Wine Party

Many of us have been to wine tasting in a cellar or liquor store premises, but have you ever held a wine tasting party at home?

It is really easy. You must first decide what kind of wine party you will receive.

Types of Parties Tasting

Vertical - A tasting of an assortment of same wine, from the same producer and vineyard, across several vintages (the year the grapes were harvested). One example is the taste of the Chardonnay 2001, 2003 and 2006, all from the same vineyard.

Horizontal - Tasting various wines of the vintage and, ideally, wines from the same region and the overall style. The purpose of tasting a vintage is mainly to compare the different producers and vineyards. For example, Napa Valley red wines from 2001.

Blind - This is where you hide the identity of the wine, either by wrapping or putting them in paper bags. The bottles are numbered and scored without the tasters with the advantage of the label, price, manufacturer or anything else.

Customer Choice - This is the part of wine tasting is the easiest to coordinate. Just tell your guests to bring any type of wine of their choice. If you want to reduce them a bit, be specific in your invitations, such as "Bring a bottle of your favorite red wine, $ 20 limit" or "Bring your favorite bottle of Chardonnay, $ 15 limit."

Obviously, you can combine several of these. How about hosting a party wine tasting blind horizontal?

Setting Up Your Home

If you have the room set up 3 wine tasting stations, one for red wine, one white and one third for dessert wines. At each station tasting wine to have on hand:

Corkscrew
Measured pourers (serves exactly 1 oz each) of bottled water for rinsing glasses between the mouth and tastes
A container for rinse water
Crackers for cleansing the palette between tastes
For white wine and dessert stations, an ice bucket to keep the wine chilled

If you have separate stations, wine tasting, you can increase the number of people that you invite because everyone can spread out and start at different positions, as opposed to everyone crowded around a single station. Anyway, limit the number of customers in more than 15 people. You would easily be able to discuss the wines along with more people makes conversation difficult.

How much wine to buy

If you provide your own wine, keep in mind that a bottle of wine holds regular size 750 milliliters or 25.4 ounces.

Using the measured Flip Top Pourers, ensures that each client receives an exact 1 ounce measure every time you pour. For $ 16.95, you get 3 of these nifty little gadgets and because they have a hinged lid, you can also store your wine with these

If you have 12 people and use the lifters, you only use half of each bottle (about 12 ounces) during the process of tasting, while leaving the rest to after tasting is over. Make sure to buy extra bottles of wine to serve different before and after the tasting.

Scoring Wine

How are wine savvy guests will determine if you score the wines during the tasting, and if so, how you go about them scoring. Keeping things casual is usually the best choice because after all, it is a party. Generally, people do not want to be disturbed by a complicated process of scoring.

A good way to keep it easy to give your guests a simple dashboard that lists the names of wines. Ask them to force rank the wines in each category. For example, in the category of white, there are 5 wines to taste. Each person will mark the 5 wines with 1 being their favorite.