For an entertaining
evening with friends, invite them over for an informal wine tasting. Create a
warm and inviting atmosphere by using lots of rich colours, candlelight and
different textures in terms of fabrics and flowers. Match the colour palette to
that of the wine itself: different shades of purple and to add a bit of variety
incorporate a bit of sunny yellow or chartreuse green.
IN
GOOD COMPANY SHOP
- Invitation
- Wine Bottle
Numbers
- Circle Party Food
Labels
- Patterned Paper
for Napkin Rings, Vase Wraps or Candle Wraps
- Wine Glass Tags
- Bag Toppers
- Wine Tasting
Scorecard
- Party Starter
Question Game
- Coasters
- Chocolate Wrapper
- Place Cards
- Wine Bottle Tag
R50
per pdf. file
DECORATIONS
Flickering
Fire
For a winter wine
tasting, have the fireplace burning, if you do not have one, create the same
look with a sideboard fill of pillar candles placed in jam jars. On each chair
encourage guests to wrap up warmly, by having a blanket for them to wrap around
their legs. Attach a tag „Snuggle while you sip“.
TABLE
Textured
Table
Set the table with
a white tablecloth, and then for something different lay a table runner made in
a textured fabric like a plaid/tartan design. Set each place setting with a
linen napkin, and tie with ribbon or a paper napkin ring. Label each place
setting with a place card slipped into a wine cork.
White
Tablecloth R30 for hire
Table
Runners R15 each for hire
White
Linen Napkins R5 each for hire
At each place
setting set various glasses:
- White wine glass
- Red wine glass
- Tumbler for water
In the centre have
a pitcher of water and a dump bucket, as well as an ice bucket of ice for white
wine. Use coasters from the printable party for the bottles of wine and/or wine
glasses. For a special touch use our aluminium wine coasters. On a stem of each
wine glass attach one of our wine line tags or paper ones from the Printable
Party.
TOP
TABLE TIP: White wine should be placed in the
fridge for at least 45 minutes, red wine is served at room temperature.
Carafe
Centrepieces
For a table
centrepiece take empty wine bottles and push in dinner candles (burn these
before the party so that you get that dripped look). Empty wine bottles can
also be decorated with custom labels. Add our additional vintage glass bottles
and votives with either a few bud stems of purple flowers and tealights. Or for
a „flower“ and „candle“ in one place groupings of our Capiz Shell Lotus Flower
Votives.
Vintage
Glass Bottles In clear and purple R5 each to
hire R25 to buy
Vintage
Glass Votives R5 each to hire
Capiz
Shell Votives Small R10 each for hire (R45
each to buy) Medium R20 each for hire (R110 each to buy) Large R30 each to hire
(R175 each to buy)
Available in
purple, white, brown and also chartereuse green, yellow and orange.
Battery
Operated Tea Lights R65 for 6
MENU
Wine
& Dine
A good idea to take
the pressure off of buying all the wine is to ask guest to bring wine as well.
Add one of the “Wine Notes” cards to the invitation and add details to the
back. A fun way to do this is to give everyone a different region to choose
from or ask your guests to bring different “varietals.” Varietals is a fancy
word for each specific grape variety. Tell your guests to get something they
normally wouldn’t drink. Make sure to set a price limit per bottle.
Be sure to have
crackers, fresh breads and cheese to help clean the palette between wines. If
you want to take it up a notch, serve light hors d’oeuvres after the wine
tasting. Use the food picks from the printable party to decorate the food
platters.
Atmosphere is key
to a good party so make sure to set the mood so play some lounge music as
background.
FUN
AND GAMES
Wine
Tasting
For an introductory
tasting, compare six wines, three white and three red, each made from a
different variety of grape. For the whites, try a Sauvignon Blanc, a
Chardonnay, and a dry Riesling. For the reds, try a Pinot Noir, a Merlot, and a
Cabernet Sauvignon. Ask the staff in a good wine shop to help you make
representative choices in your price range.
Print out our
tasting cards from the Printable Party and set at each place setting together
with a pens/pencil for describing and recording each wine tasted.
Some people like to
cover wines with a paper bag so they are not revealed, however, you could also
use the Printable Party numbered wine bottle labels or a nice fabric or ribbon
to cover the labels. Use colours that coincide with your theme. Collect each
scorecard at the end and tally up the scores. Announce the results.
TOP
TABLE TIP
4-6 bottles of wine
are average for wine tasting
1 bottle will yield
about 12 glasses per bottle.
Lastly, be sure to
have a list of the wines purchased and their price so your guests can have the
option to purchase them in the future.
To complement our
party, print out our Printable Party goodies:
Wine
Bottle Labels to hide the wine’s identity.
Seating Place Cards
Coasters
in three different styles one for red
wine, white wine and water.
Wine
Charms to decorate and identify wine glasses
describing the wine like complex, immature, rich, supple, earthy, formidable,
opulent, ripe, volatile, overpriced, sturdy, vintage.
Taster
Cards for guests to rate the wines.
Food
Picks to decorate cheese and food platters.
Table
Topics
Let the
conversation flow like an excellent Cabernet. At home or at the local wine bar,
these thought-provoking questions are an irresistible paring with your favorite
bottle of red (or white), like
- what's the best accompaniment to a great bottle of cabernet?
- what's your best memory of sharing a bottle with someone special?
- what's the funniest thing that's happened after a few glasses?
FAVOURS
Send guests home
with a bottle of wine or a small box of chocolates or simply a pre-printed and
cut set of wine tags in a bag with a bag topper for their next wine tasting or
dinner party.
For chocolate
favours, use the Printable Party custom wrappers around a standard small Dairy
Milk Chocolate Bar. We love how it is worded and perfect for every girl to slip
into her handbag "KEEP IN EASY REACH
- IN CASE OF EMERGENCY".
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