Team building at the Met in New York!

Metropolitan Museum of New York

 

Organizing events in unforgettable atmospheres is our job and choosing the best location ... it's a great privilege! So it was when we organized a dinner party for selected guests, 40 members of the Metropolitan Museum in New York for the sales promotion of some of the best Italian labels of wine, gourmet foods and art.

The preparation took a few months, but we managed to organize an evening that will remain as the most exciting event of our Italy America Roadshow 2011 tour!

 

Here were the protagonists:

Luciano Zazzeri, chef of the restaurant La Pineta

Filippo Bartolotta, our grapetrotter and presenter, appointed to lead a tasting of 12 incredible wines and products of excellence made by Italian food artisans!

We partnered with chef Fred Sabo and sommelier Thierry Pradines for the week of preparation before the event took place in an atmosphere of gracious hospitality. The entire staff was ready to listen to our suggestions and requests with Luciano Zazzeri.

It all started with a dinner on the Roof Terrace at the MET where 40 lucky members of the Museum managed to win the event at an auction. The auction was served dinner created by Luciano Zazzeri and combined with 12 of our featured wines from the Italy America RoadShow.

Throughout the month, Luciano Zazzeri had also organized a dinner event in the Trustees Dining Room at the MET together with the kitchen staff and Fred Sabo the week before the VIP event.

 

The success of the evening, the joy of Luciano and the enthusiasm of the guests was what gave us the energy to charge through future stages of the RoadShow, which took us to travel America far and wide. We met some of the most famous chefs of America, many wine collectors and gourmet food purveyors, as well as the heart of Americans.

The best time to organize a team building event in Italy

When you decide to create a corporate event and include team building activities, if you don't have precise constraints on the agenda, there are a few considerations:

1. The goals you want to achieve with the team building activities at your corporate event

If you are launching a new product on the market and you want to motivate your sales force, the period in which you schedule your team building should closely tied to product launch schedule. By doing so, you prepare your staff organically with team building activities that rely heavily on challenge and team spirit to the achievement of the objective.

If you want to reward a work group and motivate them before closing the season, this would also be the ideal time.

At these times you can pick and choose among many team building activities:

Gourmet Team Building Orienteering

Team Building gourmet treasure hunts in the city

Team Building on horseback

2. Theme of team building activities

If you want to create a precise theme team building activity, your corporate event should be planned in most other periods that evoke the season of the event.

Examples:

From September to mid-October, you can tie team building activities to wine

Team Building Wine Challenge in a prestigious Italian winery

Team building Make your Own Wine

Aperitif Team Building

Wine Trivia Challenge

Team Building in Chianti Classico

From mid-October to December, the theme could involve olive oil!

Team building challenge: Olive Oil Tasting and Trivia

During the winter it will be easier to entice your guests by inviting them to compete in the kitchen with activities such as:

Pasta Making Team Building

Team Building Top-Chef Challenge

3. Budget for building corporate event team building activities

Individual budgets will be a key element to keep in mind when choosing the period for your corporate event and will influence the choice of team building activities. Unless you need to arrange a corporate Christmas dinner, we advise you to avoid the peak periods especially August, when it will be more difficult to have all participants available. Also, it will be more expensive to locate the best structure to accommodate your guests. From mid-autumn to mid-spring, it will be easier to select locations for your corporate event with a reasonable budget. By scheduling events in Italy during the non-peak travel season, that will allow you to invest more in specialized team building activities and additional services for attendees.

Of course there are exceptions like for example November in the Piedmont region. This is when the big truffle fairs and festivals take place making the region a high traveled zone with of course higher premiums on accommodation, etc. For further information on how to plan team building events in Italy, don’t hesitate to contact us!

Tips for your next business Team Building event in Italy!

For Le Baccanti Corporate events, here's what awaits us in the coming months.
We have kicked off the season with the first Team Building activity in Rome for 35 people where we organized a team building competition with pasta.
At the end of the pasta challenge race, guests ate their results: pasta Amatriciana. 

