Wine Quiz Challenge Palates to Palettes: A Wine & Art Quiz May 22, 2020 1 of 12 RIGHT! WRONG! A "mural" of winemaker Bernard Launois and his family was unveiled in France in 2020, made from 37,440 metal caps more conventionally used to clamp the corks on bottles of which storied French sparkling wine? Cava Champagne Crémant Bocuse Prosecco Superiore In 2015, a team of researchers brought life back to the Milan vineyard once owned by which literal Renaissance man? His vines were fine, but he's better known for anatomical sketches, early designs for a helicopter contraption and a painting of a subtly smiling signora. Thomas Jefferson Titian Leonardo da Vinci Lambronudo da Vinsanto Whether he's depicted dancing on drinking vessels, marauding through mosaics or just sculpted in stone, this Greek and then Roman wine god's mug shows up everywhere in Classical and Renaissance artwork. Dionysus/Bacchus Poseidon/Neptune Ares/Mars Pliny the Elder/Pliny the Younger On the right type of canvas, a glass of heavily pigmented red wine—say, Cabernet or Nebbiolo—can be successfully applied to paint a portrait of your favorite wine bottle … True False Burgundy’s hilly landscape, with its Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vineyards, has long caught the eye of artists working in which of these media, including one of the technique's 19th-century inventors, Nicéphore Niépce, and modern practitioners like Jon Wyand and Andy Katz? Photography Woodblock printing Conceptual performance art Toothpick sculpture Many vintners are also aesthetes and art collectors, commissioning and displaying works in their vineyards and wineries. Among the best-known exhibitions are those of Cliff Lede, Hess Collection and Hall, wineries in which stylish American region? Ohio Napa Temecula Russian Riviera Better known for his renditions of celebrities and soup cans than his wine work, which Pop Art provocateur actually designed labels for Napa winery Cuvaison in the 1980s—though they wouldn't appear on bottles until three decades later? Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein Claes Oldenburg Meritage "Red" Grooms Which Dutch artist painted The Red Vineyards Near Arles, a scene of vineyard workers in southern France? It is notably one of few paintings he sold during his lifetime, though eventually collectors came to appreciate his takes on sunflowers, wheat fields and moonlit nights as well. J. M. W. Turner Wassily Kandinsky Vincent van Gogh Diego Ribeira del Duero California winemaker-artist Manfred Krankl's works of art adorn each of his highly coveted Rhône-style wines. While his label submissions have been known to run afoul of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, collectors clamor for his limited-release bottlings of which cult wine brand? Quid Pro Quo Sine Qua Non Sic Semper Tyrannis Pro Bono One of American artist Edward Hopper’s watercolors—sensibly dubbed Still Life with Wine Bottle and Glass—depicts a tall, slender brown bottle that was and is used in Alsace and Germany's Rhine region to hold what kind of wine? Riesling Chardonnay Zinfandel Grüner Svelteliner Which of these top Napa Valley producers—located in Yountville and acclaimed for its Napanook Bordeaux-style blend—featured sketches by famous artists of its proprietor, Christian Moueix, on its labels through the 1980s? Arrowood Dominus Kosta Burnt Sienna Rembrandt van Wijn Bordeaux's Château Mouton-Rothschild is the granddaddy of art-label wines, featuring original works by famed contemporary artists on almost every vintage since 1945. But which of these artists was not tapped to create a label for the Pauillac wine? Keith Haring Lucian Freud Salvador Dalí Claude Monet Next Results Your score is Retake this quiz
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