How to Throw a Wine-Tasting Party

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This particular party is helpful for practicing the art of pairing wines with food. It is fun and appropriate for beginners and experts.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Choose two to five simple foods. Suggestions are different types of cheese, cold shrimp, chicken skewers, pate and olives. Try to have a balance between salty foods, rich foods, delicate foods and so on.
Step 2

Prepare a list of wines that are good matches, average matches and poor matches for each of the foods you have selected.
Step 3

Have everybody attending the tasting bring a bottle of wine from the list.
Step 4

Set up three glasses for each taster. Be sure to have good lighting and a white tablecloth.
Step 5

Pour the good, average and poor matching wines that correspond to one of the food items.
Step 6

Begin with a "starter taste" of wine individually, before tasting with the food. Encourage group discussions.
Step 7

Serve the appropriate food item.
Step 8

Now, taste the poorly matching wine.
Step 9

Sample the food with the average-matching wine.
Step 10

Finally, sample the food with the good-matching wine.
Step 11

Discuss your opinions.
Step 12

Rinse the glasses with water and move on to the next food item and matching wines. You might cleanse your palates with dry crackers in between.

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