Here are some good tips for your next business Team Building event in Italy!
-March- Wine Challenge Teambuilding Dinner in Rome

-April- Incentive Travel: wine day tour and dinner in Franciacorta

*Wine Challenge Teambuilding Aperitif in Milan

* Events abroad: Wine Tasting in Zurich

-May- Casino-Incentive Travel-VIP Gourmet Tour in Florence
* Travel Entertainment Incentives-wine and oil tasting in Florence

-June- Top Management Meeting: Franciacorta

Wine and Music: Gala Dinners for Incentive Programs

HIGHLIGHTS OF INCENTIVE GALA DINNERS

An excellent opportunity for your Incentive Program

A Team building activity for an audience of high culture

Meet a wine expert who provides top-notch entertainment

A trio of musicians of great talent

Wine and music included

For a Le Baccanti Incentive Gala Dinner, your guests will be welcomed by the conductor, the musical group, sommelier and the staff of Le Baccanti (including our resident wine expert!). The atmosphere is welcoming and original.

The band improvises songs chosen by the conductor, while every table will have to "play it by ear" and respond to the trivia questions to guess what music is being played as well as additional music trivia. The dinner will be complete with guided wine tastings with our wine expert/enologist and a full course dinner.

Advantages of Wine and Music Gala Incentive Dinners:

Wine and music is a tasting event intertwined with an evening of musical entertainment. Designed to aggregate and motivate your staff or clients through the pleasures of wine, food and music. These aspects makes a Gala dinner a great setting to seal a business meeting.

Guests will engage in an multi-sensoral activity through entertainment, food, wine and music. The result is an atmosphere of pleasing charm that will engage your audience in a unique setting. 

Where to hold a Wine and Music Gala Incentive Dinner

We suggest you should choose a classy yet stunning venue, where all parties can be inspired by images, sounds, scents and flavors. Ideally we would organize your event in a castle, a historic, noble palace or a monumental music hall.

Staff spotlight: Our wine experts!

How do we create all corporate and team building activities around wine and food?

Easy!

We taste lots of wines that inspire our dinners with wine, appetizers, teambuilding with wine and the many activities which include travel incentives.

Filippo Bartolotta, our wine journalist, sacrifices himself for us and this week he has to taste hundred of wines from Tuscany ... it's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it!

In spite of all those who think it's great fun, we challenge anyone to try Chianti, Carmignano, Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino and Nobile di Montepulciano in a week for a total of more than 400 wines.

Maybe one of the test tasted wines by Filippo that ends up recommended in many prestigious Italian wine guides will be at your next corporate event in Tuscany or the winery to use for your teambuilding activities in Italy!

To customize an event for you, we are at your disposal! Contact Le Baccanti Corporate staff for additional inquiries.

Gourmet Market Tour for Corporate Incentive Programs

Our corporate incentive activities provide excellent leisure and entertainment during week-long meetings, conventions and incentives programs.

Gourmet Market Tour for Corporate Incentive Programs

Experience flavours and colours of the local culinary tradition

An expert guide who will show you all there is to know about Italian markets while discover new tastes in these open-air culinary museums of Italy!

What is included in the Gourmet Market Tour for Corporate Incentive Programs

An exclusive meeting with one of our expert tour guide to receive secret tips for the best gourmet shops in the market over a coffee.

Full immersion in flavours, colors and perfumes of a traditional Italian food market

Discover local delicacies. Example in Florence you will learn about Tripe, Lampredotto and  other traditional Tuscan offal dishes

Tasting of Parmesan cheese, Balsamic Vinegar and Extra Virgin olive oil.

Find seasonal vegetables like kale, tomatoes and squash.

Taste regional desserts like Panforte, Ricciarelli and pastries

Sip Chianti Classico, Barolo or Amarone!

Our market tour have the ingredients for an unforgettable corporate incentive activity in Italy!

Advantages of Gourmet Market Tour for Corporate Incentive Programs

Our gourmet pit stop market tour provides guests the opportunity to discover new tastes, historical and cultural facts about Italy on a pleasurable and entertaining tour. This and all of our corporate incentive activities are customizable according to guests preferences, didactics always in a fun, enjoyable and social atmosphere.

Where we organize Gourmet Market Tour for Corporate Incentive Programs

Virtually anywhere! Most commonly requested cities are of course Florence, Siena, Rome, Milan, Turin in Bologna. We have experts located all of the country who can lead your guests through a delicious food tour experience.