This Saturday, December 2nd, I’m having a party at my place. Even though I’ve lived here for over three years, I consider this to be one of the christening events for my ‘new’ home. Of course, since I’m incapable of entertaining even the most self-sufficient of house guests, my party is centered around an activity that everyone can enjoy… wine tasting.
It sounds very adult and sophisticated, but I believe that wine tasting is highly underutilized as a party activity. The benefit of having a wine tasting is simple: it’s a good excuse to drink alot of alcohol. But it also has the added feature of taking the burden of finding interesting activities to entertain multiple people that might not get along too well away from the party host(ess), that being me. Who can’t have fun while drinking copious amounts of tasty libations paired with fun finger foods? Which reminds me of the other feature of wine tasting; it’s perfectly okay for the host(ess) to provide foods whose only preparation requirements are a little slicing.
The only other ‘party’, if you will, that I have hosted on a regular basis would be poker parties. These I would also highly recommend to anyone out in the world that shares my own lazy party planning sensibilities. Very little is expected out of a poker gathering than a chair, a table and if it’s a really good gathering, some simple alcohols and a pizza.
So let’s have fun and get drunk, umm, I mean wine taste!