Okay, this sounds like a great set of ideas. But how does one go about finding people interested in wines and wine tasting if none of their regular friends are are into it? Any suggestions on how to form a tasting group?
Forgot to mention...
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> For 1 we drink the wines NOT blind, but without knowing the price.
> After the tasting, but before the food we try to guess the price.
> Nothing formal - just yelling out until someone stumbles on the
> correct answer. Seems to go down well, but personally I would like to
> try a few more variations on what information we are given and what we > have to guess.
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> For 2 we usually taste armed with a full set of information. Though
> we did do one blind tasting. We revisited some of the Schuster wines
> after completing his course, and tasted them blind.
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> Sheet with information, and for notes, is provided by the buyer at all > tastings.