Mary Sherrill kept track of who brought what and put all the wines in paper bags with numbers on them.
She knew that my bottle was, you say, #1.
The paper bag part is brilliant because then people can’t be swayed by fancy labels or brands. Then we split into two groups.
Depending on what wine you entered into the competition, you were either in the red wine room or white wine room. It seemed most of the ladies brought and chose to taste reds. There were only 3 or 4 people in the white room!!
The red group was so big that we actually split up into two groups.
Half of us tasted about eight wines and the other half tasted the other eight wines.
We had a sheet and rated each wine on a scale of 1 to 10.
In the end the person who brought the favorite wines of the three groups got to take home wine in the prize pool!
Given that 25 people attended, that means there were 25-bottles of wine split between three women to take home!!!
This was such a fun idea for a party and a great way to get members up and mingling after the business portion of the meeting.
Hooray for fun parlor meetings!
