This document provides tips for serving wine at a fancy dinner party. It recommends displaying the next bottle of wine that will be opened in an eye-catching wine bottle holder on the table to generate discussion and excitement among guests about what wine is coming next. It also suggests continuing to surprise guests by putting unopened bottles from the pantry into the holder after opening a new bottle, rather than just sequentially opening bottles from the pantry.

1. Wine at the Party
Here's the situation – you have a dinner party with some
fancy guests coming and you need to step up your game.
You've got a few bottles of wine tucked away in your
pantry. Usually you would bring out one, then when it
runs out, probably go grab the next one until they are all
gone. Al thought that might work a little bit of mystery
into your party, it really isn't driving discussion or
drinking. What if, instead, you made the wine the
centerpiece? One bottle is open and being poured while
the next is displayed in a fancy Wine Bottle Holder on the
table. Because it is displayed in this eye-catching way,
your guests will spend a little more time looking to see
what is next in the lineup.
They can discuss its merits, guess if they will like it better
than the one they are drinking, and maybe even be so
excited that they down their glass in a hurry to see what it
is like. You just don't get that kind of dynamic if the wine
is hanging out with the canned spinach. But the element
of surprise and mystery that you've lost? Don't lose it, or
let your Wine Bottle Holder go to waste. When the next

2. bottle is opened up, go grab the one from the pantry and
put it in the wine bottle holder. Rinse and repeat.