topography

Question 1

Name a positive and negative influence of grapes grown on sandy soils?

Answer 1

Neg- don’t retain water – rot

Question 2

Calcareous soils are generally more alkaline or acidic? alkaline

Answer 2

alkaline- sodium, calcium, and magnesium

Question 3

What pH level is neutral?

Answer 3

7

Question 4

What is crasse de fer and where would you find it?

Answer 4

Iron rich soil of pomerol

Question 5

Name 3 regions dominated by schist soils?

Answer 5

Douro, ribeira sacra, cote-rotie, anjou

Question 6

What does “Roche Pourrie” translate to and which AOC would you find?

Answer 6

“rotten rock,” a mixture of volcanic rock, schist, and soft crystalline rock- morgon

Question 7

In which region would you find talus slope?

Answer 7

Mclaren vale

Question 8

Soil types in sancerre?

Answer 8

Terres blances, silex, cailllots

Question 9

Laurelwood, Cornelious are soils found in which AVA?

Answer 9

willamette

Question 10

Name the dominant soil for following GCs of Alsace – rangen ? brand? rosacker?

Answer 10

volcanic; granite; limestone

Question 11

What are the 2 entry points for fog into Napa Valley

Answer 11

San Pablo Bay to the south and the Chalk Hill Gap.

Question 12

3 bedrocks of Napa?

Answer 12

Great Valley sequence, Franciscan Assemblage (or Franciscan Complex), and Napa Volcanics

Question 13

Name 2 wine regions with sub-tropical growing climates?

Answer 13

São Francisco Valley, brazil, madeira Thailand at Khao Yai, Northeast of Bangkok, Hunter, swan

Question 14

What kind of soils are Greywacke soils?

Answer 14

sandstone

Question 15

Places with greywacke?

Answer 15

Hawkes bay, NZ; Germany- mosel; south Africa

Question 16

What are terra soils ?

Answer 16

iron rich clay - with good drainage .. limestone

Question 17

Places with terra rossa soils?

Answer 17

la mancha, Coonawarra, prince Edward island, Canada; carso/kras Italy/Slovenia; Judean hills, Israel

Question 18

Rhone river begin and ends where?

Answer 18

Valais to mediterranean sea, france

Question 19

In which AOP would you find Varennes soils? And what kind of soils are they?

Answer 19

Chinon, sand

Question 20

What is the soil of Muscadet sevre et main Clisson

Answer 20

granite

Question 21

Difference in soils between cote brune & cote blond?

Answer 21

cote blond - gneiss (granite); cote brune - iron rich schist

Question 22

Please name 3 climatic features that affect Austria?

Answer 22

cold wind from north bohemia forest, warm heat from pannonian plain to east, med warmth from south, cold, rain from alps west

Question 23

Difference in soils between lower & upper slopes of the Wachau?

Answer 23

lower-loess-better for gruner; upper more primary granite/slate/gfohler gneiss - better for riesling

Question 24

In which country would you find the Pasco Basin?

Answer 24

USA - Wash

Question 25

What is the name of the nutrient rich sedimentary soils fround in Columbia valley, Walla Walla, and Yakima?

Answer 25

touchet beds

Question 26

What are the main soils of Gimblett Gravels?

Answer 26

alluvial deposits of Greywacke

Question 27

What is the coolest subregion of Marlborough?

Answer 27

Awatere valley (closest to ocean)

Question 28

Put the following in order from warmest to coolest? Riverina, Riverland, Swan Valley

Answer 28

Swan Valley, Riverina, Riverland

Question 29

Which DO of Chile has soils similar to terra rossa of coonawarra and receives climatic influence from camanchaca fog?

Answer 29

Limari Valley

Question 30

What is the hottest region in Hungary?

Answer 30

Villany

Question 31

Napa Valley forbids the cultivation of any slope greater than x degrees?

Answer 31

30 degrees

Question 32

Flat land between Jura & Burgundy on either side of the Saone is called

Answer 32

La Bresse

Question 33

You will mainly find Chasselas along what body of water?

