TEAM-BUILDING is an excellent way to have fun at your event.  But it's much more.  It is interactive and it promotes teamwork among your staff or staff and clients.

Team building events can be within a wine tasting or can be within a number of other types of events, for example, "Creating a Gourmet Meal With a Master Chef, Wine Idol Tasting Notes Competition, and more..."

TEAM-BUILDING EXERCISE WITHIN A WINE TASTING EVENT:

Our wine tasting events are in a desirable setting like an art gallery, French bistro, jazz club, museum, sports hall of fame, winery, etc.  The typical event is a stand-up and mingle event.  We sample interesting wines according to a theme.  Our wine host pours the wine and describes the aromas, flavors, balance and finish of the various wines.  Guests learn and enjoy in an entertaining way.  

... BUT, in addition to the free-form aspect of the event,  we have a team building exercise in which we split up into groups and write tasting notes.  One recent event had 30 attendees. After tasting 4 wines together, we split the attendees into three groups.  Groups One and Two were charged with writing tasting notes on the fifth wine (a Bordeaux-style Meritage).  Group Three was charged with judging the other two groups' tasting notes.  A winner was selected according to merit.  All ten members of the winner group received a prize bottle of the wine!

The team building exercise is done according to the team style of management as advanced by such systems as Six Sigma and others.  Your own corporate system can be applied if you desire.

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