WVIT 300 Exam Questions and Answers
Genus Vitis - Answer-The grapevine
Where is vitis vinifera native to? - Answer-Europe and Near East
Species Used as Rootstocks - Answer-Vitis riparia
Vitis rupestris
Vitis berlandieri
World Grape production yields - Answer-Wine (70%)
Raisins (2%)
Table Grapes (25%)
CA Grape production yields - Answer-Wine & Juice (65%)
Raisins (20%)
Table Grapes (15%)
Earliest evidence of intentional fermentation (Where & When) - Answer-China, Yellow River Valley
9000 years ago
,Earliest evidence of winemaking using V. vinifera (Where & When) - Answer-Georgia - 8000 years ago
Persia (North Iran) - 7000 years ago
What were the Egyptians credited with? - Answer-developed first trellising and pruning methods
trellising - Answer-the physical structure used to support and maintain the training system
Widespread cultivation of winegrapes began with... - Answer-Greek civilization (~3600 years ago)
Dionysus - Answer-God of wine; fun loving, but known to drive men mad
Romans developed... - Answer-cooperage (aging and storage in wood)
Romans expanded winegrape production to... - Answer-Spain
northern France
Germany
England
First grape planting in the New World - Answer-Mexico 1525 (four years after fall of Aztec empire)
(Father of CA wine industry - Answer-Hungarian immigrant Harazsthy; imported over 300 varieties from
Europe in 1850s and 1860s
CA's oldest winery - Answer-Buena Vista winery
Sonoma 1857
,Thompson Seedless - Answer-the most important raisin and table grape variety in CA
Phylloxera - Answer-tiny root-eating louse that was transported to Europe from the US and devastated
their vines.
first phylloxera outbreak - Answer-in Cornwall in 1863
vineyards that survived phylloxera were on - Answer-sandy soil
Jules-Émile Planchon - Answer-Planchon was the first to suggest that the tiny orange insects on roots
were causing vine decline
solution to Phylloxera - Answer-to grow North American grape species, or try to graft Vitis vinifera onto
them
V. rupestris - Answer-native range from Ohio to Texas
V. riparia - Answer-from Quebec to Utah
V. berlandieri - Answer-native to Texas/New Mexico
why did AxR1 fail - Answer-rootstocks with vinifera parentage should not be used
why did Chile's wine production expand between 1870-1900 - Answer-They exported wine to Europe
during the phylloxera outbreak
, Carmenère - Answer-french variety, thought extinct after phylloxera outbreak; still in Chile
what led to the decline of wine consumption in he 1900s in chile - Answer-Anti-alcohol laws in the
1930s and the military coup
what improved wine in south africa - Answer-about 200 French Huguenots immigrated shortly after,
helped improve quality of grapes and wine
oldest continuously operating commercial winery in the world - Answer-Constantia Winery established
in 1685 (south africa)
first vines in australia - Answer-First vines were planted at Sydney Cove, New South Wales (NSW), 1788
first commercial region in Australia - Answer-the Hunter Valley in 1800s (also in New South Wales)
how did Australia survive phylloxera - Answer-Vineyards in phylloxera-infested NSW and northern
Victoria were replaced by those in western Victoria, South AU and Western AU
Prohibition - Answer-forbade the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors."
Prohibition in CA - Answer-almost destroyed the commercial wine industry but good for the grape
industry. A loophole in the law allowed each home to "make 200 gallons of nonintoxicating cider and
fruit juice per year."
prohibition led to - Answer-Demand for grapes increased tremendously; shipments by rail soared
why did many growers go out of business in the 1920s - Answer-because of oversupply- Prices crashed,
many growers went out of business
Genus Vitis - Answer-The grapevine
Where is vitis vinifera native to? - Answer-Europe and Near East
Species Used as Rootstocks - Answer-Vitis riparia
Vitis rupestris
Vitis berlandieri
World Grape production yields - Answer-Wine (70%)
Raisins (2%)
Table Grapes (25%)
CA Grape production yields - Answer-Wine & Juice (65%)
Raisins (20%)
Table Grapes (15%)
Earliest evidence of intentional fermentation (Where & When) - Answer-China, Yellow River Valley
9000 years ago
,Earliest evidence of winemaking using V. vinifera (Where & When) - Answer-Georgia - 8000 years ago
Persia (North Iran) - 7000 years ago
What were the Egyptians credited with? - Answer-developed first trellising and pruning methods
trellising - Answer-the physical structure used to support and maintain the training system
Widespread cultivation of winegrapes began with... - Answer-Greek civilization (~3600 years ago)
Dionysus - Answer-God of wine; fun loving, but known to drive men mad
Romans developed... - Answer-cooperage (aging and storage in wood)
Romans expanded winegrape production to... - Answer-Spain
northern France
Germany
England
First grape planting in the New World - Answer-Mexico 1525 (four years after fall of Aztec empire)
(Father of CA wine industry - Answer-Hungarian immigrant Harazsthy; imported over 300 varieties from
Europe in 1850s and 1860s
CA's oldest winery - Answer-Buena Vista winery
Sonoma 1857
,Thompson Seedless - Answer-the most important raisin and table grape variety in CA
Phylloxera - Answer-tiny root-eating louse that was transported to Europe from the US and devastated
their vines.
first phylloxera outbreak - Answer-in Cornwall in 1863
vineyards that survived phylloxera were on - Answer-sandy soil
Jules-Émile Planchon - Answer-Planchon was the first to suggest that the tiny orange insects on roots
were causing vine decline
solution to Phylloxera - Answer-to grow North American grape species, or try to graft Vitis vinifera onto
them
V. rupestris - Answer-native range from Ohio to Texas
V. riparia - Answer-from Quebec to Utah
V. berlandieri - Answer-native to Texas/New Mexico
why did AxR1 fail - Answer-rootstocks with vinifera parentage should not be used
why did Chile's wine production expand between 1870-1900 - Answer-They exported wine to Europe
during the phylloxera outbreak
, Carmenère - Answer-french variety, thought extinct after phylloxera outbreak; still in Chile
what led to the decline of wine consumption in he 1900s in chile - Answer-Anti-alcohol laws in the
1930s and the military coup
what improved wine in south africa - Answer-about 200 French Huguenots immigrated shortly after,
helped improve quality of grapes and wine
oldest continuously operating commercial winery in the world - Answer-Constantia Winery established
in 1685 (south africa)
first vines in australia - Answer-First vines were planted at Sydney Cove, New South Wales (NSW), 1788
first commercial region in Australia - Answer-the Hunter Valley in 1800s (also in New South Wales)
how did Australia survive phylloxera - Answer-Vineyards in phylloxera-infested NSW and northern
Victoria were replaced by those in western Victoria, South AU and Western AU
Prohibition - Answer-forbade the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors."
Prohibition in CA - Answer-almost destroyed the commercial wine industry but good for the grape
industry. A loophole in the law allowed each home to "make 200 gallons of nonintoxicating cider and
fruit juice per year."
prohibition led to - Answer-Demand for grapes increased tremendously; shipments by rail soared
why did many growers go out of business in the 1920s - Answer-because of oversupply- Prices crashed,
many growers went out of business
