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To celebrate the beginning of Fall, my husband and I decided it couldn’t be better timing for our 2nd Annual Wine Party. We invited a limited amount of our close friends and family and came up with some fun hors d oeuvres to pass around through the night. The purpose of this party is not only to visit with friends, but to deplete some of our wine inventory. Because we have been buying wine for more than 5 years now, we have quite a collection and have decided that our party’s will be a good way to taste several wines in one night without having to throw unused wines away.
Among our list of wines for the evening, we had some Australian wines, red blends, California Cab’s and of course, Oregon Pinot Noir. Working at a winery makes it very easy to accumulate every vintage that is released, so I was excited to break in to some library Sokol Blosser Pinot. We opened a bottle of 1998 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir, which was a favorite of many and gone within a few minutes. Very fruit forward, a little herbal, earthy flavors and a nice smooth finish.
If you are wanting to do a wine tasting party of your own, having a group of 10-15 is nice because it is small enough to mingle and easy on the chef. We started out a little quiet, so I had some “Wine Word Scramble� and “True or False Wine Facts� for people to figure out. It was a great way for people to see how much they know about wine and we gave out small prizes to the winners and ‘losers’. (We figured they need something too.)