wine quiz

In January 2013, the first draft of the menu for President Obama's second inaugural luncheon caused some controversy, as it labeled a U.S. sparkler "Champagne" instead of the "California champagne" permitted on its label. What was the bubbly?

President Ronald Reagan was fond of serving California wines in the White House and often contemplated matters of state at his ranch in the heart of which wine region?

One former president now makes wine himself, as his father and grandfather before him did. Who is he?

One president notoriously asked waiters to obscure the labels of the wines he poured so he could drink his beloved Château Margaux but serve his guests less-costly bottles. Who was this trickster?

Unlike his teetotaling German nemesis, this British prime minister famously enjoyed a tipple, specifically Champagne Pol Roger:

This prestige cuvée Champagne was created in 1876 specifically for Czar Alexander II of Russia:

Britain's Queen Victoria reputedly enjoyed a "cocktail" of claret mixed with what?

In the early- to mid-18th century, the Marquis de Ségur owned the Bordeaux properties of Lafite, Latour, Mouton, Calon and more. What did King Louis XV nickname him?

Lore has it that the Ottoman sultan known by this moniker conquered Cyprus in 1571 primarily to get access to his favorite wine, Commandaria, made there.

In 1308, Pope Clement V moved the seat of the papacy from the Vatican to Avignon, and the Avignon Popes promoted local wines from the region that would come to be known as…

For centuries, the ancient Roman emperors and other elite consistently drank a wine made from grapes on the slopes of Mt. Massico. What was it called?