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Wine Regions
Wine Grape Varietals
Terrior
Wine Bottle Labels
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This sensory organ on the tongue allows us to experience tastes.
What is Taste Buds?
100
This wine region in the southwest corner of Western Australia.
What is Margaret River?
100
Australia spent millions of dollars to build a brand around this grape varietal.
What is Shiraz?
100
This most Western Australia wine region’s climate is said to be similar to that of Burgundy, France.
What is Margaret River?
100
Wine critics often disregard most Aussie wine – referring to the cute animal designs that adorn wine labels.
What are Critter Wines?
200
This grape is very neutral and can be vinified in many different styles, depending on cool or warm climates, terrior and oak. The tasting notes can range from medium to light body with lean and crisp minerals, have noticeable acidity and flavors of green plum, apple and pear, citrus, peach, melon and tropical fruit.
What is Chardonnay?
200
This wine region is located just north of Perth on the Swan River.
What is Swan Valley?
200
Yarra Valley is an Australian wine region located east of Melbourne, Victoria. It is a cool climate region that is best known for producing these two grape varietals.
What are Chardonnay and Pinot Noir?
200
Situated in the northern Mt Lofty Ranges, about 2 hours north of Adelaide, this South Australia wine region's climate features a warm to hot summer, but cooling afternoon breezes play a major role in slowing down the ripening process.
What is Clare Valley?
200
This critter wine is produced at a rate of 66 million bottles per year.
What is Yellow Tail?
300
Often confused with level of dryness because it dries your mouth, this phenolic compound found in wine adds bitterness to a wine.
What is Tannin?
300
This wine region is just north of Sydney in New South Wales.
What is Hunter Valley?
300
The Hunter Valley is recognized as the world’s leader in dry white wines made from this grape varietal.
What is Semillon?
300
From the aquamarine waters of Geographe Bay in the north, down the ancient cave-carved Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, and karri forests of the heartland, to the desolate beauty of Cape Leeuwin in the south, this is a place of splendid natural contrasts. Surrounded by water on three sides, the ocean forms the life rhythms of the land between the capes, its many moods governing everything from the lovely climate to the subtle nuances.
What is Margaret River terrior?
300
Grange is arguably Australia’s most celebrated wine and is officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia.
What is Penfolds?
400
For any given aroma, flavor or taste, there is a concentration below which we are no longer able to detect it. This point and where it occurs varies considerably from person to person, determining our ability to taste and explaining why tasting wine is such a personal, highly subjective experience.
What is Sensory Threshold?
400
This wine region's rolling hills have the oldest living vineyards in the world, because Phylloxera hasn’t yet infected the vineyard soils.
What is Barossa Valley?
400
This wine region is one of Australia’s oldest wine growing regions. It has a strong tradition of fortified winemaking, with the star attractions being its liqueur style wines using Muscat, Verdelho, and Pedro Ximenes. These wines bear a lot of resemblance to the wonderful Muscat’s and Tokays of Rutherglen, plus Shiraz and Grenache as well.
What is Swan Valley?
400
This region is only 100 kilometres inland, and is exposed to a maritime climate, with dry and moderately cool summers. The climate is quite unique and persistent cloud cover generally moderates the ripening period temperatures. The terra rossa soil in this wine region is renowned for its affinity with Cabernet Sauvignon wines.
What is Coonawarra?
400
A word or sign used on wine bottles that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin.
What is Geographical Indication (GI)?
500
The color of this complex wine is black to the core and purple on the rim, with an intense and immediate barrel-ferment propulsion – sweet and candied, with a peaty, iodine, green olive base. Beneath this level of complexity is a barely-concealed swirl of Vegemite/yeast extract/concentrated salt-paste - laced with paprika, oregano flower and thyme. The tertiary tasting notes are slurry with cocoa powder, a scent of black pudding and a splash of nori-roll/sea-spray. Then all changes…building to a dense, paste-like texture and weigh to a balsamic liveliness/lift/energy that is unleashed as tannins focus on the roof of the mouth, laden with mocha. This wine’s complexity finishes with a mix of quince (hard, acid, pear-shaped fruit) and sesame-paste laden with basted meats and saturated stewed plum, boysenberry, blueberry.
What is Penfolds Grange? No wonder it's $750/bottle!
500
This winemaking region makes up the majority of wine production in the entire region. The cool climate areas in this wine region have received a lot of praise for their Pinot Noir.
What is Victoria?
500
This grape varietal's signature style is pale green with fresh gooseberry and cut-grass notes.
What is Sauvignon Blanc?
500
This wine region's climate is warm, even hot, with relatively warm nights allowing the physiological process that ripens fruit, to continue. Soils vary from sandy alluvial flats to red clay loams & chocolate brown podsols.
What is Hunter Valley?
500
Under this Australian wine regulation, a blend of grapes that is produced in more than one country must be identified on the label with the larger percentage of the blend first and, the actual percentage of the blends. For example: “PRODUCT OF AUSTRALIA 90%; NEW ZEALAND 10%”. The 85% rule does not apply to country of origin and any percentage of imported wine in a blend must be stated.
What is Regulation 19 of the Australian Grape and Wine Authority Act?