Producers

Question 1

Who produces Diana Madeline, and it’s made based on which subzone of the region

Answer 1

Cullen

Wilyabrup of Margaret River

Question 2

What are the first five producers of Margaret River GI and name the established years

Answer 2

Vasse Felix - 1967
Mosswood - 1969
Cape Mentelle - 1970
Cullen - 1971
Leeuwin - 1973

Question 3

Who produces Tom Cullity

Answer 3

Vasse Felix

Question 4

Who produces Art Series

Answer 4

Leeuwin

Question 5

Who planted the first Pinot Meunier in Victoria in which year

The winery is based in which sub-region

Answer 5

Best’s Cellar in 1868, the oldest pinot meunier vines in the world

Great Western of Grampians

Question 6

Who planted the first Pinot Noir in Yarra Valley in which year

Answer 6

1838 by Ryrie Brothers of Yering Station

Question 7

Who produced the first sparkling wine with traditional method in Tasmania

Answer 7

Jansz

Question 8

Where is Wendoree winery

Answer 8

Clare Valley

Question 9

Who produces John Riddoch from which region

Answer 9

Wynn’s

Coonawarra

Question 10

Penfold’s three flagship wines, name their first vintage, and the their grapes are sourced from which subregion

Answer 10

Bin 95: 1951
- Barossa Valley, McLaren
Vale, Clare Valley, Coonawarra (may differ between vintages)

Bin 707: 1964
- Coonawarra, Barossa Valley, Robe Wrattonbully, Padthaway

Bin 144: 1995
- Adelaide Hills, Tumbarumba, Tasmania

Question 10

Penfold’s Bin 95 was named “Grange Hermitage” until which vintage

Answer 10

1989

Question 11

Name the four chief winemakers of Penfold’s

State their tenure period

What have the past winemakers created during their tenure

Answer 11

Max Shubert (1948 - 1975)
* Penfolds Grange

Don Ditter (1975 - 1986)
* Magill Estate
* Koonunga Hill
* Bin 707

John Duval (1986 - 2002)
* RWT Shiraz
* Bin 407
* Yattarna

Peter Gago (2002 - Now)

Question 12

Which wine is the Chinese release of Penfold’s, and the wine is blended from which grapes from which region

Answer 12

CWT 521
(Chinese Wine Trial)

Cabernet Sauvignon from the Shangri-La region & Marselan from Ningxia

Question 13

What is Egon Muller’s project in Australia and where is it

Answer 13

Kanta Riesling

Adelaide Hills

Question 14

Who produces “Amon Ra”

Answer 14

Glaetzer

Question 15

Who produces “Amon Ra”

Answer 15

Glaetzer

Question 16

Yalumba is located in which region
What is the flagship wine and its first vintage

Answer 16

Barossa

The Caley (2012)
The Octavius (1990)

Question 17

What is the difference between The Octavius of Yalumba 1988 and other vintages

Answer 17

1988 was Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, and it was an experimental wine, after the 1990 vintage it became Barossa Shiraz until now

Question 18

Where is d’Arenberg located

What is its flagship wine

What is the story behind the name

Answer 18

McLaren Vale

The Dead Arm
- Shiraz from McLaren Vale

Dead Arm is a vine disease caused by the fungus Eutypa Lata that randomly affects vineyards all over the world. Often affected vines are severely pruned or replanted. One half, or an ‘arm’ of the vine slowly becomes reduced to dead wood
That side may be lifeless and brittle, but the grapes on the other side, while low-yielding, display amazing intensity

Question 19

What is McLaren Vale’s “Scarce Earth’ program

Answer 19

Scarce Earth (originally known as ‘Rare Earth’) is a project that aims to highlight the impact of the site on the flavor of McLaren Vale wines. It utilizes a resource known as the McLaren Vale Geology Map, which divides the region up into 19 ‘districts’, to help ascertain whether similar geologies can indeed make for similar (or perhaps very different) wines

Question 20

Giaconde is located in which GI

Answer 20

Beechworth GI

Question 21

Who produces ‘Noble One’ from which GI

Answer 21

De Bortoli

Riverina

Question 22

Where is Seppeltsfield located and what is their top wine

Answer 22

Barossa Valley

100 Year Old Para Vintage Tawny

Current release is 1924 Para Vintage Tawny