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Here at the Wine Rack Store, we feel it’s our duty to help you enjoy our products to the fullest. So, with the introduction of our new 222 Bottle Premium Glass Holder Wine Rack, we will be featuring fabulous tips on holding a wine tasting party.

A wine tasting party is the perfect way to gather family and friends to learn about wine, and test new or unusual varietals. Whether you pair wines with specific cheeses, or do a vertical or horizontal tasting, you are sure to experience new joys in both red wines and white wines as a result of the focused tasting.

1. Determine your guest list and send invites at least two weeks before your tasting.

2. Design a tasting card for each guest that specifies the type of wine, the producing vineyard, the year and a brief description of the wine (usually found on the wine’s label), with room to note the wine’s distinct appearance, aroma, flavor, and cheese pairing nuances.

3. To make your party a bit more exciting, offer a “blind tasting” experience. In this case, you still provide your guests with their individual tasting cards. However, you pour each wine without identifying the label (cover bottles with foil or a brown bag and mark with a number prior to serving). This allows them to integrate all of their senses to identify the respective wines based on the labels’ descriptions. The guest that identifies the most wines correctly wins a bottle of wine.

4. Decorations for a wine tasting party can be as simple or elaborate as you’d like. Most important is to keep the party atmosphere casual and engaging.

Extra Tips:

1. Typically, you will want to work from dry to sweet with white wines and progress from light to full-bodied with red wines.
2. The general rule of thumb for pouring is: 2 ounces of wine per glass, per wine for each tasting.

3. Provide plain bread and water between wines for guests to cleanse their palate.
What You Need:

* Four to Six Wines
* Bottle opener
* Appetizers - you might consider offering some light choices before the tasting
* Loaf of bread cubed – provide plain bread for guests to cleanse palate between wines
* Wine glasses – one per guest
* Pitcher of water – for rinsing glasses and palates between wines
* Dump bucket – for discarding wine before next pouring
* Tasting cards – for describing and recording each wine tasted
* Aluminum foil or brown bags to cover wine bottles if you choose blind tasting
*Pens and Paper


Happy Tasting!

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