Most of our wine-tasting events follow the same idea. Once I have a topic (usually centred around a few bottles), I find participants and finish building the final line-up adapted to signed-up participants. And then, during the event, I serve all bottles blind. On the one hand, it gives a chance to guess the grapes, region and wine. On the other hand, it increases the subjectivity of the tasting experience. I try to avoid the loud names and the weight of the price from interfering with the participant's opinion. So we taste and share our ratings and guesses. And only then do I reveal the bottle, and we continue to the next one. Easy to follow and interesting for different levels.

This form of participation is quite passive (with no negative connotation). Sometimes I want to spice things up by engaging my fellow convives even more by delegating the selection of wine. To Each Their Own Vol. 1 is an attempt to revive the format we used a lot previously. The idea is simple - we agree on the topic (usually grapes) and budget. And then everyone brings a bottle. And then we shuffle them and serve them blindly, so you even have to guess your own bottle. This format brings so much joy!

For this event, our topic was the Pinot family. It means that the wine must be made of the following grapes (mono or blend): Pinot Noir (with all its synonyms like Pinot Nero, Spätburgunder, Blauburgunder), Pinot Gris (Pinot Grigio, Grauburgunder), Pinot Blanc (Weissburgunder), and Pinot Meunier (Schwarzriesling). So meet the United Colors of Pinot.

	Wine #1	Wine #2	Wine #3	Wine #4	Wine #5	Wine #6	Wine #7
Daria B	3.80	3.70	4.00	3.80	3.80	4.00	3.80
Oleksandr R	3.20	3.70	4.20	3.80	3.60	3.10	3.10
Andrii S	3.60	3.40	4.40	3.30	4.10	3.70	4.00
Viktoriya Zh	3.90	3.50	4.40	4.10	4.50	4.00	3.90
Dimitry G	3.20	3.00	4.20	4.00	4.00	3.70	3.20
Elvira K	3.70	3.70	4.00	3.90	3.80	3.90	4.00
Boris B	4.00	3.50	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.10	4.00

	amean	sdev	favourite	outcast	price	QPR
Wine #1	3.6286	0.0878	0.00	0.00	1510.00	0.9228
Wine #2	3.5000	0.0543	0.00	4.00	600.00	1.9386
Wine #3	4.1714	0.0278	2.00	0.00	1402.00	2.2233
Wine #4	3.8429	0.0596	0.00	1.00	1576.00	1.2052
Wine #5	3.9714	0.0706	2.00	0.00	1793.00	1.2823
Wine #6	3.7857	0.0984	3.00	0.00	1590.00	1.0987
Wine #7	3.7143	0.1327	0.00	2.00	1358.00	1.1599

How to read this table:

amean is arithmetic mean (and not 'amen'), calculated as sum of all scores divided by count of scores for particular wine. It is more useful than total, because on some events some wines are not tasted by all participants.
sdev is standard deviation. The bigger this value the more controversial the wine is, meaning that people have different opinions on this one.
favourite is amount of people who marked this wine as favourite of the event.
outcast is amount of people who marked this wine as outcast of the event.
price is wine price in UAH.
QPR is quality price ratio, calculated in as 100 * factorial(rms)/price. The reason behind this totally unprofessional formula is simple. At some point you have to pay more and more to get a little fraction of satisfaction. Factorial used in this formula rewards scores close to the upper bound 120 times more than scores close to the lower bound.