Barcelona Tasting and Parings for Individuals and Groups

Tastings & pairings for groups: 2012

Tel.: +34/93-317 19 09, mail: [email protected], [email protected] www.foodwinetours.com www.ociovital.com

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Food & Wine Tours specializes in organizing Corporate and Special Events; Incentive

Trips and Product Launches in Spain with a gastronomic touch.

THE BASICS: We propose locations; we manage singular spaces that combine art,

beauty and history. Unique and elegant places to celebrate business meetings.

Itinerary planning, transportation, accommodation and on-the-ground support

OUR ADDED VALUE is the possibility to combine these business activities with our

experiences created around Food & Wine.

Team building & training, Indoor activities, tours, trips & cultural activities, restaurants

& nightlife.

These experiences allow the opportunity of discover, share, and appreciate the

diverse tastes of our unique country.

If you are a lover of good food and wine and are planning on doing a creative

and fun experience, then our activities have been designed for you.

We can tailor made all of them to your specific needs.

Creativity is one of our milestones.

Our offer is addressed companies, tour operators and travel agents but also to all

those entities seeking for high quality food and wine experiences.

Our services can meet all your needs, from the expertise of our professionals to

create a unique activity; to the design, creation and coordination of the event that

you consider it fulfils the agreed upon objectives.

We have classified our experiences by the level of activity

Team building / competitions o Develop organizational skills

o Give and take direction effectively

o Work toward common goals

o Build confidence and morale

o Adapt to changing environments

o Sharpen communication skills

o Dare to be creative

o Have fun

Activities & Experiences

Incentive tourism: winery visits …

From gourmet tours to cookery courses, take a break with a gastronomic twist,

tailored to your needs!

Information & reservations

FOOD WINE TOURS

Tel.: +34/93-317 1909

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


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INDEX

Wine Tastings ................................................................................................. 5 Aromas & Wine Tasting ................................................................................. 6 A delicious Catalan Snack ........................................................................... 7 Chocolate Tasting ......................................................................................... 8 Cheese Tasting .............................................................................................. 9 Ham Tasting ................................................................................................. 10 Olive Oil Tasting ........................................................................................... 11 Beer Tasting ................................................................................................. 12 Cheese & wine pairing ............................................................................... 13 Chocolate & sweet wine pairing ............................................................... 14


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Gourmet Tastings

Experience with us new sensations of the palate and delights to the senses.

It's about sharing the experience of wine and food among friends. It's about

learning to appreciate the finer things in life in a friendly environment.

Tasting, an activity that surprises by its innovation.

Pairing, a sensory experience that combines flavors in a way that you would have

never imagined, providing you with exciting surprises on your palate.

The activity begins by making a sensorial taste to educate and to prepare the

tongue and the senses. We will go through all the stages and shades of flavours

and tastes. Sweet, bitter, salty, spicy,… all of them thru a variety of products,

aromatic plants, fruits,..

A trip thru the tasting world.

Each tasting is a single activity, which you can combine with other tastings.

Tastings:

Wine Tastings: traditional (vertical, horizontal), surprising (cava versus

champagne), specials

Chocolate Tasting

Cheese Tasting

Iberico Ham Tasting

Beer tasting

Olive oil Tasting

A trip to all your senses

Pairings

Cheese and Wine pairing

Chocolate and Sweet Wine pairing


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Wine Tastings [Grapes are] the most noble and challenging of fruits.

Malcolm Dunn, Head Gardener to the 7th Viscount Powerscourt, c 1867

Eyeballing wine, swirling and sniffing and

swishing ... it may look complicated but

you will see that it is not. Nevertheless,

wine tasting is an art that must be learnt,

following a strict process in the search for

aromas and flavours; a training that can

be turned into a great time!

Wine culture forms part of the Spanish

gastronomy. Our wines are a real richness,

which doesn't leave indifferent the most

demanding palates.

We have made a rigorous selection of gastronomes, in order to guarantee the best

services in the wine tasting training.

Thanks to them, you will be able to discover the most used tasting techniques, and

make use of your talents as an amateur sommelier!

After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain.

