Other North America

Question 1

What are the AVAs of New York?

Answer 1

Niagara Escarpment
Lake Erie North Shore
Finger Lakes
Hudson River Region
Long Island

Question 2

What are the sub-AVAs of Long Island?

Answer 2

North Fork of Long Island

The Hamptons, Long Island

Question 3

What are the sub-AVAs of the Finger Lakes?

Answer 3

Cayuga Lake

Seneca Lake

Question 4

What NY AVA is shared with Pennsylvania and Ohio?

Answer 4

Lake Erie

Question 5

What is the world’s largest demarcated appellation? Where is it, and how big is it?

Answer 5

Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA, spanning 30,000 miles in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois

Question 6

What is Mexico’s most important viticultural region?

Answer 6

Baja California Peninsula

Question 7

What are the subregions of the Baja Peninsula?

Answer 7

Valle de Guadalupe
Calafia
Valle de Santo Tomas
Valle de San Antonio de las Minas
Valle de San Vincente

Question 8

What and where is the Americas oldest winery?

Answer 8

Casa Madero, established in 1597 Parras, in the state of Coahuila.

Question 9

What is Baja’s most important city?

Answer 9

Ensenada, starting and ending point of the Ruta del Vino, and site of the headquarters of several local wine producers and distributors.

Question 10

What and where is Eagle Foothills?

Answer 10

A nested AVA within Snake River Valley, established 12/28/2015.

Question 11

What are the AVAs of Michigan?

Answer 11

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)

Question 12

What are the AVAs of Texas?

Answer 12

Texas High Plainds (near Lubbock)
Texoma (east, Oklahoma border)
Texas Davis Mountains (southwest)
Escondido Valley (between Texas Davis Mountains and Hill Country)
Texas Hill Country, Fredricksburg, Bell Mountain (latter two within Texas Hill Counry)

Question 13

What are the AVAs of Virginia?

Answer 13

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)