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Test your wine knowledge

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This test, called The Wine Game, is courtesy of Berry Bros. & Rudd, the British wine merchant. It's not especially easy, and making it more difficult is that it asks some very British-oriented questions; we don't, after all, deal much with sherry on this side of the Atlantic. Click on the Wine game link to start.

Having said that, it's fun to do, and even has a snooty English butler to guide you through it. Which, of course, is yet another reason why there will always be an England.

A perfect score is 120. I've done it a couple of times, and haven't come close. This may not be as much a relection of my wine knowledge as it is my inability to click the proper links to answer the questions correctly. And a tip o' the Curmudgen's fedora to Olivia Wilder, who sent this my way.

 

The wine geek quiz

image from www.greekmythology.comWine types love to write posts that celebrate their geekiness, and a Google search turns up any number of "You know you're a wine geek when. …" efforts.

This is not one of those. Rather, in the Wine Curmudgeon's on-going effort to offer perspective to an industry that spends way too much time navel gazing, here is a quiz anyone can take to find out if they are, in fact, a wine geek. Which may or may not be a good thing.

Like I said, it's all about perspective. The questions and scoring rules are after the jump (and no, you don't get any points for knowing that the picture is Dionysius, the Greek god of wine and the first wine geek). Feel free to leave your score in the comments:

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