Tasmania and Queensland

Question 1

Queensland

Official and Unoffical Gi’s

Answer 1

(clockwise from 1:00)

• South Burnett GI - est 2000
• Sunshine Coast & Hinterlands
• Brisbane & Scenic Rim
• Gold Coast & Hinterlands
• Granite Belt GI - est 2002
• Darling Downs

Question 2

Granite Belit

Climate and Natural Features

Answer 2

Climate:

• Subtropical, but very high altitude (700 M+)
• Fraught with spring frosts and rain at harvest

Natural Features:

• Great Dividing Range
• Granite Belt (200 year old granitic intrusion, running down into New England Australia, sometimes called the New England Tableland)

Question 3

South Burnett

Climate and Natural Features

Answer 3

Climate:

• Subtropical and continental, with more growing season rainfall than any other continental climate in the country

Natural Features:

• Burnett River (N)
• Blackbutt, Brisbane, and Coast Ranges (E)
• Great Dividing Range (S)

Question 4

What is Australia’s coolest growing region?

Answer 4

Tasmania

Question 5

What is Tasmania’s most notable product?

Answer 5

traditional method sparkling wine

Question 6

Northern Tasmania Unofficial Subzones

Answer 6

(W to E)

• North West Coast
• Tamar Valley
  
  • generally achieves ripeness earlier, making it more suitable for late ripening varieties
• Pipers River
  
  • within Tamar, better for earliy ripening varieties

Question 7

Where is Jansz?; who founded it?; who owns it now?

Answer 7

• Jansz is in Pipers River (N Tasmania)
• Founded as a collaboration between Heemskerk (Tassie) and Louis Roederer
• Now owned by Hill-Smith Family Vineyards (Yalumba)

Question 8

Southern Tasmania Unofficial Subzones

Answer 8

(W to E)

• Huon Valley
• Derwent Valley
• Coal River / Richmond (longer sunlight hours, can ripen later maturing varieties)
• East Coast

Question 9

What major European wine regions can Tasmania be compared to?

Answer 9

Champagne and Rheingau