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AUS: New South Wales Flashcards

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Wyndham Estate

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Hunter Valley GI
* site of 1st commercial Shiraz cuttings - 1830
* Aus’ oldest continually running winery

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Australia’s First Families of Wine

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Winery association - 10 members
* goal is to direct the narrative of history, provenance, and quality of Aussie wine. Est. 2009
* Stephen Hanschke is the chair

Brown Brothers
Campbells
D’Arenberg
Henschke
Howard Park
Tyrrell’s
Taylor’s
Tahbilk
Yalumba

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Hunter Valley Zone’s 2 rivers

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Hunter River
Goulburn River

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Hunter Valley Zone latitude/climate

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32ºS
Hot subtropical - region 4
* Humid
* Rainy: avg 20in of growing season rain in Hunter Valley - 35 - 40in year overall
* Storms regularly threaten harvest, arriving in late January

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New South Wales’ 2 most planted varieties overall?

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Chardonnay
Shiraz

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New South Wales’ 2 most important geographic features

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  • Pacific Ocean
  • Great Dividing Range: runs the whole coast; blocks cool air and rain
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Hunter Valley Zone’s GIs

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Hunter Valley GI
- Upper Hunter Valley GI
- Broke Fordwich GI
- Pokolbin GI (home to the big names)

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Lower Hunter Valley subregions

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GI: Pokolbin, Broke Fordwich

Unofficial:
- Allandale
- Belford
- Dalwood
- Rothbury

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Hunter Valley grapes

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1 Semillon (likes white alluvial sands)

#2 Chardonnay
#3 Verdelho (thick skins get along with subtropical climate)
#4 Shiraz (red volcanic soils)

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Hunter Valley soils

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Semillon likes white alluvial sands, Shiraz likes red volcanic soils (water management is important)

Upper Hunter: black silt, dark clay loam
Lower Hunter: Friable loam, red friable duplex soils

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Australia’s 1st varietal Chardonnay?

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1971 Tyrrell “Vat 47 Pinot Chardonnay” Hunter Valley

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Hunter Riesling

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Semillon
* most planted Hunter Valley grape
* 10-12% ABV, pH around 2.9
* no oak, no lees stirring, bottled fresh and young
* premium editions like Tyrell’s Vat 1 and Brokenwood’s ILR Reserve see extended bottle age before release

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Vat 1

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Tyrrell’s top Hunter Valley Semillon
* Classic - no oak, no significant lees contact, bottled quickly and always bottle aged 5 years
* Langton’s 1st

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edition # of current Langton’s classification? What changes were made with this classification?

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8th
* all wines have been released at least 10 vintages and have a “strong presence on the secondary market”
* 100 “Classified” Wines, 19 of which are “1st Classified”

Inspired by BDX’s 1855

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Tyrrell, Brokenwood, Mt. Pleasant - located in what Hunter Valley sub-GI?

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Pokolbin

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Lower Hunter vs Upper Hunter: which is more important?

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Lower Hunter is home to all the big names. Pokolbin in particular.

Upper Hunter has a short history, not many producers. Pendfolds was the first to plant in 1960.

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Maurice O’Shea

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Hunter Valley hero
* key figure for modern Aus wine
* studied at Montepellier, familiar with French wines, went back to Aus
* his family settled in the Hunter Valley, bought a vineyard. He renamed it Mt. Pleasant and made dry wines when stickies were the favored one

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ILR Reserve

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Brokenwood
Hunter Valley Semillon
Classic - no oak, no significant lees contact, no malo, bottled quickly and held back for 6 years

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Lake’s Folly

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Hunter GI
* planted the first 20th century vineyard in the Hunter Valley (1963
* “Australia’s first boutique winery”

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Hunter GI vs Hunter Valley GI

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  • Hunter Valley = zone
  • Hunter GI = region
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Langton’s 1st wines from New South Wales?

