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Washington
Westernmost AVA
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Puget Sound AVA
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Q
Washington
% of the nation’s total production
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appx 5%
- nation’s 2nd largest producer
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Q
Washington
Irrigation
A
- Necessity for vineyards located East of the Cascade Mountains
- Rainfall is often less than 10-12 inches a year due to rain shadow effect created by Cascade Mountains
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Q
Washington
Climate
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Continental
- Hot summers, cold winters
- Frost, winter freezes - serious concerns
- Ripeness easily achieved in warm growing seasons
5
Q
Washington
Major soil types
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sandy or silty loam soils
- derived from Missoula Floods
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Q
Columbia Valley AVA
Number of acres
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11 million acres
- Over 1/4 Washington’s landmass
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Q
Washington
1st AVA
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Yakima Valley, 1983
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Q
AVAs within Yakima Valley
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- Red Mountain
- Snipes Mountain
- Rattlesnake Hills
- Candy Mountain
- Goose Gap
9
Q
Washington
Warmest growing region
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Red Mountain AVA
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Q
Washington
Smallest growing region
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Red Mountain AVA
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Q
Washinton
Most densely planted region
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Red Mountain AVA
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Q
Red Mountain AVA
Main style of production
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tannic Cabernet Sauvignon
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Q
Rocks of Milton-Freewater
Main soil type
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topsoil of basalt cobblestones similar to the galets of Châteauneuf-du-Pape
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Q
T/F: Riesling is Washington’s most planted varietal.
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False
- Historically Riesling, Chardonnay were most widely grown, but surpassed by Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
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Q
Washington
Number of wineries
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over 1000
(2020)
- From 160 wineries in 1999
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Q
Washington
Most planted varietal
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Cabernet Sauvignon
(10,293 acres, 23% of total plantings)
17
Q
Columbia Valley
Sub AVAs
(2022)
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- Lake Chelan
- Rocky Beach
- Ancient Lakes of Columbia Valley
- Royal Slope
- Wahluke Slope
- Naches Heights
- White Bluffs
- Yakima Valley
- Rattlesnake Hills
- Snipes Mountain
- Red Mountain
- Candy Mountain
- Goose Gap
- Horse Heaven Hills
- Walla Walla Valley (WA/OR)
- The Rocks of Milton-Freewater (OR)
- The Burn of Columbia Valley
- Columbia Gorge
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Q
AVAs shared by Washington and Oregon
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- Columbia Gorge
- Columbia Valley
- Walla Walla
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Q
Red Mountain AVA
Major vineyards
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- Ciel du Cheval
- Kiona
- Klipsun
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Walla Walla Valley
Major vineyards
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- Pepper Bridge - 200 acres, valley floor
- Seven Hills - 170 acres, N-facing, overlooks Rocks in Oregon
- SeVein - development of an adjacent site in Oregon
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Q
Red Mountain
Acclaimed producers
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- Col Solare (Antinori x Ch Ste. Michelle)
- Force Majeure
- Upchurch Vineyards
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Q
Washington
Oldest vinifera plantings
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- Muscat of Alexandria planted in 1917
- William Bridgman’s Upland Vineyards in Snipes Mountain
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Q
What is Washington’s largest AVA?
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Columbia Valley (at 11 million acres!)
24
Q
What was Washington’s first AVA?
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Yakima Valley (1983)
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What is Washington's smallest (and warmest!) AVA?
Red Mountain
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Where can you find "The Rocks"?
In Walla Walla Valley
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What Washington AVAs are NOT contained within Columbia Valley?
Puget Sound
Columbia Gorge
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What are the sub AVAs of Columbia Valley?
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Lake Chelan
Ancient Lakes
Wahluke Slope
Naches Heights
Yakima Valley
Horse Heaven Hills
Walla Walla Valley
Columbia Valley
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What are the sub-AVAs of Yakima Valley?
Rattlesnake Hills
Red Mountain
Snipes Mountain
Goose Gap
Candy Mountain
30
Who owns Columbia Winery?
Gallo as of 2012
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Five major wineries/parent corporations in Washington
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Chateau Ste Michelle
Gallo
Hogue Cellars
Hedges
K Vintners
Precept Wines (Canoe Ridge Waterbrook, Willow Crest)
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Columbia Basin: Climate and latitude
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Arid continental (average diurnal shift 28º, may be up to 40º). 6-12 inches of rain annually; irrigation required for vinegrowing.
