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Hosting a Home Wine Tasting
Hosting a wine tasting in your home is a great way to get together with friends and try new wines. When Dale and I lived in Granger, Indiana, we, and our friends who lived next door, organized a wine tasting group of five couples. Our palates were all very different and our collective knowledge of wine was extremely limited. We thought that getting together once in a while, trying new wines and enjoying one another’s company would be a fun idea. And it was. We tasted some really nice wines (and some not so nice ones, too), our palates grew and everyone had a fun time. We always selected three whites and three reds to sample. Sometimes we would select a varietal and compare three wines from different regions; or, we would select three white and three red wines from three different regions. We might have selected a theme of Italian wines and selected three whites and three reds to compare. The choices were endless and the host always set the theme.

We looked back at how we conducted our neighborhood tastings and thought we would pass it along. Feel free to download and print out the Wine Tasting 101, Tasting Journals and Wine Tasting Suggestions and our wine tasting suggestions and use them for your wine tastings at home. To help you get started on your home wine tasting please come into The Savvy Wine Cellar, let us help you choose your wines, and you will receive a 10 percent discount on your selections. We’ll also give you 10 percent discount cards for your guests to use in our store if they come in to purchase the wines you tasted or any other wine in our store. We would also be happy to answer any questions that you might have about hosting a tasting in your home.

Wine Tasting 101
Tasting Journal - White Wines
Tasting Journal - Red Wines
Wine Tasting Suggestions

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