Team Building Wine Game in Tenuta Torciano Winery
Team Building experience is an increasingly widespread phenomenon, often fully included within a performance management process in order to develop certain transversal employee skills. Therefore Tenuta Torciano has decided to make the company available by proposing a series of corporate team building activities that can be practiced by any company. Thanks to our Wine Game the fun atmosphere, along with the lesson describing wine making techniques, is assured.
Few days ago Tenuta Torciano hosted a very special event for Hitachi Digital Media Group, Italy. After visiting San Gimignano and other tuscan locations, the forty people of the famous electronics company took part in an exciting truffle hunt into the extended winery forest. The two teams, captained both by a professional truffle hunter and his beautiful trained dog, competed in an hour of “hunting” with the aim of finding the highest number of truffles. At the end of the experience the professional guide counted the truffles decreeing the winner and taking a small lesson on these precious tubers, explaining where they grow up, how they are found and how they are cooked. Then the group moved among the vineyards of the estate where, always divided into two teams, they participated in the “Team Wine Game”, a real competition in recognizing the flavors and smells of wine, encouraging teamwork and creating a fun and pleasant involvement of all the participants.
Each team had the goal of identifying, in each wine tasted, the flavours, the vines, and the area of origin in the shortest time possible, spotting the different tastes and the secret that’s behind them. A judge of the staff, determined the points assignement for each wine the guests guessed and, eventually, of the winner team, basing his opinion on the taste and the best descriptions. The winners received a bottle as prize and a certificate of partecipation to the Wine school. On top of that the satisfaction for having recognized the highest number of flavours, like liquorice, cinnamon, berries banana, wood and many others.
At the end of the Wine Game guests and the staff of Tenuta Torciano relaxed with an aperitif outside before having a candle light dinner in the cellar, especially set for the occasion. During the dinner the group joined the Wine School, tasting excellent selected tuscan wines, learning how to pair wine and food, the galateo glass, the art of winemaking and all the visual, gustatory, olfactory in a simple, informal and joyuful environment, during an evening of pure fun and team spirit.
A tight-knit group is the engine to reach good results and the Team Building of Tenuta Torciano is a 2.0 latest generation activity, which pushes the team game and stimulates the 5 senses, encreasing the connection among colleagues and improving their cohesion. To have fun and to learn the wine techniques is always guaranteed with tailor made experience and games, suitable for all needs.
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Luciana Cilemmi
Luciana Cilemmi, deals with Magazine, Style Director and Co-founder of Tenuta Torciano winery and Tenute Giachi wines and the innovative Viviarium Restaurant of Bottega Torciano- Tenuta Torciano & Winery is part of an international reality that is born in Italy by an initiative of Pierluigi Giachi and Luciana Cilemmi, who have worked for years in the Italian wine market , expanding throughout in the United States, managed and controlled by the american company ' Bellavini winery. Luciana Cilemmi was born in San Gimignano to a family of artists specialised in the restoration of medieval buildings. Having completed her technical studies, she now pursues the interests passed on to her by her family, like her passion for artistic objects, in particular works of art created in Tuscany between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. But she reserves her keenest enthusiasm for the historic works completed in San Gimignano between 1100 and 1300. Alongside her love of medieval history, she is fascinated in wines produced from Tuscan vineyards, which, together with saffron and wool, were the most sought-after goods traded by the wealthy noble families of San Gimignano already in medieval times. Luciana Cilemmi left San Gimignano at the age of 21 and embarked on a pilgrimage in search of knowledge and to discover the new winemaking skills and products that were then developing both in Italy and in France. In the meantime she added to her knowledge of wine by attending specialised courses and becoming a master of wine. On returning to Siena, she discovered a wonderful area near Murlo where she fell in love with the tiny, unspoilt village of Montepescini. She bought the estate of Montepescini where, based on the experience she had acquired over the years, she found a particular lie of the land, special climatic conditions and an altitude suited to the creation of great wines. With enormous enthusiasm, doggedness and considerable effort, a reclamation programme was started to renew the terrain which was then used to plant 30 hectares of specialised vines. Sangiovese is the dominant vine, followed by Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. Years of experimentation and the introduction of new winemaking techniques eventually led to the creation of Luciana di Memmi’s prestigious wines. Some years ago, Luciana Cilemmi succeeded in realising her dream of a lifetime: to return to her home town, San Gimignano. She was destined to buy the historic palace with the medieval tower, which had been owned by the prestigious Useppi family from 1200 to 1927 and had then passed to the noble and historic Chigi family of Siena. The Useppi were a powerful Sienese family who owned several castles. This beautiful medieval building has an elegant and distinctive façade full of Sienese and Pisan architectural influences. If you find yourself in San Gimignano, make sure you visit the Chigi Tower and Palace. Luciana Cilemmi holds regular events in the rooms of the medieval tower, such as the presentation of wines, both from her vineyards and elsewhere, attended by international journalists, experts from the sector and critics. She also organises exhibitions of works of art and paintings, and press conferences on the subject of "Wine in San Gimignano during medieval times”. Visiting the home of Luciana Cilemmi is like re-living an aspect of the past that will not return except through the imagination of those who have believed and continue to believe in this story.