46º N, or more
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What are synclines and anticlines?
Anticlines are ridgelines
Synclines are the valleys between them
In Washtingon, created by tectonic compression during the Miocene Epoch.
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What is the Yakima Fold Belt, and how does it affect viticulture?
The low-lying topography of south-central Washington, striated by east-west ridges, from 4,000ft high at most, and generally no more than 1,000ft high in the valleys.
The anticlines restrict airflow and cause a temperature inversion layer, as cool air bottlenecks in the synclines. This means that valley vineyards are colder, have a smaller diurnal shift and more frost pressure than higher elevation vineyards.
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How are Washington's ripest vineyards situated?
On anticlinal ridges, facing south (seen in Red Mountain, Wahluke Slope, Horse Heaven Hills, and elsewhere); elevation and aspect grants higher degree days, temperatures, and lesser risk of frost.
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What are two techniques used to protect against the winter cold?
Dual trunk training and buried canes.
Dual trunk is just what it sounds like, starting an inch or so above the soil; statistically, if one trunk dies in the winter, the other may survive.
Buried cane is used with low cordon trained vines; one fruiting cane is buried by heaping up soil around it so as to protect it from the cold; if the aboveground canopy dies over the winter, the buried cane can be unearthed and used in the coming year.
37
When were the Missoula Floods, and what physical feature caused the bottleneck in southern Washington?
12,000-18,000 years ago, 2 to 3 times per century as the glacier lake periodically broke through the retreating Cordilleran Ice Sheet.
The Wallula Gap bottlenecked the onrushing water, causing massive flooding of the Columbia Basin.
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What are Touchet beds?
Nutrient rich deposits of gravel and other flood sediements, up to 100ft deep at the lowest points of the Columbia, Yakima, and Walla Walla Valleys.
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At what elevation did the Missoula floods top out?
1200ft
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What does the term Eolian mean?
Shaped by wind - referring to the loess soils of the Columbia and Willamette valleys.
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Who is the father of Washington wine, and why?
Walter Clore
Pioneered the study of properly siting vinifera in Washington (prior to that, grapevines were either native, or killed off every few years by the cold); mentored the nascent WA wine industry from the 1940's to the 1970's.
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Who owns the majority of Snipes Mountain? What are the two vineyards planted there?
Upland Estate
Upland Vineyard and Harrison Hill
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When was Associated Vintners founded, and what was their original estate vineyard? What is the winery known as today?
1962; planted Harrison Hill Vineyard in 1963
Columbia Winery
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Who was the original consulting winemaker for American Wine Growers? What is the winery known as today?
Andre Tchelistcheff
Chateau St Michelle
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Major white grapes of Washington
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Chardonnay
Riesling
Pinot Gris
Sauvignon Blanc
Gewurztraminer
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Major red grapes of Washington:
Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot
Syrah
Cabernet Franc
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What and where is Sagemoor Vineyards?
A vineyard network of 900 acres north of the Tri-Cities; breaks down into four smaller vineyards:
Sagemoor, Dionysus, Bacchus, Weinbau
An important source of grapes for the Washington wine industry since its planting in 1968. Lies outside of the nested AVA's.
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Where was Washington's first Syrah planted, and when?
Red Willow Vineyard (Yakima), 1986
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Where was Washington's first Cabernet planted, and when? Who is the owner of the vineyard?
Otis Vineyard (Yakima), 1956.
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Major vineyards of Red Mountain
Ciel du Cheval (1975, Jim Holmes)
Kiona (1975, John Williams)
Grand Ciel
Klipsun
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What is the viticultural elevation of Snipes Mountain?
750ft (south side) and 820ft (north side) at the low end; planted all the way to the summit at 1310ft.
52
Where were the first vinifera vines planted in Washington, and when? What was the grape?
1917, by William Bridgman on what is now Snipes Mountain
Muscat of Alexandria
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Name two vineyards in Rattlesnake Hills, and a producer for each. How do they appellate?
Two Blondes (Andrew Will)
Dubrul (Côte Bonneville)
Appelated as Yakima Valley (residual sign of the local opposition to the creation of Rattlesnake Hills).
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Walla Walla: Rivers
Columbia
Walla Walla
Snake
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What marks the eastern boundary of Walla Walla? What two subregions are located there?
