Champagne
These three grape varieties are the most planted and produced in Champagne.
What is Chardonnay, Meunier, and Pinot Noir.
The North Coast AVA in California houses some of the most famous AVAs in the world. This AVA is famous for its Cabernet Sauvignon production.
What is Napa Valley AVA?
This farming method eschews the use of pesticides and chemicals in the vineyard and promotes healthy vine growth and biodiversity within the estate.
What is organic farming.
This popular grape variety, often order fired, is the grape variety for the Sancerre AOC and is a dominant portion of white wine production in Bordeaux, New Zealand, and California.
What is Sauvignon Blanc?
This sweet, fortified wine comes from the region of Oporto in Portugal. It can be made with up to 30 different grape varieties, but the most popular include Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinta Roriz, and Tinta Borroca.
What is Port Wine?
This type of producer is known for cultivating their own grapes, which they use to make wine under their own labels.
What is a Grower Producer?
The Finger Lakes AVA is best known for the production of this grape, a grape we also pour by the glass.
What is Riesling?
During the process of fermentation, the yeast eats the sugar and produces a byproduct of heat, CO2, alcohol, and a solid particle known as this. It is often stirred as a winemaking technique to add flavor and texture.
What is lees?
These two grape varieties are the main grapes for red and white production in Burgundy.
What is Pinot Noir and Chardonnay?
This sweet, white wine appellation is located within the larger, better known appellation of Sauternes.
What is Barsac?
This is the process of expelling the lees from the bottle after the second fermentation and aging sur lie has been completed.
What is disgorgement?
Dundee Hills, Eola-Amity Hills, Ribbon Ridge, McMinnville, Yamhill-Carlton District, and Chehalem Mountains are all a part of this AVA.
Tart malic acids are converted into softer, rounder acids during this process of vinification.
What is Malolactic Fermentation
While this grape has become very popular in Australia, and pops up in regions such as California and South Africa, the highest quality iterations come from areas in the Northern Rhone such as Cornas, Cote Rotie, or Hermitage.
What is Syrah?
This sweet, fortified wine from Champagne is made from late-press Champagne grape must, and is then distilled with the brandy of the same must.
What is Ratafia?
These are the grams of RS per liter for Extra Brut, and Brut Champagne.
What is
Extra Brut: 0-6 g/L
Brut: 0-12 g/L
Amador County AVA is located within this larger AVA.
What is Sierra Foothill AVA?
This style of vine training is very popular in warm growing areas, namely the Southern Rhône and Southern Italy, where this style is used to protect the vines from wind and provide natural shade to the grapes.
What are bush vines/gobelet/albarello?
This white grape variety from Greece, while produced throughout the country, has made a name for itself in Santorini, where it offers bright, fresh, saline driven wines.
What is Assyrtiko?
Furmint grapes are botrytised, made into a paste, mixed with not-botrytised must or wine, and then fermented very slowly to create Aszú, a specific type of this style of sweet wine.
What is Tokaji?
The traditional method in Champagne requires the addition of this mixture of water, sugar, and yeast to a still base wine in order to inoculate a second fermentation.
What is liqueur de tirage?
This AVA is shared by both Oregon and Washington, and is characterized by its topsoil of basalt cobblestones deposited by the Missoula Floods. The soil type here often draws comparisons to the galets of Chateauneuf-de-Pape, causing producers here to put much of their focus towards Southern Rhone varieties.
What is Walla Walla Valley/Milton-Freewater?
The annual life cyle of a grape vine begins with this stage, where the vines are most susceptible to frost.
What is budbreak?
This area is the most westerly portion of the Loire Valley and is planted almost entirely to this grape variety.
What is Pay Nantais/Muscadet produces Melon de Bourgogne?
Madeira is a Portuguese island way off the southern coast of the country, home to a popular style of fortified wine by the same name. There are several grapes utilized in Madeira production, but this is an example of one of the main four.
What is Boal/Sercial/Verdelho/Malmsey?