Australia Flashcards
(139 cards)
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When was the first major viticulture boom in Australia
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Early 1800s, gold rush caused it to die
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When did Syrah start gaining popularity in Australia?
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1970s
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What two Adelaide based centers have helped to improve Austrialia’s understanding of wine?
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The Australian Wine Research Institute and the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
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What was Australians first collectable wine?
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1951 Penfolds Grange
Released by Max Schubert
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What is the Label Integrity Program
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-Introduced in 1990
-85% min on variety, vintage, region
-Blneds must have grapes listed from greatest to least
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What is Wine Australia
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Oversees the wine industry, along with labeling, GIs, and marketing
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What is the hiarchy of GIs?
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State>Zone>Region>Subregion
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What is the laws around regions and subregions?
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-single tract of land with at least 5 independent vineyards at 5ha a piece
- min output of 500 tons
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When were the first GIs released?
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1994
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What are common viticulture practices in Australia?
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Mechanical Harvesting
Low pruning
Irrigation
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What are the two big Irrigation Techniques in Australaia?
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Regulated deficit irrigation
Partial rootzone drying
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What is Regulated deficit irrigation?
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-creates water stress during key periods in vines development by lowering the amount of water
- used after fruit set, to limit vegetation growth and enhances fruit color
- downsides are lowere yields
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What is Partial Rootzone Drying?
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Reduces water use by 50% by alternating drip irrigation from one side of the vine row to the other
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Is chaptalization used?
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It is illegal in all of AUS
15
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Is acidification used?
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Widely
16
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When was the boxed wine developed?
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1960s
17
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Who developed counterintuitive technique of minimal pruning?
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CSIRO
18
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When was Wine Australia created?
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1981
Original name was AUS Wine and Brandy Corporation
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Where were the first vines planted, and when?
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1788 in NSW
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What lead to the rise of South Australia?
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Victorias phylloxera in late 1800s
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How many zones in South Australia
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8
22
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South Australia makes up ____ % of the total wine production
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50%
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Which large companies are HQ’d here
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Accolade Wines
Perod Ricard
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What Zones are in the Adelaide Super Zone?
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Barossa Zone
Fleurieu Zone
Mount Lofty Range
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What regions are in Barossa Zone?
Barossa Valley
Eden Valley
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What are the ages of Barossa Old Vine Charter?
Old- 35 years
Survivor- 70 years
Centenarian- 100 years
Ancestor- 125 years
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Which early settelers influenced Barossa Valley?
Germans
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What is the climate in Barossa Valley?
Warm Continental, dry summers, low humiditiy and rainfall during growing season
low elevation
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What are the oldes ungrafted vines?
Langmeil Freedom Vineyard in 1843
| Syrah
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What is the biggest grape in Barossa?
Shriaz
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What is Seppeltsfield known for?
100 year old para liqueur
Foritifed wine, GMS to 17%
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What are some of the big producers in Barossa?
Henschke
Lehmann
Langmeil
Torbreck
Seppeltsfield
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What is the general soil of Eden Valley
Red Clay and granite
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Which region is cooler, Eden or Barossa?
Eden, and higher in elevation
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Where can you find Hill of Grace and Mount Edelstone?
Northern Eden Valley
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What is the biggest white and red grape?
Riesling and Shiraz
| Shiraz in the North where its warmer
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What regions are in the Fleurieu Zone?
McLaren Vale
Langhorne Creek
Currency Creek
Kangaroo Island
South Fleurieu
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What geographical features influence McLaren Vale?
South Mt Lofty Range to the east
St Vincent Gulf to the west
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What is the climate like?
Warm Mediterranean
Rainfall mostly in winter
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Does McLaren Vale have fungal disease issues?
Windy region makes it low pressure
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What is Scarce Earth?
-Members of the McLaren Vale Sustainable Winegrowing Australia (MVSWGA) to submit Shiraz from single sites
- Wines must be produced from 10yo vines and not heavly oaked
- d'Arenberg, Chapel Hill, Gemtree
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What unoffical subregion is known for grenache?
Blewitt Valley & Kangarilla
| Sandy soils
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What are a few important producers of McLaren Vale?
