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40 Cards in this Set
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What climatic and geographical features combine to make the western foothills of Argentina an excellent area for wine growing |
Dry air, plentiful water from snowmelt, high altitude, lots of sun |
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What is the name if the fierce winter wind in Argentina |
zonda |
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What weather can affect the vineyards of Argentina during Harvest |
hailstorms |
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Leading red in argentina |
Malbec |
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Signature white grape in argentina |
Torrontes |
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Highest quality designation used in argentina |
dOC |
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Intermediate quality level designation in arentina |
IG |
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Table wine designation in argentina |
IP |
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What are the first two DOC in argentina |
Lujan de cuyo, San Rafael |
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Region that produces mainly fortified wine and brandy |
San Juan |
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Wine region particularly know for torrotes |
salta |
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Argentinas oldest wine region |
la Rioja |
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Home to more than 70%of argentine wines |
Mendoza |
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Term used to designate the best wines in argentina |
Vinos Finos |
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High elevation sub-region of mendoza |
Uco Valley |
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Sub-region in Mendoza located near the capital |
Maipu |
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Located far south this region is up and coming for SPK and PN |
rio Negro |
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A sub-region of Salta with very high altitude vineyards |
cafayate |
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Area located in the southern end of Argentina and chile |
Patagonia |
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Region located just south of mendoza |
Neuquen |
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Grape variety used for table grapes and raisens |
cereza |
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White grape used for fortifies wines |
Pedro Gimenez |
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How many miles long and wide is chile |
3000mile long; 100 miles wide |
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Frozen archipelago off coast of chile |
Tierra del Feugo |
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Cold ocean current that flows along the Chilean shores from the polar seas |
humboldt |
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Mast widely planted grape in vhile |
Cab |
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SB was thought to be ______ and is now referred to as what? |
Sauvignon vert, Sauvignon |
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Chile set of geographical place-of-origin laws is the ______ system |
DO |
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As of 2011 there terms based on chile east-west geography is what |
Coast, between mountains(Entre cordilleras) Andes |
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Historcal heart of Chilean winemaking |
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A cool-climate sub-region of the Coquimbo know from mineral whites |
Limari |
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Region that contains the cachapoal and colchagua valleys |
Rapel |
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The warmest sub region of the Aconcagua |
Aconcagua valley |
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A region located in Central Valley located inland with no maritime influence |
Curico |
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80% of chiles vineyards come from where? |
Central Valley |
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Region located where valley floor widens and is the southern end of the central valley |
maule |
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Small sun-region where the Coquimbo area with desert like conditional |
Choapa |
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Region in chile with highest rainfall |
Bio bio |
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Sun-region of Aconcagua know for whites |
Casablanca |
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Sub-zone of San Antonio valley with granite soils and breezy conditions |
Leyda |