Corporate
Groups with Glasses
Team Building has never been so much fun!
Outdoor Bound’s latest class, Groups with Glasses is ideal for a unique team building or private event. Participants are presented with an overview on winemaking, particularly how it relates to creating blended wines such as Bordeaux, Chianti and Rioja. Afterward, team members are given individual bottles of wine and instructed to create their own blend from these varietal wines. Each team should also create a name and logo/label design (and, optional, sales or marketing plan) for their resulting wine. At the conclusion, each group presents their wine to the group at large and one member of each group is appointed to blindly taste and judge all of the finished wines. The team whose wine receives the highest score wins.
Objectives
Elements of team building include the ability to cooperate and collaborate with team members to determine the final blend as well as to learn to value and appreciate members
regardless of their hierarchical status in the company (an assistant may have a better understanding of wine or greater sensory perception than his/her manager). Leadership skills may come into play as team members work to resolve conflicts as well as in the selection of the team judge. Wine knowledge may also be tailored to meet a specific objective such as wine etiquette or food and wine pairing with regard to dining with clients.
Constraints
This exercise works well with groups of twelve to seventy. Ideally, each team should be made up of at least three members, but no more than seven, to ensure full participation
from each person. Moreover, a maximum total of ten teams is recommended to limit the number of wines being tasted by the “judges.”
Event Details
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Introduction to Team Building with Wine
Most employees work in teams and frequently many different teams. However, working in teams is hard work that is much more difficult than working on one’s own. In addition, team building is
a process that takes time. When done right, the characteristics of high-performing teams include an overall team purpose; shared leadership; cohesiveness; collaboration and a collective assessment of success. Utilizing games and creativity in the business environment can make a point in a fun way, build morale, build trust and reinforce positive behaviors while correcting negative ones.
Groups with Glasses incorporates the four stages of team building
• Forming – initial meeting
• Norming – group norms and collective spirit
• Performing – engaging in the task at hand
• Adjourning – disbanding or completion of project
The use of wine knowledge makes achieving these stages fun and informative, resulting in a more effective team.
Groups with Glasses™: Match Game
Each participant is assigned an individual wine term such as a grape variety, particular wine or region and
must then work their way through the group to find the match or matches. This exercise can be used as an
ice breaker to encourage interaction among participants as well as to form teams.
Groups with Glasses™: Wine Styles
After completing a class on What’s Your Wine Style™, participants will break up into groups based upon
their wine style profile. Partner – identify things they have in common, do it with another partner.
Groups with Glasses™: Desert Island Wine
Participants are asked to write down the one wine they would take with them to a desert island and to
consider why.
Groups with Glasses™: Planting a Vineyard/Building a Winery
Participants must rank a list of items that would be important to the success of a vineyard and/or winery
venture. Then, breaking into teams, participants will share their ranking with one another and attempt to
come to a consensus ranking for the group.
Groups with Glasses™: Juice Jargon
Participants are broken into teams and are given a list of wine terms to define and then present to the
group at large. The group must vote whether or not the definition is correct or not.
Groups with Glasses™: Wine Writing 101
After being broken up into teams, participants are given a list of adjectives, all of which they must use in
crafting a tasting note for a fictitious wine.
Ex. gobbs, luscious, elegant, ripe, peach, integrated, balanced…
Groups with Glasses™: Wine Quiz
Each participant is given a twenty-question quiz and told that the person with the highest score will win a
prize. They are given the option of completing the quiz by him/herself or by collaborating with one or more
colleagues, but then must share the prize in the event that they win.
Groups with Glasses™: Match Game II
Groups must match a list of wines and/or grapes to their respective regions, wines and/or color. Similar
exercises could also be designed with more challenging information, depending upon the level of wine
knowledge in the group.
Groups with Glasses™: In the Dark
Participants are broken up into teams and given a list of six wine descriptions/winemaker’s notes that do
not have the name of the wine listed. They are also given six glasses of wine, which are numbered, but
not identified. After tasting the wines and comparing their impressions with the descriptions, the teams
must then match the glass with its correct description/winemaker’s notes.
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