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Planning Your Wine Event - Private Wine Tastings
Our main events are typically:
• Private Parties • Client Appreciation • Open Houses
WINE BARSSome events are intended to be primarily social, encouraging the attendees to mingle. A reception style tasting works best for this format in which you have one or more "wine bars" that are hosted by one of our sommeliers. At many reception style events the attendees do not all arrive at the same time, which also makes having a "wine bar" a perfect activity to immediately engage the guests and put a beverage in their hand upon arrival.
Whether a "wine bar" is in your home, at your business, a private room in a hotel, on your patio, a rooftop, backyard, or on a yacht, this style of a tasting works best for interaction.
GROUP TASTINGSSome events are designed to be educational. For these type of events a sommelier will lead the group through an interactive group tasting. For most of these events David LeClaire will present a selection of wines to the group, one at a time, with whatever theme the client is interested in. As a professional speaker and Sommelier, David's style is to be part educator and part entertainer, or as he refers to it, "Info-tainment." Group tastings work best when the attendees can be seated. In situations where seating for all of the guests is not possible, these group presentations are usually kept very brief. We recommend that for this type of event having David or one of his sommeliers host a "wine bar" for the attendees to enjoy before and after the group tasting works best.
WINE CHALLENGESMany groups enjoy having a variety of activities. We find that adding "Wine Challenges" increase participation and interaction. Guests are given mystery wines wrapped in paper or foil and they are challenged to identify wines "blind."
Themes for these challenges are plentiful. Some popular challenges include: • Which wine is $10, $20, or $50? • Which wine is Syrah, Merlot, or Cabernet? • Which wine is from Washington, California, or France? Attendees are given cards to fill out with their answers (or guesses) and prizes are given to those with the most correct answers! Regardless of the size of your group, we can help you plan an event with any or all above activities to make your event interesting and memorable!
• Corporate
Receptions • Charity
Fundraisers •
Private Tastings
Wine Events & Promotions
by David LeClaire,
Creating Wine Events since 2000 |
Wine
Events has created a wide variety of events for a diverse group
of clients over the years. No event is too small or too large. Our
first goal is to identify your vision for your event, or to help
you with that process, and to customize a wine tasting to fit your
interests and budget. 
