Wine
What wine varietal do we produce the most of?
Pinot Noir
What is Taylor's Dogs name?
Kodiak
What is the capital of Oregon
Salem
Which fictional city is the home of Batman?
Gotham City
What natural event placed the erratic boulders at Left Coast
The Missoula Floods. These cataclysmic floods were the largest in the history of Earth and occurred 15,000-12,000 years ago at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum. The floods were glacial lake outburst floods that were caused by periodic sudden ruptures of the ice dam on the Clark Fork River that created Glacial Lake Missoula.
What wine label do we produce the most of?
Cali's Cuvee Pinot Noir
Where did Bob and Suzanne live immediately before having children?
Paris
What is the name of the annual celebration held in Portland in the late spring?
The Rose Festival
The offspring on a male lion and female tiger is known by what name?
Liger
What is the scientific name of Oregon White Oak
Quercus Garryana
What was our first vintage of White Pinot Noir?
2011
What is Bob's title on his business card?
Cook and Gardner
What is the light rail in Portland called and what does it stand for?
MAX, Metropolitan Area Express
In what city did Rosa Parks refuse to move to the back of the bus?
Montgomery, Alabama
Why are 99.9% of the vines at Left Coast grafted to to native American rootstock?
Phylloxera- A plant louse that is native to eastern North America. These nearly microscopic insects devastated vineyards across the globe in the late 1800s. The only cure is to graft vines to native American rootstock which has developed an immunity to phylloxera. The roots of the American vines exude a sticky sap that rebels the nymph form when it tries to feed by clogging its mouth.
Where does the vanilla flavor in wine often come from?
Oak barrels
What was the name of our original family dog?
Annabelle
What is the name of the waterfall that is the tallest in Oregon?
Multnomah Falls
How old was Napoleon when he died?
51
What is the chemical compound that creates corked wines
TCA: Trichloroanisole
What was Dom Perignon's occupation when he invented Champagne?
He was monk
How did Bob and Suzanne first meet?
On a blind date
In 1922 a fire broke out in ____________. It burned through the city's wooden downtown, eventually destroying as many as 30 blocks and leaving 2,500 homeless.
Astoria
In what country will you find what's left of the Aral Sea in?
Kazakhstan
What is the primary benefit to the soil of the Crimson Clover in the vineyards?
Nitrogen fixation- the clover actively put nitrogen into the soil so it is available for our vines