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...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 ask everybody to bring 6 glasses if it's a sit-down tasting. 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. Some chocolate afterwards. You will need tasting sheets where you can list the wines on the bottom and allow people to score and take notes. 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. Or just best. 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. I've been to wine tasting dinner parties where 6 people brought a bottle of their favorite cabernet and everyone wandered around and talked and tasted from the bagged bottles with only a single glass. They then voted on their favorite which was revealed at dinner. Have fun.
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