Washington Flashcards
These AVAs are along the Yakima River
Candy Mountain
Red Mountain
Goose Cap
Rattlesnake Hills
Col Solari is a collaboration between these two wineries
Antinori and Chateau Ste Michelle
(Red Mountain)
AVA’s of Washington (19)
**(Shared with Oregon)
Yakima Valley (1983)
Columbia Valley (1984)**
Walla Walla Valley (1984)**
Puget sound (1995)
Red Mountain (2001)
Columbia Gorge (2004)**
Horse Heaven Hills (2005)
Wahluke slope (2006)
Rattlesnake hills (2006)
Lake Chelan (2009)
Snipes mountain (2009)
Natches Heights (2011)
Ancient lakes of Columbia Valley (2012)
Lewis-Clark Valley (2016)*** shared with Idaho
Royal slope (2020)
Candy Mountain (2020)
Goose Cap (2021)
The burn of Columbia Valley (2021)
White Bluffs (2021)
Name of nutrient rich deposits created by Missoula floods moving west from Montana to Lake Missoula
Touchet Beds
Vineyard soils in Colombia Valley are “eolian” or what
Shaped by wind
What year was the first block of Champoux vineyard planted in horse Heaven Hills? who planted it?
1972
Don Mercer
Walter Clore
first site on Wahluke slope was planted this year what is it (driest AVA 7.5 inches)
Winebau Vineyard 1981
Walla Walla AVA is on Oregon border (Shared with Oregon) and 80% of plantings are this
Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
Syrah
soils of Walla Walla valley
Basalt bedrock
Thin alluvial topsoil
loess
largest Appellation in Washington
Columbia Valley 11,000,000 acres
Washington’s first AVA
Yakima Valley (1983)
nested AVA’s of Yakima Valley
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Snipes mountain
rattlesnake hills
red Mountain
Goose cap
Candy mountain
Washington’s warmest AVA
Red mountain
what is dual trunk training where is it employed
Throughout Washington, growers train two separate trunks on same vine in parallel just an inch or two apart winter damage will happen to one and not the other
another technique used to mitigate loss in cold weather
Burying canes: if canopy dies over the winter grower can pull fruiting cane up from under soil, get a crop the following year
Cordon, low trained
Rivers of Washington
Snake river
Columbia river
Yakima river
Which river passes through Walla Walla
Walla walla River
Tributaries touchet River and dry creek river
largest producer in Washington
Château Saint Michele
Vineyard of Chateau Ste Michele
Cold Creek
most planted grapes in Washington
Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
Washington labeling laws
95% state
75% county
85/95% AVA
95% vineyard
75% variety
85/95% vintage
Oldest Cabernet vines in Washington
1957 planted in Yakima Valley Otis Vineyard
These vineyards were planted on red Mountain in 1975
Kiona
Ciel du Cheval
What is VINEA
Voluntary group of Walla Walla growers who promote Holistic Socially Environmentally and responsible Methodology
Only Washington AVA west of cascades
Puget sound
Map of Washington
Smallest AVA of Washington
Candy Mountain
Map of Washington
the low-lying topography of the Columbia Basin is striated by east-west ridgelines—an area known to geologists as:
the Yakima Fold Belt, encompassing much of Washington’s vineyard acreage.
Former name of Chateau Ste. Michelle.
American Wine growers
Father of Washington Wine
Dr. Walter Clore
Gallo entered Washington by purchasing this Winery
Columbia Winery
This larger parent corporation owns Canoe Creek, Waterbrook and Willow Crest winery in Washington
Precept Wines
On what parallel is Eastern Washington’s vinifera?
46
Why is Phylloxera unknown in Washington?
Severe winter, sandy soil, great physical distances
This mountain range creates a rainshadow effect for Columbia River Basin in Eastern Washington, affecting Yakima Valley
Cascade Range
Why is the Columbia basin sheltered from icy polar air masses?
The Rockies to the North and East
What is the Yakima Fold Belt
Low Lying Striations of East-West ridgelines in South Central Washington
Created by tectonic compression in Miocene Epoch
What are anticlines and synclines in the Yakima Fold Belt, and what are their elevations?
Anticlines: Ridgelines (4,000 ft)
Synclines: Valley floors (1000 ft)
Which does Frost affect more? valley floors, or higher elevation vineyards in Eastern Washington?
Valley floors.
Anticlinal bottlenecks create inversion layer of temperature, trapping cool air, making for wider diurnal shifts.
Higher elevation vineyards are preferable
Warmest AVAs in all Washington
Red Mountain, Wahluke Slope, Horse heaven Hills, on the South side of Anticlinal ridges
Vines are particularly susceptible to this affliction after a hard freeze in Washington
Crown Gall
What is the deepest point of Basalt in Eastern Washington?
Pasco Basin, reaches 12,000 feet
Where did Lake Missoula form? What created it?
Western Montana. Massive dam of ice that was part of the retreating Cordilleran Ice Sheet
What is the name of the geological formation at the Southern Edge of the Pasco Basin, that created a “bottleneck” and deep channels of Basalt and buildup of sediment and Touchet beds during the Missoula Floods?
Wallula Gap
Soils Spit out Westward into Columbia Gorge
Land above this elevation stayed dry during the Missoula Floods
1200 feet
Where is one more likely to find Basalt nearer the surface in Eastern Washington? Higher or lower elevation?
Higher elevation
Who planted Washingtons first vineyard?
British Hudson’s Bay Company (Fur Traders)
What treaty gave US control of Washington?
Oregon Treaty of 1846
What year did Washington prohibit the sale of Alcohol
1914, 6 years before prohibition