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• Wiss, Barry

Quick, true or false: By DOCG regulations, a Barbaresco must be aged a minimum of 2 years. You say “false?” Well you’re wrong. And the new Advanced Level CD-ROM wine-trivia game World Wine Challenge: Wine Regions gives you ample opportunity to be wrong again and again. (That’s because the questions are based on the type you’ll find in the Master of Wine, Certified Wine Educator, and Wine and Spirits Trust exams.)

The game, playable by one or two, has a game-show format. A player spins the “Big Wheel” to land its pointer randomly on one of twenty-two winegrowing regions, organized under five different geographic categories (France, Italy, Spain & Portugal, New World, and Other Region). For example: you click the spin button and set the wheel in motion, bringing the pointer to rest on sub-topic ‘Washington State,” in the “New World” set. Your multiple-choice question appears:

The WWQA (Washington Wine Quality Association) created the nation’s first definition of the term “reserve,” which requires that a wine so labeled: