Jascots Corporate Wine Events Events

Jascots International Wine Challenge

Suitable for groups of 20 - 100 people

When you've hit budget, done the deal, survived the conference and are looking for some tip-top entertainment, it is absolutely right to mark the occasion with a professional, impressive and most important of all, fantastically fun event.

The Jascots International Wine Challenge is the stuff of legend, unforgettable to all those who take part. A uniquely, witty and occasionally irreverent look at the art of Wine Tasting. The Challenge can be competitive, is often boisterous and always joyously inclusive. It is the perfect antidote to stuffy and boring wine lectures and has always been enjoyed equally by wine enthusiasts and total beginners.

The evening starts with a glass of bubbles and moves rapidly into a hilarious exciting and informative fine wine tasting. Players are divided into teams ready to take on 7 fantastic wines whose identities have been carefully concealed.

Prompted by a multiple choice question sheet, complete with pitfalls and booby traps, teams face five questions on each wine. Jascots' expert staff will be on hand to help or hinder depending on the state of the game. Joker cards are played and there is inevitable cheating, blackmail, skulduggery and forfeits galore!!!

Prizes are awarded to 1st, 2nd and last place, which include delicious magnums and bottles of wine and the infamous Jascots Wooden Spoon!

To make sure the evening continues to flow and the atmosphere remains entirely convivial, we draw the cork on some impressive Imperials or Double Magnums rounding off a memorable evening.

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Jascots Wine Revolution

Suitable for 70+ people

If you are after a drinks party with a difference, without the structure of an International Wine Challenge but equally as much fun, then our Wine Revolution evenings are just the ticket.

This perfect blend of tasting and talking stills retains the fun and competitive element of our Challenges yet allows guests to come and go as they please and the host(s) to entertain in a relaxed drinks party styled evening.

With six different stations, each with a different style of wine drawing you in, you need to make your way around the room armed with your quiz sheet designed to test the most experienced Masters of Wine.

Unlike the Wine Challenges, which are very much a team event, this is an individual effort to make sure that get your hands on that Double Magnum prize.

Jascots Bespoke Wine Events

Suitable for up to 25 people

Champagne Evenings

The Jascots Champagne Tastings are a fun packed evening, where we run through the whole process, history and styles of Champagnes. With well-known brands, lesser more exclusive Champagnes, vintage, Blancs de Blanc, Grand Crus and depending on the budget Prestige Cuvées such as Dom Perignon and Krug. Not only will everyone leave totally understanding the facts and fiction behind this celebratory drink, there will be masses of interesting bits and bobs that are often the most memorable (1000 km's of chalk cellars under the vineyards or how you should pronounce Moet (Del Boy's pronunciation is wrong!) to how many bottles of Champagne are sold each year globally and what was the original Champagne glass based on).

With a blind tasting at the end, and a fabulous quiz and prizes for the winners, this is an interactive way to explore Champagne resulting in a really memorable evening where every angle is explored and enjoyed.

Food & Wine Matching

Jascots Food & Wine evenings are perfect when the ordinary client dinner needs just a little extra wow factor to it. It is very much a bespoke event, where we and the chefs for the evening will put together the ultimate and perfect meal. Each course will either have one or two wines matched against it, depending on your budget.

The evening will start off with a palate test. A slice of lemon and a small block of blue cheese will be given to each diner and then we will give each person a small glass of French Sauvignon Blanc and a rich Syrah (or something equally robust). The impact of this taste test is instant....the white wine tastes completely different and the impact of the Sauvignon's acidity has reduced hugely. The same is prompted with the red wine.The initial impact of the punchy red is of a strong intense tannic, this dissolves after the blue cheese takes over your palate, and with the second taste the wine is much softer. Both of these set a precedent for the rest of the evening, proving without doubt how food can affect the flavours of the wine.

As the first course arrives we pour the first wine explaining why we have chosen the wine, the history of the wine and the flavours which match the food. Then we let the dinner continue and take a backward step from the event so that the clients and the guests can chat and 'bond'. We are there to answer any questions if need be. As the main course is served again the next wine is poured and the reasons for selection, stories and history are told. After the main course is finished we pour a blind wine and run a competition with a wine quiz with the winner receiving a magnum of red wine. Finally with the cheese / pudding we pour a sweet wine carefully selected to match the range of cheeses.

Through the medium of the Wine & Food event, we absolutely want you to retain the intimacy and privacy of a client dinner where relationships are developed and business discussed.Yet by adding the palate test, the well selected and informed wines, the quick fire questions and the mystery wine the evenings become less intense and definitely more memorable for the client.