoor group)
b) Milbrandt
William Bridgman planted this grape in this space in the 1910s?
a) Muscat
b) Snipes Mountain
Name 5 notable producers in Walla Walla?
a) Woodward Canyon
b) Leonette
c) Waters
d) Figgins
e) Gramercy
Infamous winemaker at Chateau Ste. Michelle from the late 70’s to late 90’s?
Bob Betz
This is the oldest parcel of Cab Sauv planted in Yakima? In this year?
a) Otis Vineyard
b) 1957
When and where was Syrah first planted in Washington?
a) Red Willow Vineyard (Yakima Valley)
b) 1986
Three celebrated producers of Red Mountain?
a) Hedges
b) Col Solare (Antinori and Chateau St. Michelle)
c) Upchurch Vineyards
Three significant vineyards in Rattlesnake Hills?
a) Morrison; planted to Cabernet and Riesling in 1968 (last verifera planting)
b) Dubrul (Cote Bonneville)
c) Two Blondes (Andrew Will)
This was Washington’s second AVA? Founded in?
a) Walla Walla Valley
b) 1984
What was significant about 1977 in the Walla Walla Valley?
a) Gary Figgins founded Leonetti Cellars
b) Paul Small planted a parcel of chardonnay; the foundation of Woodward Canyon
Four vineyard tactics in Washington used to protect vines from lethal frosts?
a) Planting at higher elevations
b) Dual-trunk training
c) Burying cones
d) Post-harvest irrigation
Washington’s first vineyard was planted in? And by who?
a) 1825
b) Fur traders at Fort Vancouver - British Hudson Bay Company
Describe the progression of production in Washington?
1909 - Local options prohibition appeared
1914 - State prohibits sale and manufacturing of alcohol
1920 - Nationwide prohibition sets in
This is Washington’s warmest AVA?
Red Mountain
Cayuse was bottled in _____ by ______?
a) 1997
b) Christopher Baron
Three sub-AVA’s centered within the Yakima Valley?
a) Rattlesnake Mountain
b) Snipes Mountain
c) Red Mountain
Cayuse gave birth to this AVA in 2015? What is significant about the region?
a) Rocks of Melton Freewater
b) located entirely within Oregon, riverstone soil composition resembles galets of Southern Rhone
The first planting of vinefern in the Columbia Gorge?
Walter Clore’s 1968 planting of Pinot Noir (Atavus vineyard)
The Columbia Valley gained AVA status in this year?
1984
Three significant vineyards not found within any approved Washington AVA?
a) Sagemoor
b) Cold Creek
c) Still Water Creek
Who loves you more than anything in the world?
Moira
Washington’s first approved AVA? When?
a) Yakima Valley
b) 1983
Highly influential winemaker at Columbia Winery from 1979-2005?
David Lake
The sustainably founded non-profit founded by Ted Casteel in 1997?
LIVE (Low Input Viticulture and Enology)
The smallest AVA in Washington?
Red Mountain
The first two vineyards planted at Red Mountain? Year?
a) Kiona, Ciel du Cheval
b) 1975
What winery first labeled Sauvignon Blanc as Fumé Blanc in the United States?
Robert Mondavi
What is the best description of the climate of eastern Washington?
Semi-arid and continental
When was the Judgment of Paris tasting held?
1976
Agoston Haraszthy was a significant figure in the early history of American wine associated with this winery?
Buena Vista
André Tchelistcheff spent the majority of his career making wine for?
Beaulieu Vineyards (BV)
This river acts as a major irrigational source for Washington’s vineyards?
Columbia River
Lake, Solano, and Marin Counties are within what AVA?
North Coast
The first vintage of Screaming Eagle?
1992
Arrange the AVAs of Santa Barbara County from West to East:
Santa Rita Hills Santa Maria Valley Santa Ynez Valley Ballard Canyon Happy Canyon
What larger AVA are the Cayuga and Seneca AVAs located within?
Finger Lakes AVA
These are the grape species native to the United States.
