Corporate Wine Tours and Tastings

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Corporate Wine Tastings and Wine Tasting Dinners in Paris, Bordeaux or elsewhere in France are wonderful opportunities for employee, management or client entertainment.  Perfect for the end of a seminar or an evening out during a conference. Your French clients will particularly appreciate the opportunity to share fine wine and food with you.  Lead by a sommelier, these tasting events can include wine appreciation exercises or games - great for team buildng, and a fun, relaxing way to spend a late afternoon or evening.  Can be held at your hotel, on a private yacht, in an ancient vaulted cellar, a luxury hotel or restaurant salon, a chateau or a museum.  See more details about corporate wine tastings here.

Employee Incentives: Reward your best employees with a trip to the French wine country, as a day excursion (Champagne or Loire Valley), for a weekend break or longer.  Add an incentive tour of a wine region like Bordeaux or Champagne at the end of your planned conference or meeting in Paris for your special staff members.  If your headquarters or meeting is in London, Paris is just a quick Eurostar ride or flight away.  Your people will enjoy a fun, memorable experience of French wine and gastronomy.

Entertaining Clients: spend a day wine tasting in the French countryside with your clients after a meeting in Paris. Or send your best clients on a weekend or longer trip in some of the most prestigious vineyards of France like Bordeaux, Burgundy, or Champagne.  Sharing exquisite wine and cuisine is a great way to galvanize these all-important relationships.  Luxury accommodations in the best hotels or private chateaux (including Grand Cru chateaux in Bordeaux) and Michelin-starred meals make for an exceptional client entertainment opportunity that will leave a lasting and impressive memory of your company's hospitality.  

A wide range of activities can be included in addition to wine tasting (or for spouses who are less interested in wine), including golf, spa services, shopping, guided sightseeing, and more.

Corporate tours are also available in Italy, Spain, Portugal or Napa/Sonoma Valleys, California.

Please contact us to discuss your corporate travel needs and obtain a proposal and price quote.

Here are some of the companies who have put their trust in French Wine Explorers for wine tours and tastings:

• Microsoft Corporation

• Smith Kline Pharmaceuticals

• Louis Vuitton (LVMH)

• London Financial Times Business

• Bernstein Investment Research & Management

• Delicato Family Vineyards (California)

• Axalto (div. of Schlumberger)

• Eli Lilly & Co. UK

• Bank of Scotland

• Sun Microsystems

• GKN Aerospace Services

• Vichy Laboratories

Comments from our corporate clients: 

"For the past 2 years we have organized with your company a wine tasting and dinner at a fantastic restaurant in Paris during the international congress. (It) has proven to be the most popular thing we do!!" 
-- Emma Chippeck, Eli Lilly & Co., UK, Wine Tasting Dinner in Paris.

"A short note to let you know that our trip was very enjoyable. The weather cooperated and the program was excellent. Amy L. did an excellent job. Her translating skills are excellent and her wine knowledge superior." -- Claude Lajoie, Aqualon division, Hercules, Inc., Delaware, Custom Wine Tour of Provence.

"(The restaurant) was the perfect setting for our dinner.  My colleagues were really impressed.  The food and wine, of course, were very good.  The event itself was very fun. I loved how (our sommelier host) Lauriann walked from table to table and explained the different wines, leaving clues here and there.  She struck the perfect balance between providing enough information for the beginner and leaving enough mystery for the connoisseur.  The (wine tasting) contest was great.  It got people to work together and discuss the common ‘problem’: what wine are we tasting."  -- Arief Abraham, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, Wine Tasting Dinner in Paris

(What did you enjoy about your tour?) "Everything!  Our host (Maxine Colas) was fantastic. She was extremely knowledgeable, passionate, and articulate." -- Rich Leavitt, William Gallagher Associates, Boston, MA, Customized Wine Tour of Bordeaux.

"I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for a superb evening last month.  The wine-tasting dinner went down extremely well with the customers we entertained and gave a different twist to the evening, especially around the Paris Airshow when everyone had attended numerous dinners - the evening was very light and made a good conversation piece, served with excellent wines.  I have no hesitation in recommending your services to any other organization . . . " -- Richard Deakin, GKN Aerospace Services, Farnham, Surrey, UK, Wine Tasting Dinner in Paris.

"Many thanks for the excellent tour that you and Jean-Pierre co-ordinated for us last week. I know that everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day and that we all learnt something more about the art of appreciating wines." -- Jeremy Harvey, Pharmacia and Upjohn Companies, Helsingborg, Sweden, Custom Wine Tour of Loire Valley