Wine Country Team Building & Events

TeamBuilding Unlimited loves to work in Wine Country. So many of our clients hold meetings and special events at wineries and wine country properties that we created a special ‘menu’ of wine country specific team building events. Send us an email if you’re planning an event in wine country: Sonoma, Napa, Monterey, Lodi, Paso Robles, Temecula, Livermore or any other wine country area.

Here are just a few team events that are perfect for your Wine Country Meeting or Event! Of course, these events can take place anywhere, but they can all be wine themed!

WACKY WINE GAMES

Perfect for high-energy team building fun in the Vineyards! This series of Wacky Wine Games capitalizes on the locale! Games are customized to include the team, goals and objectives (to have fun!). Games might include: WINE TRIVIA CONTEST, CORK BUILDING TOWER, HARVESTING GRAPES (hilarious 2-3 person team event with catcher’s mitts, grapes & more), MARKETING WINE T-SHIRT (creation, modeling & explanation)
GOLF AMONG THE GRAPES (funny spin on a Hole in One!) and many more!

Prizes for the winning team? Wine, of course!

Wine Country Safari: Scavenger Hunt
The search for adventure begins as resourceful teams gather items related to their meeting, company and the location: Wine Country! Using the diversity of sights, sounds and materials of a specific winery or a location in Wine country such as the town of Sonoma or the Silverado Trail or wherever your event is being held, teams will compete as they comb through the essence of the area's core to provide the winning touch to an exciting scramble.

Teams traverse the location in search of the history and culture and different aspects of wine and wine country. Teams must think outside of the box by exercising creativity, resourcefulness, and decision-making under the pressure of time.  From 2 hours to half or full day events, Wine Country Safari is a great choice for teams seeking adventure and who want to learn about wineries, wine making, and more.

This is a great teambuilding activity for Distributors, Sales, Wine Club Members, and companies that want to have wine fun while they do some teambuilding and team bonding.

The Sangria Challenge 
Teams are challenged to make a very special alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink that includes White and Red Wine and lots of other "secret" ingredients. Teams will be instructed in the basics of wine and Sangria before the culinary portion. This Sangria Challenge will tantalize your taste buds while challenging your knowledge and creativity.

In addition to mixing lemons and lots of other fruits with wine and bubbly water and other "secret" ingredients, each team will develop a marketing plan for their drink, a new logo and slogan, a name for "their" winery and their specific sangria drink and so much more! Our knowledgeable facilitator will educate the group on wine, as well as the history of Sangria.

This is the perfect mixology Wine Country team building event!

Team Wine: The Noir of Wine and Chocolate Tasting
A combination of two great tastes! Chocolate and Wine—to die for… Participants will be given an opportunity to taste, sample and rate different Wines (provided by Winery or Caterer) paired with great Chocolate with different percentages of cacao. As the participants sample each wine, they will use the five “S”, seeing, swirling, smell, sip, and maybe spit, to compare colors, flavors and tastes. Teams will be given a chance to make comments,  keep score and to rate the wines and chocolates that they have tasted, as well as how they pair together.
Have a look at our "Ultimate Chocolate Tasting" for the chocolate portion of this event.

Winery Mystery Party: Fatal Fermentation


Wineries are the perfect location for your next mystery event! Murder on the Menu/TeamBuilding Unlimited has been performing at wineries, hotels and special venues in Wine Country for over 25 years. Murder on the Menu involves you and your guests directly in the action by cleverly interweaving the agenda of your meeting, the jargon of your industry, specific people and ever changing wine themes into the script.

The interactive murder mystery performed by Murder on the Menu's talented group of actors is always related to the goals and objectives of your meeting or special event. Your group's raison d'être is reinforced with the added excitement and vitality of interactive theatre!

Get Your Team Uncorked at a great customized interactive mystery party!

TeamBuilding Unlimited, a division of Murder on the Menu, 

comes to YOUR meeting or conference. Anywhere in the U.S.

The Site Inspection

Couldn't help but repost this joke on Greg Ruby's Gems. If you've ever been on a FAM TOUR or any other Site Inspection, you'll appreciate this!  Like Greg, I've been on both sides of the FAM tour, both as facilitator/entertainer and as a meeting planner!

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One day, a meeting planner dies. She goes to Heaven and is greeted by St. Peter. St. Peter says, “Things are a bit overcrowded here, so God is letting everyone make up there mind to either stay here or to stay in Hell. Tomorrow you get to visit Hell, and the next day you will visit Heaven. After your visits, you can have a day to make up your mind as to where you wish to spend eternity.”

The meeting planner agreed.

The next day, she was off to visit Hell. She was picked up in Purgatory by a Hummer stretch limo, greeted by a hunk of a man wearing nothing but a tight pair of jeans and whisked away. In the limo, there was every type of alcohol available, chocolates, the finest food, and a place to get a pedicure. She was impressed! Upon arriving in Hell, she had the red carpet rolled out for her, carried into her hotel as if she was Cleopatra, and the room was covered in roses. She thought to herself, this is AMAZING!! That night, she was treated to the finest food, wine and music, and danced with all the hot men in Hell. She was draped in furs, Vera Wang clothing and Ferragamo shoes. She never wanted to leave.

She awoke the next morning in Purgatory, and there was a black Lincoln town car there to pick her up to take her to Heaven. Once there, the door was opened, and an angel showed her around. She thought to herself, “This place is BORING! Who would want to stay here? It’s clean and quiet, but forever being this quiet?” After her tour, St. Peter walked up to her and asked, “We’ll be having dinner at 5PM over at the Angel cafeteria. What do you think of Heaven so far?” The meeting planner said, “Can I go ahead and make up my mind now?” St. Peter replied, “Why, yes. But I really think you need a night to sleep on it; this is a very big decision.” The meeting planner replied, “Yes, and Heaven is very…heavenly. But I have decided I would like to go back to Hell.” St. Peter let out a grunt in disgust and said, “So it shall be.” And with a blink of his eyes, she was back in Hell.

This time, it was filthy, hot, smelly, and she was in rags. Everyone was crying or screaming. She was frightened and scared. She walked up to one of the head Spawns there, and said, “What happened? When I was here, it was beautiful, paradise! Now, it stinks, and it’s hot, and I’m wearing rags! What happened?” The Spawn replied, “Yesterday was the site inspection, and today you signed the contract!”

Murder of the Decade at The Lake Chalet

Join Murder on the Menu® and the Lake Chalet in Oakland 

for a fabulous New Year's Eve Celebration! 

The Murder of the Decade!