Australia

Question 1

How many zones in Australia?

Answer 1

28

Question 2

When was Australia established as a colony?

Answer 2

1788, Captain Arthur Phillip, Sydney, including first vine cuttings

Question 3

Difference between Grange and Hill of Grace?

Answer 3

Blend of vineyards vs vineyard designate

Question 4

Grange 1st Vintage?

Answer 4

1951

Question 5

Hill of Grace 1st vintage?

Answer 5

1958

Question 6

Who Classifies Australia’s top wines? How many most recently (8th edition)

Answer 6

Langton’s Auction House

21- First Classified
79- Classified

Question 7

What is the northern most wine region in Australia?

Answer 7

South Burnett

Question 8

What is the hottest wine region in Australia?

Answer 8

Swan Valley (Western Australia/Greater Perth

Question 9

Who promoted the idea for quality viticulture in Margaret River?

Answer 9

Dr. John Gladstone

Question 10

What region in West Australia has 5 official sub regions?

Answer 10

Great Southern

Albany
Denmark
Frankland River
Mount Barker
Porongurup

Question 11

What 3 zones combine to make the Adelaide Super Zone?

Answer 11

Barossa
Fleurieu
Mount Lofty Ranges

Question 12

Name 2 other famous Barossa Shiraz (Not Grange)

Answer 12

Elderton’s- The Command
Torbreck- RunRig (120-160 year old vines, small % Viognier)
or
The Laird (Original Shiraz Clone)

Question 13

What is the only subregion of the Barossa zone?

Answer 13

High Eden

Question 14

Name the regions within Fleurieu

Answer 14

Kangaroo Island
Langhorne Creek
Currency Creek
Southern Fleurieu
McLaren Vale

Question 15

What lake touches the borders of Langhorne Creek and Currency Creek?

Answer 15

Lake Alexandrina

Question 16

What is the name of the Gulf that hugs Adelaide?

Answer 16

Gulf St. Vincent

Question 17

What major river feeds into Lake Alexandrina?

Answer 17

Murray River

Question 18

Name the regions of the Limestone Coast.

Answer 18

Mount Benson
Robe
Padthaway
Wrattonbully
Coonawarra
Mount Gambier

Question 19

What are the most coastal regions of the Limestone Coast?

Answer 19

Mount Benson and Robe

Question 20

Where are you most likely to find high quality Grenache in Australia?

Answer 20

McLaren Vale

Question 21

What is the body of water between Tasmania and Victoria called?

Answer 21

Bass Strait

Question 22

What is Scarce Earth?

Answer 22

~must me a member of McLaren Vale Sustainable Winegrowing Australia

~ Shiraz from single sites.

~Vine age minimum 10 yrs

Question 23

Name 2 producers from McLaren Vale.

Answer 23

D’Arenberg

Chapel Hill

Question 24

Name the regions of Mount Lofty Ranges

Answer 24

Clare Valley
Adelaide Hills
Adelaide Plains

Question 25

Which Mount Lofty Range region has 2 sub regions

Answer 25

Adelaide Hills Lenswood & Picadilly Valley

Question 26

Name where these producers are from: Jim Barry Pewsey Vale Clarendon Hills Clonakilla Henschke Vasse Felix Leeuwin Grosset Powell & Son Penny's Hill Wendouree

Answer 26

JB- Clare Valley PV- Eden Valley Clarendon Hills- McLaren Vale Clonakilla- Canberra Henschke- Eden Valley Vasse- Margaret Leeuwin- Margaret Grosset- Clare Valley Powell & Son- Eden Valley Penny's Hill- McLaren Vale Wendouree- Clare Valley

Question 27

Where were stelvin's created?

Answer 27

Clare Valley

Question 28

What is Polish Hill known for?

Answer 28

Blue Slate bedrock similar to Devonian Blue slate of Mosel Valley

Question 29

Most planted variety of Adelaide Hills?

Answer 29

SB

Question 30

Coonawarra possible translations?

Answer 30

Honeysuckle Ridge Place of Signal fires Black Swan Pile of excrement

Question 31

Peppermint Patty producer and region?

Answer 31

Maldera Coonawarra

Question 32

Who is the most relevant Coonawarra producer? What is their top bottling?

Answer 32

Wynn's John Riddoch

Question 33

What famous Northern Rhône producer established a winery in Mount Benson?

Answer 33

Michel Chapoutier

Question 34

What grapes are in Seppetsfeld's 100 yr Para?

Answer 34

GSM

Question 35

Coolest wine region on Australian mainland?

Answer 35

Macedon Ranges

Question 36

What region is Australia's leader in production?

Answer 36

Riverland

Question 37

Who makes Mt. Edelstone

Answer 37

Henschke

Question 38

What is Australia's oldest continuously operated winery?

Answer 38

Hunter Valley's Wyndham (1828)

Question 39

What 3 regions lie within the Central Ranges Zone?

Answer 39

Mudgee Orange (Coolest, 600-1000 meters), volcanic soils Cowra

Question 40

What volcano is in Orange?

Answer 40

Mount Canobolas

Question 41

What are the rivers of the Big Rivers Zone

Answer 41

Murray Murrumbidgee

Question 42

Top producing zone in Australia?

Answer 42

Big Rivers

Question 43

Who owns Yellow Tail?

Answer 43

Casella, based in Riverina

Question 44

What zone is Canberra in?

Answer 44

Southern New South Wales Zone

Question 45

What is the ACT?

Answer 45

Australian Capital Territory

Question 46

What is Australia's capital?

Answer 46

Canberra

Question 47

What 2 regions are located in Victoria and New South Wales?

Answer 47

Murray Darling Swan Hill

Question 48

What was Black Saturday?

Answer 48

Huge fires in Yarra Valley, 2009. 173 deaths, 5% of vineyards

Question 49

Phylloxera struck which Australian states the hardest?

Answer 49

Victoria New South Wales

Question 50

Barossa old Vine Charter Age started when: What are the 4 names and years classified?

Answer 50

2009 Old- 35 Survivor-70 Centenarian- 100 Ancestor- 125

Question 51

Who creates wine law and what is the set of laws called: What yr did it start

Answer 51

Wine Australia Label Integrity Program 1990