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The 2022 Christmas Quiz is now closed, thanks to everyone who took part.

We had a three way tie for the top spot this year - congratulations to Adrian Wilson, Charlie Matthews and Christopher Harvey, who will each receive six bottles of Farr Vintners Pauillac 2019 with their next order. This year's quiz proved particularly fiendish - no-one got full marks. There were some very difficult questions and many slipped up in the picture round. The correct answers are now shown below.


1. Which artist created the label for Mouton Rothschild 2020?
Peter Doig
2. Which wine was the top rated at the 2012 at the Bordeaux “Ten Years On” tasting held at Farr Vintners this year?
Eglise Clinet
3. And which two wines tied for the lead at the 2018 Southwold Group tasting?
Latour and Ausone
4. Which vintage of Mouton Rothschild had the artist’s label deleted to allow it to be sold in the USA?
1993
5. Which ex-Manchester City footballer owns a winery in Gran Canaria?
David Silva
6. What happened to the production of 1987 Rauzan Ségla?
Entirely declassified and put into the second wine
7. What is the connection between Napa Valley’s Heitz and a classed growth château in Margaux?
Heitz and Lascombes now under the same ownership
8. "This wine is a monument to what Champagne's grower revolution has achieved over the last 30 or so years" - who said this about which 100 point wine?
William Kelley about Egly Ouriet Millesime 2008
9. Which former professional basketball player recently bought an estate in the Rhône Valley near Avignon?
Tony Parker
10. What poem by which author is printed on Engel's 2004 back labels?
Le Voillier by William Blake
11. "Has any Bordeaux château realized a more wholesale stylistic revolution in so short a time" - to which château is William Kelley refering here?
Troplong Mondot
12. Who described 1961 Palmer as having “a silky and harmonious bouquet accelerating like Michael Schumacher from the starting grid”?
Michael Broadbent
13. What links Pink Floyd and Jean-Marie Guffens?
Atom Heart Mother
14. What links Caol Ila, Strathmill, Glen Elgin and Benrinnes?
The inauguaral York Road Bottlers selection
15. What links Domaines Faiveley & d’Eugenie?
They both have wines made from eponymous Clos.
16. What vintage of which famous Rhône wine does Gus Fring drink in Better Call Saul?
1978 Côte Rôtie La Landonne, Rostaing
17. Following the release of the film “High Anxiety” in December 1977, Alfred Hitchcock gave Mel Brooks a case of magnums of which wine?
1961 Haut Brion
18. What links Châteauneuf du Pape, Pétrus, Clos de la Roche (& Robert Parker)?
The quiz in Robert Joseph’s Telegraph article 26th October 1986.
19. The Hospices de Beaune has a “Cuvée des Dames Hospitalières”. Under what name was it bottled in 1942?
Clos du Maréchale Pétain
20. What was the name of Steven Spurrier's first article for Decanter?
Wines of the Future?
21.
Which German-born winemaker is surveying his vineyards here?
Dominik Huber
22.
The inside of which French winery is pictured here?
Domaine de Trevallon
23.
Which three labels have been merged here?
Latour, Cheval Blanc, Belair Monange
24.
Having just tasted them En Primeur, with whom is Stephen Browett discussing which vintage of which two wines that would score 100 points from Robert Parker?
Jean-Philippe Delmas, 2009 Haut Brion and La Mission Haut Brion
25.
Whose 100 point wine are Thomas Parker MW and Stephen Browett drinking here?
Jean-Marie Guffens
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