Participants: Groups from 6 to 50 people

Duration: 1- 2 hours

Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request

Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages

The activity includes:

A wine expert who will lead the tasting

Tasting of 5 wines of your choice: whites, reds, cavas or combined

A maximum of 3 hours

All local taxes

The activity does not include:

Venue rental

Glassware and dishes

Observations:

Optional gourmet meal.

Optional Private transfer to the venue


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Aromas & Wine Tasting Educate your nose!

How often have you been tasting a glass

of wine and you think “I know what that

aroma is” but you just can not put a name

to it, even though it's on the tip of your

tongue..... literally.

This is a wine workshop to develop a fine

nose, essential for a wine tasting.

As an aid to novice wine tasters - and

experts too - wine scientists came up years

ago with something called the "aroma

wheel."

You do not need a wheel to do a good tasting, however: The information is just as

useful in the form of a list, starting at noon and moving around the clock from "fruity"

through "nutty" and "earthy" around to "floral," "spicy" and back to fruity again.

You will have to guess, a collection of scents related to wines from a wine aromas

set.

By the end of the workshop you will be able to pair aromas with 4 different wines,

and you will know the difference between them.








Gastronome

Aromas Workshop

Tasting of 4 wines (2 whites, 2 reds).

aromas guide, aromas set,…


All local taxes


Venue rental

Glassware

Observations:

Optional gourmet meal.

Optional Private transfer to the venue


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A delicious Catalan Snack

Spaniards love their food!

In fact, the typical Spaniard probably puts away more food than any one of you,

but we spread our meals throughout the day and walk between meals.

How long ago did you have your last snack?

The late-afternoon snack in Spain is called la merienda and is necessary since lunch

is done late, but dinner isn't usually eaten for another five to six hours. La Merienda

can be anything from a piece of French-style bread with a piece of chocolate on

top, to bread with chorizo, ham or salami.

La Merienda is eaten around 4:30 or 5:00pm and since dinner isn't served for at

least another 3-4 hours, nobody worries that this snack will ruin the appetite for

dinner!

In a fun way we propose a trip to the history and traditions of “la merienda”. We will

taste cava (sparkling wine), sweet wines, breads, chocolates, cured meats, olive

oils,…



Duration: 2-3 hours




An expert who will lead the tasting

Tasting of cavas, sweet wines, chocolates,


All local taxes


Venue rental



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Chocolate Tasting

Chocolate tasting skills will allow you to truly savour

gourmet chocolate. And learning to taste fine

chocolate and appreciate its distinctive

personalities is a pleasure.

The first impression is very important when it comes

to chocolate tasting. Therefore, you should first pay

attention to the chocolate's appearance - colour,

and even structure and sheen.

True chocolate lovers taste chocolate like a fine

wine or a select cigar. Equally, a special

vocabulary is also used to describe chocolate. We

invite you to find out more about the many and

varied sense impressions.

Give it a try, it’s really








The services of our exclusive chocolate specialist

All the necessary material for the tasting:

o Chocolates with different % of cocoa

o Chocolates from different parts of the world

o Chocolate bonbons with different flavours


All local taxes


Venue rental


Observations:

It can be combined with a Wine pairing

Optional private transfer to the venue


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Cheese Tasting

Creamy, sharp, woody, mild...the choices are

endless. And just like a fine wine or a good beer,

Cheese should be appreciated. And there is no

better way to experience cheese in its purest form

than to hold a tasting.

Enjoy a delicious selection of cheeses from Spain,

In the tasting, we discuss the characteristics of the

flavour, the aromas, the texture, the colour and its

aspect.

Spain has about 120 different varieties of Cheese.

Every region has its own specialty, covering a full

range of cheese types, from fresh to cured, to

fermented and blue-veined. One essential

characteristic is the type of milk used in the production. Depending on the area,

time of the year, climate, or tradition, cheeses are made of cows', sheep's, goats'

milk, or of a mixture of two or all three types of milk.



Participants: Groups from 6 to 50

people


Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all

year around under request

Languages: English and Spanish.

Consult other languages


The services of our exclusive cheese specialist

6 different types of cheeses

All local taxes



Venue rental


Observations:

We recommend to combine with a Wine pairing



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Ham Tasting

This flavourful and versatile dry-cured ham is

making its way to tables around the world.

