North Island

Question 1

What benefits the ripening of grapes in Central Otago?

Answer 1

Cool Ocean breeze
Long hours of sunlight for ripening
cool nights maintain acidity
rain shadow of Southern Alp Mountains

Question 2

Who was the first NZ winery to release a wine under Stelvin Closure?

Answer 2

Kim Crawford. (2001)

85% of country today

Question 3

What area the GI Of the North Island?

Answer 3

Northland GI
Gisborne GI
Hawke’s Bay GI
Wairarapa GI

Auckland
- Sub regions: Matakana GI / **Waiheke Island GI
Waikato and Bay of Plenty

Question 4

Major producers of Auckland?

Answer 4

• Constellation NZ (Nobilo, Monkey Bay, Kim Crawford), - - - - Kumeu River / Matua Valley / Babich /
• Pleasant Valley / Cable Bay / Stonyridge /
• Pernod Ricard / Villa Maria

AUCKLAND (North Island)

Question 5

What GI of the North Island has the driest climate?

Answer 5

Hawke’s Bay

Question 6

What is the most dominant grape planted in Hawke’s bay?

Answer 6

Merlot

Chard/SB/PG

Question 7

What are the major natural features of Hawke’s bay?

Answer 7

Heretaunga Plains (Heer-ah-tonga)
Hawke's Bay
Ngaruroro River (Nah-roo-roe-roe)
Tukituki River (tooky-tooky / Cookie Cookie)

Question 8

What requirements must be met to use the designation “Gimblett Gravel” on a label?

Answer 8

1. Be a member of the Association
2. Grapes must come from a vineyard that has min 95% of the appellation’s defined soil characteristics
3. min 95% grapes from the appellation

Question 9

What 2 sub regions of Hawke’s Bay boarder the ocean?

Answer 9

Esk Valley (North)(Bay View within it has Gravel)
Te Awanga (South)

Question 10

What is the major river and soil type of Hawke’s Bay?

Answer 10

Ngaruroro (nah-roo-roe-roe)

• Red metal Alluvial soils
• Gravel
• Stony Terraces

Question 11

What contributes to the success in Hawke’s Bay of Bordeaux varietals?

Answer 11

Free draining soils

Accumulated heat via diurnal temperature swings

Question 12

Havelock North sits on what geographical feature?

Answer 12

Te Mata Peak

Question 13

Name 3 sub regions that sit on the Te Mata Peak

Answer 13

Esks Valley
Havelock North
Bay View
Maraekakaho

Question 14

What regions vines are the first to see the sun everyday?

Answer 14

Gisborne

Question 15

What is the Southern most region of the North Island of New Zealand?

Answer 15

Wairarapa (in Gisborne)

named Wellington

Question 16

What is the composition of soil in Gimlett Gravels?

Answer 16

Greywacke:

Omahu soils. - fine and loamy sand topsoil, overlying stony gravels mixed with varying proportions of sand, and horizontally bedded lenses of non-stony sand between the stony layers

(Triassic period)
sandstone from ocean sediments
(gravel / sand / silt / clay)

During floods the River overflows its banks, depositing fine sands on the levees, silts on the flood plains and clays in the back swamps

Question 17

Where can you find a majority of the Gimlett Gravel?

Answer 17

Heretaunga Plains

deposited by the Ngaruroro river

Question 18

*What rivers revealed the famed soils in Hawke’s Bay?

Answer 18

Ngaruroro River
(Omahu river changed direction)

Question 19

Name 3 producers of Wairarapa.

Answer 19

Ata Rangi, Voss Estate, Dry River, Palliser Estate

Question 20

What sub region of Auckland is the driest?

Answer 20

Waiheke Island GI

lower West side

Question 21

*Most planted grape of Gisborne?

Answer 21

Chardonnay

PG/Gew/Merlot

Question 22

*Who produces “Larose”

Answer 22

Stony Ridge (North Island)
Waiheke Island

Question 23

What was the first biodynamic winery in NZ?

Answer 23

Millton

also first in Southern Hemisphere to gain DEMETER

Question 24

*Who produces “Clos de Ste Anne”

Answer 24

Millton
Gisborne
(Cote Rotie style)

Question 25

What are the official sub regions of Wairarapa?

Answer 25

In Wellington Martinborough Gladstone also unofficial Masterton Te Muna Road East Tarahati

Question 26

What are the official subregions of Auckland?

Answer 26

Matakana Kemeu Waiheke Island unofficial Henderson South AUchland