The Winerd Game expands players' wine palates while putting them through their paces with interesting and challenging wine trivia questions. Includes nearly 300 questions, a note sheet for wine evaluation and 4 cork playing pieces. Play it with any 3 white or red wines.

Tamara Leigh Murphy, a former chef and now a private wine instructor, created Winerd, The Wine Tasting Game That Crushes Grape Fears for players to effortlessly learn about wine while laughing with their friends.

This new game "pairs" wine trivia questions with an innovative spin on blind tasting.

"Many people are interested and yet intimidated when it comes to learning about wine. I wanted to dispel that fear and show how fun wine can be. I thought a board game was the perfect way to do this," says Murphy.

The Winerd game begins with the players tasting any 3 white or any 3 red wines of their choice. Using a provided note sheet they are guided through wine evaluation steps to record their impressions of each of the wines.

There are four "Blind Taste Test" spaces on the board during which a player must taste one of the 3 previously evaluated wines and guess its identity. "As the wines and the players' palates change throughout the game, this can be more challenging than one might think," explains Murphy.

"By allowing the players to select their wines, they determine how difficult the game will be. Those with more wine tasting experience, for instance, may pick 3 wines similar in style making the blind tasting even more challenging," Murphy states.

Players travel to Australia, Italy, Germany and France and back again across the game's spaces which depict fictitious wine labels. They advance their cork playing pieces by correctly answering multiple choice wine trivia questions.

Each question card is designed like a flash card to include a brief explanation as a way for the players to easily pick up wine facts. According to Murphy, "Every aspect of this game is designed to simultaneously entertain and inform."

The first to make it around the board gets bragging rights as the biggest "Wine Nerd."