Tupperware, Mary Kay, Home Interiors, At Home America, Tastefully Simple…The Traveling Vineyard? These days, anything can be bought at a home party, even wine.
So many of us are barraged with invitations to the same old home parties, time after time. While we may appreciate a night out, we have to wonder…is it really worth dragging myself out for more of the same? Do I really want to feel obligated to buy more overpriced, mass market home décor just to visit my friend? Fear no more, The Traveling Vineyard is shaking home parties up.
The premise of The Traveling Vineyard is simple. Relaxing, fun, un-snobby, ‘Wine Adventures’ in your home. The Traveling Vineyard’s goal is to market high-quality ’boutique’ wines through direct selling at home parties in a way that is fun and educational.
When you host a Traveling Vineyard wine tasting event in your home, a Traveling Vineyard consultant will work with you each step of the way to ensure an entertaining home wine tasting experience that is not at all intimidating. Your Traveling Vineyard consultant will help you choose simple snacks and hors d’oeuvres that will pair well with the wines you and he or she have selected for tasting. Consultants select wine tasting choices based on the varieties of wine you and your guests like to drink most often, as well as those you would like to try and learn more about.
Five varieties of wine are served at the average Traveling Vineyard wine tasting party. Twelve guests is recommended by the Traveling Vineyard as the ideal number for an in home wine tasting party. Each wine is tasted in turn, lead by the Traveling Vineyard consultant. Your consultant will show you the techniques of wine tasting. You will look at the ‘legs’ of the wine, smell the wine’s aroma, swirl to let the wine breathe, and most importantly, taste the wine. Guests are encouraged to pay attention to the finish and bouquet of the wine, its dryness and body, among other common wine attributes. As you and your guests taste, food pairing is discussed as well, and the Traveling Vineyard consultant will show how wines and foods can complement each other for maximum enjoyment.
Traveling Vineyard in home wine tasting parties are meant to be stress-free events for average wine consumers as well as seasoned wine aficionados. The goal of the Traveling Vineyard is to educate wine tasting guests in a friendly atmosphere, free from intimidation and ceremony (and sell some wine in the meantime). Everyone is encouraged to experiment and question, and to disregard wine tasting tenets that do not work for them. Ultimately, guests are encouraged to “drink what you like”, despite hard and fast rules held by many very serious wine aficionados.
All of the wines offered by the Traveling Vineyard are considered ’boutique’ wines, but are offered through volume buying by the company to consumers at very reasonable, discounted prices. In fact, the Traveling Vineyard offers many wines starting around ten dollars, the price of many store wine offerings of only fair quality. When the Traveling Vineyard says they sell boutique wines, by that they mean wines that are produced by top quality vineyards in limited quantities. Boutique wines are very difficult, if not impossible, to buy in mainstream markets. A large number of the Traveling Vineyard’s wine offerings are award winning varieties.
An advantage the Traveling Vineyard has over other home party marketing companies is that their product, great tasting wines, is not limited in interest to women. Men and women can equally enjoy the fun and education of an in home wine tasting, so although a girl’s night out is certainly an option, a couple’s night makes for a great wine tasting experience, and guests can feel freer to attend by not having to feel guilty about leaving their families.
Traveling Vineyard in home wine tasting parties have become widely successful over the past few years and the company continues to grow. However, Traveling Vineyard wine tasting parties are not available in all fifty of the United States due to varying state regulations for selling and delivering wine in private homes. To find out if your state is friendly to Traveling Vineyard wine tasting parties, check their website at thetravelingvineyard.com.
A Traveling Vineyard home wine tasting party is a fun way to learn about wine and wine tasting in a stress-free environment. There is no cost to the host or hostess except the cost of simple snacks and hors d’oeuvres for serving and pairing. You can find a Traveling Vineyard consultant near you through the Traveling Vineyard’s website.
