Wine tasting kits can greatly range in price and in what they include. While some come with everything you could possibly need, stopping just short of packaging a vineyard in bubble wrap, others don't include everything, with some not including the wine. Wine tasting kits that may be geared towards teaching people to learn the differences in smell may include aroma strips, where as those geared towards party games may include a wine trivia book. Similarly, some wine tasting kits are geared for a solo taster, while other wine tasting kits come with six or eight glasses, aimed at those who want to share the wine tasting experience with a few close friends.
Wine tasting kits may also not be exactly what they sound like. Some books that discuss wine tasting call themselves wine tasting kits and course outlines that provide a lesson plan on tasting also call themselves wine tasting kits. While these can be just as helpful as the actual wine tasting kit itself, be sure you are purchasing exactly what you seek.
Blind Wine Tasting Kits
Whether it's romance you're sharing with another person, or romance you're sharing with a bottle of wine, love is always blind, with no preconceived notions or stereotypes affecting affection. This idea applies to all sorts of categories of wine, particularly the tasting of it.
Blind wine tasting, while it may sound like a game where you wear a blindfold and pin a wine opener on a bottle of Pinot Noir, is the concept of tasting wine without knowing anything about it — without knowing where it's from, what year it was made, or what it does for fun. Because people often have previously established judgments, knowing certain things about wine can alter opinions. Blind tasting, however, requires the taster to be as objective as possible, making them as honest as possible in the process. This gives you the greatest chance of finding wine that you truly like.
Article comments
1 - Judith
Good comments on blind wine tasting. In my opinion it is the best way to experience wine. I purchased a kit, I belong to quite a few tasting groups, of bags for blind wine tasting. You can kind them here:
www.baggedwine.com. I bought them on Amazon.com
Judith
2 - Paul Harrison
Hi saw you postings and throught you might be interested in checking out Virtual Wine
Virtual Wine events are live webcasts, where you can interact with wine expers and chat with fellow tasters - all from the comfort of your own home! The events are free to view - and great fun. You can pre-order tasting wines from the site before the events.
Let me know what you think!
3 - SWILLparty
We think that wine tasting party kits are a great way to taste wine with friends, especially in your own home where no one cares if you don't know a thing about wine. When you taste wines in a blind format, it becomes even more fun because your subjective taste has been removed and replaced with an objective adventure. I know the SWILL Wine Tasting Kit can easily be used to host a single party or to start a social wine tasting club. Social wine tasting clubs are a great way to meet new people.
In 2003, 12 of our wine-loving friends from Allegany, NY got together to celebrate the birthday of a good friend. Our first SWILL™ (Several Wine Imbibers Liking Libations) wine tasting party was such a huge hit that we quickly realized we had to do this again"and soon! We now have over 160 members and have met people from our own small area that we would never have met any other way.
Our members take turns hosting and everyone pays a tasting fee, which covers the wine and tasting kit supplies. The tasting fee has provided us with the opportunity to sample some fabulous wines. If you want to learn more about wine in a fun social setting, consider a SWILL Wine Tasting and Club Starter Kit to get things going.
Cheers!
Eva and Anne