Invite your clients or your staff to participate to oenological workshops (from 50 to 180 people) and find out the pleasure of discovering and drinking wine.
The Agence des Grands Crus in partnership with the Château Kirwan, will lead you through a prestigious wine estate for an entertaining  and original adventure in order to understand better the wine world ; history, culture, wine processing, wine tasting, wine trade…

Each participant will compete in different workshop just like real wine growers.

Greeting at Château KIRWAN, Great classified growth from MARGAUX

Greeting at Château Kirwan, Great classified growth from Margaux appellation by the organizers, the teams will be determined and will name a team captain.

Each team will discover the wine making process through different games (15 to 30 minutes each).The workshops will depend on the season.

Workshop examples:

1-Quizzes on the Bordeaux wines history: with different pictures you must discover “the where, the  what and the who” among other enigmas.

2-The Blending: The Bordeaux wines come into existence thanks to the blending of different grape varieties, each of them bringing to the wine a qualitative element. The difficulty is finding the good proportions. After mixing, sampling, tasting each grape variety, each team would have to conceive the best « Cru », the best vintage.

3-In search of wine and vine items: Bikes will be at your disposal. A map in your hand, you will head towards the vineyards to bring back different items.

4-Smell recognition: 3 wines will be chosen for the aromatic peculiarities. Cards with their principal aromas will be hand over and you will have to discover which one is the” intruder” on each cards.

5-Blind winetasting (Medoc vs Saint Emilion): Both appellations produce wines with the same grape varieties and yet the results are very different. The participants would have to identify each wine.

6-Putting up a barrel: The teams would build up a barrel in no time.

7-Bottling and labeling: Each participant would have to cork and label as much bottle as possible in a minimum of time.

8-The wine, the wine trade and the 1855 ranking: The participants will discover the peculiarities of the Bordeaux vineyard thank to Nathalie Schÿler owner of the Chateau Kirwan.

Beverages and sweets will be at your disposal all day.

At the end of the day, results will be announced and prizes granted to the winners.

Program available from 50 to 180 people.

Prices: from 80 € to 95€/pers (depending on the workshop choice and the number of participants).

This price includes:

• The Chateau Kirwan privatization
• The professionals’ fees for the workshops
• The material renting and delivery
• The wine for the wine tasting
• The permanent break (beverages and sweets)
• The prizes for the winners

If you are interested, please contact:

AGENCE DES GRANDS CRUS

Tel: +33 (0)5 57 22 16 31

Email: click here - Website: www.agence-des-grands-crus.com