Smells. You shouldn’t really wear perfume or cologne to a wine tasting and you shouldn’t smoke even. But it can happen, and unfortunately some people do wear perfume to wine tasting and some people do smoke. In fact without your knowledge maybe your whole house was cleaned in lemon scented or pine scented polish, which might also contribute its own odor to the whole wine tasting affair. So remember to leave your perfumes, colognes and smoking materials behind when you go for a wine tasting.

The wrong glassware can also impede a person’s enjoyment of wine and should be taken into consideration if you’re serving wine.

Again quite a lot depends on the guests you’ve invited and whether it’s a formal or informal affair. Which in turn leads us to our next subject: guests, or in other words bad company. If you’re hosting a wine party then one of the best ways to make sure that everyone enjoys themselves is to make sure that your guests don’t clash with each other. This might be hard on a grand scale, but [...]