Win a trip to the vineyards of Beaujolais and the Rhône in our Fiendish Wine Quiz 2017
The winner and a companion will fly to Lyon then travel to the heart of Côte-Rôtie in the Rhône Valley where they will be received by Vidal-Fleury, the oldest continuously producing wine estate in the region. The second day will be spent with Henry Fessy in Beaujolais, famous for its extensive vineyard holdings in the Beaujolais Crus. Both visits will include vineyard visits, winery tours and of course, lots of tasting.
Never one to miss out on a visit to vineyards, I will accompany the winner on the trip. Flights from a UK airport, two nights accommodation and all meals in France are included. We will need to arrange a mutually convenient time for the trip, avoiding peak holiday times. Before the flight you will need to get yourselves to the designated airport which may be local but could be as far as a London airport, depending on flight availability.
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Hide AdFor three runners up there are copies of the two outstanding books of the year, Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book, now celebrating its 40th year and Hugh Johnson on Wine, a collection of his memories of 55 years of wine writing.
As always, you may use any means at your disposal to get to the right answers, including pestering your local wine merchant since they are often an invaluable source of up-to-the-minute information. This quiz is not open to anyone in the wine trade and that includes wine lecturers who should concentrate on helping their students win.
If you read The Yorkshire Post online, you may want to send in your answers on plain paper, however I shall need your name and address in your own handwriting on your entry sheet. If you have a copy of the newspaper then, as usual, please tick the right answers and send me the whole page. Only one entry per household is allowed and any multiple entries, including any entries sent by email will be discarded.
All correct entries will go into Grapevine’s giant ice bucket and the winner will be chosen at random. There is no cash alternative to any of the prizes.
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Hide AdI will mark all the entries and no arguing will be allowed, although I welcome the customary nit-picking and point-scoring from regular readers which relieves the tedium of marking the entries.
Send to: Sarah Freeman, Yorkshire Post Magazine, No. 1 Leeds, 26 Whitehall Road, Leeds LS12 1BE to arrive no later than Wednesday 10 January 2017.
QUESTIONS
1) Who inspired the moustache on the labels of Henry Fessy wines?
a) Henri Fessy
b) Georges Fessy
c)Henry and Serges Fessy
2) Arrange the following Crus of Beaujolais from North to South
a) Fleurie
b) Morgon
c) St Amour
d) Brouilly
e) Chenas,
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a) Lyre
b) Parral
c) Gobelet
d) Geneva Double Curtain
4) Tick the two grape varieties that are the parents of Gamay.
a) Pinotage
b) Pinot Noir
c) Chardonnay
d) Gouais Blanc
e) Poulsard
5) Which future American President visited Vidal-Fleury?
a) George Washington
b) Donald Trump
c) Ulysses S. Grant
d) Thomas Jefferson
6) Which red grape variety is grown on Côte Rôtie?
a) Grenache
b) Syrah
c) Nebbiolo
d) Merlot
7) Why is Côte Rôtie Brune et Blonde so called?
a) Emperor Caligula named the slopes after his horses
b) After the current owner’s daughters
c) Rivers Brune and Blonde flow down these slopes
d) Côte Brune has darker soils, Côte Blonde has lighter soils
8) Name the three most important grape varieties in red Châteauneuf-du-Pape
9) How would you get from Ch. Grillet to Ch. Grillon?
a) Drive north for 100km
b) Walk east 1km
c) Drive west for 600km
d) Drive south for 600km
10) Which property produces most Riesling?
a) Ch. Ste Michelle
b) Villa Maria
c) Dr Loosen
d) Hugel
11) Who comes next?
a) Moore
b) Bacon
c) Prince Charles
d) Freud
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Hide Ad12) Dermot makes English wine. What is the name of his dog?
13) Spot the odd one out
a) Basket
b) Smart Dyson
c) Dopplebogen
d) South Downs Short Cut
14) Match each grape to its alternative name
Grenache Viura
Tempranillo Spanna
Nebbiolo Tinto Fino
Macabeo Cannonau
15) Who is the winemaker at Resonance?
16) Which two grape varieties are the most widely planted in English vineyards?
17) Which river changed its course in 1867, leaving deep gravel beds now known as Gimblett Gravels?
18) Uruguay’s Tannat grape used to be called
a) Carmenère
b) Malbec
c) Harriague
d) Tinto Fino
19) How is the sweetness of Tokaji wine graded?
a) Puttonyos
b) Putties
c) PX
d) Degrees Plato
20) Match these wines to their lakes
Rippon Garda
Bardolino Neusiedl
Quail’s Gate Wanaka
Leithaberg Okanagan
21) What is another name for Chile’s País grape variety
a) Bastardo
b) Mission
c) Ramisco
d) Sercial
22) Starting with the largest, arrange the following Burgundy appellations in order of size
a) Aloxe-Corton
b) Chassagne Montrachet
c) Clos de Tart
d) Meursault
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Hide Ad23) Are these Sardinian grape varieties red (R) or white (W)?
a) Cannonau
b) Bovale Sardo
c) Arvesiniadu
d) Monica
24) What is the main ingredient in biodynamic preparation 501?
a) Quartz
b) Yarrow
c) Manure
d) Stag’s bladder
25) Spot the odd one out
a) Edmeades
b) Hickinbotham
c) Ch. Lassègue
d) Jackson Estate
26) Which of these don’t you want in your wine
a) Ethyl Alcohol
b) Geosmin
c) Brettanomyces
d) Trichloroanisole
27) You have a Nomblot in your cellar, what should you do?
a) Put down traps to catch it
b) Use it for fermentation
c) Throw away your wine
d) Use it to pay music to your wine
28) If you plan to grow Syrah, which region would you head to?
a) Yorkshire
b) Mosel, Germany
c) Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
d) Marlborough, New Zealand
29) A Swiss vigneron grows Chasselas vines on a terraced slope, 100 metres high. Each terrace is 2 metres above the one below; they are each 300 metres long, planted with 2 rows of vines at 2 metres apart. Assuming each vine produces 1.5kg of grapes, and processing losses are 25%, about how many 12 bottle cases of 75 cl bottles will he produce?
a) 2400
b) 1900
c) 1500
d) 1100
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Hide Ad30) Little George is running a fake wine business from his prep school dorm. He has photocopies of labels from the wine collection he inherited from Great Uncle George. He liberates bottles of Bourgogne Rouge from the Head Master’s cellar, sticks on the fake labels, and sells them on the internet alongside a picture of the bottle. Arrange the following bottles in order of most potential profit, starting with the largest.
a) Pétrus 1996
b) Bourgogne Rouge, 2013, Maison Dieu, Domaine de Bellane
c) Corton Grand Cru 2013, Bouchard Père et Fils
d) Echezeaux 1999, Drouhin
e) Chambertin Grand Cru 1996, Armand Rousseau
f) Gevrey-Chambertin 2013, Dujac Fils et Père