South America

Question 1

Year Portuguese brought the vine to Brazil

Answer 1

1532

Question 2

Claudio Gay

Answer 2

Claudio Gay

A Frenchman, in 1830, who set up a Chilean repository of pre-phylloxera Vitis vinifera vines at the University of Chile’s Quinta Normal department

Question 3

Mission grape

Answer 3

Identical to Listan Prieto, in Canary Isalnds - originated in Spain

Question 4

Earliest grape to arrive in the Americas

Answer 4

Black Mission grape

Question 5

Chilean synonym fo the Mission grape

Answer 5

Pais

Question 6

Brazil’s

Main production

Answer 6

Red wine

• Although, nearly 1/4 of the country’s output is sparkling

Question 7

Brazil

Sparkling wine

% of production

Answer 7

nearly 25%

• Production is predominantly red wine

Question 8

Foreign company who has invested in Brazil

Answer 8

Champagne Möet et Chandon

Question 9

Brazil

Southern state where most viticultural activity takes place

Answer 9

Rio Grande do Sul

• On the Argentinean border

Question 10

Brazil’s most developed viticultural region

• State is it located in
• Region accounts for what % of Brazil’s wine

Answer 10

Serra Gaúcha

• Within the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul
• Accounts for appx 90% of Brazilian wine

Question 11

Region that produces 90% of Brazil’s wine

Answer 11

Serra Gaúcha

• Within the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul

Question 12

Beside Serra Gaúcha, 3 other wine regions of southern Brazil

Answer 12

• São Joaquim (N of Serra Gaúcha)
• Serra do Sudeste (S of Serra Gaúcha)
• Campanha (SW of Serra Gaúcha)

Question 13

Tropical winegrowing region in the northern part of Brazil, where growers are able to harvest twice a year

Answer 13

São Francisco Valley

Question 14

What is unique about Brazil’s new system of Origin Indications?

Answer 14

Both yields and grape varieties are restricted in the manner of European appellations

Question 15

Brazil’s 1st Origin Indication in 2002

Subregion within Serra Gaúcha

Answer 15

Vale dos Vinhedos

Question 16

Brazil 1st Origin Indication

Year it was recognized

Answer 16

Vale dos Vinhedos

• est 2002
• w/in Serra Gaúcha of Rio Grande do Sul

Question 17

Brazil

Most planted grapes

Answer 17

• Bordeaux and other international grapes
• w/ Iberian varietals like Aragonez and Touriga Nacional

Question 18

South America’s 4th largest producer

Answer 18

Uruguay

• Exports over half of its production to Brazil

Question 19

Urugay

Main red varietal for quality wines

Answer 19

Tannat

• Rechristened Harriague, after Don Pascual Harriague, the Frenchman who introduced the grape to Uruguay

Question 20

Tannat a.k.a. in Urugay

Answer 20

Harriague

• After Don Pascual Harriague, the Frenchman who introduced the grape to Uruguay
• The dominant red varietal for quality wines.