4 Guided Tasting Party Ideas Inspired by Places Around the World
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Wine blending in Sonoma. Cider in Vermont. Austrian wine at golden hour. Cocktails and ghost stories from Venice, Edinburgh, and Shanghai.
Pick a place. Pour something. Discover somewhere new together.
Everyday Escapes: Guided tasting party ideas
These 60–90 minute guided tasting party ideas are made for the nights you want to invite friends over without planning an entire dinner party.
The food, drinks, stories, playlist, tasting instructions, and host guidance are already planned. You choose where to go.
Play Winemaker in Sonoma
Sips of Sonoma
Open a few bottles and see what happens when everyone gets to play winemaker.
Friends blend Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, compare what they created, and graze on a simple wine-country board along the way.
No wine expertise required. Opinions, however, will probably appear quickly.
Taste Your Way Through a Vermont Fall
Cider Hour in the Mountains
Four cider styles. A few fall bites. Vermont without the leaf-peeping traffic.
Taste dry, semi-sweet, spiced, and ice cider while discovering the orchard and cider traditions behind a Vermont harvest season.
Explore Cider Hour in the Mountains →
Spend Golden Hour at an Austrian Heuriger
Golden Hour in the Alps
Austria had the Heuriger long before we started calling drinks before dinner happy hour.
Pour an Austrian wine flight, put out a rustic grazing board, and discover the tradition of gathering over new wine, simple food, and long conversations.
Have Cocktails With a Few Ghosts
Ghosted
This one takes the scenic route: Venice. Edinburgh. Shanghai.
Friends taste three destination-inspired cocktails or mocktails, share local legends and folklore, and try to figure out which story isn't quite what it seems.
No séance required.
Where should we taste next?
Sonoma wine country. A Vermont orchard. An Austrian Heuriger. Three cities with a few good ghost stories.
Four places. Four very different nights. No full dinner party required.
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