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

A day in San Gimignano with Filippo Bartolotta, Gianfranco Vissani and Mario Cipollini

I originally wanted to talk about Orienteering, Gourmet Team building activity outdoors, perfect for creating team spirit. Instead, we will reminisce about a day we found ourselves in San Gimignano on La7 that ran an episode of "I’ll Bring You There (Ti Ci Porto Io)" the following week. Filippo was the star as a wine expert and the episode was filmed between the towers in San Gimignano of the “Manhattan of Tuscany.” The region is best known for Vernaccia di San Gimignano wine, saffron, gold and masterpieces of art just like the masterpieces of the senses!

Along with Fillippo, Gianfranco Vissani and Michela Rocco di Torrepadula were assisted by an exceptional host, Mario Cipollini, world champion of high level cycling of Italy worldwide!

The piece was filmed starting with masterpieces of Pinacoteca di San Gimignano and continued to Piazza della Cisterna at the top of the rocky hillsides, where with jokes and lots of laughter, we enjoyed a glass of Vernaccia di San Gimignano Riserva!

The view from hills was breathtaking, all with wonderful light snow!

It's really incredible to have the opportunity to see all San Gimignano and countryside around with so much snow.

The episode was aired March 11 2012, the theme was of course Tuscany!

Le Baccanti's charity events in America

Every year since 2010, Filippo Bartolotta takes Le Baccanti to America to facilitate charity dinners and events organized by Alice Waters, Joan Nathan and José Andrés with a team of Italian food & beverage professionals.

Forty famous chefs from Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Martha's Vineyard, New Orleans, from France and Italy, led charity dinners and events across 20 venues in Washington DC.
In 2012, More than 200,000 dollars were collected and donated to two American non-profit organizations D.C. Central Kitchen and Martha's Table, which deal with at-risk socio-economic American cities, providing them with meals and basic necessities. The two main events, Saturday and Sunday Night Sips, were a huge a success! The gourmet team from Italy was present for the third year in a row thanks to the American roadshow Italy At Your Table organized by The Baccanti.

                                                        

Filippo Bartolotta has coordinated events with forty chefs together with a shipped selection of Italian wines, which in 2012 were represented by Arnaldo Caprai in Montefalco (Sagrantino alert!) and Graziano Pra in Amarone. Past editions of Italy at Your Table led Filippo to conduct master classes and events throughout the United States. In addition to these events, Filippo was also hosted by The White House chefs along with Alice Waters, José Andres and Joan Nathan to talk about nutrition and the value of the Mediterranean diet.

On the same trip, Filippo, the chefs and wine producers were invited by Nycci Nellis, radio host of "Foodie & The Beast" to be featured in the January 22 episode to talk about Italian wines and discuss their presence in Washington.

A summary of the main events:
Saturday Night Sips: a cocktail party for about 500 people held at the Newseum in Washington with some of the most revered pioneers in the food world: Alice Waters, Joan Nathan and Jose Andres.

On Saturday Night Sips were asked chefs created an unforgettable menù and the following mixologists were present:

Will Artley The Restaurant SAGE-Amy Brandwien House Nonna-Antonio Burrell MASA 14/Center-Frederick de Pue 42 Degree Dellaccio Janeen Catering-DolciGelati-Michael Keaveny, Panel-Geoff Quarry Half Maites-Dennis Marron Poste-Matthew Morrison-Rock Harper DCCK Entyce Kitchen Director and Hell's Kitchen winner-Enrique Velazquez Borinquen-Kevin Villalovos Cure-Nick Wiseman DGS Delicatessen

http://www.2012sips.eventbrite.com.

Sunday Night Sips produced twenty extraordinary dinners at the home of local families who donated quite handsomely. The Sunday Night edition witnessed the presence of Italy with Florentine Chef Benedetta Vitali Restaurant Zibibbo in Florence, both with Italian wines by Arnaldo Caprai and Graziano Pra.

A special thanks to the participating chefs:

Victor Albisu BLT Steak; Mike Anthony Gramercy Tavern; Kojo Nnamdi; Elisabeth Bourgeois Le Mas Tourteron; Amy Brandwien Casa Nonna; Jeff Buben Vidalia; Jan Burhman The Kitchen Porch in Martha's Vineyard; Jennifer\ Carroll Top Chef; Teddy Diggs Home Port in Martha's Vineyard; Luigi Diotaiuti Al Tiramisu; Scott Drewno The Source; Todd Gray Equinox & Watershed; Ruth Gresser Pizza Paradiso; David Guas Bayou Bakery; Siggi Hall Siggi Hall Restaurant; Joel Hough Il Buco New York; Haidar Karoum Proof; Ris La Coste Ris; Francis Layrle Bezu; Jamie Leeds Hanks Oyster Bar; Spike Mendelsohn Good Stuff Eatery & We the Pizza; Kaz Okochi Kaz Sushi Bistro & Masa 14; Joe Palma Ritz-Carlton's Westend Bistro by Eric Ripert; Vickie Reh Buck's Fishing and Camping; Barton Seaver; Alon Shaya Domenica in New Orleans; Doug Singer; Michael Solomonov Zahav in Philadelphia; Gina Stanley Artcliff Diner in Martha's Vineyard; Nick Stefanelli Bibiana; Vikram Sunderam Rasika; Chef Vinod Indique; Benedetta Vitali from Italy; Alice Waters Chez Panisse; Robert Weland Cork Wine Bar; Spike Gjerde of Woodbury Kitchen; Paul Yeck America Eats Tavern.

Make your own wine: Creative Team Building

Highlights of Make your Own Wine Team building:

*  Unique Team building option

*  Original individual wine creation

*  Mini-course on wine sensory

*  Learn the secrets of technical enology

*  interactive and sensory wine experience

*  Entertainment from a wine expert and technical support 

What is Create your Own Wine?

This interactive team building activity is a crash-course in wine making in which the wine expert presenting the game will start by leading a mini wine tasting. Participants are encouraged to challenge their sensory analysis capabilities and will be introduced briefly to the history of wine and wine-making techniques. With an explanation of the game rules, techniques and creation of the wine, the team building goes live!

Each team will then attempt to create their own wine, according to the preferences of the group.

The final wine product of each team will be tasted and analyzed by our expert professionals in order to determine the best winemakers of the team building.

Advantages of Make your Own Wine Team Building

This fun group exercise provides an extraordinary opportunity to test your employees (or clients) skills of objective and subjective analysis. Each team will have specific objectives and strict rules to be followed. The challenge is more about how they work together rather than “outdoing the other teams. After each group member has established characteristics and preferences, they must be implemented by the team in a shared decision-making process that will materialize in one sample of wine, an expression of the working group.

Where do Make your Own Wine team building events take place?

The team building game can take place anywhere, but we prefer and recommend that you do so within an Italian winery (which we can suggest) or in a stunning location. The team building event will be followed by lunch or dinner with food appropriate wines.