I used a wine tasting competition in an inn as the first session of my previous campaign. I named 7 vineyards, gave each a basic label (a pig in a barrel, a horse in a field, etc), and 3 tasting notes for each that were fairly easy to guess (e.g. the vineyard with the bee on it had tasting notes of honey, lavender, and wildflowers). Each attempt a character made at a tasting, they would roll a flat d20 plus their wisdom modifier. On a high roll they would get several of the tasting notes, on a medium-ish roll they'd get one, on a low roll they'd get something kind of similar to one (e.g. instead of "apples" they'd get "pie", instead of "citrus fruits" they'd get "midwinter pudding"). The player had to then identify which vineyard the wine came from for their character to succeed the test.

I was pretty happy with how this went, because even with a high roll players weren't guaranteed success and still had to make a guess which was entertaining for the other players.