Answer 33

Lake Geneva

Question 34

highest mtn taht affect rhone?

Answer 34

Mont Ventoux- part of vauclause mtn range

Question 35

River between rhone & provence?

Answer 35

luberon

Question 36

River that cuts through Bugey?

Answer 36

Ain

Question 37

River that cuts through chinon?

Answer 37

Vienne

Question 38

Montlouis- sur-loire is between what 2 rivers?

Answer 38

Loire & cher

Question 39

Mountains above Valpolicella?

Answer 39

Lessini

Question 40

Mountains that cut through center of greece?

Answer 40

Pindus (most southern part of alps)

Question 41

Minervois is at the foothills of which mountain range?

Answer 41

Montagne Noir

Question 42

River through Valtellina?

Answer 42

Adda

Question 43

Valle d'Aosta river ?

Answer 43

Dora baltea

Question 44

what is the river that divides Conegliano Valdabiaddane & Asolo?

Answer 44

Piave

Question 45

River divides marche & Abruzzo?

Answer 45

tronto

Question 46

What is Camanchaca?

Answer 46

Cooling fog in limari that cools vines at night

Question 47

The Montemuro & Marao mtns surround which DO

Answer 47

douro

Question 48

Mondego river cuts through which DOC?

Answer 48

Dao

Question 49

Where does the danube start and end?

Answer 49

Baden - black forest / black sea

Question 50

River through gaillac?

Answer 50

tarn

Question 51

Isere river

Answer 51

Savoie

Question 52

mountains in sicily just north of etna?

Answer 52

nebrodi

Question 53

River thru Barolo & Barbaresco?

Answer 53

Tanaro

Question 54

Po river

Answer 54

Piedmont

Question 55

River between Ghemme & Gattinara?

Answer 55

Sesia

Question 56

Leeuwin current affects which wine region?

Answer 56

margaret river?

Question 57

Brickfielder wind ??

Answer 57

southwest australia Southerly wind warm and dry up from ocean - spring/summer

Question 58

Largest lake in hungary & all europe

Answer 58

Lake balaton /hungary

Question 59

In which anbaugebiete are the haardt hills?

Answer 59

Pfalz

Question 60

Mountains above rheingau?

Answer 60

Taunus

Question 61

Neckar river goes through which aunbaugebiete?

Answer 61

Wurttemburg

Question 62

Which DO do Moncaya Massif & Cierzo wind affect?

Answer 62

Campo de Borja ; Moncaya massif – part of Sistema iberico; Cierzo wind – cold wind from northwest.

Question 63

River thru calatayud

Answer 63

Jalon (before meets ebro)

Question 64

River thru carinena

Answer 64

Huerva River (before meets ebro)

Question 65

Rioja River Tributaries

Answer 65

oja, najerilla (rioja alta), iregua, leza, jubera, cidacos, alhama

Question 66

Rioja River

Answer 66

Ebro

Question 67

Montains that shield priorat from wind.

Answer 67

Serra Monsant

Question 68

River in Priorat

Answer 68

Siurana River cuts diagonally through Priorat before meeting the Ebro

Question 69

emporda wind?

Answer 69

Emporda- fierce and cold Tramontana wind coming from the Massif Central.

Question 70

Tenerife – active volcano, spains tallest peak?

Answer 70

Mount Teide

Question 71

Serra da Estrela in which do?

Answer 71

Dao

Question 72

Arrabida mountains which portuguese region?

Answer 72

palmela Portugal

Question 73

tamego river

Answer 73

Portugal into spain

Question 74

Blue mountains wash AVA

Answer 74

Walla Walla

Question 75

Blue mountains, Snowy mountains part of?

Answer 75

Great dividing range

Question 76

Southwest Australia main rivers?

Answer 76

Murray river, Darling, Murrumbidgee, lachlan

Question 77

ponca soils region?

