We Bring Our Wine Fun to You!
From our signature Nearly-Blind Tasting Challenge to our High Altitude Wines at Altitude class to our Bordeaux Blender team-building offering, we'll entertain, educate and deliver memorable wine-related experiences for your attendees.
- Cocktail-hour, fun, tasty and educational wine events
- Educational wine tastings paired to the history of a company, client interests, new sales incentives and more
- Presentations about Utah and Park City history, or famous Utah outlaws, paired to wines
Our faculty is trained to put laughter first, increasing the connections between your attendees and hospitality is at the core of each and every educational experience we design.
Events and Theme Ideas
When you choose Fox School of Wine for your corporate event, your guests will experience wines from around the world in a relaxed environment that is conducive to fun, education and good conversation. Our professors have years of wine-education experience and the knack for getting dialogue and camaraderie rolling among your guests.
Consider some of our Utah-centric pairing themes plus others:
Welcome your guests to Utah with a reception focused on Winter Olympic sports.
Relive the successes and memories of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics and look ahead to the 2034 Utah Winter Olympics.
A Champagne with figure skating? A Pinot Noir with Nordic jumping? The pairing connections will bring a smile as your guests taste.
Just as Utah’s Silicone Slopes are comprised of companies dancing on a razor’s edge as they bring new ideas into life, so are these areas of winemaking blazing new trails. As examples, in this reception theme, wines are paired that emphasize collaborations, new frontiers, or a focus on experimental efforts to minimize use of chemicals.
From a time when the mountains were being pushed up by volcanic activity, to the Native Americans who lived in Utah creating amazing art, to the Mormons arriving in Salt Lake, to the Miners pulling precious metals from the soil, Utah is a mix of many parts. Pairings of wine will be featured that highlight each age with creativity and respect.
Welcome your guests to Utah with a reception focused on Winter Olympic sports.
Relive the successes and memories of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics and look ahead to the 2034 Utah Winter Olympics.
A Champagne with figure skating? A Pinot Noir with Nordic jumping? The pairing connections will bring a smile as your guests taste.
Just as Utah’s Silicone Slopes are comprised of companies dancing on a razor’s edge as they bring new ideas into life, so are these areas of winemaking blazing new trails. As examples, in this reception theme, wines are paired that emphasize collaborations, new frontiers, or a focus on experimental efforts to minimize use of chemicals.
From a time when the mountains were being pushed up by volcanic activity, to the Native Americans who lived in Utah creating amazing art, to the Mormons arriving in Salt Lake, to the Miners pulling precious metals from the soil, Utah is a mix of many parts. Pairings of wine will be featured that highlight each age with creativity and respect.
What Our Clients Are Saying About Our Experiences
Team Building
Want to encourage groups to work together and learn about each other, and have a great time as they interact? Our Bordeaux Blender is a great example of how we set up memorable team building experiences.
Guests are split into three teams – (1) Tanks, Barrels, and Carafes; (2) Skins, Pips and Stems; (3) Tannin, Acid and Esters; or something that ties to your company or goals. The fun begins with all teams together.
Guests enjoy sparkling wine or sparkling juice as they learn about Bordeaux, France, the first commercial wine area that exported to the world. A wine professor will explain why both viticulture (the growing of the grapes) and viniculture (the making of the wine) in the Bordeaux area involved using blends of varietals. She will highlight the key varietals in Bordeaux blends (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec and Carménère) and present what each grape adds to the blend.
The groups will be sent to their stations where they have three jobs to complete before the timer goes off:
- create a tasty blend of wine from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc (the three most commonly used varietals of the six allowed Bordeaux grapes)
- design and draw a wine bottle label for their team's signature blend
- produce and film a 1-minute advertisement (video or live) for the wine
The timer goes off. Groups gather together. Each team presents their wine blend, bottle label, and promotional video or skit. The guests enjoy the presentations while tasting a fine Bordeaux wine made from the same key varietals they used. The Wine Professor will decide the winning team. Other prizes can be awarded for best presentation, most room for improvement, etc., and anything else tied to the group's mission.
High Praise for our Team Building Events!
“I think it went well. The competition was fun and everyone got into it. I can’t think of anything to add or take away.”
~ Greg, Easton Arrows
we bring a class to your location!
Whether your group has an extra hour for fun, you've got spouses to entertain, or some of your attendees are devoted foodies, we can design a class that you and your guests will love. Our clients call these "Educational happy hour"!
Private Wine Class includes:
- Wine research and discussion with hotel or restaurant management
- Research, preparation and printing of Fox School of Wine Tasting Grid
- Maps of the regions discussed
- Use of Aroma Wheels
- Professor for two hours, (set up, mingling, one-hour class, and clean up)
- Bowls/spittoons for pouring unwanted wine
- Pencils
- Travel time and expense within the Park City area
- Materials and supplies for up to 12 guests
Your hotel or restaurant would need to supply:
- Wine
- Private room
- Stemware
- All room set up including tables, chairs, linens, etc.
(We may be able to bring wines for the class, depending on the policies at your hotel or restaurant.)
Consider class topics like Old World vs. New World Wines, Wines of the Pacific Northwest, Trippin' on Acid and Tannin, Great Wines for Dinner Parties, Cabernets from Around the World, and more...
Private wine class
all the fun, no hassle!
$987
Utah History Presentations
Fox School of Wine’s faculty is comprised of many entertaining, knowledgeable presenters who don’t require your guests to be drinking wine to make them laugh, (although we admit, it never hurts.)
Consider bringing in a professor who calls himself a “stand-up historian”, who worked in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development for years while using his vacations to guide on the many rivers of the West. Or our headmistress who studied public speaking at Vanderbilt University and who has family lines going back in Utah to the arrival of the Mormons and others going back to the discovery of ore in Utah.
We realize your guests want entertainment, not just a list of dates and facts.
Some of our presentation themes:
Utah’s Mountains, Mormons, and Medals
An overview from pre-historic events to the arrival of the Mormons to the Olympics in Utah.
Park City: Silver to Snow
The story of the town’s morphing from silver mining to mountain resort.
Utah’s Most Famous Outlaws
Butch Cassidy, Porter “The Avenging Angel” Rockwell, Matt “The Mormon Kid” Warner and others
Thirty-Two Years
Failures and successes of 2002 and the plans for Salt Lake’s 2034 Olympic Games