Can you win in a wine trivia game?

How much do you know about Rogue Valley wine, winemakers and grape growers? Answer these questions:

1. Jacksonville photographer Peter Britt became the first person to produce wine in the Oregon Territory, a year before Oregon became a state. What year did he produce wine?
2. Oregon's temperance society pushed to outlaw alcohol four years before it became a federal law. What year was alcohol outlawed in Oregon?
3. Harry & David started with pears in 1910. How many years later did the company launched its own wine label?
4. What tasting room is tucked away in a former firehouse?
5. What tasting room is tucked away in a stagecoach hotel?
6. What tasting room is tucked away in a cozy, cement-walled inn?
7. Which vineyards are most visited by hang gliders?
8. Who has hosted the longest, monthly, in-home wine tasting?
9. Who are the best golfing winemakers?
10. Who is the most famous cycling vintner?
11. Who is the harvest volunteer most likely to show up in running shorts and flip-flops?
12. Where are you most likely to encounter a buried, manure-packed cow horn?
13. Where are you most likely to see a pack of well-behaved alpacas?
14. Where are you most likely to taste beef from vineyard-raised cows?
15. Where are you most likely to ride in a horse-drawn carriage?
16. Where are you most likely to see a nude visitor being shooed away by the tasting room owner?
17. What is the percent of family-owned Rogue Valley tasting rooms?
18. Which was the first local wine priced at $100?
19. What is the location of Folin Cellars' wine caves?
20. What is the tasting room in which visitors buy 2007 Le Petit Oink dessert wine for $15, 2008 Aggie Dog Red for $12 and 2008 The Butler Did It Again rose for $15?
21. Which tasting room hosts the squishiest, barefoot grape-stomping contest?
22. Which tasting rooms have built-in fired-up pizza ovens?
23. Who has a winemaker for the longest time at one winery?
24. Which writers have been wine columnists for the longest time?
25. Which researchers have been studying viticulture here the longest?
26. What did Les Martin do before starting of Red Lily Vineyards in Jacksonville?
27. What did the Garvin family do before starting Cliff Creek Cellars in Gold Hill?
28. What did John Weisinger do before starting Weisinger's of Ashland?

ANSWERS:

1. 1858
2. 1916
3. 102
4. Crater Lake Cellars in Shady Cove
5. Del Rio Vineyards in Gold Hill
6. Pebblestone Cellars in Medford
7. Fiasco Winery and LongSword Vineyards on Highway 238 outside of Jacksonville
8. Peter Adesman for 22 years in his Medford residences
9. John Quinones of RoxyAnn Winery and Linda Donovan of Pallet Wine Co., both in Medford
10. Gus Janeway of Velocity Cellars in Ashland
11. Ashland wine rep Ron Stringfield
12. Cowhorn Vineyard in Jacksonville
13. Caprice Vineyards in Central Point
14. Plaisance Ranch in Williams
15. Schmidt Family Vineyards in Grants Pass
16. Trium Wines in Talent
17. 100 percent
18. Troon Vineyard's Vertical cabernet sauvignon in the Grants Pass tasting room.
19. 10 feet underneath the Gold Hill tasting room
20. Devitt Winery in Jacksonville
21. Agate Ridge Vineyard in Eagle Point
22. Dancin Vineyards in Medford and Kriselle Cellars in White City
23. Winemaker John Guerrero has been at Valley View Winery since 1985
24. Cleve Twitchell of the Mail Tribune and Lorn Razzano of the Ashland Daily Tidings
25. Professors Porter Lombard and Gregory V. Jones
26. Las Vegas casino accountant
27. Early cable-television industry investors
28. Presbyterian minister

Read the complete story in the Eno Outings column in the Medford Mail Tribune: http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130130/LIFE/301300314/-1/LIFE0702