Corporate wine tastings are very popular throughout the UK and further afield. There are no restrictions as to what style of wine tasting you could hold – from formal professional led wine tastings, to laid-back networking events. This article will outline some of the best ways to hold a corporate wine tasting event.You could hold a wine tasting event as part of a team building event for new staff, or new departments. Attendees could work together to identify the different characteristics of different wines. This is not only fun but informative too. You could even try a wine and cheese team building event where participants have to match the correct cheese with the correct wine. If you’re feeling ambitious, why not bring in a more formal wine expert to lead a horizontal or vertical tasting? A horizontal tasting features wines from the same vintage but not the same grape, and a vertical tasting presents wines from the same grape but a variety of vintages. Depending on your target audience, you can make this even as complex or as straight forward as you wish. Wine tastings are also great to raise money for charity. They usually attract a large amount of attendees because not only is in aid of a good cause, but everyone involved gets a glass of wine or two as well! You can add a raffle and other prizes to raise even more money for the chosen charity as well – everyone’s a winner!Food and wine pairings also go down very well as corporate wine tasting events. This could be as large as a 5 course meal, each course with a different wine, or simply just wine with canapés that complement each other. Food and wine pairings are great for networking events as there is usually a lot of time for chatting and mingling between courses or between different wines. These few corporate wine tasting ideas should give you an idea of what you could arrange to entertain clients, celebrate achievements or just bond better as a team.
