Wine is inspiring! So, we have already written that now wine is grown even on a volcano, about the popularity of Spanish blue wine and that the famous Ukrainian musician Oleg Skrypka took up winemaking. After all, wine and creativity are always somewhere nearby.
And wine connoisseurs are mostly creative people, who love novelties and meaningful leisure. Therefore, the emergence of a new trend called “wine games” was not at all surprising.
Our regular readers already know about the original trick that the restaurateurs from Mukachevo came up with for tourists – tasting in the basement of the ancient Palanok castle.
But leisure activities, which are more than just tastings, are gaining popularity – all kinds of gambling with a constantly replenishing glass of wine, as well as intellectual competitions in the style of “What? Where? When? ”, Where the players also drink wine.
Thanks to the efforts of wine creators, wine tastings now take place in a variety of formats – from quests and puzzles to drawing and wrestling lessons. One of the most popular formats is blind tasting, when players need to guess the wine they are tasting.
“Wine Puzzles” – games for the sophisticated
Puzzles are fascinating tasting “riddles” in which, among five samples of classic wines, a wine created using a different technology is sure to be wedged in. The assembled people strain their receptors, try to calculate the drop-out element, and at the same time learn to understand the subtleties of wine.
Test your knowledge at “Wine Roulette”
Props:
- Wine – 4 to 8 different
- Field with grape varieties, harvest year, country of production of these wines
- Chips.
Rules of the game:
The host pours the first lot (wine) into glasses. Guests try it blindly, place bets, trying to guess what kind of wine they have in their glass. After the bets have been made, the host “opens” the wine and presents it to the participants. Those players, whose bets are played, receive a “win” – additional chips to play. In the final, the player with the maximum amount of chips wins and receives a prize and expert status.