Choosing the right wine, the grade and quantity of wine selected at the American food appraisal meeting should be considered comprehensively and targeted. For participants who don't know much about wine, it is suggested to prepare some popular red and white wines, which should be light and moderate in taste and easy to match with food. If the guests are mostly people who know wine, they can decide according to their own tastes and interests, such as how many kinds of wine to prepare in the old and new worlds. If you love the old world Bordeaux wines, you might as well choose several wines with different tastes and different years as the theme of the tasting.
Wine is always the best partner for food. If you can appear on the same stage, they often complement each other. Of course, the charm of wine lies in its exquisite. It always likes to follow it. With barbecue or seafood? Cheese is the simplest food in a wine tasting, but more delicious food will make the wine tasting more vivid and fragrant, which is also an important part of a successful wine tasting. When you determine the variety of wine, you can plan the style of appetizer and main course.
After making the best food list, if you can't do everything by yourself, you can make a shopping list. For example, red wine should be accompanied by rich cheese, or red meat, roasted vegetables, tomatoes, dark chocolate and so on. For white wine, it is best to have soft cheese, fish, salad and so on. But matching food doesn't complicate things. If you are inexperienced, it is simple but accurate to prepare several kinds of cheese, Italian sausage and olives as the first choice. But in any case, at the wine tasting dinner, the food must be fully prepared to avoid the embarrassment of heroes without beautiful women.
Choose a suitable venue, and you need to consider the venue when preparing various items. Noisy places without temperature control equipment are definitely not considered. Well-designed star hotels or local clubs and restaurants are the usual choices. It should be noted that no matter whether the indoor temperature is reasonable, too hot or too cold, the guests often can't reach the best experience state. For many red wines, 15-20 degrees is the ideal tasting temperature. For sparkling wine, white wine and sweet wine, it is necessary to use an ice bucket to provide a suitable drinking temperature. Too high room temperature will also make the wine heat up too fast and can't show a perfect taste.
When the venue is determined, it is natural to consider wine sets. A successful tasting meeting, from the preparation of ice bucket, the choice of decanter, to the appropriate cup type with different grape varieties, are all factors that organizers need to consider. Usually tasting is not just a wine, it would be perfect if each wine can have a corresponding wine glass. In most cases, the organizer can't provide so many cups at once. Providing participants with a bottle of drinking water is also a good solution, and there is a device that cannot be forgotten.
You also need to prepare wine tasting records, such as wine lists and wine tasting records. The above information can be given to every taster, so that they can have a reference when tasting. In addition, if the wine tasting will be attended by experts who know wine, it is necessary to increase the guest scoring link, which will make the wine tasting activities more participatory and allow guests to express their preferences more.
Next, imagine friends attending the meeting entering the venue. You are greeted by neat tables and chairs. Can you sit there and taste the wine or wait for their staff at the tasting table? There are two kinds of tasting meetings: one is that the number of participants is relatively small, and they are tasting while giving lectures; The other is to give a lecture before the tasting meeting, and then participants will go to different tasting tables to exchange experiences with the staff according to their hobbies.
In either case, we should leave enough time to sober up according to the characteristics of the wine provided. In the case of one person and one seat, we can pour the wine into the cup in advance to sober up, while most people standing at the wine tasting table will use the sober-up device to sober up. In both cases, it is suggested to use a white tablecloth to set off the color of the wine.
The hardware is ready, and then the software. Based on the experience of holding many wine tasting meetings, the author thinks that the key to the success of wine tasting meetings lies in carefully designing the time and content of the explanation.
Wine shows not only the enjoyment of sight, smell and taste, but also the culture of its country of origin, expressing the local characteristics of wine producing areas and reflecting the seasonal characteristics of picking years. All these, mixed together, are what we usually call "stories". It is often a magic weapon for this wine to be truly accepted by consumers in the future to convey the story of the wine to the participants in an appropriate way and give consumers more spiritual experiences beyond the senses.