Host Cheese & Wine Party - How To Select Your Pairings

To Host Cheese & Wine Party is not only a pleasurable experience but an opportunity to express your (self-learnt) and favorite cheese and wine matches. The types of pairing parties you can host are unlimited, because you can creatively base them on various themes.

For example, you could have one-cheese-type or one-wine-type themed parties. This style of hosting would be recommended if your invitees are already seasoned participants of such pairing and tasting outings. However, for an entertaining and enjoyable pairing party, it is best recommended that - mixed variety of cheese and wines are paired. This would satisfy not only the cheese and wine palettes of the diverse participants of the tasting group, but keep the conversation and discussions flowing; ensuring your invites for such events are always coveted in the future!

Another example to host Cheese & Wine Party  is the formal party type. In this type of pairing event, you can have a closed-group of guests. These could include your friends, from work or from your social network group. You would probably want each of your friends from your various groups to meet because all of them are passionate about gourmet food, outings, gatherings or cheese or the wines in particular.

The ground rules of each type or occasion of the party are different. This applies to the formal types of tasting parties as well as unstructured cheese and wine tasting as well. But one of the most important questions that bother every host of such events is:

How to select the Cheese and Wine when you Host Cheese & Wine Party?

Over time, cheese industry experts and ardent turophiles (those who love cheese are called thus) have concluded that any session for cheese and wine tasting should have a variety of minimum of six types of cheese.

Their scientific conclusions do offer hosts of such tasting sessions, the best thumb rules to ensure that their cheese-and-wine-loving guests are always well-served at the session. Additionally, these cheeses have to be complemented by similar wine styles. This ensures that popular interests and varieties are always met across the wide-selection of cheese tastes.

The six categories of cheese that are highly recommended for formal or informal tasting sessions include the following: Soft white cheese, Goat’s cheese, Cheddar (preferably aged or vintage variety), Blue cheese, Any of the Eye cheese group such as Swiss cheese or Gruyere, and the popular cheese variety which gets its name by a technique used to make the cheese- washed rind cheese.

 When you host Cheese & Wine Party it would be a great success if you pair these six cheese categories with wide ranging styles of wines.

The typical consumption of cheese per guest should be limited to 20gms, per cheese variety. Wines on the other hand have to be served responsibly and ensured that not more than 50 ml is served per wine variety.  The practice is to sip at the wine, before the cheese. The tartness of the wine apparently stimulates taste buds and prepares it for the soft texture and smoothness of cheese. The cheeses then coat the tongue, creating a  soft layer which    enhances the tartness of wines.