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- Jackie - 08-25-2008
For labor day, I'm having a bunch of neighbors (about 35-40) over for a pool party/block party. This year I thought I'd do a blind wine tasting contest with 8 wines (4 white/4 red) just for fun.
I've found some stemless wine glasses at a very good price, which I think is a good solution being as we are all hanging out around a pool and lots of kids. Broken glass would be an issue and stemware is so fragile.
I just know that a couple of my foodie friends will scoff at the stemless glasses. I say it's OK but they will say that stemware is de rigueur for wine tastings.
I think the fun is the key.... What do you'all say? Would you be put off tasting from a stemless glass (not the expensive ones, that is) at a casual Labor Day neighborhood party?
Jackie
- Innkeeper - 08-25-2008
For an occasion such as you are planning, I think the stemless glasses would be just fine.
- wondersofwine - 08-25-2008
I agree.
- Duane Meissner - 08-25-2008
Ditto. It's still quite possible to swirl and contemplate with stemless glasses.
- VouvrayHead - 08-26-2008
Oh yeah! If they scoff at the stemless, they've got bigger problems than being bad neighbors!
- winoweenie - 08-27-2008
I'd go for it J-Love. Tell them next year, if biz be better, you'll try to get the whole glass. WW [img]http://wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
- Bucko - 08-29-2008
Shoot, I serve wine in the party plastic wine glasses when I have a huge crowd. Don't want my Riedels turned into recycle.
- Jackie - 09-08-2008
Good. Thanks everyone. I used the stemless wine glasses and only one person made a passing remark! Then we did the blind wine tasting -- three people managed to guess 4 varietals correctly. That is 4 out of 8... so I guess I didn't need to worry.