Wine Quiz Pop Those Bubbles! A Sparkling Wine Quiz Dec 10, 2025 1 of 12 RIGHT! WRONG! In Champagne, what is the name in French for the top of the range of a house’s wines? (Moët & Chandon’s Dom Pérignon and Louis Roederer’s Cristal are famous examples.) Best bubbles Tête de cuvée Prestige label Grand marque This area is known for producing the highest quality Prosecco from steeply sloped vineyards: Valle d’Aosta Valdobbiadene Valpolicella Vignarionda True or false: The cage (aka the muselet) must be taken completely off the cork before sabering a bottle of Champagne. True False This British politician loved Pol Roger so much that the Champagne house named its top wine after him: Neville Chamberlain William Pitt the Younger Winston Churchill William Gladstone This Italian sparkling wine is always made using the traditional method, which was made famous by Champagne and involves a secondary fermentation in the bottle: Lambrusco Trentodoc Franciacorta Both B and C This Champagne house, known for its distinctive yellow-orange label, has collaborated with artists Yayoi Kusama, Paola Paronetto and Simon Porte Jacquemus on eye-catching packaging for its tête de cuvée: Taittinger Ruinart Egly-Ouriet Veuve Clicquot Later in his life, the late wine merchant Steven Spurrier devoted himself to a wine project called Bride Valley. It is an example of what style of bubbles? Grower Champagne English sparkling wine Pétillant naturel Australian sparkling wine The Champagne producers Krug and Bollinger are well-known for maintaining what traditional practice? Fermenting their base wines in wood Never producing vintage-dated wines, only non-vintage blends Including equal proportions of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier Playing a ceremonial game of spin the bottle before harvest True or false: German and Austrian Sekt must be made from the Riesling grape. True False In 2019, nine Spanish sparkling wine producers broke with the Cava DO to create their own designation called Corpinnat with additional production restrictions. Which is not one of those restrictions? Wines must be made from a restricted area within Penedès. All grapes must be certified organic and hand-harvested. Vines must be at least 50 years old. 90 percent of the grapes must be indigenous varieties. Though Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier are the most commonly used grapes in Champagne, eight grapes are allowed by law, with a ninth currently under provisional approval. The eighth grape was only approved in 2025. What is it? Super Pinot Pinot Champenoise Pink Chardonnay Chardonnay Gris Though Schramberg is credited with being the first quality producer of American traditional method sparkling wine, a lawyer named Nicholas Longworth created what is believed to be the country’s first bubbly (which was sweet!) in the 19th century. What was it? Sparkling Concord from Massachusetts Sparkling Catawba from Ohio Sparkling Mustang from Texas Sparkling Mission from California Next Results Your score is Retake this quiz
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