Oregon

Question 1

What are Willamette Valley sub AVAs?

Answer 1

Chehalem Mountains
Dundee Hills
Eola-Amity Hills
McMinnville
Ribbon Ridge
Yamhill-Carlton District

Question 2

What Oregon AVAs are shared with Washington State?

Answer 2

Columbia Gorge
Columbia Valley
Walla Walla Valley

Question 3

What are the APAs of Southern Oregon?

Answer 3

Rogue Valley

Applegate Valley

Question 4

What are the sub AVAs of Umpqua Valley?

Answer 4

Elkton Oregon

Red Hill Douglas County

Question 5

What Oregon AVA is shared with Idaho?

Answer 5

Snake River Valley

Question 6

What percentage of fruit on an Oregon wine must the wine contain to be labeled with a georgraphic designation?

Answer 6

95%

Question 7

What grapes require a 90% minimum to be varietally labelled in Oregon?

Answer 7

Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Riesling

Question 8

What is the climate of Willamette Valley?

Answer 8

Cool wet winters and warm dry summers

Question 9

What is the soil of Willamette?

Answer 9

Volcanic and sedimentary seabed overlaid with gravel, silt, rock and boulders from Missoula floods

Question 10

What is the name of the most common type of volcanic soil found in Willamette?

Answer 10

Red Jory Soil

Question 11

What are the two mountain ranges that protect Willamette Valley?

Answer 11

Coast Range to the West

Cascades to the East

Question 12

What are the highest mountains in Willamette Valley with the tallest point being Bald Peak at 1633 ft?

Answer 12

Chehalem Mountains

Question 13

What AVA of Willamette has the greatest temperature variation resulting in up to 3 weeks difference in the ripening of Pinot Noir?

Answer 13

Chehalem Mountains

Question 14

What is the soil type of Chehalem Mountains?

Answer 14

Columbia river basalt and ocean sedimentary soil with wind blown Loess

Question 15

What Willamette Valley AVA is protected from climatic variation due to surrounding geographic features, essentially creating an “island”?

Answer 15

Dundee Hills

Question 16

What soils in Dundee Hills known for?

Answer 16

Red volcanic Jory Soils

Question 17

What are the soils of Eola-Amity hills?

Answer 17

Volcanic basalt and marine sedimentary rocks

Question 18

What is the name of the break in the Coast Range that allows cooling winds to flow through Willamette Valley, in particular McMinnville?

Answer 18

Van Duzer Corridor

Question 19

What are the soil types of McMinnville?

Answer 19

Marine sedimentary with loam and silts

Question 20

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?

Answer 20

Younger, finer and more uniform sedimentary soil.

Part of the Willakenzie soil series

Question 21

What AVA resides entirely within Chehelam Mountain AVA?

Answer 21

Ribbon Ridge

Question 22

What are the soils of Yamhill-Carlton?

Answer 22

Marine sedimentary soil over sandstone and siltstone

Question 23

What Southern Oregon AVA’s complex topography is the result of the collision of three mountain ranges?
What are the mountain ranges?

Answer 23

Upqua Valley

Coast Range, Cascades and the Klamath Mountains

Question 24

What Oregon AVA is more accurately nicknamed “The Hundred Valleys” AVA due to its interconnecting ranges and valleys?

Answer 24

Umpqua Valley AVA

Question 25

What are the sub AVAs of Umpqua Valley?

Answer 25

Red Hill Douglas County

Elkton Oregon

Question 26

How many distinct valleys ad microclimates are in Rogue Valley

Answer 26

3

Question 27

What grape or grapes would most likely be grown in the western areas of Rogue Valley?
Why?

Answer 27

Cool weather varietals such as Pinot Noir.

West has more marine cooling influence

Question 28

What grape varieties are more typical in the east side of Rogue Valley?
Why?

Answer 28

Merlot, Cabernet and Sauv Blanc

Warm and dry climate with higher altitude

Question 29

What is a sub AVA of Rogue Valley?

Answer 29

Applegate Valley

Question 30

What are the soils of Applegate Valley?

What altitude are vineyards typically planted?

Answer 30

Granite

2000 feet elevation

Question 31

What is the climate of the Columbia Valley AVA?

Answer 31

Continental high desert

Question 32

What AVA straddles the Columbia River for 15 miles in both Oregon and Washington?

Answer 32

Columbia Gorge

Question 33

What are the changes of climate from West to East in the Columbia Gorge?

Answer 33

West cooler and marine influence

East is continental high desert

Question 34

What AVA is hemmed by the Blue Mountains in the southeast, the Palouse to the north and the Columbia river to the west?

Answer 34

Walla Walla

Question 35

What is the sub AVA of Walla Walla Valley and approved in 2015 as Oregon’s 18th AVA?

Answer 35

The Rocks District of Milton Freewater

Question 36

What is the soil type of The Rocks District and its defining feature?

Answer 36

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.

Question 37

What is the only AVA in the US whose boundaries were determined by a single landform and single soil series?

Answer 37

The Rocks District of Milton-Freewater AVA

Question 38

What Oregon AVA lies in the rain shadow of the Cascades, Sierra Nevadas and Owyhee mountain ranges and receives 10-12 inches annual rainfall?

Answer 38

Snake River Valley

Question 39

What are the predominant varieties grown in the Snake River Valley?

Answer 39

Riesling, Chardonnay, Cabernet, Gewurztraminer and Merlot

Question 40

What is the sustainability certification that the majority of producers practice or are certified under and is unique to Oregon?

Answer 40

Live Certified