North America w/o Cali Flashcards
This covers all of North America with Cali separate
Oregon Map
What are the AVA’s of Willamette Valley, which was the first AVA
AVAs: Willamette Valley, Dundee Hills, Eola-Amity Hills, McMinnville, Ribbon Ridge, Chehalem Mountain, Yamhill-Carlton District
- Willamette Valley (1984)
- All other AVA’s were established in 2000’s
Match the Soil Type to the Soil series
- Uplifted Marine Sediment
- Volcanic
- Loess
- Missoula Flood Deposits
Woodburn - Willakenzie & Bellpine - Jory & Nekia - Laurelwood, Cornelius, Cascade
Uplifted Marine Sediment: Willakenzie and Bellpine
Volcanic: Jory & Nekia
Loess: Laurelwood, Cornelius, Cascade
Missoula Flood Deposits: Woodburn
- *Uplifted Marine Sediments**: More common on the western side of the valley, derived from sandstone and shale, oldest bedrock in WV, tend to be sandier and thinner than the volcanic soils. PN wines are typically noted as darker in color and fruit profile.
- *Volcanic Soils**: reddish volcanic soils are depleted and weathered, formed atop underlying basalt parent rock, volcanic soils in WV tend to contain more clay and therefore have a higher water-holding capacity lighter color and a red fruit profile to PN
- *Loess:** A windblown soil, northeastern-facing hillsides of the northern valley
- *Missoula Flood Deposits:** These flood-borne sediments, fertile soils; they compose the valley floor and are best purposed for other forms of agriculture.
Is it Burgundy or Willamette Valley?
- 45th parallel
- compressed shorter season, higher summer spikes
- Rise and fall temps during spring and fall
- earliest budbreak
- wetter
- limestone
- Hail problems
- both
- Burgundy
- Burgundy
- Willamette Valley by 1 week
- WV overall wetter but most rain is in the winter, Burgundy the rain (50%) during season
- Burgundy (WV has no limestone or marl)
- Burgundy, WV has virtually no issues
What 2 grapes account for 77% of Oregon’s vineyards, who is the largest producer
Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris, King Estate
What was the importance of David Lett
He planted the 1st WV first Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris (PG first in North America)
Eyrie Vineyards, Dundee Hills, 1966
What is the prominent Pinot Clone used in Willamette Valley
Dijon Clone
Originally Wädenswil clones (Swiss origin)
What valley is Oregon’s warmest
Rogue Valley
What type of soil is responsible for the Red Hills of Dundee?
Jory Loam
What is the most recent Oregon AVA? Instituted in 2018:
Van Duzer Corridor AVA
- Van Duzer Corridor is a gap in the Coastal Moutains that blows cool constatn wind, McMinnville is influenced the most followed by Eola-Amity Hills AVA
What are the two sub AVAs of the Umpqua Valley AVA?
Elkton Oregon and Red Hills of Douglas County AVAs
What is the sub. AVA of the Rogue Valley AVA?
Applegate Valley AVA
Name three Burgundian producers making Pinot Noir in Oregon:
Domaine Drouhin Oregon, Nicolas Jay (Meo Camuzet), Rose and Arrow (Liger Belair), Resonance (Louis Jadot), Lingua Franca (Comtes Lafon)
Where is the Shea Vineyard located, which AVA?
Yamhill Carlton AVA
- Producers of Yamhill Carlton: Elk Cove, Ken Wright, Penner-Ash
What is Willamette Valley’s smallest AVA
- Ribbon Ridge, 300 acres of vine
- Willakenzie series, marine soil
- Producers: Beaux Freres, Brick House
True/False: David Lett planted Oregon’s first Pinot Noir?
False. Oregon’s first Pinot Noir was planted 1961 in Umpqua Valley’s Hillcrest Vineyard by Richard Sommer,
Lett planted WV’s first in 1966
Which AVA is shared between Oregon and Idaho?
Snake River Valley AVA
Other than Jory soils, what other volcanic soil series is found throughout Willamette Valley?
Nekia - a shallower volcanic soil
Who invented the double curtain trellising system?
Scott-Henry
Benefits: Increased fruiting areas and a split canopy that allows more sun penetration, producing less herbaceous wines with smoother tannins
Disadvantages: Can produce excessive yields. Very labor-intensive and expensive to set up
What is the minimum required varietal for a wine to be labelled as such in OR?
90%
- AVA: 95%
- Vineyard: 95%
- Vintage: 85%/95%**
**The TTB requires a minimum 85% of the stated vintage for wines labeled by state or county, and a minimum 95% for wines labeled with an AVA.
Variety: California & Washinton 75%, Federally also 75%
What are the name of the floods that helped contribute to OR’s soil structure?
The Missoula Floods
What is the most densely planted Oregon AVA, it features Jory series soils, name 2 producers
Dundee Hills AVA, 6490 acres
- Producers: Original Eyrie Vineyard, Sokol Blosser, Dom Drouhin, Dom Serene
- Famed Vineyards: Maresh, Abbey Ridge, Thomas
- delicate perfumed wines
What AVA does the Van Duzer Corridor most effect?
McMinnville AVA
- WInes are denser, more tannic, deeper and darker fruit
- greatest diurnal shift in WV, no defining geology
The southern most AVA in Willamette Valley
Eola-Amity Hills AVA
- rugged tannic structure, deep color, pronounced acidity, the Van Duzer Corridor influences this area (not as much as McMinnville)
What AVA is located inside the Rogue Valley AVA
Applegate Valley AVA
The ______ AVA debuted in 2004 to arm it’s various growing regions with a cohesive identity, established after the Umpqua Valley (1984) and Rogue Valley (1991)
Southern Oregon AVA
Match the AVA’s to their Valley
Applegate, Elkton Oregon, Red Hill Douglas
- Applegate - Rogue Valley
- Elkton Oregon, Red Hill Douglas - Umpqua Valley
What 3 AVA’s are shared with Washington
Columbia Gorge, Columbia Valley, Walla Walla Valley
What Walla Walla Valley AVA is Cayuse located
The Rocks of Milton-Freewater
True or False
Chaptalization is illegal in Oregon as it is in California
False, it’s need at times