The 2022 Christmas Quiz is now closed, thanks to everyone who took part.
We had a three way tie for the top spot this year - congratulations to Adrian Wilson, Charlie Matthews and Christopher Harvey, who will each receive six bottles of Farr Vintners Pauillac 2019 with their next order. This year's quiz proved particularly fiendish - no-one got full marks. There were some very difficult questions and many slipped up in the picture round. The correct answers are now shown below.
1. | Which artist created the label for Mouton Rothschild 2020? |
Peter Doig | |
2. | Which wine was the top rated at the 2012 at the Bordeaux “Ten Years On” tasting held at Farr Vintners this year? |
Eglise Clinet | |
3. | And which two wines tied for the lead at the 2018 Southwold Group tasting? |
Latour and Ausone | |
4. | Which vintage of Mouton Rothschild had the artist’s label deleted to allow it to be sold in the USA? |
1993 | |
5. | Which ex-Manchester City footballer owns a winery in Gran Canaria? |
David Silva | |
6. | What happened to the production of 1987 Rauzan Ségla? |
Entirely declassified and put into the second wine | |
7. | What is the connection between Napa Valley’s Heitz and a classed growth château in Margaux? |
Heitz and Lascombes now under the same ownership | |
8. | "This wine is a monument to what Champagne's grower revolution has achieved over the last 30 or so years" - who said this about which 100 point wine? |
William Kelley about Egly Ouriet Millesime 2008 | |
9. | Which former professional basketball player recently bought an estate in the Rhône Valley near Avignon? |
Tony Parker | |
10. | What poem by which author is printed on Engel's 2004 back labels? |
Le Voillier by William Blake | |
11. | "Has any Bordeaux château realized a more wholesale stylistic revolution in so short a time" - to which château is William Kelley refering here? |
Troplong Mondot | |
12. | Who described 1961 Palmer as having “a silky and harmonious bouquet accelerating like Michael Schumacher from the starting grid”? |
Michael Broadbent | |
13. | What links Pink Floyd and Jean-Marie Guffens? |
Atom Heart Mother | |
14. | What links Caol Ila, Strathmill, Glen Elgin and Benrinnes? |
The inauguaral York Road Bottlers selection | |
15. | What links Domaines Faiveley & d’Eugenie? |
They both have wines made from eponymous Clos. | |
16. | What vintage of which famous Rhône wine does Gus Fring drink in Better Call Saul? |
1978 Côte Rôtie La Landonne, Rostaing | |
17. | Following the release of the film “High Anxiety” in December 1977, Alfred Hitchcock gave Mel Brooks a case of magnums of which wine? |
1961 Haut Brion | |
18. | What links Châteauneuf du Pape, Pétrus, Clos de la Roche (& Robert Parker)? |
The quiz in Robert Joseph’s Telegraph article 26th October 1986. | |
19. | The Hospices de Beaune has a “Cuvée des Dames Hospitalières”. Under what name was it bottled in 1942? |
Clos du Maréchale Pétain | |
20. | What was the name of Steven Spurrier's first article for Decanter? |
Wines of the Future? | |
21. | Which German-born winemaker is surveying his vineyards here? |
Dominik Huber | |
22. | The inside of which French winery is pictured here? |
Domaine de Trevallon | |
23. | Which three labels have been merged here? |
Latour, Cheval Blanc, Belair Monange | |
24. | Having just tasted them En Primeur, with whom is Stephen Browett discussing which vintage of which two wines that would score 100 points from Robert Parker? |
Jean-Philippe Delmas, 2009 Haut Brion and La Mission Haut Brion | |
25. | Whose 100 point wine are Thomas Parker MW and Stephen Browett drinking here? |
Jean-Marie Guffens |