Well before we cared about saving money on babysitters by entertaining at home, Alec as well as I threw a wine taste-testing party. We did a version of this celebration in preparation for our wedding; we had a few cheap-o bottles of wine from BevMo as well as we were trying to assess if any type of of them were drinkable different wines we were thinking about as well as desired input from our friends.
The winners of our very first tasting
This event is fun as a co-ed celebration or just for the women as well as it works for wine snobs as well as novices alike.
Determine if you want to limit the wines to a single range or style (wines from Spain, dry white wines, South America, screw cap, under $10, etc). Ask guests to bring a bottle of wine as well as a few fascinating bits of trivia about the wine, variety, region or manufacturer.
Once the bottles arrive, put them in a ordinary paper bag to protect each one’s identity. compose numbers on the bag to aid in the blind taste testing. If your style includes more than one variety, you’ll want to begin with the white wines, from dry to sweet, as well as development to red wines.
Blind taste test of prospective wedding event wines
Ask guests to rate each bottle bottle. I produced a bit chart for my celebration with rows for every wine as well as columns for every judge’s name. Each of our buddies would compose in their vote of smiley, frowny, or in-betweeny faces in their cell (but I suppose you might utilize a number scale as well if you wished to be classy).
Offer elegant crackers or saltines to cleanse the palate in between.
My wine grid, click to enlarge
So, for the cost of a few paper bags as well as some elegant crackers, you’ve thrown a quite fun soiree. score yourself bonus offer points if you likewise produced a custom (Wines of Chile in September as well as Argentina in October!) that you can hold at your home after the kidlets are asleep on a routine basis.