Vinus Labrusca (Concord) Vinus Rotundifoli (Scuppernong) Vinus Aestivalis (Norton)
List the decade in which these wineries were founded:
a) Mondavi
b) Beringer
c) Charles Krug
d) Beaulieu
e) Joseph Phelps
a) 1960s
b) 1870s
c) 1860s
d) 1900s
e) 1970s
T/F: The diurnal variation in Rutherford AVA is larger than in Howell Mountain AVA.
True
Give the inaugural vintages for the following wines:
a) Ridge Monte Bello
b) Opus One
c) Heitz Martha’s Vineyard
a) 1962
b) 1979
c) 1966
What percentage of grapes from a single vineyard bottling must come from the stated vineyard?
95%
In which AVA are the following vineyards found:
a) Champoux
b) Klipsun
c) Seven Hills
a) Horse Heaven Hills
b) Red Mountain
c) Walla Walla Valley
The VINEA Winegrowers’ Sustainable Trust is an organization in which AVA?
Walla Walla
Which state is known for its production of the Norton grape?
Missouri
The Gavilan Mountains influence which of the following AVAs?
Chalone
The earliest record of Vinifera plantings in the USA?
1619 - Jamestown, Virginia
This group was responsible for the Mission grape making its way to California?
Franciscan monks
The Hungarian Agostos Haraszthy founded this winery in this year? He was considered the?
a) Buena Vista
b) 1849
c) Father of Californian wine
Gustav Niebaum founded this winery in the year?
a) Inglenook
b) 1880
These two hybrid grapes dominated the vineyards of the East Coast in the latter half of the 19th century?
Catawba
Delaware
The significance of Charles Valentine Riley?
The first to understand the innate resistance of American grape varieties to phylloxera
This winery survived Prohibition after establishing itself as the “House of Alter Wine?”
Beaulieu Vineyards
Tchelistcheff introduced these two important techniques to American winemaking during his time spent at _____________?
a) Temperature controlled fermentation, controlled malolactic fermentation
b) BV
The first vintage of Robert Mondavi’s “Fume Blanc?”
1968
Sanford and Benedict vineyard was first planted in?
1970
Dr. Konstantin Frank and his winery, ____________, achieved critical acclaim for production of ___________ and ____________ in the _______________.
a) Vinifera Wine Cellars
b) Riesling
c) Sparkling wines
d) Finger Lakes
The winning wines from the 1976 Judgement of Paris?
a) 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay
b) 1973 Stag’s Leap Cabernet Sauvignon
In the 1980’s, this disease struck again forcing half of the Napa Valley to be uprooted and replanted?
Phylloxera
Two modern day threats to the American vineyard?
Pierce’s disease
Light brown apple moth
These were the first two approved American AVAs?
a) Augusta (Missouri) 1980
b) Napa Valley 1981
The AVA system is presently overseen by this government agency?
TTB (Tax and Trade Bureau)
List appellation labeling minimums for the USA?
Vintage dated from an AVA? Estate bottled?
a) State/County - 75%
b) AVA - 85%
c) Single Vineyard - 95%
d) 85%
e) 100%
The four regional AVAs of California?
North Coast AVA
Central Coast AVA
South Coast AVA
Sierra Foothills AVA
Define “meritage” in American wine lingo.
A blended wine of Bordeaux varieties in which no one grape accounts for more than 90% of the blend
Zinfandel’s genetic predecessor?
Croatia’s Cryljenak Kastelanski
What does “teinturier” refer to?
A French language term meaning to dye or stain (a reference to a grape whose flesh and juice is red in color)
i.e. Alicante Bouschet
The six counties included in the North Coast AVA?
Napa Sonoma Mendocino Lake Marin Solano
Name the sixteen sub-appellations of the Napa Valley AVA?
Calistoga St. Helena Rutherford Yountville Oakville Stag's Leap District Atlas Peak Coombsville Howell Mountain Diamond Mountain Spring Mountain Mt. Veeder Chiles Valley Oak Knoll Los Carneros Wild Horse Valley
Solano County is where relative to Napa County?
Southwest
Name the seventeen sub-AVAs of Sonoma county.
Fort Ross-Seaview Carneros Russian River Valley Green Valley Chalk Hill Alexander Valley Dry Creek Valley Rockpile Sonoma Valley Sonoma Mountain Bennett Valley Pine Mountain-Cloverdale District Knights Valley Sonoma Coast Northern Sonoma Fountaingrove District Moon Mountain District
The common soil type for Pinot noir out on the Sonoma Coast?
