Blind Wine Tasting Party
An awesome party host will have an array of snacks water a spittoon and glassware if you don t have enough fancy glassware identical clear glass plastic cups will do fine.
Blind wine tasting party. You try different wines without knowing anything about them. For your first blind wine tasting party choose typical varietals like merlot cabernet sauvignon malbec or syrah. Also stick with local wines if possible. A blind wine tasting is exactly what it sounds like.
This party was such a hit the group decided to make it a tradition and rotate the venue from home to home in the future. It s been such a hit year after year it s our most popular blog post we ve decided to reprise the original with the addition of a few new themes for your tasting pleasure. The book gave linda the idea of hosting a blind wine tasting party so she decided to host one. Pinot noir is often easy to identify due to its lighter body and color.
Tasting wine while blind of course to taste truly blind you could always drink wine from bagged bottles out of color crushing black glasses. A blind wine tasting is a test of wine tasting skills where you and your guest can attempt to determine a wine s varietal and other characteristics like region vintage and producer by relying only on your senses. I have been dying to host a blind wine tasting party for our friends and thought how perfect it would be to tie this party into the holiday party we throw this year. Many wine producing regions are actually suitable to working with a variety of wine grapes especially in the new world says lauren buzzeo wine enthusiast s tasting director who also.
A few years back we published a step by step instructional on how to throw a blind wine tasting party that featured a selection of red wines. We have a group of friends we party with so we invited them over for the blind wine tasting. There are a few different ways to host a party like this but if you want someone to take some of the work off your plate follow my quick and easy steps. Remember rule number one of a wine tasting party.
Blind tasting wine party format. Gather together your wine drinking friends pick out a few bottles to taste test keeping the bottles disguised and hidden of course and later all guess what types of wine they each are to see who really is the expert.