Victoria

Question 1

What is the smallest state in Australia’s mainland?

Answer 1

Victoria

Question 2

What is the coolest state in Australia’s mainland?

Answer 2

Victoria

Question 3

Where are the breezes coming from that cool Victoria?

Answer 3

Antarctica

Question 4

Climate of Port Philip Zone in Victoria

Answer 4

Cool maritime

-avg winter temps lower than burgundy/bdx

Question 5

What is the capital of Victoria

Answer 5

Melbourne

Question 6

What is Victoria’s oldest wine region

Answer 6

Yarra Valley

Question 7

What grape performs well in a range of styles in Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and Geelong in Port philip?

Answer 7

Pinot Noir

Question 8

Where is Domaine Chandon located? When was it est?

Answer 8

Yarra Valley

1987

Question 9

Where would you find a label with Syrah instead of Shiraz in AUS

Answer 9

Yarra Valley

Question 10

What are the main successful grapes of Victoria

Answer 10

Pinot Noir

then, Cab Sauv, Chard, Shiraz (called syrah, often co ferment with viognier)

Question 11

In which zone is the Mornington Peninsula? What grapes thrive there?

Answer 11

Port Philip Bay Zone

Pinot noir
Pinot Gris
Chardonnay

(too cold for cab sauv)

Question 12

Climate of Port Philip Bay

Answer 12

Cool Maritime

Question 13

Climate of NE Victoria, NW Victoria, Central Victoria?

Answer 13

Continental

Question 14

What two GIs of NW Victoria overlap New South Wales?

Climate?

Answer 14

Murray Darling
Swan Hill

hot and arid, irrigation essential

Question 15

What grapes thrive in Central Victoria Zone? Most important GIs?

Answer 15

Red grapes, particularly Shiraz

Bendigo GI
Heathcote GI
Goulburn Valley GI

Question 16

Where is the Nagambie Lakes subregion?

Answer 16

Goulburn Valley GI within Central Victoria Zone

Question 17

What producer located in Nagambie Lakes protected its vines from phylloxera and has Shiraz planted in 1860

Answer 17

Tahbilk

Question 18

Where are the oldest Marsanne vines in AUS (and possible the world)

Answer 18

Tahbilk estate in Nagambie Lakes in Goulburn Valley GI in Central Victoria

Question 19

What GIs in North East Victoria are famous for sweet fortified wine?

Answer 19

Rutherglen GI

Glenrowan GI

Question 20

What is topaque?

Answer 20

formerly “tokay” - fortified style produced from Muscadelle grapes in Rutherglen/Glenrowan GI

Question 21

What is Brown Muscat

Answer 21

Muscat à Petits Grains Rouge - used to produce “topaque” fortified wine in Rutherglen/Glenrowan

Question 22

What is the Muscat of Rutherglen Network? When was it est?

Answer 22

est in 1995

• voluntary 4 tier classification system based on age, sweetness, complexity
• producers classify their own wine
• member wines denoted by stylized “R” logo on label

Question 23

Name the zones of Victoria

6

Answer 23

North West Victoria
Western Victoria
Central Victoria
North East Victoria
Port Phillip
Gippsland

Question 24

GIs of North West Victoria

2

Answer 24

Murray Darling

Swan Hill

Question 25

GIs of Western Victoria | 3

Answer 25

Henty Grampians Pyrenees

Question 26

GIs of Central Victoria

Answer 26

``` Bendigo Heathcote Goulburn Valley Upper Goulburn Strathbogie Ranges ```

Question 27

GIs of North East Victoria | 5

Answer 27

``` Rutherglen!!! Glenrowan Beechworth King Valley Alpine Valley ```

Question 28

GIs of Port Phillip | 5

Answer 28

``` Geelong Macedon Ranges Sunbury Yarra Valley Mornington Peninsula ```