Washington State

Question 1

Name the 3 AVA shared with Oregon

Answer 1

The Columbia valley
The Columbia gorge
The walla walla valley.

Question 2

What are the 2 AVA out of the Columbia valley AVA?

Answer 2

The Columbia gorge

The puget sound

Question 3

What are the AVA of Washington state.

Answer 3

Columbia valley (the biggest) 
Then within this AVA we can find the following:
Lake Chelan
Ancients lake of Columbia valley
Whaluke slope
Naches heights 
Yakima valley (1st AVA in 1983) 
3 sub AVA inside:
Rattlesnake
Snipes mountain
Red mountain (top AVA)
Horse heaven hills 
Walla walla (shared with Oregon)

Puget sound (around Seattle) 
Columbia gorge (shared with Oregon) 
Both outside the large Columbia valley AVA

Lewis Clark valley (added in 2016)y

Question 4

Name the new AVA added in 2016

Answer 4

Lewis Clark valley Ava shared with Idaho

Question 5

Describe the soil of Washington

Answer 5

The principal soil is the result of the Missoula flood. It Branford sedimentary all around. The soil is now composed of sedimentary sea bed and sand. And basalt from ancient volcanoes
The result is silt loam soil

Question 6

Why phylloxera did not affect Washington state?

Answer 6

The continental dry climate make the winter freezing. Plus the soil is sandy in most part.
2 elements that phylloxera doesn’t not like

Question 7

What is the climate of Washington?

Answer 7

Continental dry climate. Situated east of the mountain cascades, the rain shadow effect make the region a quasi desert 240 mm rain a year.
The summer are very hot, with big diurnal range. The winter very cold with in some part the obligation to put the dormant vine in the earth to protect against freeze

Question 8

What are the AVA of Washington state that are not contained within Columbia valley Ava.

Answer 8

Puget sound

Columbia gorge