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How best to stage a wine tasting?

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In Reply to: RE: How best to stage a wine tasting? posted by SamA on November 04, 2018 at 13:43:10

...if you want to make it a party instead of a serious sit-down wine tasting, he are my suggestions, but it can be either.

Pick a type of wine - chardonnay isn't a bad idea since many women drink it instead of reds.

For 6 of us, each of us brings a bottle of our favorite. For 12 when we invite our wives, everybody brings 2 bottles of their wine.

We open the wines, take off the foil, bag them and label each wine with a letter from A to F. More than 6 wines gets too confusing.

Everybody has time to taste, say an hour, maybe before you serve dinner if it's going to be that type of party.

If it's not dinner but a sit-down tasting, you can serve pieces of bread, some cheese and sliced meat, for example, something that will go with the wine, along with glasses of water.

Perhaps you can make tasting sheets. Then everybody rates the wines 1 through 6, 1 for the one they like best and 6 for the one they like worst.

Or to keep it simpler, you can just have people rate the choice for best and worst.

Add up the point scores, and the low score wins. Uncover the bottles from bottom score to top as people describe what they tasted and the reason for their rating.

Have fun.

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