Looking for an informal and relaxed way to help with team building or entertain clients?
We offer bespoke events that can cater to companies of all sizes and budgets.
We can come to your office or arrange a suitable venue elsewhere. The tastings can be run as games or competitions, or classic wine or food and wine matching events. The choice is yours!
Get in touch via our form at the bottom of this page for more information and we will be delighted to help.
Choose from the following or tell us your ideas and we'll create something to suit!
- Classic wine tasting - Six wines from around the world with some food matching
- Blind wine tasting/wine tasting quiz - Taste wines without knowing what they are! Make it into a competition with a prize for the winner
- Champagne and Sparkling - Explore the world's best bubblies
- Cheese and Wine Matching - Great wines paired with great cheese
- Chocolate and Wine Matching - A truly indulgent tasting
- Fine Wine Encounter - Taste premium wines from the best regions
- Craft Beer Tasting - The latest thing in beer trends, find out what makes craft beer different
- Gin Tasting - If you think you know Gin, think again! This tasting will open your eyes to the different styles around
Our 'Whose Wine is it Anyway?' game is a great way to learn more about wine. It's a proven format involving a fun quiz with lots of carefully-picked clues and helpful tips from your wine host to allow novices as much chance of winning as seasoned wine drinkers!
"Fantastic - very relaxed and enjoyable. Some laughs among the seriousness. Would definitely recommend!"
We will sample at least 6 different quality wines and compare them side by side and you can include Champagne. We always include a rapid introductory session on how to taste wine – explained in a no-nonsense practical way - and we can introduce our aroma phial kits, a box of wine-related aromas that are a uniquely inventive test of your sensory skills in a way that provides entertainment and interest.
We can also run themed evenings such as France vs New World, Bordeaux vintages, Old vs Young wines, Australia vs America (or anything else you might like to suggest).
Our wine tastings are entertaining and good fun, pitched at a level that ensures all the guests learn something new about wine and, most importantly, have a great time doing so.
The venue can be selected from our list, or the event can be organised at the clients premises/offices. The event can take many formats, from fun and informal with quiz/team element, to a tutored tasting with a wide variety of wines. All equipment, glasses, wine, notes etc are supplied. We have organised & hosted wine-tasting events for Ward Hadaway, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Eversheds, Benchmark Communications, BT, and many others.
Our format for the evening can be tailor made but normally includes the following -
- Hire/cleaning of professional ISO tasting glasses
- Chilling equipment for optimal serving of white wines
- Approx 6 different high-quality wines
- Professional tasting notes /quiz sheets on each wine
- Digital projection equipment with DVDs/Maps/Slides
- A fun quiz/team format tutored tasting
- Nez du Vin Aroma - sets of wine-related scents (fun!)
Make An Enquiry / Request PDF Brochure
We would be delighted to organise your wine tasting event, so please get in touch by completing our wine tasting enquiry form below. We will send you our lovely PDF brochure full of great event ideas, with full details of prices & availability.
Or call Neil Bull on 01371 267260 or email info@essexwineschool.com.
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