South America Flashcards
Where is Mauipo Valley
Central Valley, Chile
What unique grape provides Salta’s most distinctive white wines?
Torrontès
What is the most planted grape in Chile?
Cabernet Sauvignon
Where is Colchagua?
Rapel Valley, Chile
True or False
San Juan is located in Patagonia?
False it’s located in Middle Central Argentina
True or False
The majority of Chilean wine is red?
True
True or False
Carmenère is the most planted grape in the Maipo Valley?
False - Cabernet Sauvignon is the most planted grape
What is considered the classic region for Malbec?
Mendoza
What Argentnean province produces a majority of the country’s wines?
Mendoza - 70%
True or False
Casablanca is a coastal subregion within the Aconcagua DO?
True
Argentina ranks _________ in the world in terms of overall wine production?
5th
____________________ are believed to have been the first to plant wine grapes in Argentina in the late 1500’s
Spanish Monks
True or False
Argentina has a unique population for South America, with the vast majority of its population having some European heritage?
True - Italian
If a region is listed on a bottle of Argentine wine, then at least _______ of the grapes used to produce that wine must have been grown in that region?
85%
True or False
Argentine winemakers label most of their wines by grape variety
True
The most important grape grown in Argentina is ____________ .
Malbec
Torrontès is one of the most important _________ grapes.
White
The vast majority of Argentina wines is produced in ________________.
The temperate foothills of the Andes Mountains
The most important wine region of Argentina, where more than 70% of the country’s total wine production takes place, is _____________.
Mendoza
True or False
Overall, Argentina’s wine regions are relatively dry and arid a result of being located in the rain shadow of the Andes Mountains
True
The most important red grape variety grown in Chile is _____________.
Cabernet Sauvignon
True or False
Chile is one of the most isolated countries in the world?
True
Chile is one of the worlds smallest wine producing countries.
False -actually is ranked 10 in world wine production
The first wine grape planted in Chile in the 1500’s and the most widely planted still today is:
Pais
True or False
The European country that has had the largest influence on Chilean winemaking is Spain, as Chile used to be a Spanish Colony
False - the French have the greatest influence
Which important Chilean grape variety is called the “Lost Grape of Bordeaux”
Carmenère
If a label of Chilean wine listed Sauvignon Blanc as the grape used in its production, what percentage of the grapes used to produce this wine must be the listed varietal by Chilean Law (assuming that the wine is intended for export)?
85%
The wine regions of Chile are located in the river valley nestled between coastal mountain ranges and:
The Andes Mountains
True or False
Phylloxera and powdery mildew wiped out many of the vineyards of Chile in the mid to late 1800s, causing the winemakers there to replant higher quality grape varieties
False - Phylloxera never hit Chile due to its climate, Chilean vines are some of the purest vines in the world
When did winemaking arrive in the new world and who brought it
16th Century by the Spanish
Where were the earliest viticulture in the Americas
Mexico
When did Vines reach Peru, Child and Argentina
By 1560
When did Vines reach Brazil
1532
What put a halt to the growth of Vines early in South America
The 17th Century restriction of wine production. Wine was only to come from the Iberian Peninsula
What are the leading wine producers of South America
Argentina
Chile
Brazil
Who was Claudio Gay
He set up pre Phylloxera Vitis Vinifera Vines at the University of Chile Quinta Normal Department in 1830
- these Vines plus Chile geographic isolation prevented Phylloxera from entering Chile
