Planning a special event such as a wedding, family reunion, or birthday party, or even something business related for clients or colleagues? Running out of money, time and energy? Not sure how to make all the loose ends come together before your big day is here? Well, at least with respect to making sure you have something tasty to pour in your guests’ glasses shouldn’t be a problem. Here are some tips on getting that all important wine purchase completed with ease and efficiency.
First of all, what do you want to drink? Do you want some really fine drink to be served throughout your event or maybe just something fancy and bubbly for when your guests arrive? Will there be drinking the entire happening or just before, during or after a meal? Besides the vino, will there be other beverages available? Will there be a lot of children and non-drinkers?
Once you’ve determined what to drink, save yourself some hassle by ordering it online and having it delivered. Wine delivery in the UK is a snap. There is a variety of options out there too – from high end providers like Berry Bros & Rudd (although this age old purveyor of wine stocks a good assortment of inexpensive bottles) to considerably more budget friendly solutions such as Tesco (although, even this well known supermarket has some excellent and fairly upmarket wines available to purchase via its website).
Of course, finding a few quality quaffs to go with your meal and festivities isn’t all that difficult (and can even be kinda of fun getting to play sommelier), and ordering it online is easy as well. However, figuring out just how much of the stuff to order is quite another. Coming up with a guesstimate as to how much wine to have on hand can be complicated but it doesn’t have to be as much of a head scratcher as you might think.
Keep in mind that one bottle of wine equals about five servings and that a case has a dozen bottles in it. And a safe rule of thumb is to assume that your average guest at a celebration will probably consume about one drink per hour as long as there are other activities going on as well.
Whatever the situation – just be sure you don’t run out of wine as that could really dampen the spirits of your guests and leave you scrambling last minute to try and remedy the problem.
Written for Tesco.
