USA - California Central, South, Sierra Flashcards
Central Coast AVA: Which Counties are included ?
Counties of Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara
How relevant are the northern counties in the wine production ?
Not much
Where is Livermore Valley AVA?
Shared between Cotra Costa and Alameda
Which areas the San Francisco Bay AVA encompass?
San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano
Which others AVA (apart from SFbay AVA and Livermore Valley AVA) will you find in the northern part on the Central Coast AVA? (3) + 1
Santa Cruz Mountains AVA
Santa Clara AVA
San Ysidro AVA
Ben Lomond Mountains AVA
What is the subregions of the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA?
Ben Lomond Mountain AVA
Which iconic vineyards is in Santa Cruz? Who’s the producer ?
Monte Bello Vineyard,
produced by Ridge
Which iconic producers will you find in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA?
Ridge, Bonny Doon Estate
San Benito County: How many AVAs?
San Benito AVA ( + 3 sub avas ) cinega valley Ava, Lime Kiln Valley Ava (Calera) , Paicines AVA
Mt Harlan AVA Chalone AVA (shared with Monterey)
How many AVAs within the County of Monterey?
9 Monterey AVA Camel Valley AVA Santa Lucia Highlands AVA Arroyo Seco AVA San Bernabe AVA San Lucas AVA San Antonio Valley AVA Hames Valley AVA Chalone AVA (shared w San Benito)
What’s the most planted varietal in Monterey AVA?
Chardonnay
Where would you find the iconic Gary’s Vineyard?
what is it regarded for?
In Santa Lucia Highlands AVA
Regarded for PN production
What’s unique about San Bernabe?
San Bernabe vineyard is the largest contiguous vineyard on earth
Chalone AVA is shared between ?
Monterey and San Benito
San Luis Obispo County AVA has how many Avas within?
In which year many got approved?
- of which 11 approved in 2014
Which Avas were the original 4 in San Luis Obispo County?
Paso Robles (83) York Mountain (87) Edna Valley (87) Arroyo Grande Valley (90)
What’s the size of the Paso Robles AVA?
614,000 acres
only 40,000 planted
What’s the name of the Gap from where the cool air funnel through in Paso Robles?
What’s the Region Winkler category?
Templeton gap
It goes from II to IV
What’s the name of the Mountain Range to the west of PRobles?
Santa Lucia Mountains
What are the main varieties?
CS is the mostly planted, Zinf is well regarded and rhone varietals
What Gary Eberle did in 1975 ?
He planted Syrah cuttings originally from Chapoutier vineyards