THIS WEEK, a wine quiz to keep you occupied in those quiet moments over the bank holiday weekend. The winner will receive a trip for two to Barcelona, including flights and accommodation (two nights in a four-star hotel) and a winery tour and tastings in Pacs del Penedès. There will be two runner-up prizes of the Torres Quiz Master board game.

1. How much wine is contained in a Bordeaux Imperial?

2. Trebbiano is one of the world’s most planted grape varieties. By what other name is it known in France?

3. Where is Valdobbiadene?

4. What is 2,4,6 trichloroanisole better known as?

5. Where would you find Monterrei?

6. Spot the odd one out

Vaillons

Valmur

Vaudésir

7. What is the only wine region of France permitted to grow Riesling?

8. For how long must a Rioja Reserva be aged before release?

9. In what wine region would you find Pokolbin?

10. What is a Trockenbeerenauslese?

11. Who wrote: "Wine comes in at the mouth

And love comes in at the eye;

That’s all we shall know for truth

Before we grow old and die.”?

12. Which is the odd one out and why? Mouton-Rothschild, Lafite-Rothschild, Margaux, Haut-Brion, Latour

13. “We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now.” What actor said it and in what film?

14. By what other name is the Monastrell grape variety generally known as in France? And in Australia?

15. Sonnenuhr is one of the top vineyards in the Mosel. But what does it mean?

16. Who wrote: “What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?”

17. What country produces the most wine in South America?

18. When was Torres Sangre de Toro first put on sale?

19. Which Irishman is proprietor of Bordeaux Château de Fieuzal?

20. What are the three principal grapes used to make Champagne?

21. Put the following communes in Burgundy in the correct order, north to south: Gevrey-Chambertin, Volnay, Nuits Saint Georges, Savigny-lès-Beaune.

A.Gevrey-Chambertin, Nuits Saint Georges, Savigny-lès-Beaune, Volnay

B.Nuits Saint Georges, Gevrey-Chambertin, Volnay, Savigny-lès-Beaune

C.Savigny-lès-Beaune, Volnay, Gevrey-Chambertin, Nuits Saint Georges

D.Gevrey-Chambertin, Nuits Saint Georges, Volnay, Savigny-lès-Beaune

22. What is an Almacenista?

23. What is the world’s most southerly vineyard?

24. Where is a Sercial produced?

25. What wine is made from a blend of Macabeo, Xarel-lo and Parellada?

A. Cava

B. Port

C. Sherry

D. Bull’s Blood

You can enter this competition online at: irishtimes.com/winequiz
The closing date is August 13th, 2011.
The results will be published in The Irish Timeson Saturday, August 20th, 2011. The promoter's decision is final and binding in all matters and no correspondence will be entered into.