Ultimate Find Your Wine Soulmate Quiz!
Soul mate!?!?!
Yep!
For Wine?
It’s not about agreeing what wine you like, but your mind set.
Will we roll our eyes at the same things?
Mostly.
Will we have fun with the same wine experiences?
Mostly.
There are no right or wrong answers for this quiz!
Take the quiz alone or with friends, or even with strangers.
Make new friends. Give side eye freely.
You may learn more than you want to know about some people.
Have fun with it!!
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Let’s start:
1) Someone offers you a glass of White Zinfandel. What is your response? (White Zinfandel can be strangely polarizing. Just saying.)
a) I suddenly remember I left the oven on. Full deer in headlights mode.
b) I ask if they have anything else. Maybe some side eye.
c) I drink it and move on with my life.
d) I say, “You know what? Let’s do this!”
e) I ask for a second glass and mean it.
2) You just poured a guest a fantastic and rather pricey glass of white wine. They ask if you can add seltzer because they prefer a wine spritzer. Your response?
a) NO. I offer some less expensive wine. I learn to read the room better when offering wine.
b) I suggest trying it first before spritzing.
c) I quietly judge but say nothing. It’s their call.
d) I grab ice and make it festive.
e) I ask if they want a splash of citrus, too.
3)You just poured a guest a delicious glass of Champagne. The guest asks for an ice cube. They say “Martha Stewart does it.” What do you say?
a) Suggest they go to Martha Stewart’s house for that.
b) I explain that making a wine too cold takes away all flavor. Do they hate what they are drinking?
c) Offer to chill it more for them.
d) Offer ice, berries, whatever makes them happy.
e) Well, if Martha Stewart does it, everyone should be doing it. Here you go!
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4) You are at a wine store and a winemaker is visiting. He starts talking all about the wine making process. Do you stay and listen or avoid a possibly boring conversation?
a) I listen for 30 seconds max.
b) I stay, fidget a little and hope it’s short.
c) I actually enjoy learning some of this stuff.
d) I listen and ask a question or two.
e) I ask about soil types, yeast strains, fermentation choices, and root stocks. The history of the winery would be interesting, too.
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5) You are served a glass of wine at someone’s home and you hate it. What do you do?
a) Flinch and gag. Ask if they have anything else.
b) Ask, “Do you actually like this, or Do you just hate me?”
c) I discreetly dump it in a plant, or just leave it on a table somewhere.
d) I compliment something vague about the wine.
e) I drink it, and focus on the lovely company.
6) You are at a free wine tasting and the person next to you asks the wine salesperson if the wine is from pre-phylloxera vines. Thoughts?
a) I roll my eyes so hard I see my brain.
b) I quietly step away. I wonder if they just think they have to say something. Maybe they are interested in bugs?
c) I pretend I understand, and then plan to Google it later.
d) I’m incredibly impressed.
e) I am that person.
7) There is a paid tasting at a very well respected winery. It’s a small group of people. One person announces they have brought their own wine glasses. (Only for themself and not for their spouse.) Brilliant idea?
a) Who does that? Give serious side eye. The wine maker knows what he is doing!
b) Look pityingly at the spouse.
c) If they care that much, okay.
d) I’m honestly curious what difference it makes.
e) Think how well prepared they are. Next time I’m bringing mine too.
8)You are at an informal Champagne tasting and someone comments that they prefer Prosecco. Do you agree or disagree with them? Would you say anything?
a) I gently explain the differences.
b) I ask what they like about Prosecco.
c) I smile and sip.
d) I defend Champagne immediately.
e) I prefer Prosecco too. Couldn’t care less that it is not Champagne.
9) A friend chooses wines based on what famous person endorsed it. Do you say anything? If so, what?
a) No. Just no!
b) I explain marketing vs quality. You are paying for the name.
c) I try it before judging.
d) I think that if a celebrity endorsed it, it must be great.
e) I will take a picture of myself tasting it, and put it on Instagram.
10) You don’t like a particular wine, but you are told that it has insanely high scores from the wine critics. What do you do or say?
a) I say, “Do not ever tell me what I should like!!”
b) I would comment that scores are just marketing, and just because some wine critic likes it does not have any meaning for me.
c) I respect the score but trust myself and my taste.
d) I assume I’m missing something. The “experts” clearly know what they are doing.
e) I immediately sign up for sommelier classes.
11) You are at a restaurant with people who believe that more expensive wines are better wines. They are ordering the wine. Do you say anything?
a) If I’m sharing the cost, just NO! I immediately prepare a lecture on diminishing returns.
b) I challenge them to a blind tasting with different priced wines!
c) If I’m sharing the cost, I ask the Sommelier to tell us what we are gaining and losing by choosing wines at a different price point.
d) If they’re paying, I sip and enjoy. Who am I to say?
e) I tell them they are so right that more expensive wines are better, and ask when they are taking me out for dinner again.
12) You are at a restaurant and someone orders the least expensive bottle on the wine list. Good idea? Do you start telling them how restaurants mark up their wine?
a) Confidence is ordering what you actually want. Cheapest does not mean worst!
b) I’d ask the server if it’s actually any good.
c) The right wine is the one that makes everyone at the table happy.
d) I would totally believe that I understood how every restaurant marks up their wine. I would say that this was a huge mistake.
e) I’d be mortified.
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