Yangarra Estates
Hickinbotham
D'Arenberg
Wirra Wirra
Claredon Hills
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What geographical features influence Langhorne Creek?
the Lake Doctor, blowing off of Lake Alexandria
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What producer to know in Langhorne Creek?
Metala
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What was the site of the first European settlement in AUS
Kangaroo Island
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What regions are in the Mount Lofty Ranges Zone
Adelaide Hills
Adelaide Plains
Clare Valley
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What is the climate like in Clare Valley?
Cool
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What seasonal hazards are issues in Clare Valley?
spring frosts
| cool breezes happen consistently
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Are pests issues in Clare Valley?
low pest issues from low rainfall
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What is the biggest planted grape in Clare Valley?
Shiraz
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What is the most respected grape from Clare Valley?
Riesling
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Big producers in Clare Valley
Grosset
Mount Horrocks
Wendouree
Jim Barry
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Which region in MLRZone is the highest elevation (and wettest)
Adelaide Hills
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What are the subregions of Adelaide Hills
Picadilly Valley
Lenswood
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____% of the plantings in Adelaide Hills are white grapes
70
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What grape is Picadilly known for?
Chardonnay
| First commercial vineyard in 1976
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What grape is Lenswood known for?
Sauvignon Blanc
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Which region is the warmest and driest in the Adelaide Super Zone?
Adelaide Plains
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What regions are in the Limestone Coast Zone?
Coonawarra
Padthaway
Wrattonbully
Mount Gambier
Mount Benson
Robe
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What is the big grape of Coonawarra
Cab Sauv
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What is the soil of Coonawarra?
Terra Rossa
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What makes Terra Rosa soil important?
-Clay loam rich with iron oxide
- Provides good water retention to support the vines in dry summesr
- Between Penola & Comaun
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Climate in Coonawarra
Cool Mediterranean
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When was Coonawarra GI'd?
2003
| Due to disagreements about terra rossa soil
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What is Padthaways fruit normally go to?
multiregional blends
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Which GI has over 1/4 of the national grape tonnage each year?
Riverland GI
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What river causes the Riverland GI to function?
Murray River
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Where did viticulture begin in Victoira?
1838 in Yarra Yarra
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What region was phylloxera first discovered and what was the fall out?
Geelong, 1875
Every vine in Geelong was uprooted
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What are the Zones in Victoria?
Port Phillip
Gippsland
NE, NW, W, Central Victoria
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What grapes are big in Port Philip Zone?
Burgundy Varieties
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What GIs are in Port Philip Zone
Yarra Yarra Valley
Mornington
Geelong
Sunbury
Macedon Ranges
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What is the most important region in Port Phillips/Victoira?
Yarra Yarra
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What is the climate of Yarra yarra?
Cool Maritime
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What is unique about the growing season in Yarra Yarra?
its a lon growing season
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Whats the biggest white and red grape in Yarra Yarra?
Chardonnay and Pinot Noir
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What are the two unoffical regions of Yarra Yara?
Lower and Upper Yarra Valley
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Whats the difference between Upper and Lower Yarra Valley
Lower -warmer and sandier soil
Upper- cooler, red basalt, higher elevation
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What are a few producers in Yarra Yarra?
Yering station
Yarra Yering
Domain Chandon (Moet)
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What is the climate of Mornington Peninsula
Very cool maritime
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What are the geographical features that influence Mornington Peninsula
Ocean and constant wind
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What is the biggest grape in Mornington Peninsula
Pinot Noir, 50% of plantings
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Has phylloxera been found in Mornington Peninsula
No
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What group of immigrants influenced Geelong?
Swiss
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What region is the driest in Port Phillips?
Geelong
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What is the climate in Geelong and what are the influencing reasons?
Cool climate
Ports Phillip Bay
Bass Straight
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What are the three unoffical regions of Geelong
Surf Coast
Bellarine
Moorabool Valley
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What is the most important subregion of Goulburn Valley
Nagambie Lakes
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Where does a lot of Domaine Chandons (based in Yarra Yarra) source a lot of their Chard for Sparkling wine?
