Ontario / Nova Scotia

Question 1

When did VQA become enforced law?

Answer 1

1999

Question 2

What is Vidal a hybrid of?

Answer 2

Ungi Blanc X Rayon d’Or

Question 3

What is the only hybrid allowed in the production of Ice Wine in Canada?

Answer 3

Vidal

Question 4

What is the min RS for Canadian Ice Wine?

Answer 4

100g/l

Question 5

Under what circumstance can a hybrid be varietally labeled in Canada?

Answer 5

If geographical designation is only as generic as Provincial. (ie “Ontario”)

Question 6

What are the requirements for using “Estate Bottled” on a label of Canadian wine?

Answer 6

• 100% of grapes grown in the same vintage year
• from land owned or controlled by the winery
• must be produced and bottled on the winery premises.

Question 7

What is the Southern most region of Ontario?

Answer 7

Pelee Island

Question 8

What is the Northern most region of Ontario?

Answer 8

Prince Edward County

Question 9

The Detroit river influences what wine region?

Answer 9

Lake Erie North Shore

Question 10

What are the three regions on Ontario? N-S

Answer 10

Prince Edward County
Niagara Peninsula
Lake Erie North Shore

Question 11

What are the two regional appellations of the Niagara Peninsula?

Answer 11

Niagara on the Lake

Niagara Escarpment

Question 12

What are the sub appellations of the Niagara Escarpment?

Answer 12

Short Hills Bench
Beamsville Bench
Twenty Mile Bench

Question 13

What are the sub appellations of Niagara on the Lake?

Answer 13

Niagara River
Niagara Lakeshore
Four Mile Creek
St. David’s Bench

Question 14

What sun appellations of Ontario do not fall under a regional appellation?

Answer 14

Vinemount Ridge
Creek Shores
Lincoln Lakeshore

Question 15

Name the Appellation of Nova Scotia.

Answer 15

Tidal Bay

Question 16

What is the max allowable increase during chaptalization in Nova Scotia?

Answer 16

max increase of 2% ABV

Question 17

List the major permitted grapes of Nova Scotia

Answer 17

Min 51%:
Seyval
l’Acadie
Geisenheim 318 and or Vidal

Max 49%:
Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Chasselas, 
Kentville White Varieties, Siegerebe, 
Geisenheim 319, 322 and 6495-3, 
Minnesota Muscat, Frontenac Gris, 
Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Auxerrois, 
Ortega, Siegfried, Cayuga, Petit Milo

Max 15%:
New York Muscat, Gewurztraminer,
Traminette, Valvin, Perle of Csaba

Question 18

What is Canada’s smallest appellation?

Answer 18

Pelee Island

also the Southern most

Question 19

by law, what temperature does Canadian Ice Wine have to be harvested at?

Answer 19

Min minus 8 degrees

-naturally frozen

Question 20

What is the allowed % of Sussreserve allowed in Ice wine production?

Answer 20

15%

has to have the same must weight as Ice Wine

Question 21

What is the min must weight, in brix, for Ice Wine?

Answer 21

32 brix

138 Oechsle

Question 22

Sussreserve added to Ice Wine must have a brix of what in order to be added??

Answer 22

32 brix

138 Oechsle