 
I'm Marissa Ross, wine editor at Bon Appetit magazine and author of Wine All the Time: The Casual Guide to Confident Drinking.
I'm so excited you guys were able to come over, although I'm going to admit I'm not quite finished, but come on in.
So I write about wine and I love entertaining and I'm so excited to have Article here today to
talk about how much I love wine entertaining and also how much interior design means to me.
First things first, I'm really into flowers. You wouldn't maybe know it, but I'm kind of an anxious person
and making arrangements before people
come over is a way for me to just have a bit of me time
and create something with my hands that means a lot. And it's just, I also really like aesthetics.
I love to have a small arrangement over in, the familial
family zonee. I like to put an E on the end of my zonees,
but I also really love to have a bouquet at the head of the table.
The reason I like to have one at the head of the table is that when
my guests come, having a floral arrangement at the head of the table really draws
everyone's eye down the table and gets them excited to sit down and have some wine.
It's always important to set the mood with some jams.
I really like doing things that are instrumental because I think that you can talk over them very easily.
I definitely go for exotica music, which is like this like 1960s Martin Denny kind of vibe,
so it's perfect for dinner and before dinner and all that, and then later you can just blast Kendrick Lamar.
It's just straight... It's a good DJ move.
I also love to have a puzzle out. I know this sounds like grandma, but puzzles are great.
 
The puzzle is a great thing if you're a Jerry and you're bringing people together
because they can work on an activity together without feeling the pressure of being involved in the conversation nonstop because that's a lot of pressure.
Another thing I love to have on my table is a marble wine cooler.
So what's great about these is you can throw them in the freezer and that they hold their temperature for
an extremely long period of time. So your sparkling wine or white wine, whatever you have in there.
I personally like to start with sparkling wine when guests come over.
 
It gets people's pallets going with all the fuzzy bubbles. It's like scrubbing bubbles.
Everyone's like, oh, I want cheese, I want bread, I want it all. And you're like, yes, I'm already doing a great job.
Also too, it just makes everything feel like a party even if it's not. Who doesn't want to celebrate just being alive, right?
Something important to always have is a wine.
You got to your wine.
I like putting out a couple of different things that people can get excited about.
Now we've got a white got, well it's like got skin contact,
but give them something to look forward to. You don't necessarily have to open them right away,
but it's nice to have them out. I have a little, equation that I use for buying wine.
It takes some math though. So let me consult my textbook.
Number of guests times number
of estimated glasses per guest divided by four equals
number of bottles needed. Or if you have the money for it, just buy a bottle of wine per person.
That's a way to be really safe. And the thing about that is that leftover wine is
way better than leftover food because it can stay in your fridge for as long as you want it to without
making everything smell like onions.
Now something I learned with working with Article that I didn't expect to learn is
that I got this new media console.
The media console I had here before was much bigger and I didn't realize how much it took over the room.
And now that I have a smaller console,
actually the other pieces in my room get to shine a lot more. Like this beautiful green velvet couch that is straight out of my dreams.
That now gets a shine instead of the console.
Now I also like to have something over here to drink because
let's be honest,
you're probably still going to be drinking. Maybe pick something that's actually lighter, lower in alcohol.
Since you guys have probably already been drinking a bunch, this is like 11.5%
so it's a nice red, a little warmer than maybe what you were drinking earlier but still like a bit lighter in alcohol.
And then once everyone goes home,
I get you come to my zonee
and enjoy myself.
It's a wonderful
way to end the evening where we're together at the table, but this brings everyone even closer. .
There's enough here to sit way
more people than you're probably supposed to and
I love how my friends always sit on the floor and we can bring the chairs over
and we can all be together and whether it's talking over a movie, or playing a game,
it's just a really beautiful way to end the evening and
to just be together.
Caesar, would you like to join me my love. We both like to have our time on
the couch together
and just celebrate a beautiful evening. Do you want to come closer?
We did a really good job. You were very well behaved. I love you
and you love me, and that's all that matters.
