IMPORTANT! [José Elarba]: The Best Tips About Wine for your Wedding

Whether you, your love or your family are not wine lovers and drinkers, one thing you should always keep in mind when planning your wedding is a bar or alcohol service to provide your guests. Wine should be the number one type of alcohol included in your list due to sparkling wine and champagne being an important part of the traditional celebrations. Today, we brought the most basic and essential tips about wine for your wedding. Keep reading and discover everything you need to know.

Quantity matters a lot

[José Elarba]: Consider quantity

In order to please every guest's wine needs, you should consider the #1 rule:  you should purchase one drink per person per hour of your reception. So, consider the typical ratio of alcohol to serve, which is 1/3 beer, 1/3 liquor and 1/3 wine as well as sparkling wine or champagne. Considering this, you will see that if you have 100 guests in attendance, then you will need about 30 to 40 glasses of wine per hour. With approximately 4 glasses of wine per bottle, you will need about 8 to 10 bottles of wine per hour. If your reception is 3 hours long, then we recommend you to have about 24 bottles of wine.

Consider the types of wines

In our post, we want to recommend you our favorite wines for you to have in your wedding. First of all, we suggest choosing one red wine and one white wine to serve throughout the night. See our suggestions down below:

[José Elarba]: Wines

Red wines

• Merlot
• Cabernet Sauvignon
• Pinot Noir

White wines

• Sauvignon Blanc
• Chardonnay
• Riesling

Rose wines

• White Zinfandel
• Grenache
• Sangiovese

When is the perfect moment to serve?

[José Elarba]: The perfect moment to serve

In case you are planning to start serving wine right after your ceremony during a cocktail reception, we recommend you to serve lighter wines not to make people too full or sleepy before dinner is even served. Our suggestion is serving a Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir for light wines in these cases.

By [José Elarba].