Answer 77

Friuli

Question 78

please name an example of an acidic soil?

Answer 78

sandy loams or sands, volcanic soils, and any igneous or silicate-rich soil- granite/slate- less sodium, calcium, and magnesium

Question 79

do acidic soils generally produces wines with a higher or lower pH?

Answer 79

higher (lower acid )- tame the acidity of riesling, gamay

Question 80

soil of Savennieres, coulee de serrant?

Answer 80

Blue schist, volcanic

Question 81

elevation minimums- fortross seaview? howell mtn? mendocino ridge?

Answer 81

920; 1400; 1200ft

Question 82

puglia surrounded by what 2 bodies of water?

Answer 82

Adriatic & ionian sea

Question 83

wind that keeps valtellina wines warm inwinter and cold in spring

Answer 83

la breva (lake como)

Question 84

aoc where you would find perruche & aubuiis soils?

Answer 84

Vouvray

Question 85

temperature for ice wine canada? germany?

Answer 85

-8/-7 C

Question 86

lake ontario incluences climate of niagara escarpment in late summer?

Answer 86

Warm air rises from the lake and the cooler air on the land is sucked out onto the lake and replaced by the warm air above the lake keeping

Question 87

what geographic feature prevents botrytis in the jurancon

Answer 87

dry warm foehn wind from pyrenees

Question 88

chaban stream in which norhtern rhone AOC?

Answer 88

cornas

Question 89

river between cote brune & cote blond

Answer 89

Reynard

Question 90

What does “Les Causses” refer to in regards to wines from Cahors AOP?

Answer 90

limestone plateaux of the region known for producing the most tannic and long-lived wines of the region

Question 91

What is the name of the body of water that separates Waiheke Island from the mainland

Answer 91

Hauraki Gulf

Question 92

What are the two most influential ocean currents that affect the vineyard mesoclimates of the Cape South Coast?

Answer 92

Benguela: Cold; Agulhas: Warm

Question 93

3 do that sil river cuts through?

Answer 93

ribera sacra, valdeorras, bierzo

Question 94

body of water separates crete from africa

Answer 94

libyan sea (within mediterranean)

Question 95

which subregion of rias baixas is the coldest and wettest?

Answer 95

Val do Salnes (largest, coolest, and original)

Question 96

What two estuaries surround and define the Peninsula of Setubal?

Answer 96

Tagus and Sado Estuaries

Question 97

What are the principal soil types of Colares?

Answer 97

Chão de Areia – Sand ; Chão Rijo – Clay

Question 98

soil of heiligenstein?

Answer 98

weathered sandstone and volcanic

Question 99

reason for pfalz diverse soils?

Answer 99

rhine rift valler- lowland region where tectonic plate moved apart

Question 100

"nyirok” soils?

Answer 100

mix of clay and weathered volcanic rock soils of tokaj

Question 101

Why are wines in the eastern end of the Wachau fuller and more powerful compared to the wines of the western end?

Answer 101

Due to the warmer mesoclimate as a result of the warming westerly winds from the Pannonian plain.

Question 102

In which anbaugebiete would you find the rotenfels?

Answer 102

nahe- the highest steep face cliff north of the Alps

Question 103

Roter hang along which river? soil?

Answer 103

rhine; iron rich clay and sandstone

Question 104

soil of cote de brouilly?

Answer 104

diorite (blue volcanic)

Question 105

2 moderating feautures of champagne to ripen grapes?

Answer 105

atlantic gulf stream, heat retaining limestone soils; rivers; south facing slopes

Question 106

blue soil in pomerol, specifically petrus called?

Answer 106

smectite

Question 107

river between canon fronsac and fronsac

Answer 107

isle

Question 108

river between st emilion and st emilion satellites

Answer 108

barbanne

Question 109

Hunsrück Hills btwn what 2 anbaugebiete?

Answer 109

mosel and nahe

Question 110

nahe river tributaries?

Answer 110

Glan and Alsenz