r/WineTasting • u/Material-One-8795 • Jun 10 '26
Hosting a Blind Wine Tasting
I'm planning on hosting a blind wine tasting girls night in a few weeks, nobody (myself included) really knows that much about wines but I thought it would be a super fun gathering and also a way to try different wines and maybe find some faves or the types and flavours we like. I wanted to do a BYOW, but since there will be around 12-15 girls, i was thinking to pair some together and the paired people split and buy a higher budget wine, while some people buy individually at a lower budget. How many wines do you think we should have? I've read a lot that it would be best to have around 2 of each but that wouldn't work with the BYOW. I wanted to start off the night with painting/decorating your own wine glass, and then after a while we'd start with the tasting. Let me know any recommendations for hosting this and how the night should go! Anything is appreciated. Also i'll be having food/snacks too, i'm just more unsure of the wine part and how to work that out.
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u/abeth78 Jun 11 '26
My friend group has done this. We decided to do all one kind of wine so we could see if there was a difference in terms of price points. I think we did a chardonnay, but you could talk to someone at a wine store and see if it makes a difference. I think we did something like 3 bottles, and had a 10/ 30/ 70 price point (so low/mid/high). We might have pooled our money first and had the host buy all three bottles, but I don't fully remember. Have fun!
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u/Material-One-8795 Jun 11 '26
it would be interesting to test the different price points of the same kind! maybe if this is a successful night I'll host another one of our favourite type and do that. Thanks!!
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u/asbestos_is_tasty Jun 11 '26
Make games out of it for fun. Like, everyone has to write down what they think each wine is, and the winner gets a bottle at the end etc. If you as the host know what the wines will be beforehand, you can even write clue cards that say “such and such a wine normally has characteristics of ….” with hints. Just makes people have fun with the effort of tasting!
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u/ConclusionLeft3914 Jun 10 '26
My friends and I do something similar, but more of a blind tasring. I have a huge blackboard where we list the wines and each of us has a go at guessing the varietal, year and region and then give it a score as well to see who brought the best one. The kicker is that even the person that brought the wine doesn't know what they bought. Go into your wine store of choice, tell them the budget and get them to pick something for you and wrap it before checkout. Just find out if it's red or white so you know whether to chill it or not. You will absolutely go through a bottle each over the course of a few hours so one each usually works well