The Choice Of Beverages
The Choice Of Beverages
The wine you serve the guests at your reception should
involve a lot of careful consideration.
Undoubtedly, you will spend a great deal of time selecting
your menu and cake, but don’t relegate your wine to an
afterthought. If you have time, take advantage of the occasion
and start a wine course. Impress your guests with your in-depth
knowledge of wine!
This may seem like a lot of trouble, but when else are you
going to throw an event like a wedding? This may be the most
momentous occasion of your life, and deserves to be celebrated
with the best food and wine available.
Do you or your family have a special‚ or favourite wine? It
is a lovely idea to share this with your friends at your
reception. If you don’t know much about wine, use this as the
perfect opportunity to experiment. Share some recommended wines
with your fiancé as you have dinner leading up to your wedding
to help make the decision easier.
What you offer your guests to drink is equally as important
as the choice of menu, but must complement the food. You will
also need to consider the time of day and season. Try to match
the quality and style of wine to the quality and style of food.
Full-flavoured wines should accompany full-flavoured dishes.
Light wines should accompany light dishes.
You can also have a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic
cocktails available. Have all the special touches at the ready:
mint leaves, olives, pickled onions, salt, sugar, cream, etc.
You will want champagne or an Australian sparkling wine
available for all toasts.
What Wine Will Match My Menu?
White wines are generally served with the entrée and first
course. The heavier main course normally demands a red, however,
if you’re having seafood all the way through, you may wish to
stick with white wine with just a few bottles of red for those
who wish to change.
How Much Is Necessary?
Working on a list of one hundred guests, if they are to be
served a sparkling wine as they arrive and the same sparkling
wine is to be used later as a toast, you will probably go
through three dozen bottles. Champagne flutes hold less than the
average wine glass but people tend to have a second or third
glass when they are standing around in a group. For the table
wines, each 750ml bottle, if served correctly, should give you
seven glasses. For 100 guests to have two glasses of each wine
you will need 30 bottles or two and a half dozen. You will
probably need one white and one red so in total you will have to
buy eight dozen bottles including the sparkling.
It is true, wine tastes better when it’s drunk out of a
finer, well-designed glass. Badly shaped thick glass goblets
don’t allow the aromas of the wine to escape properly. All
necessary glasses can be hired.
A Soft Selection
It is vital to have an extensive range of soft-drinks available
for your guests. Some guests may be the “designated driver” for
the evening and cannot drink at all.
You can select from mineral, tonic and soda water, fruit
juices, softdrinks, apple cider, lemon and lime cordials or even
create an old-fashioned non-alcoholic punch.
Finally, don’t forget to have plenty of ice available for all
beverages.
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