Australia Flashcards

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Where is the Murrembidgee irrigation area and why is it a thing?

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New South Wales>Riverina

West of Great dividing range (Arid on the West of New South Wales)

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Who owns Yellow Tail?

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Casella

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Who makes Noble One and where?

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De Bortoli, Riverina

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List the regions top/bottom of hunter valley

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New South Wales>Hunter Valley>Hunter>
Upper Hunter Valley
Lower Hunter Valley>
Pokolbin
Broke Fordwhich
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Who makes “Vat 1”?

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Tyrrells

Semillon

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The GI known for growing old vine Verdelho

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New South Wales>Hunter Valley>Lower Hunter Valley>Broke Fordwhich

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What’s up with Clonakillla?

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Makes Shiraz Vignier called “Canberra District Shiraz”

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Where is Tumbarumba?

Notable grapes?

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Alpine cool climate so sparkling wines, chardonnay, pinot noir

New South Wales>
Southern New South Wales>
Tumbarumba

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Breakdown Southern New South Wales

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Canberra
Gundagai
Hilltops
Tumbarumba

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Name 4 old vine bottlings in Barossa

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Langmeil Freedom Vineyard (1843 Shiraz)
Cirillo Grenache 1850 
Hewittson Mataro from Koch families Old Garden Vineyard 1853
Penfold Lot 42 Cab S 1888
Tricentenary Grenache, Yalumba, 1889
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Age designation in Barossa

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Old vine with charta in front
Hanging off of vines from top

Old man
Old man with wounds
Nicolas with penny head
Mulan ancestor room in charta column

Old vines35
Survivor70
Centenarian100
Ancestor125

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Name of famous Barossa liqueur

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Seppeltsfeild’s Paras, 100 yr

Paras as liquor bottle in field of pelts

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Name 4 top bottlings from Barossa

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Penfolds Grange
Elderton “The Command”
Torbreck Runrig, The Laird

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Top Semillion from Barossa Valley

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Peter Lehman, Margaret

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GIs of Adelaide Superzone

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Barossa (right hand side of culdesac) Bar with Rosa Brooks in front, Eden garden on right, smaller garden floating above)

Fleurieu (Big flower on left side of subdivision,
*McClaren Ferrari,
Creek starts running around left corner, in the creek:
*Cow horn waving hi in gay voice
*Different types of currency
around the corner a *flower pointing to crotch
*In road a patch of dirt with kangaroo on it

Mount lofty ranges (W loft with shooting range in front)
Clare Valley (Clare Underwood shooting at range) She has a veil made of water, she’s standing on a polished glass hill (water vale, polish hill)
Around corner to right and down the street hills shaped like kangaroos (
Adelaide Hills)
Inside the hills a picadilly restaurant and in front of hills woods with monocles for leaves (
Picadilly Valley, Lenswood)
Hills fade out into open plains with kangaroos jumping on them (
Adelaide Plains)
Dead Kangaroo at start of Monroe’s driveway (end of super zone)

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Non Superzone GIs of South Australia

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Down middle of Monroe’s driveway giant lime cliff like British coast (Limestone Coast)
Down the driveway three trashcans being rumaged through by a racoon (
coonawarra) on red soil, under red soil key limes
Pads leading thaway through the gate (Padthaway) In garage doorway a rat
On the Toyota Corolla a mountain of belgian whitbier gambling with dice (
Mnt. Gambier)
On ford ranger a mountain of Benson bacon (*Mount Benson) hanging on back wall a *Robe

Outside of Garage on right Bill Murray pointing to crotch (Lower Murray)
Giant river flowing out of his crotch (
Riverland)

Florida and Baja Cali painted on Wall (*The Peninsulas)

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Post South Australia mind map

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After Peninsulas a Whale on the ground (New South Whales)

In right corner hunter from FC4 with smaller Hunter on top of fence above him (Hunter Valley zone, Hunter Region)
Turn left in middle of fence a ford truck looking sandwich with empty pockets (Broke Fordwhich)
Above on fence…. awww shit it’s another tiny hunter (upper hunter valley)
In corner a trash can filled with poke style tuna salad (Pokolbin)

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NSW turn left from Pokolbin

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Backdrop a mountain range with big center target (Central Ranges)
Ghee container filled with mud (Mudgee)
Very high in the sky like the sun an Orange (Orange, highest region in Australia)
Cow with the Eye of RA branded on the side.

In corner Frozen river on top flowing down, river gets smaller and eskimo hastening the melt of the river (Northern Rivers ZONE Hasting river REGION)

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NSW in yard turning left again towards house

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After corner with N. Rivers ZONE
Game of thrones wall on side of house (Northern slopes ZONE)
At foot of slope New England fisherman in yellow pants w/Aussie accent (New England Australia)

Back door to house a beach with cowboy hat and spurs on ground (South Coast)
A shoal pops up and wraps a higher coast (Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands REGIONS)

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NSW into back door Monroe house

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Giant /river flowing left (Big Rivers ZONE) breaking into two waters, on bill murray, the other bill murray dressed as mom bidding on ghee (Murray River and Murrumidgee River)

In corner
water turns right and turns into water shaped nymph (Riverina REGION)

Skipping to far wall a barracuda sipping perrier (Perricoota REGION)
Next to door bill murray and a hill of swans both in Victorian dresses

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NSW through doorway into living room

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Whale in hole in ground (Southern NSW ZONE)

Turn right into living room a giant can with bear arms/head (Canberra REGION)
In corner a Top spinning on grassy hill (Hilltops)
Turn left in middle of wall a gai building a gundam model (Gundagai REGION)
In right corner Pooh with rumba in one hand, champer bottle in other (Tumbarumba REGION makes good champers)

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Monroe house into bedroom

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Bedroom door Queen (Victoria STATE)
past fire oil koala in right corner a circle of dresses holing up Phillip Skinner spraying them with spray bottle (Port Phillip ZONE)
In bathroom door a pirate saying Yarr! (Yarra REGION) he’s cool, has bee flying around Vougeot bottle
At sink Baja and Florida getting ready for morning (Mornington Peninsula REGION)
Right corner bathroom long skinny can of ghee (Geelong Region)
Back wall bathtub sun burying itself (Sunbury REGION)
In left corner greek guy shooting at gun range (Macedon Range)

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Monroe house Back in bedroom from Bath room

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Central park (Central Victoria ZONE)
In park indigo colored Ben (Bendigo REGION)
Left in middle of wall Heath bar in Coast (Heathcote)
On bed in middle of room a soccar goal burning (Goulburn Valley)
At foot of bed a Gambero covered in periodic style salt [Na] in puddles of water (Nagambie Lakes SUB REGION)
Left corner of room top half of goal burning (Upper Goulburn)
Above mountains with plane strathing bogie targets (Strathbogie Ranges)

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Left wall Monroe bedroom

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Left wall NE USA map (North East Victoria ZONE)
In front Glen with arms wide open, muscat style on ground (Rutherglen)
Out door turn right in living room Glen Rowing a rowboat (Glenrowan)
next to him a deep valley, snow peaks on top with skiing (Alpine Valleys) beach below with empty price tag [?] (Beechworth) In valley is burger king (King Valley)