Goldridge (sandy loam)
The warmest AVA in Sonoma county?
Knights Valley AVA
Bennett Valley focuses on this variety?
Merlot
This Cava stalwart set up shop in Carneros in the 1980’s to produce sparkling wines?
Codorniu
The best winegrowing regions in Mendocino are centered around the confluence of these two rivers?
Navarro River
Russian River
The seven sub-appellations of Mendocino county.
Anderson Valley Yorkville Highlands Potter Valley Redwood Valley McDowell Valley Cole Ranch Mendocino Ridge
The smallest AVA in the country?
Cole Ranch AVA (Mendocino County)
Name the two wineries that the Cole Ranch and McDowell AVAs exist for?
a) Esterlina
b) McDowell Winery
Clear Lake AVA is found in this county?
Lake County
The Central Coast of California stretches between?
San Francisco in the North
Santa Barbara County in the south
The Santa Cruz Mountains AVA lies just south of?
San Francisco
The Santa Clara Valley and the Livermore Valley AVAs are found where in the US?
Central Coast Region of California
Name three successful AVAs for Pinot Noir outside of Santa Barbara county in the Central Coast.
Monterey AVA
Santa Lucia Highlands AVA (Garys’)
Mount Harlan AVA (Calera)
Chalone AVA is found within this county?
Monterey
The western reaches of Paso Robles are kept cool by this geographic feature?
Templeton Gap
York Mountain, Arroyo Grand, and the Edna Valley are all found in this county?
San Luis Obispo
The largest AVA within San Luis Obispo county?
Paso Robles AVA
Within the Santa Ynez valley are the sub-appellations of?
Santa Rita Hills AVA
Ballard Canyon AVA
Happy Canyon AVA
Los Olivos District
Bien Nacido was planted in?
Mid-1970s
The most productive AVA in the central valley of California?
Lodi AVA
Borden Ranch is a sub-AVA of?
Lodi AVA
The Shenendoah Valley AVA is found within?
Sierra Foothills AVA
Long Island AVAs two sub-appellations? Success with which grapes?
a) North Fork of Long Island AVA, Hamptons, Long Island AVA
b) Bordeaux varieties
The grape Niagara is an American hybrid of?
Concord and Cassady
The largest demarcated appellation in the world?
Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA
What is De Chaunac?
A red French hybrid that controlled the majority of Canadian plantings through the 1970s
Vidal is what kind of grape?
Hybrid
This winery almost single-handedly put Canadian wine on the map in the 1970s?
Inniskillin
Canada’s quality control system? In which two provinces does it exist in? In which of the two are the standards voluntary?
a) VQA (Vitner’s Quality Alliance)
b) Ontario, British Columbia
c) British Columbia
Does the VQA allow chaptalization for late harvest and ice wines?
No
The three main appellations of production in Ontario?
NIagara Peninsula
Lake Erie North Shore
Prince Edward County
The Niagara Peninsula is divided amongst these two regions?
Niagara Escarpment
Niagara on the Lake
The four most common vinifera varieties on the Niagara Peninsula?
Riesling
Chardonnay
Pinot Noir
Cabernet Franc
Prince Edward County focuses on the ___________ varieties.
Burgundian
British Columbia’s most important DVA? What is a DVA?
a) Okanagan Valley
b) Designated viticultural area
The first country to produce wine in the Americas?
Mexico
Listan Prieto is better known as the _________ grape because of its associations with the church.
Mission
Arrange in order importance the three top producing states of Mexico.
Baja of California
Coahulia
Queretaro
The Valle de Guadalupe is found where in Mexico?
Baja of California
The San Vincente and Santo Tomas Valleys are found where?
Baja of California (Mexico)
This is oldest winery in North America?
Casa Madero (1597, Parras de la Fuente (Coahuila))
Perhaps Mexico’s most significant fine winegrowing appellation?
Parras de la Fuente (Coahulia)
Name in order the four most planted grapes in Mexico.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Carignan
Merlot
Chenin Blanc
