Apr 15 2009
Wine Tasting Party Plan
By Jayant Patil
Wine tasting can be fun, educational, and very rewarding. It doesn’t matter if you’re at a winery, a wine party. If your goal is to impress everyone with your snobbery, tasting wine should be about the wine and not about who is watching your performance!
In this article you will learn more about how to plan the party with your wine-loving friends and which items should be on your shopping list.
Wine plays a supporting role at most parties, You need to host a gathering that gives it center stage with a blind tasting in which guests rate different wines.
I am giving the exact steps below.
1. Decide on a country or a region & type of wine.
2. Have each guest bring a bottle (6-8 bottles is a good number).
3. Cloak the bottles in wine bags, so opinions won’t be swayed by a pretty label or a famous name.
4. Tag each bottle with a number and give each guest a sheet of paper and a pencil.
5. Choose colorless wine glasses with full bowls that taper to the rim. This will enable tasters to swirl the wine without spilling and appreciate all the nuances of color, bouquet and flavor.
6. Fill glasses no more than 1/3. Set a bottle of water and an empty bowl on the table. The tasters can empty and rinse their glass before trying the next wine.
7. It helps to provide mild-flavored nibbles like fresh bread or water crackers to cleanse the palate between sips.
8. Let the guests rate each bottle and record the score on their forms. After all wines have been tasted, tally the scores.
9. Uncloak the bottles and award a prize (a set of wine charms, for instance) to the person who brought the top-ranking wine.
The following shopping list will help in ensuring that everything goes as scheduled and there are no mess ups.
If you follow these tips exactly and get the shopping list items, the wine tasting party will be indeed a great fun.
Jayant Patil is an accomplished niche website developer and author. To learn more about red hot tips on Wine Tasting, please visit Best Red Hot Tips - Wine Tasting for current articles and discussions. For never before revealed secrets on wine tasting, the new masterpiece report is available for download here.
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