Some ?'s for wine contest!

[dphorton]

1)What is the oldest Champagne known to man? 2)Where is the land of wines? 3)What is Kottabos? 4)Who is the Greek God of wines? 5)Where is Vinland? 6)In what period of time did the church associate itself with The Blood of Christ? 7)Who is the Italian wine God? 8)When was the first illustration of the corkscrew? Thanks in advance for any help! Don in Seattle

[hotwine]

The answers to most, if not all, of your questions can be found in the Larousse Encyclopedia of Wine, and the Oxford Companion to Wine.

[RAD]

Sounds more like "some questions for homework assignment!" [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]

RAD

[mrdutton]

Yup, to me also. That is why Hotwine's answer is just too good!

[dphorton]

You are right, but I can't seemto locate those publications online. Do I need to buy the books?

[Innkeeper]

If your town has a library (you know those buildings that have books to lend) you might try it, or one in a neighboring city. Baring that, if there is a big box book store nearby, try it and take notes. If you ever have a serious wine question that won't help you with a contest or a school assignment, please come back for some more salient information.

[hotwine]

As Innkeeper is suggesting, you need to do the research yourself. That doesn't mean asking members of a discussion group to spell out the answers to your questions; it means using reference materials to find the answers, whether those materials are in libraries, bookstores, or online documents. We've told you of two books to check, either in a library or a bookstore; for online research, you'll need to use a search engine, such as Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista.... there are several available. Follow the instructions provided on the front page of each search engine, use the query protocol specified, and launch your query. The response will be a list of online documents (actually, Web adresses or URLs) that contain the word or phrase that you specified in your query. You then open each URL listed and review the document for the information that answers your question. Sure, it will take a little effort on your part - certainly, more than you've expended so far - but at the end, you'll know you've done some research, instead of simply asking others to answer the questions for you.

[winoweenie]

Bravo guys! WW

[Drew]

dphorton, just for fun I researched, via the net and GOOGLE.COM, your questions and answered all in about 20 minutes. Your assignment is a piece of cake, and very interesting.

Drew