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Down living room wall right of bedroom
Middle of wall a map of NW USA | Bill Murray in dress and Swan Hill (Murray Darling, Swan Hill, also in NSW big rivers)
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Down living room hall Monroe
Old West, Granpa holding John Wayne doll holding DRC as champagne bottle (Grampians REGION Great Western SUBREGION) Hen with tshirt on (Henty) Other side of hall two knees with fire coming out [pyro knees] (Pyrenees) Ronald Reagan (Gippsland ZONE)
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Further down hall
Yosemite Sam birthing [Perth] a bunch of swans which form a valley [Swan District REGION > Swan Valley SUBREGION] Orange peels on the ground Greater Perth hills>Perth Hills Swan Hill>Swan Valley Peel
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Near doorway to piano room
Yosemite on a plate of huevos rancheros [South West Australia ZONE] River going into room with Margaret floating down river [Margaret River REGION] Will cuts off river abruptly [Wilyabrup REGION] drinking a red bordeaux, covered in red dust Behind will a [wall cliff] turn left into piano room a giant golden triangle instrument on corners bruce lee with trophy [leeuwin] three men in capes telling state secrets [cape mentelle] starteck ship [voyager] chardonnay ringing bell vasse felix bird flying overhead
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Inside piano room
after golden triangle General sanders on dirtbike back reads [great southern REGION] back left corner a barking mountain [Mount Barker] Turn right guru with pores on him [poronguru] doorway coppenhagen river front [denmark] Jessica alba kneeding biscuits [albany] in door way a globe [geographe] right corner a forest with a bunch of mrs blackstones [Blackwood] Jim Burton drinks a pimms [Pemberton] turn right Maanchi using a muppet [Manjimup]
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What is "The command"
Barossa Shiraz from Elderton
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freedom vineyard is?
world's Oldest Shiraz, by langmeil 1843
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T/F Victoria was hit by phyloxera
True, 1877
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Port Phillip Zone climatic features | Regions within
Cooled by wind and proximity to water (cooler than Bordeaux) Near Macedon ranges elevation happens, Geelong, Macedon ranges, Mornington Peninsula, Sunbury, Yarra Valley
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Yarra grape and producer overview
Cool, Red outnumber white but Chardonnay most planted Variety, Pinot Noir in behind, Syrah and Cab taking up the rear Yerring and De Bortoli producers
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Where is beech worth?
in Victoria
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What is Caley?
Yalumba blend inaugural 2012 Cab s, Shiraz, from Coonawarra
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2 seriously great blends Yalumbe
Signature Blend | The Caley
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Who makes Tom Cullity
Vasse felix, Margaret River | Cab, Malbec, Petite Verdot
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Name a top Chard from Yarra Valley
864 Funder & Diamond Drive Block Chard | by Oakridge
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Who makes 864 Funder & Diamond Drive Block
Oakridge Chardonnay Yarra Valley
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Where is Vasse Felix located
Margaret River
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Max Shubert is?
Guy who Started Grange in 50's
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Australia 2010
Rain Broke drought | otherwise good fine whatever
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Australia 2011
rainy, lots of mold, worst in 25 years | whites are exceptions, intense cIare Riesling
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Australia 2013
intensly hot, like... hottest ever | Vines faired well though
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Australia 2014
Weather all over the place but generally fine
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Australia 2015
aww shit fire some Smoke taint in Adelaide hills great long balanced growihg season other wise
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Australia 2016
compressed vintage, warm summer | slightly lower alcohols
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Where is Henschke located
Eden Valley
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location and top 3 cuvees Torbreck
Barossa Run Rig (120-160 yr old vines) The Laird Descendent
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Who makes Astralis
Clarendon Hills Single Vineyard Syrah McLaren Vale
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Where is leeuwin based
Margaret Cuvee | Art Series Chardonnay
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who planted Mnt Pleasant
Maurice O'shea | Hunter
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Bass Philips
Gippsland Pinot Noir
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What does Clarendon Hills make
Astralis Shiraz | McLaren Vale
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Who makes Astralis
Clarendon Hills Shiraz,
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Who makes a good Pinot Noir in Gippsland
Bass Phillips
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What does Bass Phillips do?
Exceptional (literally) | Pinot Noir from Gippsland
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Who makes Diana Madeline
Cullen | Cab/Merlot from Margaret River
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Where is Polish Hill
Clare Valley | By Grosset
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L. Exceptional Riesling
Grosset Polish Hill Clare Valley
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subs of Adelaide Hills
Lenswood | Picadilly Valley
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Where is Para Liqueur based?
Seppeltsfield in Barossa Valley
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Name a producer of Sparkling shiraz
Rockford in Barossa
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Where is Peter lehmann based
Barossa | "Margaret" is 1929 Semillon vines
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Who makes "Margaret"
Peter Lehman | 1929 Semillon
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Pewsey Vale beets
Planted in Eden Valley 1847 by Joseph Gilbert
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What is CSIRO
technique using Zero pruning to restrict yields
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label percentages Australia
85% top to bottom
