In the Kushiel's Legacy series, there is a game whose name I cannot recall that seems rather nobleish to play... you take your drink, swirl it about in your glass, and attempt to fling the contents of your glass into a bowl. Slopping out, or dripping on the floor, causes you to lose.

It's the kind of thing that works well for rich nobles... it's wasteful of good drink, requires someone else to clean up, and rewards a relatively useless skill, while getting more and more impossible as you get drunker.