South America

Question 1

What does the term Reserva and Gran Reserva mean on a bottle of Argentine wine?

Answer 1

Reserva indicates the wine was aged for a minimum 12 months in oak if red and 6 months in oak if white.

Gran Reserva indicates the wine was aged for a minimum 24 months in oak if red and a minimum 12 months in oak if white.

Question 2

What do the terms Reserva Especial and Gran Reserva indicate on a bottle of Chilean wine?

Answer 2

These terms indicate that the wine has spent time in oak.

Question 3

What terms are used on a bottle of Chilean wine that indicate that the wine has spent time in oak?

Answer 3

Reserva especial and Gran Reserva

Question 4

What does the term Reserva indicate on a bottle of Chilean wine?

Answer 4

This indicates that the wine has a minimum alcohol content of at least 12% abv.

Question 5

What does the term Reserva Especial indicate on a bottle of Chilean wine?

Answer 5

This indicates that the wine has achieved a minimum alcohol content of 12% and that it has seen at least some time aging in oak.

Question 6

What does the term Gran Reserva indicate on a bottle of Chilean wine?

Answer 6

Indicates that the wine has acheived a minimum alcohol content of at least 12.5% and that it has spent at least some time in oak.

Question 7

What does the term Reserva Privada indicate on a bottle of Chilean wine?

Answer 7

This only indicates that the wine has achieved a minimum alcohol content of at least 12.5%

Question 8

What does the term Reserva indicate on a bottle of Argentine wine?

Answer 8

This indicates that the wine has been aged for at least 12 months in barrel if red and 6 months if white.

Question 9

What does the term Gran Reserva indicate on a bottle of Argentine wine?

Answer 9

Indicates that the wine has spent at least 24 months in barrel prior to release if red and 12 months if white.

Question 10

What is the appellation and grape(s) of Montes Purple Angel?

Answer 10

Colchagua Valley

Predominantly Carmenere with Petit Verdot

Question 11

Where is Don Melchor produced and what is the grape?

Answer 11

Puente Alto in the Maipo Valley

Cabernet Sauvignon

Question 12

Who produces Clos Apalta? Where is this and what are the grape(s)?

Answer 12

Casa Lapostolle

Apalta in Colchagua Valley

Question 13

Where are Casa Lapostolle and Montes wineries located?

Answer 13

Colchagua Valley

Question 14

Where is Seña produced and what were the original partners for this wine? Who owns 100% of the winery today?

Answer 14

Aconcagua Valley

Originally a partnership between Robert Mondavi and Errasuriz (Chadwick Family)

Owned since 2005 by exclusively the Chadwick family and today is Eduardo Chadwick’s project.

Question 15

What are the grapes of Seña?

Answer 15

The six Bordeaux varietals

Question 16

Where is VIK produced? What are the grape(s)?

Answer 16

Chachapoal Valley

Cab, Cab Franc, Carmenere, Merlot

Question 17

What is the grape of Montes Folly?

Answer 17

Syrah

Question 18

Who produces Don Maximiano Founder’s Reserve? Where is it produced and from what grapes?

Answer 18

Errazuriz
Aconcagua Valley
Cab, Cab Franc, Carmenere, and Malbec

Question 19

What are three producers making quality wine in the Aconcagua Valley?

Answer 19

Errazuriz
Seña
Viña von Siebenthal

Question 20

What are three producers making quality wine in Apalta?

Answer 20

Montes
Lapostolle
Neyen

Question 21

What are three producers making quality wines in Casablanca?

Answer 21

Cono Sur
Veramonte
Matetic

Question 22

Who owns Los Vascos? Where is this winery located?

Answer 22

Barons de Rothschild (Lafite)

Colchagua Valley

Question 23

What is the grape of Errazuriz Kai?

Answer 23

Carmenere

Question 24

Where is Louis Antoine Luyt’s winery in Chile?

Answer 24

Maule Valley

Question 25

What is Vigno?

Answer 25

Maule Valley - based association of producers whose goal is to preserve dry-farmed old vine Carignan in the region and to support the local farmers who continue to grow these vines.

Short for Vignadores de Carignan. Wines that carry Vigno designation must be produced from vines that are dry-farmed, head-trained, and min 35 years old. Additionally the wine must be min 85% Carignan.

Question 26

What is MOVI?

Answer 26

An association of artisanal wineries or wineries producing on a small scale.

Short for Movimiento de Viñateros Independientes