Wine Quiz for Tasting Rooms, Bar Staff, and Trivia Nights

Sommelier-led training sessions, bar teams onboarding new staff, and trivia hosts who want a drinks round with real teeth: that's who this template serves. The Wine & Spirits Quiz packs 10 questions on wines, spirits, cocktails, and beverage culture into roughly six minutes. It's rated hard, each correct answer is worth 10 points, and it runs on Uplup's free plan.

From tasting rooms to Tuesday night trivia

Wine shops use it as a fun gate for newsletter signups. Restaurant and bar managers use it to check whether servers can talk about the list with confidence before service. Distributor reps drop it into training decks for retail partners. And hosts of pub trivia or virtual happy hours use it as a ready-made drinks round, since the built-in leaderboard turns individual scores into a competition without any extra setup.

Study groups working toward wine certifications get value from it too. The hard difficulty rating is earned: questions like "What does 'VSOP' mean on a Cognac bottle?" trip up plenty of people who consider themselves well-versed.

Ten questions, from Champagne grapes to terroir

The quiz opens broad and gets specific. Takers identify the traditional Champagne grape varieties, name the base spirit in a Margarita, and pin down Sake's country of origin. True or false items test whether they know that a dry wine has little to no residual sugar and that Bordeaux sits in southwestern France. Two select-all questions raise the stakes: one asks which of Bourbon, Scotch, Prosecco, Rye, and Irish are actually whiskey types, and partial knowledge won't earn full credit. The final question, "What is 'terroir' in wine terminology?", separates people who drink wine from people who read about it.

Every item includes a written explanation that appears after answering, so a wrong guess still teaches something. With all 10 questions at 10 points apiece, a flawless run scores 100.

Make it match your cellar

Everything in the template is editable. Swap the Margarita question for one about your signature cocktail, add items on your current by-the-glass list, or adjust point values to weight harder questions more heavily. You can apply your own colors and logo so the quiz looks like it came from your bar, not a template library.

A lead capture step can collect contact details before results, useful when the quiz doubles as a mailing list builder. The template ships with no timer, so takers can think through each answer, and you control whether retakes stay open for people chasing a better leaderboard spot.

From tasting room table cards to your site

Share the quiz by direct link, post it to social channels, or print the QR code on table tents and tasting menus so guests can play between flights. It embeds in any website with a snippet, and if your site runs on WordPress, the Uplup plugin gives you a shortcode to place it inside a post or page.

Once responses come in, the analytics show completion rates and how takers fared question by question, which tells you exactly which topics your staff or audience find hardest. Export everything to CSV for a training record, or push results to other tools through webhooks and Zapier.