North America

Question 1

What is the only French hybrid allowed for VQA icewine?

Answer 1

Vidal

Question 2

What is Canada’s quality control system?

Answer 2

VQA Vintners’ Quality Alliance

Question 3

What Canadian provinces have VQA status?

Answer 3

Ontario, British Columbia

Question 4

VQA wines from Ontario or BC must contain what percentage of grapes from their respective province?

Answer 4

100%

Question 5

VQA wines must contain what percentage of the stated grape?

Answer 5

85%

Question 6

What are the 3 main viticultural areas of Ontario?

Answer 6

Niagara Peninsula, Lake Erie North Shore, Prince Edward County

Question 7

Ontario’s growing regions are located between what latitudes?

Answer 7

41°-44°

Question 8

Niagara Peninsula is divided into what regional appellations?

Answer 8

Niagara Escarpment and Niagara-on-the-Lake

Question 9

What are the dominant grapes of Niagara Peninsula?

Answer 9

Riesling, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Gamay, and Pinot Noir

Question 10

What winery adopted Geman icewine as a style?

Answer 10

Inniskillin (Niagara Peninsula)

Question 11

When do producers in Niagara Peninsula declare their intent to harvest icewine to the VQA?

Answer 11

November

Question 12

What is the minimum temperature to harvest icewine?

Answer 12

-8° C

Question 13

What are the main grapes in Prince Edward County?

Answer 13

Pinot Noir, Chardonnay

Question 14

What is DVA?

Answer 14

Designated Viticultural Area

Question 15

How many DVA’s are in BC?

Answer 15

9

Question 16

What are the DVA’s in BC?

Answer 16

Fraser Valley, Gulf Islands, Kootenays, Lillooet, Okanagan Valley, Shuswap, Similkameen, Thomson Valley, Vancouver Island

Question 17

What is the most developed wine region in BC?

Answer 17

Okanagan Valley (84% of BC wine)

Question 18

Okanagan Valley sits at what latitude?

Answer 18

49°

Question 19

Who planted vines in Baja?

Answer 19

Juan Ugarte 1701

Question 20

How many of Mexico’s states produce wine?

Answer 20

8 (of 32)

Question 21

What states in Mexico produce wine?

Answer 21

N-S. Baja California, Sonora, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Querétaro

Question 22

What are the production areas of Baja California?

Answer 22

Guadalupe Valley, Ojos Negros Valley, San Vicente Valley, Santo Tomás Valley, Valle de la Grulla, Tecate

Question 23

What is the climate of Baja California?

Answer 23

Mediterranean

Question 24

What is Mexico’s largest winery?

Answer 24

L.A. Cetto (Guadalupe Valley, Baja California)

Question 25

What is Baja California’s highest altitude valley?

Answer 25

Ojos Negros Valley (800 m)

Question 26

What are the important regions of Sonora?

Answer 26

Bahía Kino, Caborca, Hermosillo

Question 27

What are the important regions of Coahuila?

Answer 27

Arteaga, Saltillo, Parras de la Fuente

Question 28

What and where is the oldest winery in the America’s?

Answer 28

Casa Madero in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, founded 1597

Question 29

What is the key subregion of Durango?

Answer 29

Gómez Palacio

Question 30

What are the key regions of Zacatecas?

Answer 30

Ojocaliente, Valle de la Macarena

Question 31

What are the growing regions of Aguascalientes?

Answer 31

Pabellón de Arteaga, El Llano, Asientos, Jesús María, and Rincón de Romos

Question 32

What are the important wine regions of Guanajuato?

Answer 32

San Miguel de Allende and Dolores Hidalgo

Question 33

What Mexican state has 3 different climates due to the Sierra Madre mountains?

Answer 33

Guanajuato

Question 34

What are the key areas of Querétaro?

Answer 34

Ezequiel Montes, San Juan del Río, and Tequisquiapan

Question 35

What are the AVAs in Texas?

Answer 35

Texas Hill Country, Bell Mountain, Escondido Valley, Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country, Mesilla Valley (shared w/ NM), Texas Davis Mountains, Texas High Plains, Texoma

Question 36

What is the world’s largest demarcated wine appellation?

Answer 36

Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA (nearly 30,000 square miles in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois)

Question 37

What are the AVAs of Michigan?

Answer 37

Fennville, Lake Michigan Shore, Leelanau Peninsula, Old Mission Peninsula, Tip of the Mitt

Question 38

Virginia AVAs?

Answer 38

Appalachian High Country, Middleburg Virginia, Monticello, North Fork of Roanoke, Northern Neck Great Washington Birthplace, Rocky Knob, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia’s Eastern Shore