Oregon Flashcards
What are Willamette Valley sub AVAs?
Chehalem Mountains Dundee Hills Eola-Amity Hills McMinnville Ribbon Ridge Yamhill-Carlton District
What Oregon AVAs are shared with Washington State?
Columbia Gorge
Columbia Valley
Walla Walla Valley
What are the APAs of Southern Oregon?
Rogue Valley
Applegate Valley
What are the sub AVAs of Umpqua Valley?
Elkton Oregon
Red Hill Douglas County
What Oregon AVA is shared with Idaho?
Snake River Valley
What percentage of fruit on an Oregon wine must the wine contain to be labeled with a georgraphic designation?
95%
What grapes require a 90% minimum to be varietally labelled in Oregon?
Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Riesling
What is the climate of Willamette Valley?
Cool wet winters and warm dry summers
What is the soil of Willamette?
Volcanic and sedimentary seabed overlaid with gravel, silt, rock and boulders from Missoula floods
What is the name of the most common type of volcanic soil found in Willamette?
Red Jory Soil
What are the two mountain ranges that protect Willamette Valley?
Coast Range to the West
Cascades to the East
What are the highest mountains in Willamette Valley with the tallest point being Bald Peak at 1633 ft?
Chehalem Mountains
What AVA of Willamette has the greatest temperature variation resulting in up to 3 weeks difference in the ripening of Pinot Noir?
Chehalem Mountains
What is the soil type of Chehalem Mountains?
Columbia river basalt and ocean sedimentary soil with wind blown Loess
What Willamette Valley AVA is protected from climatic variation due to surrounding geographic features, essentially creating an “island”?
Dundee Hills
What soils in Dundee Hills known for?
Red volcanic Jory Soils
What are the soils of Eola-Amity hills?
Volcanic basalt and marine sedimentary rocks
What is the name of the break in the Coast Range that allows cooling winds to flow through Willamette Valley, in particular McMinnville?
Van Duzer Corridor
What are the soil types of McMinnville?
Marine sedimentary with loam and silts
What is unique about Ribbon Ridge AVA soils compared to other Willamette AVAs?
What is the the name of the soil series it is part of?
Younger, finer and more uniform sedimentary soil.
Part of the Willakenzie soil series
What AVA resides entirely within Chehelam Mountain AVA?
Ribbon Ridge
What are the soils of Yamhill-Carlton?
Marine sedimentary soil over sandstone and siltstone
What Southern Oregon AVA’s complex topography is the result of the collision of three mountain ranges?
What are the mountain ranges?
Upqua Valley
Coast Range, Cascades and the Klamath Mountains
What Oregon AVA is more accurately nicknamed “The Hundred Valleys” AVA due to its interconnecting ranges and valleys?
Umpqua Valley AVA
What are the sub AVAs of Umpqua Valley?
Red Hill Douglas County
Elkton Oregon
How many distinct valleys ad microclimates are in Rogue Valley
3
What grape or grapes would most likely be grown in the western areas of Rogue Valley?
Why?
Cool weather varietals such as Pinot Noir.
West has more marine cooling influence
What grape varieties are more typical in the east side of Rogue Valley?
Why?
Merlot, Cabernet and Sauv Blanc
Warm and dry climate with higher altitude
What is a sub AVA of Rogue Valley?
Applegate Valley
What are the soils of Applegate Valley?
What altitude are vineyards typically planted?
Granite
2000 feet elevation
What is the climate of the Columbia Valley AVA?
Continental high desert
What AVA straddles the Columbia River for 15 miles in both Oregon and Washington?
Columbia Gorge
What are the changes of climate from West to East in the Columbia Gorge?
West cooler and marine influence
East is continental high desert
What AVA is hemmed by the Blue Mountains in the southeast, the Palouse to the north and the Columbia river to the west?
Walla Walla
What is the sub AVA of Walla Walla Valley and approved in 2015 as Oregon’s 18th AVA?
The Rocks District of Milton Freewater
What is the soil type of The Rocks District and its defining feature?
Consists of pebbles and cobbles of volcanic basalt in a blend of sand and silt.
Extremely well drained and the efficiently transfer heat due to the dark rocks.
What is the only AVA in the US whose boundaries were determined by a single landform and single soil series?
The Rocks District of Milton-Freewater AVA
What Oregon AVA lies in the rain shadow of the Cascades, Sierra Nevadas and Owyhee mountain ranges and receives 10-12 inches annual rainfall?
Snake River Valley
What are the predominant varieties grown in the Snake River Valley?
Riesling, Chardonnay, Cabernet, Gewurztraminer and Merlot
What is the sustainability certification that the majority of producers practice or are certified under and is unique to Oregon?
Live Certified
