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Types of Wine Tasting Parties
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Setting Up Your Home
If you have the room set up 3 wine tasting stations,sac longchamp pas cher; one for red wine, one for white and a third for the dessert wines,sac longchamp. At each wine tasting station,longchamp pas cher, have on hand:
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Measured pourers (serves exactly 1 oz. each time) Bottled water for rinsing mouths and glasses between tastes
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Crackers for cleansing the palette between tastes
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How Much Wine to Buy
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Scoring the Wine
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