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Majella is based where?
Coonawarra | Cab
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Who makes Riddoch
Wynns | Coonawarra Cabernet
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Name three Terra Rosa Cabs
Wynns John Riddoch Parker Estate first Growth Majella
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Climate fleurieu
Mediterranean | Ocean current and lake Alexandrina
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What is Mataro
Mouvedre
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Who makes High Sands, what is it | where is it
Yangarra Grenache McLaren Vale
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"Eclipse" beets
Drew Noon's Grenache Shiraz blend, McLaren Vale and Langhorne Creek
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Where is Clarendon Hills based
Fleurieu Zone | Makes Astralis
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2 "subs" of Clare Valley
Watervale and Polish Hill
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What is Watervale
One of 2 subs of Clare Valley | with Polish Hill
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Mountain ranges around Barossa
Mount lofty Ranges
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Traditional barrel in Barossa
American Hogshead 300 Liters
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Great Southern Subs
``` Frankland River Denmark Mount Barker Albany Porongurup ```
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Zones of Western Australia
Central Western Eastern Plains South West west Australian South east coast
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Sub region in Greater Perth
Swan Valley
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Regions in Perth
Peel Perth Hills Swan District
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Where is forest hill vineyard
Mount Barker in Great southern
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Name 4 producers in Margaret River
Cullen "Diana Madeline" Vass Felix "tom cullity" leeuwin "art series" Cape mentell
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Mount Barker beets
one of five Great Southern sub region mountain side Riesling and Shiraz
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Hottest appellation in Australia
Swan Valley
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Ocean on the coast of Margaret river
Indian Ocean
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willyabrup valley beets
area in Margaret river known for Cabernet
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yallingup beets
area in North Margaret River | Cooled by Geograph Bay
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Augusta beets
South Margaret Cooled by Antarctic waters | White focused
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GI in Queensland
Granite Belt | South Burnett
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vineyard near hill of Grace
Mount edelstone
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Where is kilikanoon based
Clare Valley
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Adelaide Hills beets
surprisingly cool 70% white Piccadilly Valley great for Chard Lenswood good for SB
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Top appellation for SB South Australia
Lenswood in Adelaide hills | soft SB
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Compare Adelaide plains to hills
Plains are intensly hot | Hills are cooler, nestled in Higher elevation
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Mnt Gambier Borders which regions
Coonawarra N | Victoria's Henty E
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Where is Shaw + Smith Based?
Adelaide Hills
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Name a vineyard in Langhorne Creek
Metala on the river bank | Planted by adams family
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Where is Petaluma Winery based?
Picadilly Valley in Adelaide Hills planted by Brian Croser Great Chard
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What is Topaque?
Name for Muscadelle in Rutherglea
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Name for Muscadelle in Rutherglen
Topaque
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Name a winery in king Valley
Brown Brothers who planted Milawa (super high elevation, 2600ft)
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Who makes "patrician"
Broun Brothers in king Valley | Bubbles from Pinot Noir and Chard
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Possibly world's oldest Marsanne Vines
Nagambie lakes in Goulbourn Valley | Tahbilk owns
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Climate Macedon Ranges
Very cool | Chard and PN
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Strathbogie ranges
taught Rieslings
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Where is paringa
old timer from Mornington peninsula
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Where's Main Ridge Estate
Mornington peninsula
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Mornington Peninsula Climate
cooler than Burgundy in Summer | constant wind
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Where is Chandon based Australia
Yarra Valley
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What is Yattarna
"White Grange" | High proportion Tasmanian Chardonnay
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Where's Brown Bros.
Based in Victoria Very important in Tasmania Pinot is crazy fucking good
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Where's Tyrrell based?
Hunter Valley
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Sub regions of Hunter
Broke fordwich Pokolbin Upper Hunter Valley
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Sub regions of Hunter
``` Broke fordwich sandy alluvial (intense semillon) Pokolbin Volcanic (shiraz) Upper Hunter Valley (chardonnay) ```
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Where is Semillon found Hunter
Sandy lower reaches
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Who makes Vat 47
Tyrrell, | Hunter Chardonnay
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Australia's oldest operating winery
Windham estate Hunter
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is Hunter valley Phylox free?
Yup
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Who makes ILR Reserve
Brokenwood
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Who makes ILR Reserve
Brokenwood Semillon
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why does Semillon work in Hunter?
Super early picking, lots of cloud cover
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where is Mount Canobolas
Volcano, Orange, highest point in Australia wine regions