E: 04/01 Win Wines & Champagne-The big wine quiz of the year HELP PLEASE

the annual Telegraph wine quiz is back,
with 10 questions to test your wine knowledge
(or perhaps just your Googling abilities).

entry questions..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/wine/know-your-jamsheed-from-your-jakot-the-big-wine-quiz-of-the-year/

1 First published in 1994, Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine is a definitive and monumental reference work. The updates for each new edition offer an insight into how the wine world is changing, and the publication of the fourth edition last year was no exception. Ladybug taint, qvevri, longyan, rotundone, pet-nat and orange wine are just a handful of the 300 or so new entries. Another is jakot. But what is it?

a) The Slovenian name for tokaj
please thank hoogervaaner
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69835687&postcount=2 :T
b) A type of rot prevalent in China
c) A tannic red wine made in Hungary
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2 Grandmother Ines Carruthers, who celebrated her 105th birthday recently, attributed her long life to a combination of hard work (“You have to put the effort in. I worked hard during the war while I raised my children”) and treats: “Gin with orange juice is one of my favourite indulgences.” Of the many new English gins launched this year, one of my favourites is Valentine Warner’s Hepple (drinking it with orange juice not recommended). In which county is it made?

Northumberland
please thank hoogervaaner
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69835700&postcount=3 :T
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3 What type of martini did 007 order for the first time in the latest Bond film Spectre?
a) A Vesper, made with Gordon’s gin and vodka
b) A Montgomery (15:1)
c) A dirty martini, made with Belvedere vodka
please thank hoogervaaner
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69835727&postcount=5 :T

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4 We love prosecco and it’s now official: last year prosecco sales in Britain overtook those of champagne for the first time. According to figures released last spring, prosecco consumption had grown by 66 per cent in the UK; risen by 77 per cent in China and gone up by how much in, of all places, Mexico?
a) 82 per cent
b) 106 per cent
c) 137 per cent

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please thank amsquared & see post 14 for help with the answer
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69837965&postcount=14
please thank seasider007 & see post 15
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69838096&postcount=15

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5 Last year saw the opening of a London outpost of Parisian restaurant 110 Taillevent. How many wines does it serve by the glass?
a) 200
b) 110
please thank One-Eye
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69835751&postcount=7 :T
c) 17 sparkling and 89 reds and whites
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6 Bussia is a cru in which fine wine region?
a) Bolgheri
b) Barolo
c) Bordeaux
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7 In December, Taittinger announced that its next new wine would be English. In partnership with British wine company Hatch Mansfield, the champagne house has bought an orchard in Kent, which it intends to turn into a vineyard for the production of English sparkling wine. There was just one problem: Taittinger released carefully staged publicity pictures featuring the Union flag upside down – said to be a coded message of distress. Which of these two flags is the right way up?
answer - 1)
please thank One-Eye
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69835739&postcount=6 :T

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8 Trousseau is a grape grown in the Jura where it makes light-coloured red wines with the floating texture of pinot noir that have become hugely fashionable. By what name is the grape known in Portugal?
a) B a s t a r d o
(don't paste/copy this answer, had to put spaces in between as mse filter won't let us use it)
b) Oveja negra
c) Rabigato
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9 What is Jamsheed?
a) A South African rock band that writes songs about wineries
b) An Australian wine producer
c) A Californian wine-based drink


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10 An exclusive private members’ club for lovers of fine wine opened in the Grade II listed Lutyens building at 67 Pall Mall last year. With around £5 million of wine on the premises, it will offer 500 wines by the glass and members the opportunity to drink their own wine in elegant surroundings without being subjected to huge restaurant mark-ups. But what was the building formerly used as?
a) Stables for the Queen Mother’s horses
b) Storage for Berry Bros & Rudd, which is just across the road
c) A branch of Hambros Bank

found here..(http://www.decanter.com/wine-news/new-london-wine-club-plans-to-list-top-chateaux-at-low-mark-ups-1333/)
thanks to & verified by one-eye on post
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69835720&postcount=4 :T
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How to enter
To enter, please email your answers to me at
[EMAIL="victoria.moore@telegraph.co.uk"]victoria.moore@telegraph.co.uk[/EMAIL]
by midnight on Monday January 4 –
yes, the timing is short and sharp this year.
The Telegraph’s usual terms and conditions apply.
The winner will be chosen at random from correct
entries and notified by email. Entrants must be aged 18 or over.

First prize: A mixed six-pack of two of Berry Bros& Rudd’s
superb own-label burgundies, a red and a white –
Chassagne-Montrachet Jean-Claude Bachelet 2013
and Gevrey-Chambertin Rossignol-Trapet 2009 – worth £179.70.
Second prize : A magnum of Berry Bros & Rudd Champagne
Grand Cru Mailly 2006.
Both prizes kindly supplied by Berry Bros & Rudd.
This article will be updated with the answers to the quiz on
Tuesday January 5.


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(pm sent to glad to sort /merge/
with original posting from maggieriordan)

2) is Northumberland

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/drinks/hepple-a-new-gin-from-valentine-warner/

3) is (c) a dirty martini

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/01/james-bond-to-shake-things-up-with-dirty-martini-in-spectre

closes midnight tonight,
anyone got near the answer for Q4 yet,
I've been searching but still no nearer finding the answer!


4 We love prosecco and it’s now official: last year prosecco sales in Britain overtook those of champagne for the first time. According to figures released last spring, prosecco consumption had grown by 66 per cent in the UK; risen by 77 per cent in China and gone up by how much in, of all places, Mexico?

a) 82 per cent
b) 106 per cent
c) 137 per cent