Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz!

This week, I’m kicking off a run of questions about the Argentine wine biz, having just returned from a two week jaunt down there (courtesy of Wines of Argentina) to judge in the 2013 Argentina Wine Awards (more on all of that – much more – in the coming weeks). These questions will all have originally appeared in the newsletter The Juice, a resource for which you should sign up forthwith!

I hope you have fun learning some interesting tidbits about Argentine wine (I myself was quite surprised by some of the answers to the quiz questions when I was researching them). Enjoy…

Yielding Results, Down South: Where does Argentina rank in worldwide vineyard crop yield?

A.  Second

B.  Fourth

C.  Fifth

D.  Twelfth

E.  Fifteenth

Cheers – and good luck!

Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz!

This week, we’re finishing off the series of questions related to the research cited in Master of Wine Tim Hanni’s new book, Why You Like The Wines You Like (full disclosure: I received a review copy, and I am mentioned favorably therein). Hopefully these questions have tilted your view of some of the wine world’s long-standing (but potentially false!) prejudices in terms of how we view how we taste.

Hard-Wired Wine Brains?

True or False: People who taste wines often, such as sommeliers, may actually re-wire their brains to perceive wines differently from less frequent tasters?

A. True

B. False

Cheers – and good luck!

Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz!

This week, we’re continuing the theme of questions relating to research cited in iconoclastic Master of Wine Tim Hanni’s new book, Why You Like The Wines You Like (full disclosure: I received a review copy, and I am mentioned favorably in the book, which in my mind merely signifies Hanni’s excellent taste in wine blogs… ok, whatever)…

Not Your (Vino)Type?

Master of Wine Tim Hanni has identified how many “Vinotypes” – or general types of wine tasters – in his research on how people perceive wine tastes?

A.  Two

B.  Four

C.  Ten

D.  Fifteen

Cheers – and good luck!

Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz!

This week, we’re continuing the theme of questions relating to research cited in iconoclastic Master of Wine Tim Hanni’s new book, Why You Like The Wines You Like (full disclosure: I received a review copy, and I am mentioned favorably in the book – though I didn’t know about that mention until after he sent the thing to me).

I’ve been having my mind rocked regularly by Tim’s new book – though I can tell you that it needs editing and already requires a layout re-do. Whatever… let’s just have some fun with this…

Ties That Bind (Food To Wine)

True or False: The higher your emotional ties to wine and food matching, the less likely you are to perceive the match as a good one?

A.  True

B.  False

Cheers – and good luck!