Team Building Wine Game in Tenuta Torciano Winery

Team building is an increasingly widespread experience, often built into a performance management process to develop transversal employee skills, and Tenuta Torciano now offers a series of corporate team building activities open to any company: thanks to our Wine Game, fun and a real lesson in wine-making techniques come together.

A day with Hitachi

Truffle hunting for forty guests

A 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 in the winery's extended forest. Split into two teams, each captained by a professional truffle hunter and his trained dog, they competed for an hour to find the highest number of truffles. At the end, the professional guide counted the truffles to decree the winner and gave a short lesson on these precious tubers: where they grow, how they are found and how they are cooked.

Truffle hunting team building at Tenuta Torciano

In the vineyard

The Team Wine Game

The group then moved among the estate's vineyards where, still split into two teams, they took part in the Team Wine Game, a real competition to recognize the flavors and smells of wine, built to encourage teamwork and involve every participant. Each team had to identify, in every wine tasted, the flavors, the grape and the area of origin in the shortest time possible, spotting the differences and the secret behind them. A judge from our staff scored each guess and decided the winning team, based on taste and the best descriptions. The winners received a bottle as a prize and a certificate of participation to the Wine School, along with the satisfaction of having recognized the most flavors, from liquorice, cinnamon and berries to banana and wood.

The evening

Dinner in the cellar

At the end of the Wine Game, guests and staff relaxed with an aperitif outside before a candlelight dinner in the cellar, set especially for the occasion. During dinner the group joined the Wine School, tasting a selection of excellent Tuscan wines and learning how to pair wine and food, the etiquette of the glass, the art of winemaking and the visual, gustatory and olfactory sides of tasting, in a simple, informal and joyful evening of pure fun and team spirit.

Why it works

A tight-knit group is the engine behind good results, and Tenuta Torciano's team building is a 2.0, latest-generation activity that stimulates all 5 senses, strengthening the connection among colleagues and improving cohesion. Fun and learning the techniques of wine are always guaranteed, with tailor-made experiences and games suited to every need.