Bite of the Best

What’s your wine personality? That’s the question the printed materials from Mirassou Winery posed along with a series of questions to help determine which wine to serve your guests.

For instance, Mirassou purports that if you’re:

• Sweet you’d like Riesling
• Energetic you’d like Sauvignon Blanc
• Sporty you’d like Pinot Grigio
• Sunny and mellow you’d like Chardonnay
• A person of high standards you’d like Pinot Noir
• Earthy you’d like Merlot
• Adventurous you’d like Cabernet

To see whether there was any merit in their personality quiz, I decided to turn the tables on the quiz and posed the questions a tad differently to my holiday guests. I asked them to select the personality trait (from Mirassou’s choices) that best described them, and then asked which of the varietals in Mirassou’s list (Cabernet, Pinot Noir, Merlot, Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc) was their favorite.

The results?

Only one of the my guests personality/wine selection matched Mirassou’s. My favorite response was from a guest who wrote, “Psychologically challenged, I like them all!”