VMW101

Question 1

What family is the grape in?

Answer 1

Vitaceae

Question 2

What genus is the grape in?

Answer 2

Vitis

Question 3

The most common species of grape?

Answer 3

Vitis vinifera

Question 4

Cultivar

Answer 4

A plant that has been propagated thru human intervention. Does not produce “true to type” plants through seed. Must be propagated vegetatively.

Question 5

Variety

Answer 5

Member of a wild population that can interbreed freely and can produce “true to type” plants from seed.

Question 6

Catawba

Answer 6

Variety of V.lambrusca

Question 7

Concord

Answer 7

Variety of V. lambrusca

Question 8

Sauvignon blanc

Answer 8

Variety of V. vinifera

Question 9

Clone

Answer 9

A vegetative reproduction of a cultivar. It is a genetic identical to the mother vine.

Question 10

Why clones?

Answer 10

Grapes vines are sexually heterogenous. Not a look a like from parent 95% of the time.

Question 11

Plants that produce the same fruit when all conditions are equal

Answer 11

Clone

Question 12

Where did V. vinifera originate?

Answer 12

Caucasia, modern day NE Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan

Question 13

When did V vinifera become cultivated?

Answer 13

8,000 to 9,000 years ago

Question 14

Natural growth habits of V vinifera?

Answer 14

Canopy, harvested in forest.

Question 15

What are the 3 earliest archaeological evidence of wine was stored in clay pots.

Answer 15

China 7000BC, Georgia 6000 BC AND IRAN 5000 BC

Question 16

More _________ acid than any other fruit

Answer 16

Tartaric

Question 17

What was found in large quantity in the clay pots?

Answer 17

Tartaric adic

Question 18

Where and how old is the Oldest evidence of a winery ?

Answer 18

4100 BC. Armenia, Areni 1cave

Question 19

Three religious who used wine in ceremony

Answer 19

Christianity, ancient Greeks. Ancient Egyptian.

Question 20

Why was wine so important in Greek times?

Answer 20

Source of clean water.

Question 21

After caucuses where did wine move too and in what year?

Answer 21

Greece and Egypt 4000BC to 3000BC

Question 22

What was added to wine to help preserve it?

Answer 22

Resin

Question 23

Where did the Greek wine expansion happen and when?

Answer 23

Sicily & Italy 800BC France 600BC

Question 24

Who were responsible for huge wine improvements including; oak barrels, appellation system, glass bottles, cool storage and SO2

Answer 24

Roman Empire 27BC.-1453AD

Question 25

4 regions Romans introduced wine to?

Answer 25

Bordeaux 100AD , Liore 150AD Mosel 300AD and champagne 400AD

Question 26

When did wine production explode in CA?

Answer 26

1850s

Question 27

What made wine explode in CA?

Answer 27

Gold rush

Question 28

Where was most wine made 1800S- early 1900s

Answer 28

Napa and Sonoma

Question 29

Where and when was first V vinifera planted

Answer 29

Nana Antonio New Mexico 1629

Question 30

What is Scuppernong

Answer 30

French Huguenots muscadine wine

Question 31

First California vineyard was established what year?

Answer 31

1769

Question 32

Who planted first CA winery

Answer 32

Missionaries

Question 33

Why did missisonaries of California plant v vinifera?

Answer 33

Sacramental wine

Question 34

What things plagued V vinifera grapes

Answer 34

Phylloxera and fungal diseas

Question 35

What is Catawb

Answer 35

Mixed lambrusca/vinifera

Question 36

Where was Catawba grown

Answer 36

Ohio in 1802

Question 37

What is Catawba like?

Answer 37

Foxy and grapey

Question 38

When was Catawba popular

Answer 38

1850s

Question 39

Who grew 1200 acres of Catawba and where? What did it lead too?

Answer 39

Ohio, Nicolas Longworth - first American sparkling - widespread distro

Question 40

Pleasant wine company

Answer 40

First bonded winery IN US

Question 41

Won awards from Europe

Answer 41

Fingerlakes

Question 42

Oldest commercial winery in California. Name, location and year?

Answer 42

Buena Vista 1857 Sonoma

Question 43

What teaching mandate was passed in California in 1880?

Answer 43

Viticulture and enology research and teaching

Question 44

What year did flex will begin to decimate vineyards?

Answer 44

1900

Question 45

What was the 18th amendment?

Answer 45

Prohibition

Question 46

What date was the 18th amendment passed

Answer 46

January 16, 1919

Question 47

What date was the bolsters act passed

Answer 47

October 28, 1919

Question 48

What date did prohibition begin

Answer 48

January 17, 1920

Question 49

True or false, sacramental wine made professionally during prohibition

Answer 49

True

Question 50

How many gallons of wine and what type of white wine we’re allowed during prohibition

Answer 50

Homemade wine up to 200 gallons

Question 51

What was the date a prohibition repeal

Answer 51

December 5, 1933

Question 52

What percentage of California wine with sweet by 1951.

Answer 52

81%

Question 53

What were five side effects post Prohibition?

Answer 53

1. Poor grapes are used for home wine 2. Professional winemakers died off 3. The great depression influenced buying habits 4. 81% of California wine were sweet 5. Wine quality restored by 1960-1970

Question 54

What year were grapes introduced to Oregon

Answer 54

1840

Question 55

In Oregon how many cases of wine reproduce in 1860

Answer 55

Less than 1300 cases

Question 56

In Oregon how many cases of wine reproduce in 1890

Answer 56

100,000 cases

Question 57

What was the first bonded winery in Oregon after prohibition and where was it located

Answer 57

Honeywood winery in Salem

Question 58

He planted Hillcrest vineyards

Answer 58

Richard Sommer

Question 59

What year did Richard Sommer plant Hillcrest Vineyards

Answer 59

1961

Question 60

What year was the first Pinot Noir plants in the Willamette Valley in my whom?

Answer 60

David Lett in 1965

Question 61

 What two families followed planting grapes in the Willamette Valley in 1969

Answer 61

Erath and Ponzi

Question 62

In order what are the top four produced wines in Oregon

Answer 62

1. Pinot noir 2. Pinot Gris 3. Chardonnay 4. Others

Question 63

What number wine producer out of the United States is Oregon

Answer 63

Fifth

Question 64

Who are the top four wine producers in the United States in order

Answer 64

California, Washington, New York, Pennsylvania

Question 65

What is a common noun degrees of the wind belt

Answer 65

Between 30° and 50° north and south

Question 66

What’s Is the average range of climates in the wine belt?

Answer 66

50-68 degrees

Question 67

What are the three types of climates in Wine growing regions

Answer 67

Mediterranean maritime and continental

Question 68

What percentage of world grapes are used for making wine

Answer 68

50

Question 69

33% of Global grapes are used for what

Answer 69

Table grapes

Question 70

What percentage of global grape production is used for juice concentrates or raisins

Answer 70

27

Question 71

Grapes are the highest valued horticultural crop in the world true or false

Answer 71

True

Question 72

What place did grapes rank in terms of most edible fruit?

Answer 72

Second