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I often have wine tasting parties at my trailer. Typically on a Friday night- so that we have at least two days to recover. We always try different wines- but as we are on a strict budget, we try never to spend more than three dollars on a bottle.

I have found that the best, and strongest, wines come in plastic containers with screw tops. I am not sure why anyone would buy a bottle of wine with a cork in it- it seems so Un-American somehow. Screw tops make sense, and in case you don't guzzle it all, you can replace the top.

Naturally we serve cheese to go with the fine wine. I have a preference to cheese in the can on potato chips- but you don't have to get that fancy, a bag of cheese puffs will work in a pinch.

I have also discovered that any fancy wine tasting should employ a good steel bucket.

Some of those wines can come up as quickly as they went down in the first place.

Typically we dont bother with any glasses, we just sit in a circle and pass the bottle around the group until it is empty.

A tip is to save those empties and recycle- in some states you can get as much as five cents a bottle back. That means for every forty bottl;e of wine you but, you are getting one free. that might not sound a lot, but if you figure it out oevr a year, that is quite a few extra bottles you are getting.

I got really fancy the other day, and we got a few bottles of fruit flavoured wines. ow some of them can get pricey -costing as much as four dollars a bottle. But the wife sure did seem to appreciate it- she really liked the apple flavoured wine.

Remember always to drink responsibility.

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