In-Home Tastings

Host A Billy’s Best Bottles Tasting in Your Home!

BILLY’S BEST BOTTLES offers a new way to learn about wine, and to see wine differently. Learn how to select the right wine for any moment and mood.

Gather twelve or more of your friends and have Billy Munnelly (and his partner Kato Wake) come to your home to conduct their ‘wine by mood crash course’. A guaranteed great afternoon or evening of education and celebration! Cook some food or have a pot luck dinner after they leave. Sounds like fun? It is!

Billy’s Best Bottles wine tasting seminar is ideal for anyone interested in getting more enjoyment out of wine, and wanting to overcome ‘wine fear’ and intimidation. This crash course turns wine learning on its head and delivers amazing insights and results. Billy and Kato invite the class to see wine in much the same way as one sees music. “Wine and music play similar roles in our lives – let’s use our understanding and natural ability to match music with mood to springboard our ‘wine playing’ skills. Matching the spirit or character of a wine to an event is the great overlooked challenge in wine. The person who knows which wine to play is the real wine expert.”

HOW DOES IT WORK?

We’ll start you off with our enlightening Wine 101 – served with a complimentary Sparkling wine – followed by a tasting of 8 wines from around the globe (4 whites and 4 reds). In just over 2 hours you’ll identify each wine’s spirit/character and discover their best use.  It’s an experience that will boost your confidence and open up a new world of possibilities for pleasure. It is perfect for the beginner and an eye-opener for the ’seasoned wine pro’. Great for parties of all kinds – birthdays, showers, family events  – AND all participants take home a copy of Billy Munnelly’s Annual Wine Handbook (Billy’s Best Bottles Wine for 2011– retail value $20).

WHAT YOU NEED TO PROVIDE

You need to supply TWO identical wine glasses per guest (you can rent them or ask your friends to bring their own), a bag or two of ice, and a place for everyone to place their 2 glasses and a 8.5 x 11″ piece of paper. (Often hosts provide water and bread during the tasting – and appetizers while we do our Sparkling Wine 101.)

HOW MANY?

Minimum number is 12. No maximums if you have the space. Groups sitting around coffee tables work just fine. NO need for everyone to sit at one long table.

HOW MUCH?

The cost is $45 per person plus 13% HST = $50.85 pp. The fee includes a Sparkling wine reception, eight wines, tasting sheets, Billy’s wonderful handbook – and our educational expertise. This is the best deal to be had anywhere in the province. Seriously.

We try our hardest to keep our fee as low as possible, but because we are now located in Prince Edward County, we need to add a Travel surcharge for return trip travel to cover gas and time:
Kingston $50
Ottawa $200
Toronto $150
Peterborough $100
Oshawa $125
Kitchener/Stratford $200
London $250

WHAT NEXT?

If interested, please email us at billysbestbottles@gmail.com and we can confirm a date. (Best to have a few back up ideas). Then download the confirmation sheet below, fill it out and email it back to billysbestbottles@gmail.com

PRINT THIS OFF confirmation sheet 2011 and then email it back to billysbestbottles@gmail.com.

Download the FAQ SHEET here.

Note: Billy’s Wine School is designed for private in-home parties. For larger groups, we offer three wine courses that are as fun as this one. Email us at  billysbestbottles@gmail.com or click here for information.

RAVE REVIEWS!

“All of our guests loved it. My husband was thrilled and I had a great time too. Thank you so much for being on time, for being very professional and for delivering a great and memorable experience. As the hostess, I was able to relax and enjoy myself and let you do all the work!”

” I was a night I won’t soon forget. I’ve heard nothing but rave reviews from all our guests.”

“It was the best party I’ve EVER been to!”

“Billy and Kato were so great. What a good team they are!”

“I’m already following up with the hospital foundation and talking to the event planner…”

“We had so much fun learning about wine, tasting the wine, drinking the wine, and the food was terrific!”

“That was excellent! Everybody raved about the evening. It seems you really hit a hot button. They had a serious desire to know more about wine, and you surpassed their expectations by far. After you left there was this general feeling of exhilaration, relief, and anticipation.”

“Thank you very much for engineering the start of one of the best parties we’ve ever had! What a fabulous low-key way to present wine.”

“My friends absolutely adored the wine tasting, and it was a great surprise that the “seminar” was so interactive. Everyone had a wonderful time and thought you two were fab!!!”