Hosted by Rusty Sellers, producer of The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast and resident quizmaster of the Pop The Quiz segment
Flying Whale Edition — ten questions based on the Maba Ba interview series
Round One: Multiple Choice (5 questions)
Which African tribe inspired Flying Whale Wine? (Dogon)
Which star system did the Dogon base their belief system on? (Sirius)
Where did Maba Ba grow up? (Dakar, Senegal)
What unexpected event led him into wine? (A random meeting in Miami)
Before wine, Maba primarily worked as what? (Filmmaker)
Round Two: True or False (5 questions)
The Flying Whale name comes from a real animal used in winemaking (False)
Maba met his winemaking partner shortly after their first introduction (True)
The vineyard was newly built from scratch (False — 5th generation, 100+ years old)
His red blend was inspired by big California Cabernet wines (True)
He believes rosé should only be enjoyed in summer (False — "that idea is ridiculous")
Scoring breakdown: 9–10 correct = locked in / 6–8 = mostly listening / 3–5 = wine in hand / 0–2 = you just liked the intro music
Rusty's closing line: "Wine isn't just about what's in the glass — it's about the story behind it. And sometimes that story involves a flying whale."
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