Hosting a Serious Wine Tasting Party

For this wine tasting you will need:

A set of wine glasses for each taster. The glasses need to be of the same style for each taster. Usually no more than six wines should be in the tasting.
A Wine Placemat for each taster (contains a pattern for placement of wine glasses).
A Scoring Sheet to evaluate and score the wines.
Bags to completely cover the wines. Removing the entire foil on the neck of the bottle might also be a good idea.
A cardboard cup of some type for those who wish to spit out their wines. Why? Because one can only drink so much wine before the taste buds and sense of smell fade.
Small cubes of French bread or a neutral cracker to clear the palate.
Open all the wines, cover them with the bags, and label each bag with a number or letter of the alphabet.
Set the wine glasses out on the wine placemat. Fill each glass with 2 to 4 oz. of wine.
Make sure you pour the correctly labeled wine into the corresponding wine glass on the placemat.
All the wine glasses should have the same amount of wine.
There are various ways to conduct the tasting. The wines can be tasted one at a time followed by discussion. Or, each person can taste all the wines independently and then talk about the wines, and then do a taste again of any wine in doubt.
Score the wines, tally each taster’s score and then rank all the wines.

Wine Tasting Club - Hosting Tips