The Blue Mountains (create a rain backdrop - higher precipitation and therefore more possible dry farming close to the foothills).
Mill Creek
North Fork of Walla Walla Valley
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Who are the founding fathers of Walla Walla?
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Gary Figgins (Leonetti; first vinifera in the AVA in 1977)
Rick Small (Woodward Canyon)
Baker Ferguson (L'Ecole No. 41)
Eric Rindal (Waterbrook)
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What is Vinea?
An organization devoted to promoting sustainability (not necessarily organics) in Washington, also called the Winegrower's Sustainable Trust. Provies guidelines for environmentally friendly vineyard practices.
Collaborates with Oregon's LIVE to conduct certifications, which are therefore accredited by IOBC (International Organization for Biological Control of Noxious Plans and Animals) and embrace the same standards as Salmon-Safe.
Currently 2/3 of Walla Walla acreage is under the Vinea umbrella, if not actually certified.
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What is Salmon-Safe?
A group dedicated to the protection of the Pacific Northwest's watersheds.
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Top three Washington regions by planted acreage
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Columbia Valley (43,000)
Yakima Valley (13,452)
Horse Heaven Hills (10,584)
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60
What is the second largest AVA in Washington by total acreage? How many acres are planted?
Puget Sound AVA
5.5 million acres total; 178 planted
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Horse Heaven Hills: Major vineyards
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Champoux (1972)
Alder Ridge
Phinney Hill
Canoe Ridge
Benches
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What is Ancient Lakes named for?
35 glacier lakes scattered throughout the region that moderate the temperature.
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What is unique about Lake Chelan?
It is the only region in the Columbia Basin to lie outside the reach of the Missoula Floods.
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What was the first vineyard planted in the Columbia Gorge?
Atavus Vineyard, planted to Pinot Noir in 1968 by Walter Clore.
Dry-farmed, 1700ft elevation.
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What are the two key subregions of Columbia Gorge?
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Underwood Mountain (Washington side)
Hood River Valley (Oregon side)
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66
Yakima Valley vineyards:
Harrison Hill (Delille)
Bouskey Vineyard
Otis Vineyard
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What is the Yakima Valley's hottest AVA?
Red Mountain
Also most densely-planted
15 hours of high summer sunshine per day
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What style of wine is Red Mountain known for?
- 70% Cabernet Sauv planted
- Tannic, deeply-colored Bordeaux blends
- High pH soil
- compact clusters
- elevation, diurnal shifts
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What river moderates Red Mountain?
Yakima River
moderating influence, acid retention
70
Producers of Red Mountain:
- Hedges
- Seven Hills
- Chateau St. Michelle
- Kiona
- Quiceda Creek
- Jamnik
- Mark Ryan Winery
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Big Producers of Red Mountain?
- Col Solare (Antinori + Chateau St. Michelle)
- Force Majeure
- Upchurch Vineyards
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What label does the Tuscan Antinori own in Red Mountain AVA?
Col Solare
73
Red Mountain vineyards:
- Ciel du Cheval (Seven Hills, Jamik, Andrew Will)
- Klipsun (Seven Hills)
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Celebrated Red Mountain sources?
- Ciel du Cheval (1975)
- Kiona (1975)
- Klipsun
75
What are the oldest Vinifera plantings in WA?
- William Bridgman's 1917 Muscat of Alexandria vines
- located in Upland's property
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Snipes Mountain's producers?
- Smasne
- Maison Bleue
- "first-tier" blocks of Cabernet
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Who is the largest producers in Snipe's Mountain?
Upland
- farms 750/900 acres
- only estate producer in AVA
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Snipes Mountain AVA boundaries:
- defined by elevation
- 750ft southern slope
- summit is 1310ft
- AVA in 2009
- raised fold, anti-cline
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Rattlesnake Hills AVA stats and geographical boundaries:
- earned AVA in 2006
- elevation is 3000ft
- along the north bank of the Yakima River
- protected by the Yakima Range
- in the rainshadow of the Cascades
- cooler than Red Mountain
- Riesling has been historically important
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What AVA is on the north bank of the Yakima River and is protected by the Yakima Range?
Rattlesnake Hills AVA
81
Top vineyards in Rattlesnake Hills AVA?
- Andrew Wills "Two Blondes Vineyard"
- Cote Bonnevilles "Dubrul Vineyard"
- both label estate wines as "Yakima Valley" dislike the "Rattlesnake AVA" term
82
What's Washington's smallest AVA?
