Cork Jester's Wine Teasers Wine Game [Cards]

Jennifer Rosen (Author), Fine Wine Games (Editor), Inc. (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2007

Wine Teasers is a fun, lighthearted activity for people who enjoy wine! Teams of players answer questions, discuss topics, loot virtual wines from each other, and more.

Wine Teasers is perfect for wine-tastings, informal get-togethers, staff training, and even personal reference for learning or when shopping for wines.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Good Spirits 2008. By Bill Marsano. Handy, enjoyable and informative, Wine Teasers is a game based on a stack of cards, each bearing one question, three possible answers, and a hint for the desperate. Its creator is Jennifer Rosen, the Cork Jester, who has won a James Beard Award and numerous other gonfalons for her witty and refreshing, snobbery-free wine writing. FYI, although the game is designed for from 2 to 20, solitaire is possible and it makes a good self-teaching device (wineteasers.com). Rosen s books, The Cork Jester s Guide to Wine and Waiter, There s a Horse in My Wine, are also well worth a look. --Hemispheres Magazine

Urban Vintage By PETER HELLMAN. A witty wine blogger, Jennifer Rosen, also known as the Cork Jester, has partnered with wine-loving librarian Stefan Smith to create a wine game that combines elements of Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly. And it's been cunningly devised so that wine nerds and neophytes can play together. If a player can't directly answer a wine trivia question, a hint is offered. Each correct answer leads to a "cellar step," which allows the player to select a wine bottle card for your cellar or to loot a bottle from the opposing team's cellar. The first team to accumulate six bottle cards wins. Wine Teasers can be played on an auto trip ($12.95 at amazon.com).

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Good Spirits 2008. By Bill Marsano. February, 2008. Handy, enjoyable and informative, Wine Teasers is a game based on a stack of cards, each bearing one question, three possible answers, and a hint for the desperate. Its creator is Jennifer Rosen, the Cork Jester, who has won a James Beard Award and numerous other gonfalons for her witty and refreshing, snobbery-free wine writing. FYI, although the game is designed for from 2 to 20, solitaire is possible and it makes a good self-teaching device (wineteasers.com). Rosen s books, The Cork Jester s Guide to Wine and Waiter, There s a Horse in My Wine, are also well worth a look. --Hemispheres Magazine

Good Spirits 2008. By Bill Marsano. February, 2008. Handy, enjoyable and informative, Wine Teasers is a game based on a stack of cards, each bearing one question, three possible answers, and a hint for the desperate. Its creator is Jennifer Rosen, the Cork Jester, who has won a James Beard Award and numerous other gonfalons for her witty and refreshing, snobbery-free wine writing. FYI, although the game is designed for from 2 to 20, solitaire is possible and it makes a good self-teaching device (wineteasers.com). Rosen s books, The Cork Jester s Guide to Wine and Waiter, There s a Horse in My Wine, are also well worth a look. --Hemispheres Magazine

About the Author

Winner of the 2005 James Beard Award for Internet Writing on Food, Restaurant, Beverage or Nutrition, and 2003 finalist for Jacob's Creek International Best Drinks Writer, Jennifer is the author of Waiter, There s a Horse in My Wine, and The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine, both winners of Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Wine Literature. Her weekly wine column, called "hilarious," "informative," and "the very essence of wine fun," appears in the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, CO, a network of papers across the nation, and is read around the world by over 45,000 subscribers to her Internet newsletter.

Jennifer's byline also appears in Wine Enthusiast, The Beverage Network, Wine Country International, Drinks, Wines and Vines, Every Day with Rachel Ray, Broughton Quarterly, Fine Art Registry, The New Zealand Winepress, The Independence Institute and The Wine Club Newsletter.

Product Details

• Cards
• Publisher: Fine Wine Games, Inc. (August 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0980131901
• ISBN-13: 978-0980131901
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 3.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trivial pursuit for wine, December 20, 2008

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kiwanissandy "Go Bucks!" (Heart of Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cork Jester's Wine Teasers Wine Game (Cards)

This game comes in a pack of cards with 50 question cards, 4 hint cards, 1 pronunciation card and 30 bottle cards (there are 5 cards for 6 different types of wines). The premise is to accumulate 1 card from each of the 6 different wines. They are white-lighter bodied, white-fuller bodied, red-lighter bodied, red-fuller bodied, sparkling & rose, and then dessert. You do it by answering questions.

This would be a great card game to leave out on a wine bar and let the patrons try to answer the questions. If you answer the question then you pick a wine card that it tells you to pick. You have the options of picking from the deck, looting your opponents wine cards, or trading. It's all quite fun and I learned quite a bit from the trivia questions.

Examples of questions are: Why are rosebushes planted in vinyards? In Portugal, the "lagar" is an important part of winemaking. What is it? In wine talk "fruity" means? "You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it." Jack Lemon said this in which movie? So it's facts questions, it's knowledge questions, it's trivia questions. It's just plain fun.

I can't tell the answers, you'll have to get the game to find out. LOL.

This would make a great gift for the wine enthusiast who has everything. It's a nice little stocking stuffer as well. If you have any questions about the game, ask me in the comments and I'll try to answer. I had a hard time deciding which game to get as well.

I would highly recommend this game. If not for the group then just to increase your own knowledge base about wines and winemaking.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Fun and compact, September 18, 2009

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C. Maria (Virginia and Rome, Italy) - See all my reviews
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This game is a lot of hours of fun in a tiny box. My husband and I (who are wine enthusiasts) and our friends (who know almost nothing about wine)ALL LOVE THIS GAME! It is informative and really funny. One of the good things about it is that people who know know very little about wine can also play and be competitive because there are hints for those who need it,

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loads of laughs. A great group game!, January 18, 2008

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Mike Mandel "Dr. Hypnosis" (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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Four of us played it last weekend and it was a blast. It's a bargain.
Buy it!