How to Host a Wine-Tasting Party Featuring The Carletto Estate Wine Collection
While you might think of wine tastings as events that take place at four-star restaurants and fancy wine shops, there are many compelling reasons to host a tasting in the comfort of your own home. Why not try hosting one this Holiday Weekend? With just a little planning and shopping, a wine tasting can be fun, easy, and affordable.
Compared to a cocktail or dinner party, a tasting requires significantly less planning, prep, shopping, or cleanup, leaving you more time to enjoy your friends—and the wine. Plus, with high quality wines on the market like The Carletto Estate Wine Collection, a wine tasting can be surprisingly wallet-friendly! 🙂
Bottoms Up! Here’s to a Cold Carletto Night!
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A bottle of Carletto Red, a bottle of Carletto White
A Cold Carletto Night = Cheers! Host a Wine-Tasting Party on a Cold December Night! While you might think of wine tastings as events that take place at four-star restaurants and fancy wine shops, there are many compelling reasons to host a tasting in the comfort of your own home. Why not try hosting one this December? With just a little planning and shopping, a wine tasting can be fun, easy, and affordable.
Compared to a cocktail or dinner party, a tasting requires significantly less planning, prep, shopping, or cleanup, leaving you more time to enjoy your friends—and the wine. Plus, with high quality wines on the market like The Carletto Estate Wine Collection, a wine tasting can be surprisingly wallet-friendly!
Please be sure to prepare an assortment of specialty cheeses, crackers and fruits to accompany the wine selection! For fun, I try to match each wine from the collection with one of my guests based on his or her personality type = Dry, Sweet, Sparkly and I do the same with the cheeses = Sharp, mellow, blue. My friends get a kick out of it but my family members are never amused by my antics. 😉
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A Cold Carletto Night
There’s always mulled wine for the really cold nights when a warm glance just won’t do the trick. I’m sure with a little digging, you have a recipe with a treat hiding somewhere. 🙂
Cold Carletto Night Mulled Wine! 🙂
Yield = 8 Servings
Ingredients:
4 cups organic apple cider
1 (750-ml) bottle of Carletto red wine, such as Cabernet Sauvignon
1/4 cup organic honey
2 cinnamon sticks
1 orange, zested and juiced
4 whole cloves
3 star anise
4 oranges, peeled, for garnish
Easy Steps:
Combine the cider, wine, honey, cinnamon sticks, zest, juice, cloves and star anise in a large saucepan, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Pour into mugs, add an orange peel to each and serve. That will warm you up! 🙂
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