Candy Mountain AVA
- approved in 2020
- south-facing slope southeast of Red Mountain AVA
- border of Yakima Valley was extended 72acres to accomodate
83
What's Washington's newest AVA?
Rocky Reach - 2022
84
How much of Walla Walla Valley's total acreage lies in Oregon?
1/3 total acreage
85
What does "Walla Walla" mean?
"Many tongues" in local native language
86
Walla Walla lies at the confluence of what rivers?
The Columbia River, Walla Walla River, Snake River
87
What is the Wallula Gap?
The bottleneck of the Missoula floods through which the Columbia River flows
88
Who were the founding fathers of modern viticultural in Walla Walla?
- Leonetti Cellar - Gary Figgins
- Woodward Canyon Winery - Rick Small
- L'Ecole - Baker Ferguson
- Waterbrook - Eric Randal
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When was Walla Walla recognized as an AVA?
1984, Washington's second AVA
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What mountains are on Walla Walla's eastern border?
Blue Mountains
91
Walla Walla Producers:
- Seven Hills
- Gramercy Cellars
- Long Shadows
- Dunham Cellars
- Leonetti
- Abeja
- Tamarock
- L'Ecole
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Walla Walla Vineyards:
- Seven Hills (OR)
- Les Collines (WA)
- Pepper Bridge (WA)
93
Christopher Baron's "Cayuse"
- est 1997
- Rhone varieties
- barren, cobblestone-covered flat area near OR
- helped gain Rocks of Milton Freewater as recognized for uniqueness
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"New" producers of Walla Walla second wave?
- Cayuse - Rhone varieties
- Pepper Bridge - Bordeaux varieties
- Waters Winery
- Gramercy Cellars
- Va Piano
- Buty Winery
- A Maurice
- Rotie Cellars
- Amavi
- Chris Figgins
95
Horse Heaven Hills vineyards:
- Canoe Ridge (Chateau St. Michelle)
- Champoux
- Alder Ridge
- The Beaches at Wallula Gap
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Horse Heaven Hills %?
25% of state's grapevine acreage
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What is WA's driest AVA?
Wahluke Slope "Watering Hole"
Rainfall = 6"
98
Wineries in Wahluke Slope?
- Weingbau (Blue Nun, sold shares)
- Milbrandt Vineyards
- predominately Cab, Merlot, Syrah
99
Most-planted grape in the Ancient Lakes of Columbia Valley AVA?
- Riesling
- white varieties account for 80%
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Reason for Ancient Lake's name?
- Temperatures are moderated by 35 glacial lakes that cut through the region
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Most important producer of Ancient Lakes?
- Millbrandt Vineyards
- farms 2 of 6 original vineyards, half of acreage
102
What is Columbia Valley's northernmost AVA?
Lake Chelan
- outside of Missoula
- established in 2009
- Pinot Noir and Riesling
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Royal Slope AVA:
- newer WA AVA approved in 2020
- more than 20 varietals grown
- between Wahluke and Ancient Lakes
104
What important vineyard do we find in Royal Slope AVA?
Stillwater Creek is most important
105
Newest AVA's approved?
**Rocky Reach - 2022
White Bluffs AVA - 2021
The Burn of Colombia Valley - 2021**
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Rocky Reach AVA
- newest AVA 2022
- between Ancient Lakes and Lake Chelan
- lower elevation alongside Colombia River
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What sole winery is found in White Bluff's AVA?
Sagemoor Vineyards
- founder in 1968
- encompasses 4 sites, 1100 acres of view
108
What four sites does Sagemoore Vineyards contain (White Bluffs AVA)?
- Sagemoor
- Dionysus
- Bacchus
- Gamache
- all along Columbia River, SE exposure
109
Sagemoor Vineyard fruit:
sells grapes to 75 different wineries
110
What new AVA lies between Horse Heaven Hills and Columbia Gorge?
The Burn of Columbia Valley
- north side of Colombia River
- adjacent to WA-OR border but fully contained in WA
- one of the warmest but winds delay maturation
111
Geographical features of Columbia Gorge AVA?
- positioned along OR-WA shorelines
- on the Colombia River
- OR's Mount Hood as backdrop
- rainfall quadruples across E-W
- some of the only dry-farmed vineyards in OR are here
- coolest appellation
- known for wind/wind surfing
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Which Washington AVA is it's coolest and also known for it's wind currants/wind surfing?
