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The Best Wine Tasting in London

HOW TO TASTE WINE AND NOT WASTE TIME

Attention, Tastorians! This is not your ordinary stuffy old tasting! Tastour’s fun night of learning is filled with     one-liners, anecdotes and eye-popping facts.

Most people say they want to learn about wine, but often they can’t find the time for a course or don’t want to get bogged down with the details.  This entertaining and educational guided tasting is all about having fun, teaching you to spot the bargains and developing relationships with clients and colleagues.

For more information, drop a line 07919053064 or email info@tastour.co.uk 

What is speedTASTING?

In just over 2.5 hours, 6 different learning themes will be introduced in rounds by your friendly and professional host who, by the way, is just bursting with entertaining and memorable wine facts and tips.  After each round, with carefully organized seat swaps, you’ll move onto a different table where you are greeted with new, friendly faces and another set of generous tasting samples. The unique samples are a superb talking point and will really get your tongues wagging!

 

Your Key Messages Delivered:

By sharing your desired outcomes for the event, we can create a bespoke presentation which connects your core message using the metaphor of wine. Do you want to instill your companies core values, motivate sales teams, or increase communication within teams?  Ask us how we can help you achieve your goals.

 

What’s Included:

Wine: Informative entertainment presented by award-winning Kelly Bayliffe. You will be poured 10 generous servings of fine wines, all retailing at £10-30 per bottle.  Total volume served is just over 2 large glasses of wine.

*price may vary for specialty tasting samples.

Food: Each table will be decorated with nibbles such as grapes, crackers and nuts.  For an additional charge, we can arrange for passed canapés at the start of the event as people arrive.  These are beautiful and really tasty.   Between the reds and the whites or at the end of the tasting, we can serve a gorgeous spread of Charcuterie and Artesian Cheese.    As well as vegetarian options like, grilled artichokes, an array of quiches and roasted red pepper spreads.

Also included: Your Tastour host will facilitate the seating arrangements, if required. Price includes, congestion charge, parking, glass hire, ice, spittoons, 4 additional staff members

 

Suggested Venues:

Corkage charge and room hire will vary based on the amount of food ordered and the day/time of your event.

If you accept this initial proposal, we will be able to suggest venues within your budget.

 

About TASTOUR:

Award-winning Tastour offers exhilarating interactive tasting experiences, all revolving around food and drink.  If it has calories, we’ll excerise your palate.

 

To reach your companies desired outcomes, this proposal can be tailored to suit your needs.

 

Learning and Development Workshop: A Taste of Success

    Teambuilding and development has never been tastier or more fun!

Would you like to take your business to new heights through the professional development of your employees and reward them at the same time?

What we offer:

Our workshops are fun, experiential and cost effective. Our unique and interesting programmes, based on Wine Education, create a fantastic, comfortable learning environment and are a great catalyst for personal growth.

Our flexible programmes, ranging from two hours long to a full day will help support your current strategies or your preparation for imminent or long term change.

Our leadership experts will create a programme tailored to the outcomes of your business.  After discussing your goals for personal and professional growth, we will work closely with our food and drink experts to create educational, entertaining and memorable metaphors.

”Like a fine wine, an excellent team needs balance.”

 

Example Programme (4 hrs.):

Making sense of our world – Introduction to Aromas…   

Recognise how we use our senses and associated language to create our worlds, and learn to use these preferred patterns to better influence yourself and others.

Learn how we are wired – Why grapes are like Rock Stars…

Learn to recognise and understand patterns of behaviour in ourselves & others. Develop behavioural flexibility to create success.

Rapport is everything – How to buy the wine everyone will like…

Understand how to create deep rapport in order to build relationships even in the most challenging of circumstances.

Developing one’s Influencing Skills – The Grape Debate! 

Become a person who gets things done, is well-liked by others and creates an exciting buzz for the team.

Creating Successful Outcomes –Design your own wine brand… 

Learn how to create clear and compelling outcomes in order ensure success for yourself,  your teams or your business.

 Ask us how we can create the ultimate experience by arranging a

food and wine matching lunch & dinner!

 

The feedback we receive is that we make learning different, fun and relative, however here are just a few of the reviews we’ve received on LinkedIN.                             

Testimonials :

Fullers Brewery- Head of Personnel, Training and Development

“Kelly works with us on providing wine knowledge and creating some enthusiasm for wine among our pub and hotel teams. Kelly is perfect for this role, her knowledge is imparted in a very engaging and fun manner. We have increased our pub teams knowledge and our wine sales significantly over the last 12 months and Kelly has been instrumental in this.”

Armillary Capital, Portfolio Manager

“Kelly’s events are always well-organised and planned to perfection. And with it she brings bags of enthusiasm. Her research and knowledge of the subject stem from her genuine interest in the topic; and I’ve admired her tenacity to get the task done no matter the obstacles that appear. I would whole-heartedly recommend her as the person to depend on when you need a job done well.”