An at home wine tasting is easy to arrange and requires very little in the way of  party planning. You’ll need wine but if you ask guests to bring a bottle of their favourite vino that will keep costs down. Aside from that you just need some disposable plastic wine glasses, plenty of snacks and space in the fridge to chill any white or sparkling wines.

Prepare your wine stations by wine type – one for red, one for white and one for dessert / sparkling. Set aside a couple of bottles for a game of ‘Guess the Grape’ later on. You can act as the Sommelier yourself, or enlist the help of a non-drinking buddy and let each guest sample any of the wines they choose. If they like a particular wine, offer them a full glass.

To play ‘Guess the Grape’, cover the labels of a few of each type of wine and hand guests a sheet of paper with spaces for them to write each answer. Guests should sniff and taste the wine and then make their guess as to which type or grape variety the wine is based upon. Having sampled each wine, they must write down the grape from which it was made, be it Chardonnay, Merlot or Shiraz. The winner takes home an unopened bottle as a prize…and maybe some paracetamol for their headache.