North Island Flashcards

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1
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What benefits the ripening of grapes in Central Otago?

A

Cool Ocean breeze
Long hours of sunlight for ripening
cool nights maintain acidity
rain shadow of Southern Alp Mountains

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Who was the first NZ winery to release a wine under Stelvin Closure?

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Kim Crawford. (2001)

85% of country today

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What area the GI Of the North Island?

A

Northland GI
Gisborne GI
Hawke’s Bay GI
Wairarapa GI

Auckland
- Sub regions: Matakana GI / **Waiheke Island GI
Waikato and Bay of Plenty

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Major producers of Auckland?

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  • Constellation NZ (Nobilo, Monkey Bay, Kim Crawford), - - - - Kumeu River / Matua Valley / Babich /
  • Pleasant Valley / Cable Bay / Stonyridge /
  • Pernod Ricard / Villa Maria

AUCKLAND (North Island)

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5
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What GI of the North Island has the driest climate?

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Hawke’s Bay

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6
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What is the most dominant grape planted in Hawke’s bay?

A

Merlot

Chard/SB/PG

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What are the major natural features of Hawke’s bay?

A
Heretaunga Plains (Heer-ah-tonga)
Hawke's Bay
Ngaruroro River (Nah-roo-roe-roe)
Tukituki River (tooky-tooky / Cookie Cookie)
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What requirements must be met to use the designation “Gimblett Gravel” on a label?

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  1. Be a member of the Association
  2. Grapes must come from a vineyard that has min 95% of the appellation’s defined soil characteristics
  3. min 95% grapes from the appellation
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What 2 sub regions of Hawke’s Bay boarder the ocean?

A
Esk Valley (North)(Bay View within it has Gravel)
Te Awanga (South)
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What is the major river and soil type of Hawke’s Bay?

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Ngaruroro (nah-roo-roe-roe)

  • Red metal Alluvial soils
  • Gravel
  • Stony Terraces
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What contributes to the success in Hawke’s Bay of Bordeaux varietals?

A

Free draining soils

Accumulated heat via diurnal temperature swings

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12
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Havelock North sits on what geographical feature?

A

Te Mata Peak

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13
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Name 3 sub regions that sit on the Te Mata Peak

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Esks Valley
Havelock North
Bay View
Maraekakaho

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14
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What regions vines are the first to see the sun everyday?

A

Gisborne

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What is the Southern most region of the North Island of New Zealand?

A

Wairarapa (in Gisborne)

named Wellington

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What is the composition of soil in Gimlett Gravels?

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Greywacke:

Omahu soils. - fine and loamy sand topsoil, overlying stony gravels mixed with varying proportions of sand, and horizontally bedded lenses of non-stony sand between the stony layers

(Triassic period)
sandstone from ocean sediments
(gravel / sand / silt / clay)

During floods the River overflows its banks, depositing fine sands on the levees, silts on the flood plains and clays in the back swamps

17
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Where can you find a majority of the Gimlett Gravel?

A

Heretaunga Plains

deposited by the Ngaruroro river

18
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*What rivers revealed the famed soils in Hawke’s Bay?

A
Ngaruroro River
(Omahu river changed direction)
19
Q

Name 3 producers of Wairarapa.

A

Ata Rangi, Voss Estate, Dry River, Palliser Estate

20
Q

What sub region of Auckland is the driest?

A

Waiheke Island GI

lower West side

21
Q

*Most planted grape of Gisborne?

A

Chardonnay

PG/Gew/Merlot

22
Q

*Who produces “Larose”

A
Stony Ridge (North Island)
Waiheke Island
23
Q

What was the first biodynamic winery in NZ?

A

Millton

also first in Southern Hemisphere to gain DEMETER

24
Q

*Who produces “Clos de Ste Anne”

A

Millton
Gisborne
(Cote Rotie style)

25
Q

What are the official sub regions of Wairarapa?

A

In Wellington

Martinborough
Gladstone

also unofficial
Masterton
Te Muna Road
East Tarahati

26
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What are the official subregions of Auckland?

A

Matakana
Kemeu
Waiheke Island

unofficial
Henderson
South AUchland