Do you know your wines? A quiz.
The other night my wife and I joined a few friends for a wine tasting at a nearby liquor store. They hold these events about twice a year. While many attend to get a chance to taste the different wines, I suspect a few go to drink as much as they can in two hours as well as fill up on the snacks provided. Since I only drink about a glass twice a month, I was there so my wife could taste various chardonnays, which is her favorite, and to enjoy the company of good friends. Besides, in my case my taste runs to Rossi's Paisanno which is sold in half and full gallon bottles.
In wandering around a rather packed liquor store, I noticed a small cooled room which housed the higher priced wines - anywhere from $50 to $120 a bottle. Obviously there was no tasting of those wines so that room stayed empty. Also, there were so many different wines throughout the store that it would impossible to have a wine tasting of all of them. That is what had me thinking about the names of the many different wines.
I can remember when the typical wines were made by Gallo, Almaden and Rossi. Clearly times have changed the landscape of wines. Now the names include those I never heard and probably will never taste. So in my wanderings, I collected the names of some of the names with the idea of creating another one of my little quizzes.
Below you will find a list of real and fictitious names of wines in alphabetical order. Your challenge is to pick the names of actual wines. Scroll down for the answers. Let's see if you know your wines.
| Big Ass Zin |
| Cakebread Cellars |
| Chard |
| Cloudy Bay |
| Cupcake |
| Cycles Gladiator |
| Earthquake |
| Etorki |
| Faraway |
| Fog Bank |
| Frisco |
| Frog's Leap |
| Gnarly Head |
| Gold Mine |
| Goldie's Cellars |
| Grgrich Hills |
| Hemmingway Hills |
| Horse Heaven Hills |
| Josie's Hills |
| Little Black Dress |
| Michael's |
| Paradise Sound |
| Ravens Wood |
| Rugged Hills |
| Sequoia Grove |
| Stork's |
| Toasted Head |
| Torrid |
| Upstart |
| Wild Horse |
| Wither Hills |
| Wrongo Dongo |
| Zonin |
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| Big Ass Zin | Wine |
| Cakebread Cellars | Wine |
| Chard | |
| Cloudy Bay | Wine |
| Cupcake | Wine |
| Cycles Gladiator | Wine |
| Earthquake | Wine |
| Etorki | Wine |
| Faraway | |
| Fog Bank | Wine |
| Frisco | |
| Frog's Leap | Wine |
| Gnarly Head | Wine |
| Gold Mine | |
| Goldie's Cellars | |
| Grgrich Hills | Wine |
| Hemmingway Hills | |
| Horse Heaven Hills | Wine |
| Josie's Hills | |
| Little Black Dress | Wine |
| Michael's | |
| Paradise Sound | Wine |
| Ravens Wood | Wine |
| Rugged Hills | Wine |
| Sequoia Grove | Wine |
| Stork's | |
| Toasted Head | Wine |
| Torrid | |
| Upstart | |
| Wild Horse | Wine |
| Wither Hills | Wine |
| Wrongo Dongo | Wine |
| Zonin | Wine |
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