From France to Japan, from the Netherlands

to Mexico or the United States, consumers in

over seventy countries worldwide have come

to appreciate its fine taste and texture, its

health-promoting qualities, its variety in

culinary uses, its excellent shelf-life, its

affordability, and particularly the fact that

Serrano ham is the product of a natural

process.

During the tasting with which you will be able to experience the different qualities

and textures from Spanish Ham and their different flavours according to the origin,

raising and feeding of the pigs.

All the Ham to be tasted is Iberian and Iberian of acorn and with denomination of

origin.








The services of our exclusive Ham specialist

Tasting course: 8 different hams

A maximum of 3 hours All local taxes


Venue rental


Observations:

It can be combined with Wine pairing



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Olive Oil Tasting

As an amazing approach for the novice,

Olive Oil tasting astonishes guests every

time. Olive Oil is the faithful reflect of its

native tang, and reveals pervasive aromas

which is its typical and exclusive signature.

Learn what Olive Oil is, what are its origins, its

extraction method and its designations.

Discover how to taste it without forgetting

that Olive Oil combined with wine tannins

was recently acknowledged as a positive factor for health.





Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under

request

Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other

languages


The services of our exclusive Olive oil specialist

Tasting course and all the necessary Olive oil for the

tasting: 5 different types of olive oil


All local taxes


Venue rental


Observations:

It can be combined with other tastings.



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Beer Tasting

Beer is a drink of enormous agricultural and

commercial significance. Every drop of the

millions of gallons made annually has one final

objective-to be consumed. In passing the lips,

crossing the tongue and descending the

throat, beer is tasted whether or not a

conscious comment of judgement is made.

During this activity you will learn the history of

beer, how to taste it, how to serve it, the

different types of beers in the world,…

This experience will vary depending on the

knowledge, tastes and wishes of the group.








The services of our exclusive beer specialist

Tasting course

Beer tasting material: Tasting guide, ..

A maximum of 3 hours All local taxes


Venue rental


Observations:

It can be combined with Cheese pairing and/ or a visit to a beer factory.

If this activity is done in a Winery, there is an Optional Complete guided visit to

the cellar



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Cheese & wine pairing

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

Cuban proverb

Cheese and wine have a great deal in common, and they have been enjoyed

together since ancient times. Both are products of fermentation. Both may be

consumed while fresh, simple, and young or in their more complex forms when they

are aged and mature.

The possibilities of pairing cheese and wine are endless.

Spain has about 120 different varieties of Cheese. Every region has its own

specialty, covering a full range of cheese types, from fresh to cured, to fermented

and blue-veined.

This activity allows you to discover cheese with all your senses, while enriching your

knowledge about its matching possibilities with drinks and other food.

You will also learn how it is made, what are its different variations in function of the

milk and the elaboration process.








The services of our exclusive Cheese and wine specialist

Tasting course and all the necessary material for the tasting

6 different cheeses

Combinations with other foods: marmalades, vegetables, seasonal fruits, dried

fruits, bread sticks, etc.

4 different wines


All local taxes


Venue rental



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Chocolate & sweet wine pairing

The perfect harmony

A day without chocolate is a day without sunshine.

Although chocolate is not typically

Mediterranean, it is closely linked to

the Spanish culture.

For several centuries it has been part

of us, now associated with specific

periods, now used for its medicinal

and psychological properties. But it is

in its purest expression, namely the

cocoa bean, that chocolate reveals

its whole character and intensity.

The transformations that undergo

cacao can affect its genuine flavour,

but they also confer many attributes,

that are worth discovering.

This tasting is a sensorial trip into the chocolate world, where you will learn the

whole process that transforms the cocoa bean to the chocolate we are used to

eating. We will explore the infinite possible combinations that chocolate offers.

Chocolate snack with salted chocolate bonbon

Chocolate bars with different % in cocoa

Chocolate bon bons

6 different wines




Duration: 5 hours


Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.


The services of our exclusive chocolate specialist

Tasting course and Tasting guide

Chocolate & wine tasting material

All local taxes


Venue rental


Documents

Barcelona Tasting and Parings for Individuals and Groups