Wine Tasting Party

Last weekend my boyfriend and I hosted a blind wine tasting party.  We provided the hors d'ouevres and light dinner fare and asked our guests to provide a bottle of wine for the blind tasting.  Thanks to everyone who came out for a memorable evening!  I'd also like to thank Limes and Lavender's Etsy shop for her mini chalkboard signs and South House Boutique's Etsy shop for her burlap wine bottle bags.  They were exactly what I was looking for this type of event!

Pinterest was a good source of inspiration to figure out what types of cheeses would be good choices for different types of wines.  Little did I know that everyone would bring only red wines!  The poor Brie de Paris was left without a chardonnay wine partner.

Olives and salami and crackers, I believe, are quintessential appetizers for a wine-filled evening.  Like many others, I think Whole Foods has the best olive bar around; I'm especially partial to the garlic-stuffed green olives.  Other great food staples are nuts, grapes, and apple wedges.

I also did some quick research on the best categories and terms to include on a wine tasting sheet.  Unfortunately, I wasn't very impressed with the visual presentation of a lot of the downloadable sheets on the internet.  Moreover, they were overloaded with a lot of terminology that I thought would cause the amateur wine connoisseur's eyes to glaze over.  My wine tasting sheet still has a fair amount of terms, but only those that I thought might be fun to discuss in the party atmosphere.  If anyone would like me to upload the wine tasting sheet I created to my blog for their own party, let me know!

Whether you throw a wine party for two people or twelve, I definitely recommend hosting or attending one.  While mine lacked a theme, you could definitely add another element to the tasting party by asking your guests to bring only wine from a specific country, to bring only chardonnays, or to bring only dessert wines.