1/ Choose the glasses

Please, don’t overlook this point. Glasses are a very important feature of wine tasting. How do you recognize good wine glasses? Two requierements must be respected:
- First, it must be a stemmed glass, this prevents your hands from warming the wine.
- Secondly, a good wine glass must have a wide shape in the middle then gets thinner at the top so as to concentrate the aromas.

2/ Pour wines at an appropriate temperature

When you open bottles, wines should be at 16°c / 60° Farenheit so that gold and blue bottles will get a little bit warmer during tasting.

In summer, don’t hesitate to put bottles in chilled water with a dozen ice cubes to avoid wine temperatures rising above 20°c / 68° Farenheit.

3/ Hide the evidence

In spite of our efforts, sometimes evidence of wine origins is still visible, especially on corks. Once bottles are opened, be sure to hide corks from other players’ view.

4/ Offer good pairings

For this red wine box, we recommend the following:
- Bread;
- Sautéed mushroom salad;
- Wild game "paté";
- Beef tartare on slices of bread.

5/ Create a relaxed climate

Mystères et Bonnes bouteilles aims to be an accessible tasting game. Even if everyone wants to win the game, we encourage discussions and friendliness! Last, but not least, a spitoon is higly recoomended.

Happy tasting!

PS: review these tips at any time thanks to QR code printed on rules and on the game box.