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  • Brokenwood Graveyard Vineyard Shiraz (Hunter Valley)
  • Mount Pleasant Lovedale Semillon (Hunter Valley)
  • Tyrrell’s Vat 1 Semillon (Hunter Valley)
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McWilliam’s in the Hunter Valley

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Mt. Pleasant
* hired Maurice O’Shea as winemaker, acquired Mt. Pleasant vineyard
* Lovedale Semillon, Elisabeth Semillon
* company expanded in the 1970’s, but Mt. Pleasant remains core to portfolio

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GI’s of the Central Ranges zone

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Cowra GI
Orange GI
Mudgee GI
(we’re in New South Wales)

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Mudgee GI

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New South Wales / Central Ranges Zone
* oldest GI in the zone
* Hunter Valley’s higher elevation, drier, sunnier, less humid neighbor
* #1 most planted = Chardonnay
* reputation is for rich reds though.. Cab, Shiraz, Merlot

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Orange GI

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New South Wales / Central Ranges Zone
* elevation is key: 600 to 1000M+. One of the highest GI’s in Australia
* 1st modern vineyard = Bloodroot, 1983
* Cab, Merlot, Shiraz are planted but PN, SB have most potential

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Cowra GI

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New South Wales / Central Ranges Zone
*warm; known for Chardonnay

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Hastings River GI

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Northern Rivers Zone, New South Wales
* HOT; region 5
* can kind of make Hunter style Semillon but meh

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Shoalhaven Coast GI

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New South Wales
* Chambourcin

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Southern Highlands GI

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New South Wales
* new but promising
* Tempranillo #1
* hills of the Great Dividing Range

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Big Rivers Zone
- regions
- rivers

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New South Wales’ #1 zone in production volume
* Perricoota, Murray Darling (partial), Swan Hills GI (partial), RIVERINA
* 2 big rivers: Murray, Murrumbidgee
* 16 wineries, 25% of Aussie wine made possible by Murrumbidgee Irrigation area

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Riverina GI most planted grapes

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1 Chardonnay

#2 Shiraz
#3 Semillon

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Riverina GI important wineries

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  • Casella Family Wines
  • McWilliam’s (1st to plant here, 1913)
  • De Bertoli
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Riverina’s 2 important rivers?

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Murrumbidgee River
Lachlan River

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Riverina GI climate

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Mediterranean: hot dry summer, mild wet winter
* 11 - 22in rain/year (7.9in in growing season)
* Drought and irrigation are key considerations - viticulture brought to us by the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area

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Noble One

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McWilliams’ historic Botrytis Semillon - 1st vintage in 1982, inspired by Sauternes
* the benchmark botrytised Aussie Semillon

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Canberra District GI

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New South Wales (Southern NSW Zone)
* a Northern Rhone look-alike
* CLIMATE: mild continental
* modern rebirth in 1971 with planting of Clonakilla Vineyard, 1st vintage in 1976
* Shiraz, Cab, PN
* Riesling, Chard, SB

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Clonakilla

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Canberra District / New South Wales
* planted 1971, 1st commercial vintage in 1976
* Shiraz-Viognier, 1992. Pivotal role in cool climate Aussie Shiraz and N. Rhone style wines
* Riesling, Chard, Viognier

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Hilltops GI

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Southern New South Wales
*reds are 80% of production - Cab, Shiraz

[Canberra, Gundagai, Tumbarumba, Hilltops = 4 SNSW]

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2 GI’s shared between New South Wales and Victoria?

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Murray Darling
Swan Hill

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What did James Busby do

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Father of Australian AND New Zealand wine
- wrote: A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, and the Art of Making Wine
- cataloged/collected European cuttings to build Sydney Botanical Garden

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Areas within South Eastern Australia GI

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Entire states of: Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania

Winegrowing sectors of: South Australia, Queensland
* response to EU law requiring a varietal wine to carry a place name

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Label Integrity Program

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1990 vintage on
* 85% rule for place, variety, vintage
* signed agreement to ditch Euro names in 1993; rolled out their own GIs in 1994

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Last Aussie vintages for Euro names

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Agreement inked in 2008 - effective for 2011 forward
* Tawny, Solera, Icewine are still ok

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RDI

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Regulated Deficit Irrigation
- creates water stress during key periods by lowering the total amount of applied irrigation water

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PRD

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Partial Rootzone Drying
- alternates irrigation by root zone, keeping one wet and one dry

Makes the most sense for quality and economically

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