Other North America Flashcards
What are the AVAs of New York?
Cayuga Lake
Champlain Valley of New York
Niagara Escarpment
Lake Erie (shared with Ohio and Pennsylvania)
Finger Lakes
Hudson River Region
Long Island
North Fork of Long Island
Seneca Lake
The Hamptons, Long Island
Upper Hudson (newest est 2019)
What are the sub-AVAs of Long Island?
North Fork of Long Island (cooler and smaller)
The Hamptons, Long Island
What is the climate of the Finger Lakes?
Continental
What is the lake affect?
The water moderates temperatures, cooling the vines in the warmer months and warming them during the winter.
What are the sub-AVAs of the Finger Lakes?
Cayuga Lake
Seneca Lake
What NY AVA is shared with Pennsylvania and Ohio?
Lake Erie
What is the world’s largest demarcated appellation? Where is it, and how big is it?
Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA, spanning 30,000 miles in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois
What is Mexico’s most important viticultural region?
Baja California Peninsula
What are the subregions of the Baja Peninsula?
Valle de Guadalupe
Calafia
Valle de Santo Tomas
Valle de San Antonio de las Minas
Valle de San Vincente
What and where is the Americas oldest winery?
Casa Madero, established in 1597 Parras, in the state of Coahuila.
What is Baja’s most important city?
Ensenada, starting and ending point of the Ruta del Vino, and site of the headquarters of several local wine producers and distributors.
What and where is Eagle Foothills?
A nested AVA within Snake River Valley, established 12/28/2015.
What are the AVAs of Michigan?
Fennville (within Lake Michigan Shore)
Lake Michigan Shore (far tsouthwest corner, Indiana border)
Leelanau Peninsula (South Shore, east of Traverse City)
Old Mission Peninsula (surrounded by the Lake, just north of Traverse City)
What are the AVAs of Texas?
Texas High Plains (near Lubbock)
Texoma (east, Oklahoma border)
Texas Davis Mountains (southwest)
Escondido Valley (between Texas Davis Mountains and Hill Country)
Texas Hill Country, Fredericksburg, Bell Mountain (latter two within Texas Hill Country)
What are the AVAs of Virginia?
Shenandoah Valley (shared with West Virginia)
Middleburg Virginia (50 miles west of DC, Northern Virginia Region)
North Fork of Roanoke (2/3 down on the western side, foothills of the Allegheny mountains, southern Shenandoah Valley region)
Monticello (central, eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge Moutains)
Northern Neck George Washington Birthplace (eastern, on the Chesapeake Bay)
Rocky Knob (southwest, Blue Ridge Highlands region)
Virginia’s Eastern Shore (far southeast, Hampton Roads Region)
Appalachian High Country (shared with North Carolina and Tennessee)
Virginia Peninsula
Climate of Virginia?
Continental
-short growing season
-hot, humid, often stormy summer with few cool nights before September
-cold winters
Where are most of Virginia’s vineyards?
In a belt about 30 miles east of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is an important vineyard in Virginia? Who consults for this winery?
RdV Vineyard
Eric Boissenot of the Médoc
What is the climate of Long Island?
Temperate and maritime, not unlike Bordeaux.
What are the soils of Long Island AVA?
Well-drained glacial soils
What lake is the deepest of the Finger Lakes?
Seneca Lake at 618ft/188m
What California winemaker has a joint venture in the Finger Lakes with a German producer?
Paul Hobbs and Johannes Selbach
-Hillick & Hobbs
Forge Cellars had outside investment from what producer?
Louis Barruol of Gigondas
Where did New York’s first commercial vintage take place? When?
In the Hudson River Region
1839 at what is now the Brotherhood Winery
Where is the Champlain Valley of New York AVA located?
Along the Canada US border.
What US state can boast more indigenous grapevine species than any other region on Earth?
Texas
What are two important wineries in Texas High Plains AVA?
Llano Estacado
Pheasant Ridge
What is the soil of Texas High Plains AVA?
Climate?
Deep, calcareous, fertile.
Lots of sunshine, cool nights, very cold winters, constant wind - keeps disease at bay and at night helps cool the vines.
Who is Thomas V Munson?
Developed phylloxera-resistant rootstock which the world was able to use to combat phylloxera.
What % of Texas wine grapes are grown in the High Plains?
80%-3/4 are shipped to Hill Country
This is the seond most extensive AVA in the US.
Texas Hill Country
9 million acres (3.6 million ha)
800 acres (324 ha) planted with vines
What are the AVAs of Arizona?
Sonoita
Willcox
