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Whether you're at a winery, a wine party, or on a first date at a fancy restaurant... wine tasting can be fun, educational, and very rewarding.

Unless your goal is to impress everyone with your snobbery, tasting wine should be about the wine and not about who is watching your performance!

How does it look? Is is clear or cloudy? Aroma fruity, strong, musty, oakey? How does it taste? Do you like it?

Learn more about gathering with your wine-loving friends and getting up close and personal with your favorite wines ...

Techniques of Wine Tasting - A good read from Strat's Place.com on the difference between tastings by wine geeks, and those by hedonists who sample just for the fun of it (you know who you are) and don't miss some great ideas for both formal and informal Wine Tasting Parties.

Wine Tasting at Wine Skinny.com - You can hold a wine tasting party every month for a year and still not run out of ideas with this site's feature story archive dating back to 1999, with great suggestions for centering your party around a particular wine or wine-and-food pairings.

Online Wine Tasting Course - And they said it couldn't be done, but here it is - with everything but the wine - including complete chapters on smelling, looking and tasting, plus more on wine vocabulary and a Wine Tasting Toolbox containing reference material and downloadable scoring sheets for starting your own Wine Club.

The ABC's of Wine Tasting - A classic of the genre, archived from The Wine Spectator with an enjoyable, well-written, and complete college education in wine tasting, covering the nuances of taste, color, aroma and finish with grace notes on proper setting, serving and serving temperatures.

Wine Party Ideas - Step-by-step instructions for making it fun, along with a complete shopping list of party food and supplies, from OnSterling.com.

How to Throw a Wine Party - Expert tips on how to host a wine party & what to serve, with hints on featuring a blind tasting, plus general wine bottle presentation tips.

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