Wine Regions
This French region is known for producing world class Pinot Noir
What is Burgundy?
The most common red grape in Spain?
What is Tempranillo?
The Mountain Range that separates Argentina from Chile
What are the Andes?
This type of wine is made when Red Grape skins are in contact with it's juice for a few hours instead of weeks
What is Rosé?
The name of the sight occurrence inside your wine glass that indicates higher alcohol or sugar levels and not an indication of quality
What are legs/tears?
The country that is Malbec's Ancestral home
What is France?
Beaujolais is known for this red varietal
What is Gamay?
The name of the active volcano in Sicily that produces wine from the grape Nerello Mascalese
What is Mt. Etna?
The name for traditional method sparkling wine in France made outside of Champagne
What is Cremant?
The name of the vine eating louse that emerged in Europe that nearly destroyed every single wine grape in the world in the late 1800’s
What is Phylloxera?
The Douro Valley, famous for Port wine, is in which country?
What is Portugal?
This is the species of grape that is used to make wine
What is Vitis Vinifera?
The latitudinal zones where most of the world’s wine grapes are grown
What is the Wine Belt (30-50 Parellel)?
Red Sparkling that comes from Emilia Romagna, Italy
What is Lambrusco?
The name of the wine that tarnished Riesling's reputation to this day
What is Blue Nun?
This newer wine country has come into the forefront for their sparkling wine
What is England?
In Champagne, the term Blanc de Noirs refers to a white sparkling wine made from which types of grapes?
What is Red (black-skinned) grapes, typically Pinot Noir and/or Pinot Meunier.?
The river runs through the Mosel wine region in Germany
What is the Mosel River?
What is the term for the sparkling wine production method that that predates the traditional method?
What is Method Ancestral?
What is Pet-Nat?
The number of states in the USA that have active wineries
What is 50?
Wine from this country has been produced for only over 300 years, yet today, it is fourth largest wine producing country in the world after France, Italy, and Spain
What is the United States?
The grape of Prosecco
What is Glera?
The name of the sea surrounds most of the Greek wine-growing islands
What is the Agean Sea?
The name of the wine made from Grapes frozen on the vine (Canada, Germany)
What is Ice Wine?
The name of the straw wrapped bottle of Chianti
What is a Fiasco?
The region in between the Left & Right Banks of Bordeaux
What is the Entre Deux-Mers?
These 2 grapes are the parents of Cabernet Sauvignon
What is Cabernet Franc & Sauvignon Blanc?
What country claims to be the 'Birthplace of Wine'
What is Georgia?
The style of wine is typically oxidized and fortified, and comes from Jerez, Spain?
What is Sherry?
The largest retailer of wine in the world?
What is Costco?
In Germany, this term denotes that the wine is dry
What is Trocken?
The name of the grape that is the same varietal as Zinfandel but grows in the Puglia region of Italy
What is Primitivo?
The name of the Fossil-rich soil that contributes to minerality and excellent drainage, especially in Champagne and Chablis
What is limestone?
What is the name of the wine made from white grapes fermented with their skins; tannic, textured, and often cloudy
What is skin-contact/orange wine?
The name of the famous wine blind tasting in 1976 that put the US on the map as a wine region
What is the judgement of Paris?
The county in California is particularly known for cool-climate Syrah and Pinot Noir, helped by a rare east-west valley orientation?
What is Santa Barbara?
This white wine is famously grown in the salty, wind-battered soils of Santorini, Greece?
What is Assyrtiko?
The name of the famous wind that affects viticulture in the Southern Rhône Valley?
What is the Mistral?
Which French wine style is released on the 3rd Thursday in November, known for its fruity and youthful character?
What is Beaujolais Nouveau?
The name of the process that gives Chardonnay a buttery taste
What is Malolactic Fermentation?
This wine region speaks both German & Italian
What is Trentino Alto-Adige?
This is the grape used to make Gavi, a crisp, dry white wine from Piedmont, Italy
What is Cortese?
This region is known for some of the world’s highest vineyards
What is Salta?
A sweet wine style is made from grapes affected by noble rot (Botrytis cinerea)?
What is Sauternes (also acceptable: Tokaji Aszú, Trockenbeerenauslese)?
The country that produces the world's largest amount of wine corks
What is Portugal?
This country globally drinks the most wine?
What is the USA?
The name of the group of red grape that have red flesh
What are Teinturier grapes?
In what U.S. state was the first bonded winery established?
What is Missouri (Stone Hill Winery, 1847)?
The term coined by Robert Mondavi as a riff on the Loire Valley's Pouilly Fumé for his oak aged Sauvignon Blanc
What is Fume Blanc?
The most obscure bottle of wine that we sell at B+B
What is Drood from Iran/Persia?