Pieces and Parts To A Wine Tasting
August 28, 2009
Wine Tasting
If you are not so inclined to hold full scale wine dinners, maybe because you don’t have a full kitchen or room for many people to sit, you may find it just as lucrative to hold smaller, more intimate wine tasting’s.
Many of the same rules apply as with a wine dinner. The only thing that changes is the style of food served and the seating arrangements. Wine Tasting’s can be formal or very informal. You will find that most people attending a wine tasting are there not only for the wine but for some sort of education also. The education could consist of the wine maker talking about this particular vintage or his actual wine making method. It could consist of reviewing a specific region or particular wine. Anyway you do it, try to educate the guests as best you can.
Make up a review sheet for them complete with a section for notes but tasting and education. This way they can catalog the wines they have tried and keep a tasting book going thru future tasting’s.
Give the guest the opportunity to purchase the wines they drink directly at the function. Have an order sheet ready with bottle and cases pricing available. The obvious reason for doing this is sales but it also helps you gauge the level of interest in the wines. Ask your guest for suggestions to help improve future tasting’s, which wines or regions they might have a interest in. Get the customers involved.
I want to stress the level of importance of offering education as the back drop of the tasting. The better you help educate your customer base the easier it will be to have them include wine with their meals when they come in outside of a wine dinner.
Here to you wine tasting future! Salute!
Originally posted 2009-05-13 15:42:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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