Wine Dinner Resources

Host a dinner party where wine tasting is the activity! Here’s how it works:

1) Everyone or every couple brings a wine (choose the theme, ie reds, whites, a certain grape, a certain region, etc). Pick a price range.

2) Cover labels or pour into decanters to make the wines anonymous.

3) Use the score card below to rate each wine - one at a time. Each person makes their own rating. Some categories are weighted more heavily, so those scores have multiples.

4) Discuss each wine as a group. Use the tasting guide to help guide your experience.

5)At the end, uncover which wine won!

Bonus fun: Throw in a mystery cheap bottle (or extra expensive bottle) to really test your taste buds

A wine tasting scorecard with a light yellow background and red text. The top features an illustration of two hands clinking wine glasses. The scorecard has a rating scale from 1 to 5, with descriptions from gross to more. The chart includes categories for evaluating wine appearance, smell, structure, flavor, finish, impression, total score, and notes.
People clinking glasses with white wine in a toast.

Rating Chart

Rate wines! Blind taste and rate - see which wines win.

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A hand-drawn tasting guide with categories: Look, Smell/Flavor, and Structure. Look includes Intensity (pale, medium, deep), Color (purple, ruby, garnet, tawny), and Viscosity (watery to syrupy). Smell/Flavor has Intensity (low to high), Fruit (black, red, dried, tropical, citrus), and Herb/aging (herbal, flower, spice, earth, oak, smoke, nuts, leather). Structure details: Sweetness (bone dry to very sweet), Acidity (low to high), Tannin (low to high), Alcohol (low to high), and Body (light to full).
Top-down view of two people sitting at a round wooden table with various bottles of wine and glasses, with a black leather couch surrounding the table.

Tasting Notes

Cheat sheet for tasting and judging wine.

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