Gift Tip #36: In-home wine tasting

Hosting an in-home wine tasting can be a gift to all attendees and makes for a special evening. The tasting can be a stand alone event or one that accompanies other festivities such as an upcoming holiday party, dinner party, girls night in or another event that would be appropriate.

There are local wine companies that would be willing to come to your residence (or another space) and share with you private label wines from syrahs to dessert wines (everyone is in love with Moscato right now, I even heard it in a rap song but that's a whole different blog post!).

In addition, if you happen to love a wine, the on site wine consultant will usually have bottles for purchase or be willing to take orders and have the items delivered or shipped to your home. PRP International is a great wine company whose mission is to provide consistently top quality products to their clients. They also have a satisfaction guaranteed policy so get the bottles poppin' with an in-home wine tasting. Your guests (aka giftees) will be pleased, guaranteed!

source: prpwine.com

Gift Tip #6: Wine Away

This one is for wine lovers, especially those that may spill a few drops as the libations flow:) This gift tip is the Wine Away Red Wine Stain Emergency Kit. It's a takealong kit that you can throw in your purse to take care of any mishaps...just spray the spot with the solution and watch it vanish.

Wine Facts

• Foot treading of grapes is still used in producing a small quantity of the best port wines (think I Love Lucy)


• Chilling tones down the sweetness of wine. If a red wine becomes too warm, it may lose some of its fruity flavor.


• All states have at least one winery.


• Wine Consumption in the U.S. reached a high of 2.68 gallons per resident in 2003.

Good to know: Here's the best order of wine tasting: sparkling, white, red; young before old; light before heavy; dry before sweet; common before fine.

source: 800wine.com, merryvale.com