Columbia Gorge AVA
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Top Producers of Columbia Gorge AVA?
- Synchline
- Memaloose/Idiot's Grace
- Analemma
114
Where is Celilo Vineyard?
- Columbia Gorge
- 75 years old site
- Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Gewurtztraminer
115
Sub-regions of Columbia Gorge AVA:
- Underwood Mountain (Celilo Vineyard)
- Hood River Valley
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Columbia Gorge - more white or red?
- more white
- no single variety is king
- Chardonnay, Riesling, Gewurtztraminer
117
What's Puget Sound's most commercially successful grape?
- "Island Belle" Black Labrusca hydrid
- planted by homesteader Lambert Evans in 1872 on Puget Sound's Stretch Island
- his estate became WA's first bonded winery (St Charles in 1933)
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What varieties doe best in Puget Sound?
Early-ripening Germanic crossings
- Madeline Angline
- Muller-Thurgau
- Siegerrebe
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Lewis-Clark Valley?
- Washington and Idaho AVA
- mostly in Idaho
- w/in the Columbia Valley AVA
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What size is Puget Sound AVA?
- WA's second largest
- but most sparsely-planted
- 5.5 million acres -> 120 acres of vines
- most prominent vineyards are on the islands including San Juan, Bainbridge, Lopez
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Columbia Valley AVAs:
- Columbia Valley (WA/OR)
- Yakima Valley
- Red Mountain
- Rattlesnake Hills
- Snipes Mountain
- Walla Walla Valley (WA/OR)
- Rocks of Milton Freewater (OR)
- Horse Heaven Hills
- Wahluke Slope
- Lake Chelan
- Ancient Lakes of Columbia Valley
- Naches Heights
- Royal Slope
- Rocky Reach
- The Burn of Columbia Valley
- White Bluffs
- Candy Mountain
- Goose Gap
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What % of Washington's vineyards does Columbia Valley AVA contain?
99%
Like Walla Walla and Columbia Gorge AVA's, it slips over the OR state line
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How large is Columbia Valley AVA?
- 11 million total acres
- 1/3 the size of WA
124
What AVA's are NOT contained within Columbia Valley AVA?
- Puget Sound
- Columbia Gorge
125
What is the flagship vineyard for Chateau St. Michelle?
- Cold Creek Vineyard (850 acres)
- one of the state's warmest sites
- one of the last sites outside of a nested AVA
- has the oldest Cabernet Sauv vines from 1973`
126
What was WA's first AVA?
Union Gap, 1983
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What are the nested AVA's of the Yakima River? (5)
(5x)
- Rattlensnake Hills
- Snipes Mountain
- Red Mountain
- Candy Mountain
- Goose Gap
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How large is Yakima Valley proportionally?
- states third largest AVA in total size
- home to 1/3 state's total planted acreage
- over 18,500 total acres of vine
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What was Washington's first AVA? Its most recent?
Yakima Valley (1983); Rocky Reach (2022)
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Which of Washington's AVAs are not a part of Columbia Valley AVA?
Puget Sound, Columbia Gorge, Lewis-Clark Valley
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Besides grapes, what other crop is Yakima Valley known for?
Hops (over 75% of the nation's hops are grown here)
132
Match the producer to their founding winemaker:
1. Cayuse Vineyards A. Gary Figgins
2. Quilceda Creek B. Christophe Baron
3. Leonetti Cellars C. Chris Camarda
4. L'Ecole D. Alex Golitzin
5. Andrew Will Winery E. Baker Ferguson
1=B, 2=D, 3=A, 4=E, 5=C
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Name 3 of Yakima Valley's nested AVAs.
Red Mountain, Snipes Mountain, Candy Mountain, Goose Gap, Rattlesnake Hills
134
What is Washington's only winegrowing region located to the west of the Cascades?
Puget Sound AVA
135
If simply labeled "Washington", what % of grapes must come from the state?
95%
136
In which AVA is Leonetti Cellars based out of?
Walla Walla Valley
137
What are two viticultural techniques for vines to survive the winter cold in WA State?
Dual trunk training
buried canes
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What is the composition of geology of Washington State? Can you list the history?
