Love the wine you’re with! Fall is around the corner, but you can continue to enjoy small outdoor gatherings. Hosting a small wine tasting at home with close friends or family is a fun activity. With some Twinspiration, you can host a chic wine tasting at home on a budget. If you are ready to make some pour decisions, then follow our tips below.
Host a Wine Tasting at Home with a Theme
We recommend picking a theme and having fun with it. In the past, we hosted:
- Blind Wine Tasting
- Wine Tasting with a Specific Vineyard
- Rosé Wine Tasting
- Wine Region Tasting
- Food and Wine Pairing
We also did a fun series on how your smile changes after 1, 2, 3 glasses of wine.
Cheese Pairings for the Wine Tasting at Home
You can’t have a wine tasting without the accompanying cheeses. Do your research and you can also email or call the vineyard for recommendations. Another trick is to direct message them on Instagram. Because of coronavirus, we recommend creating individual cheese boards. There are a lot of wooden or slate boards you can get online.
Glasses for the Wine Tasting at Home
We recommend having a glass for each wine you are tasting. We’ve bought wine glasses from IKEA. They are perfect party glasses because they are inexpensive and smaller than a typical wine glass. When you are trying multiple wines, you want the pours to be smaller. Then guests can drink more of the wine they prefer.
We also have Riedel’s performance tasting set. These beautiful glasses are for a more sophisticated wine party. Guests can try the wines in the Riedel glass that was created specifically to bring out the best flavor and notes of the wine. Remember to keep the pours small!
We’ve also hosted with our Mikasa Cheers glasses. These glasses feature various designs to help guests keep track of their glass. Like the Riedel glasses, remember to keep the pours small.
How to Decorate?
We recommend getting flowers and linens. Floral arrangements don’t need to break the bank. You can get them from your local florist or grocery store. Cutting flowers yourself is a bit time consuming, so we generally bring a vase with us and give our NYC florist a budget. Recently we’ve been buy a lot more pre-made arrangements from Whole Foods in Montclair. The trick is the smaller the vase, the cheaper the arrangement. With a bud vase, you can get a good arrangement for $10 – $15.
Beautiful linens are also an investment. We recommend starting with some neutral or seasonal linens that you can repeat and use. They will be more expensive than the plastic party ones, but they will add a sophistication to your event. Most of our linens are from , CV Linens or Amazon.
Hey look it’s wine o’clock. This year, host a small outdoor wine tasting at home. Our tips will make you host like a pro. If you need wine recommendations, check out all the wineries we worked with here.
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
Anonymous
What a cute and fun idea! I would love to host a wine tasting event at my home. I’m sure my friends would love it as well!
Kileen
cute & little
This is such a fun idea! I think I will plan this for the next time my kids come over. Or it could be a nice thing to do when family and friends are visiting for the holidays!
sounds like fun! My father has a small wine garden at home, we did wine tasting of his creations from various years, it was fun even though I didn’t drink
What a fun and super awesome idea! I would love to have a wine tasting event like this in my backyard! I bet it would be so much fun!
Kileen
cute & little
I love the idea of hosting a wine tasting – if I drank wine – it relaxes so many people and I feel like now more than ever, people need a relaxing escape from reality!
Oh this looks so much fun! And what a lovely setup!
I think that my brothers and sister would love to have wine night at home.
Okay now here’s a post I’m saving for later LOL! Such a fun idea! I’m a huge wine lover and hosting a wine tasting is always something I’ve wanted to do. Great share!
X J
oh wow quite amazing and an interesting idea of wine tasting at home..though glad you shared this with us…found it so useful one and yeah this setup looks more lovely…
What a fantastic idea! I don’t know when I can do this, but I will adapt it to my list of coming events.
This is awesome! I’ve never done it but i should, i have tons of wine in my mini wine cellar…Great idea.
This is such an amazing idea! Hosting wine tasting at home would be so much fun ?
What a funny and happy idea! loved it. And I am a great lover of wine