Wine Quiz Quiz: Top Stories of 2020 Jan 08, 2021 1 of 10 RIGHT! WRONG! Several prominent wine estates changed hands in 2020. Roederer Champagne bought Napa’s Diamond Creek, for example, and vintner Bill Foley bought Ferrari-Carano in which California region known for making top Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc? Santa Ynez Valley Temecula Laguna Beach Sonoma To pass the time at home, our editors shared favorite wine and food movies, including Big Night, A Good Year and this film, in which Jon Favreau plays a chef who quits his high-end restaurant job to make Cuban sandwiches in his traveling food truck: Burnt No Reservations Chef Pie-Ron Man In the ongoing effort to explore wine’s health benefits, a 2020 study offered more details on the potential antiaging properties of this compound found in red wine? Resveratrol Sulfur dioxide Volatile acidity Botrytis A transatlantic trade battle, which led to the U.S. imposing 25 percent tariffs on a variety of European wines and other products in 2019, continued throughout the end of 2020 with new tariffs and threats of even more. What were the fights over? Aid to airline manufacturers and taxes on multinational tech firms Which country technically owns Napa Valley, due to an 18th-century geopolitical anomaly The famed Judgment of Paris tasting, but 40 years late Protecting American glass wine bottle manufacturers from overseas competition An Iowa State University health study found that a person could potentially help prevent Alzheimer’s disease by consuming red wine with this classic food pairing: Smoked sausage Roast lamb Cheese Tomahawk steak Which of these natural disasters ravaged tens of thousands of acres in Napa Valley and Sonoma, damaging and destroying many homes and wineries like Newton Vineyard and Burgess Cellars, as well as businesses like luxury resorts Meadowood and Calistoga Ranch? The Glass fire The Ridgecrest earthquakes The Oroville Dam crisis The Elwes tornado Wine regions around the world struggled during the coronavirus pandemic, facing the challenge with a variety of strategies. Which of these Southern Hemisphere countries responded to the crisis by banning domestic alcohol sales and wine exports? New Zealand Australia Chile South Africa Cooking and baking were favorite pastimes in 2020, and several recipes were among Wine Spectator’s most-popular features of the year, including a rich Bourbon applesauce cake from this TV cook of Barefoot Contessa fame. Giada De Laurentiis Ina Garten Madhur Jaffrey Nigella Lawson True or False: Approximately one-third of the vineyard land in Australia’s Adelaide Hills region was burned by wildfires during the country’s “Black Summer,” in which more than 72,000 square miles were damaged by bushfires. True False 2020 saw infamous wine counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan released from prison after he was convicted for selling millions of dollars’ worth of phony collectible wines. But what happened just after he was released? He was placed in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) He returned to Indonesia without any further involvement from U.S. authorities He returned to the home he shared with his mother in a Los Angeles suburb He was discovered to have operated a winemaking facility from within prison Next Results Your score is Retake this quiz
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