Business events in Italy with wine and cooking lessons

Looking for new ideas for your corporate events and team building in Italy with wine and cooking classes?
If you are planning your next convention or meeting for top management, Le Baccanti can help find new ideas to entertain your guests during their teambuilding activity!

Why choose wine and cooking lessons for your corporate team building activity?
What's better than an experience engaging all senses while entertaining the participants after a day of business meetings? Sight, smell, taste and touch all the senses are stimulated by a wine tasting or cooking class.
Team building activities with wine and cooking for corporate events are the ideal vehicles not only to provide a good time guests but also to transmit cultural content of our beautiful country in an engaging and enjoyable format.

The choices are almost endless!
Barolo....
Franciacorta...
Or perhaps you prefer a wine tasting event in Amarone or Soave?
Tuscany with Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino and/or Nobile di Montepulciano?
Even Puglia!
Visit Umbria to discover Montefalco and Orvieto for beautiful and high-quality wines.

The activities are diverse and flexible- we are ready for all your requests.
If you don't have a clear idea and you are still looking for the right teambuilding activities for the next corporate event, this blog can provide some inspiration. For custom requests, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Examples of Team Building Events in Italy:
- Masterpieces of the Senses (art and wine)
- Wine and Teambuilding dinner: Dinner Wine Challenge
- Make your own wine
- Wine Challenge Aperitig in Milan
- Pasta Challenge: Team building in the Kitchen
- Team building with olive oil trivia and tasting in Tuscany
- Wine, Spirits and Chocolate pairing
- Team building with Pasta in a winery in Rome
- Gourmet Orienteering in Sorrento or the Amalfi Coast

Objectives of Team Building with Wine, Food and Art

What is the objective of a Team Building event?

There are many objectives to a team building even and they all derive from the desire to foster cooperation and team spirit. For this reason many companies decide to organize team building activities for their employees.

Can Team Building activities be entertaining?

Yes, if the team building event is done by professional staff it can be entertaining! Very often Team Building is also used as opportunities for fun, recreation and incentive to staff and management.

Team Building activities can be adapted in many different ways, including aspects of games and creativity in order to provide an enjoyable evening outside of work. The activities can be customized according to the objectives you want to achieve.

Le Baccanti specializes in creating Team Building with wine, food and culinary instruction in Italy.

Why Team Building with wine?

Team Building activities with wine are an excellent way to engage all the senses in order to stimulate a group’s interest. Sight, smell, touch and taste are the tools that participants will be asked to use for games and for the challenge of the evening. Wine events usually involve a picturesque location, the vast knowledge of a wine expert and enthusiasm of our team to complete the recipe.

Team Building Options: 

Wine Challenge, Aperitivo in Milan or Make Your Own Wine.

Why Team Building with a cooking class?

Using Italian food and culinary arts as a medium for team building will highlight the various aptitudes and abilities of your employees and will be an excellent opportunity to bring to light your participants’ leadership, manual and problem solving skills, organization capabilities and ability to work under pressure.

How many of your employees are accustomed to making pasta by hand? And how many can make 10 consistently shaped ravioli in 2 minutes? Here’s how you can put them to the test:

Team Building Options: Pasta Challenge, Cooking in Chianti Classico, Roman Cooking, Outdoor Chef Challenge.

Why Team-Build using music and art?

Team Building with music and art amplifies the sense already engaged by wine. Italy is full of musical and artistic masterpieces that will inspire and awe.

Team Building options: Wine and Music OR Wine, Art and Music.

Travel Incentive: Wine Tour in Chianti to San Gimignano

If you need to arrange an afternoon of relaxation for your guests visiting Florence, Le Baccanti has the solution as to how to put together fun and culture in a program that will take your guests to visit the Manhattan of Tuscany (San Gimignano) and be delighted by the flavors of the Chianti Classico region in a medieval castle.

This journey takes you from Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance, to San Gimignano. An experienced guide will accompany participants through the streets of the village and will focus on cultural and architectural details of the city (best known for gold and saffron) from the Collegiate church to continue the Pinacoteca.

Visit a wonderful medieval castle cellar

From San Gimignano, the group will be ready to reach a stunning medieval castle and visit the cellar where it produces one of the finest Chianti Classico wines. After the welcome reception to the castle, guests will be guided to learn winemaking techniques and visit historical places where wines are aged and refined.

During the dinner chapter of the incentive program, guests can join in the kitchens of the castle to observe an experienced chef at work. Your guests will enjoy a long, relaxing Chianti Classico tasting dinner.

Dine in a Chianti Classico Castle

A full dinner of traditional dishes of Tuscan cuisine accompanied by a selection of wines, learn about the gem of Tuscany which is Chianti Classico while being comfortably entertained in the halls of a historical castle.

The travel incentive program can be organized late in the afternoon, so you can comfortably carry on with your convention work or incorporate morning or early afternoon entertainment activities for accompanying persons apart of your incentive trip.