17-6 million years ago basalt lava flows through WA & ID; basalt lava flows
18,000-12,000 years ago Missoula Floods, end of last Ice Age flood waters backed up at Wallula Gap; alluvial deposits
windblown loess
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What winery’s reputation helped establish Rocks of Milton-Freewater AVA?
Cayuse
140
In 2023 this wine producer announced they would only be purchasing 60% of their contracted grapes which could potentially have a huge impact on the Washington wine industry at large:
Chateau Ste Michelle
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The above winery’s enormously popular Eroica Riesling is a collaboration with what Mosel producer?
Ernst Loosen
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This new AVA is noteworthy for having ridges that run east to west:
Goose Gap
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This AVA is at an altitude that puts it above the Missoula Floods and is therefore composed of loess rather than alluvial soils atop a bed of clay:
Naches Heights
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This AVA is north of the Missoula Floods and is therefore predominantly of granite parent-rock:
Lake Chelan
145
Walla Walla is also known for its production of what vegetable?
Sweet onions
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This AVA is located atop an ancient lake bed/riverine deposit that it boasts as a unique subsoil known as the Ringold Formation:
White Bluffs
147
This high altitude vineyard on the Columbia Gorge was planted in 1972 and is known for its many different white grapes:
Celilo
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This vineyard was also planted in 1972 in Horse Heaven Hills. Its Cabernet Sauvignon has gone into many of the best-regarded bottlings from Quilceda Creek:
Champoux
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The rolling hills of the Columbia Plateau give their name to this distinctively spotted horse breed developed there by the native Nez Perce:
Appaloosa
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Who is Christophe Baron?
Christophe Baron was the first grower to plant vines in the stones of the Walla Walla Valley in the Pacific Northwest – the project is Cayuse Vineyards – and in 2002, the first to introduce biodynamic farming techniques in the Valley.
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What is the northernmost sub AVA of the Columbia Valley AVA
Lake Chelan
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The Two Blondes Vineyard and Côte Bonneville’s Dubrul Vineyard are found in what AVA?
Yakima Valley AVA
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Name 3 AVAs of Washington that touch the Columbia River.
Columbia Gorge
Columbia Valley
The Burn
Goose Gap
White Bluffs
Wahluke Slope
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If I was flying into Seattle, what AVA would I be in?
Puget Sound AVA
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When were Washington's first grapes planted and where?
at Fort Vancouver by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1825
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What is the largest company in WA?
Chateau Ste. Michelle
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Which famous winemaker of Napa consulted American Wine Growers in 1960s?
Andre Tchelistcheff was advising, founded in 1934, became Chateau Ste. Michelle in 1976
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What are the main hazards of Columbia Valley?
frost and winter freezes
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What is the largest sub-AVA of Columbia Valley?
Yakima Valley AVA
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What is the mountain in Walla Walla Valley?
Blue Mountain, altitude up to 600m
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Which AVA would you find Red Willow, Bouchey and Otis Vineyards? Which vineyard was the first planting of Syrah in 1986?
Yakima
Red Willow
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Which AVA would you find Kiona, Kipson, and Col Solare vineyards?
Red Mountain
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Which vineyard of WA was the first planting of Cabernet Sauvignon in 1957?
Otis
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Who makes Two Blondes Vineyard wine?
Andrew Will
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What AVA is Upland Vineyard in?
Snipes Mountain, Yakima
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What AVA is Harrison Hill Vineyard in?
Snipes Mountain, Yakima
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Who was William B Bridgman?
1914 - pioneer of single vineyard plantings in Washington. Planted Harrison Hill and Upland vineyards and established Upland Winery- sold in 1960 and became Santa Rosa Winery (RIP).
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Who is known as the Father of Washington Wine?
Dr. Walter Clore 1911-2003, planted over 250 vinifera at Washington St. University in Prosser called “The Wine Project” to experiment with which varieties would thrive in Washington.
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What is the annual precipitation of Red Mountain?
127mm/5”
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Where is the Champoux vineyard?
Horse Heaven Hills
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In what AVA would you find the highest concentration of the wineries in Washington?
Walla Walla Valley
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What was the first AVA of Washington state?
Yakima Valley, 1983
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What is the warmest growing area in Washington, averaging growing season temperatures of 90F?
Red Mountain
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Newest AVA?
Rocky Reach - 2022
White Bluffs - 2021
The Burn of Columbia Valley - 2021
