Just a Couple of the Amusing Wine Test Answers I’ve Received.
April 1, 2013I couldn’t help but post this….with the particular students’ permission of course.
As some of you may or may not know, I have spent the past year teaching a wine class at the local Art Institute here in Jacksonville. It’s only part-time, which turns-out to be perfect, since it enables me to keep my other “side-gigs” going, but it’s also actually extremely rewarding.
Seeing students go from literally never tasting a wine before, to being able to be blind-tasted and know roughly where it’s from and name the grape, is pretty cool!
Any-who, a couple of my students just recently took their final wine exam – and passed with flying colors by the way – but I thought it would be worth sharing with you a couple of the more amusing answers I received.
#66 –“Bearing in mind the year we are in right now, how would you pair this particular wine (a 1985 Rioja) with food?”
Answer: “With foods/recipes that were commonly eaten back then.” [When I read this, I laughed so hard I actually cried. For what it’s worth, I was looking for a few more specifics within this answer. To simply write “…with foods/recipes that were commonly eaten back then.” just doesn’t quite seem to do the question justice.
#67- “How old do the vines have to be, according to U.S. law, in order for them to be classified as “Old Vines on a wine label?”
Answer: “That’s just marketing crap.” – [Correct; and if I could, I would give you extra points for this one.]
