Victoria

Question 1

What is the capital of Victoria?

Answer 1

Melbourne

Question 2

Where in Victoria was gold discovered? When?

Answer 2

1851, Bendigo

Question 3

Where and when did Phylloxera appear in Austrlia?

Answer 3

Geelong 1877

Question 4

When did Phylloxera appear in Yarra Valley?

Answer 4

2006

Question 5

What and when was Black Saturday

Answer 5

Saturday, 2/7/09. Firestorms throughout Victoria, 173 deaths, more than 5% of vineyards destroyed

Question 6

Name the GI zones of Victoria

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What zone surrounds Melbourne?

Answer 7

Port Phillip GI

Question 8

What are the regional GIs of Port Phillip GI?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What is The Rip?

Answer 9

a 2 mile channel that connects Port Phillip Bay with the Bass Straight and the Southern Ocean

Question 10

What factors help keep Port Phillip Zone cool?

Answer 10

The Rip and strong southwesterly winds.

Elevation in the Northern part too

Question 11

What body of water separates Tasmania from Victoria?

Answer 11

The Bass Strait

Question 12

What is the climate of Port Phillip Zone?

Answer 12

Cool Mediterranean, all either region I or II

Question 13

Name three major Yarra Valley producers

Answer 13

Yarra Yering
Yering Station
Mount Mary
Chateau Yarrinya
Coldstream Hills
Luke Lambert

Question 14

What divides Port Phillip Bay from the Bass Strait?

Answer 14

Mornington Peninsula

Question 15

What is the driest region of Port Phillip zone?

Answer 15

Geelong GI

Question 16

What are the unofficial subregions of Geelong GI?

Answer 16

Surf Coast/Otways
the Bellarine peninsula
Moorabool Valley (center of production)

Question 17

What is the elevation of the Macedon Ranges GI?

Answer 17

400-600 meters

Question 18

What is the most famous winery in Macedon Ranges GI?

Answer 18

Bindi Wine Growers

Question 19

What are the regions of Central Victoria?

Answer 19

Bendigo GI
Goulbourn Valley GI
Heathcote GI
Strathbogie Ranges GI
Upper Goulburn GI

Question 20

What region contains the subregion of Nagambie Lakes GI?

Answer 20

Goulburn Valley GI

Question 21

What is the soil of Heathcote GI?

Answer 21

On the eastern side, a strip of red earth with 500-million year old Cambrian volcanic greenstone

Question 22

What is the major natural feature of Heathcote GI?

Answer 22

Mt Camel Range

Question 23

What was Goulburn Valley’s first commercial winery?

Answer 23

Chateau Tahbilk

Question 24

What is Tahbilk famous for?

Answer 24

.5 ha ungrafted Shiraz planted in 1860 and the world’s oldest Marsanne vines, planted in 1927

Question 25

What are the highest elevation and coolest regions of Central Victoria? What are their elevations?

Answer 25

Strathbogie Ranges GI at 600 meters | Upper Goulburn GI, 800 meters

Question 26

What are the regions of the North East Victoria zone?

Answer 26

``` Alpine Valleys GI Beechworth GI Glenrowan GI King Valley GI Rutherglen GI ```

Question 27

What are the level of Rutherglen Muscat classification?

Answer 27

Rutherglen Muscat Classic Grand Rare

Question 28

What is the age range and rs of Rutherglen Muscat (basic)?

Answer 28

3-5 years average | 180-240 g/l rs

Question 29

What is the age range and rs for Classic Rutherglen Muscat?

Answer 29

6-10 years average 200-280 g/l rs slight rancio character

Question 30

What is the age range and rs for Grand Rutherglen Muscat?

Answer 30

11-19 years | 270-400 g/l rs

Question 31

What is the age range and rs for Rare Rutherglen Muscat?

Answer 31

20+ years | 270-400 g/l rs

Question 32

Name the wineries in the Muscat of Rutherglen Network

Answer 32

``` 8 Campbells All Saints Morris Chambers Stanton and Killeen Rutherglen Estates Buller Pfeiffer ```

Question 33

What is the grape of Topaque?

Answer 33

Muscadelle

Question 34

What are the grapes for dry wines in Rutherglen GI?

Answer 34

Shiraz and Durif/Petit Sirah | White Rhone grapes

Question 35

What grapes are popular in Alpine Valleys GI, Beechworth GI and King Valley GI?

Answer 35

SB, Chd, PG | PN and Bdx

Question 36

What major natural feature affects Alpine Valleys GI, Beechworth GI and King Valley GI?

Answer 36

Victorian Alps (part of the Great Dividing Range). They're all cooler and rainier than Glenrowan and Rutherglen GIs

Question 37

Where is Giaconda located?

Answer 37

Beechworth GI

Question 38

What is the highest elevation GI of North East Victoria?

Answer 38

King Valley GI

Question 39

What are the regions of North West Victoria?

Answer 39

Murray Darling GI Swan River GI Both shared with New South Wales

Question 40

What are the regions of Western Victoria Zone?

Answer 40

Grampians GI Henty GI Pyrenees GI

Question 41

What is the subregion of Grampians GI?

Answer 41

Great Western GI

Question 42

What is Grampians GI historically known for?

Answer 42

Sparkling wines | Sparkling Shiraz is still a thing here

Question 43

What is Grampians GI's top producer?

Answer 43

Best's

Question 44

What is Henty GI best known for?

Answer 44

Sparkling wine- Chard and PN account for 66% of the plantings