Strathbogie Range
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What is the climate for Rutherglen
Warm climate
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What is a small grape varity that has been grown in Rutherglen that is native to the south of France?
Durif
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What is the Muscat classifications? and the year requirments?
Rutherglen 3-5y
Classic 6-10y
Grand 11-19y
Rare 20+
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What is the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area?
-Started 1912
-Delivered water to the region
- Provided farmland to a prior drought area
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What Zones are in New South Wales?
Hunter Valley Zone
Central Ranges Zones
A few other, that arent really important
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What is the sole GI in Hunter Valley Zone?
Hunter GI
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What are the subregions in Hunter GI?
Upper Hunter
Broke Fordwich
Pokolbin
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What is the climate in Hunter GI
Subtropical and humid
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Whats the grape of Hunter Valley and what was the original name?
Semillon
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Where are Broke Fordwich and Pokolbin?
Lower Hunter Valley
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Who is known as the first great Australian winemaker?
Maurice O'Shea
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When and where were the first vineyards planted in Australia?
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What regions are in Central Ranges Zones
Mudgee
Orange
Cowra
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What is the big grape of Mudgee
Chardonnay
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What region has some of the first single variety releases of Chardonnay?
Mudgee
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What grape is grown in Orange?
Sauvignon Blanc
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What Zone is Yellowtail based in?
Big Rivers
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What GIs are shared between New South Wales and Victoria?
Swan Hill
Murray Darling
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Canberra District GI is know for what style wine?
Shiraz-Viogner blends, modeled after Cote-Rotie
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What GI benifited the most from Murrumbidgee Irrigation?
Riverina
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What is Riverina known for?
Bulk wines
112
What region produced the first wine in Western Australia?
Swan Valley
| Thomas Walter
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What mountain range runs through New South Wales
Great Dividing Range
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What are the most important Zones in Western Australia
Greater Perth
South West Australia Zone
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Where is 85% of Western AUS vines located?
South Western Australia Zone
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What bodies of water boarder Margaret River?
Geographe Bay
Southern Ocean
Indian Ocean
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What is the climate of Margaret River?
Mediterranean Climate
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What are the 6 subregions of Margaret River?
Yalligup
Carbunup
Wilyabrup
Treeton
Wallcliffe
Karridale
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What river flows through Margaret River?
Blakewood River
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What is the heart of Margaret River
Wilyabrup
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What are the three estates that make up the Golden Triangle in Wallcliffe?
| the home of top chardonnays
## Footnote
planted with Gingin Clone
Leeuwin Estate
Cape Mentelle
Voyager Estates
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What are the biggest respected grapes in Margaret River? But what wine drives the money?
Cab and Chard
Sauv Blanc/Semillon blends are the money drivers
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What is the most widely planted Chardonnay clone in Margaret
Gingin
| known for different berry sizes
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What are the 5 offical subzones of Great Southern GI
Mount Barker
Frankland River
Porongurup
Denmark
Albany
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What GI is in the Grater Perth Zone?
Swan District/Swan Valley
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What is the climate in Swan District?
Warm hot mediterranean
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What is the only offical GI of Tasmanina
Tasmania GI
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What unoffical region is the center of wine production in Tasmania
Tamar Valley
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What are the two most important unoffical regions of Tasmania
Tamar Valley
Coal River
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What are the big grapes of Tasmania
Chardonnay, PN
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Which estates are behind Jansz?
Louis Roederer and Heemskerk
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What si teh coolest and southermost wine producing region?
Tasmania
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What is the most 2 important GI in Queensland?
Granite Belt
South Burnett
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What is the climate in Granite Belt and South Burnett?
Subtropical
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Name the top bottling of hunter riesling
| actually semillon!!!
Vat 1 by Tyrrell
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What is the best producer in Canberra District?
Clonakillas
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Where is the producer Tahbilk located? What are they known for?
Located in Central Victoria, they managed to protect their vineyards from Phylloxera and they produce their flagship Shiraz from vines planted in 1860
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What two regions within North East Victoria are known for sweet fortified wines?
Rutherglen and Glenrowan
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