Future of Wine
Join us for an immersive wine tasting event exploring the impact of climate change on the wine industry. Discover how producers are adapting and innovating to meet future challenges and opportunities.
What is it?
Immersive Climate Tasting
We blend sustainable wine tasting with climate science. Guests explore the actual impact of global heating, water scarcity, and agricultural shifts directly in their glasses. We work directly with producers and vintners to source exciting stories and exemplar wines from around the world.
Interactive & Action-Led
This is not a passive lecture. Through structured tasting and gamified climate choices, we turn the global climate crisis into a relatable, delicious, and highly memorable corporate experience.
Purpose-Driven Team Building
Your Green Team has been hard at work for the past year driving forward Net Zero and sustainability initiatives, but they’ve not really had time to hang out with each other. Our events give them the perfect opportunity to learn more about sustainability, hang out with each other and have a fun time.
For Client Entertainment & Sales
A sophisticated but fun alternative to your typical client dinners.
Are you looking to add an environmental twist to your networking event?
Are you trying to attract new clients for your sustainability business, but finding that conferences aren’t providing ROI?
Inviting prospects to a wine tasting demonstrates you as an innovative, forward thinker and is an event your leads will actually turn up to and allow you to cementhigh-value client relationships .
Audience
We’ve hosted wine tastings for:
In house sustainability green teams
Global consumer brands
Sustainability consultants
Sales leads at SaaS companies
Financial investors
Problems We Solve
Sustainability training is ineffective
You’ve done the webinars, the video platforms but people aren’t getting it. Our event lets them taste the reality of climate change through a medium that is tactical and familiar to them, and something they see in their daily lives. People come back to us with facts we taught them years ago. By focusing on an activity that people already enjoy, tasting wine, the event makes learning memorable. It creates legacy.
Lead Generation events are boring
Inviting people to dinners and exclusive roundtables is great, but can be a bit repetitive. We’re not just any wine tasting, but weave in comedy (you be the judge) and games alongside serious topics like climate risk – and let you taste this too.
Wine tastings don’t talk about production
One of the most common bits of feedback we get is that people never really hear about how wine is actually made. Both Alex and Adam are WSET trained and can walk the talk about flavours – but hearing about the journey from grape to bottle is what audiences love
Team away days are difficult to arrange
Going off-site can be tricky. We can come to you and host a full wine tasting in your venue, and work with in-house catering teams for a memorable experience without having to leave the office. Our solutions are turnkey, with us able to provide sommeliers, glassware, wine, content – the lot! We’ve hosted for 10 people to 50+
Alcohol-focused events are not inclusive
Not everyone drinks alcohol so we started by creating an event where all are involved, regardless of whether they take part in the tasting. By focusing on the content, the games and the interaction with attendees, those who don’t drink alcohol have equally enjoyed our events. Our webinars are commonly dry.
Plans
Online Training
We offer our insights via a 45 minute webinar for teams. We bring your remote team, wherever in the world a climate risk view on the world of wine.
From £250, depending on level of tailoring to the audience
Online via preferred video platform
Up to 45 minutes
1 facilitator
Access to a key takeaways deck
Perfect for: Lunch and learn events, Green team event days
Informal Tasting
Our informal tastings are perfect add-ons to existing events or as standalone, hands-on activities for larger groups of people.
We focus on starting conversations through games and fast paced fact sharing.
From £50 per person, 10 person Minimum
No Screens
4 Wines
We bring the wine and games
Up to 2 hours
1 facilitator minimum
Perfect for: Product launch events, team reward days
Formal Tasting
A more traditional wine tasting experience, this is the full Future of Wine experience. Over the course of 3 hours, guests are wined and dined while we take them on a journey around the world exploring the impact of climate change on different regions, and finish with inspiring examples of what the future of wine will taste like.
From £125 per person, 30 person minimum
6 wines
3 hours
With slides, games and facilitation
3 facilitators minimum
Perfect for: Team Engagement, Lead Generation
Alexander Lewis-Jones
Alex is an independent consultant, with deep sector expertise on sustainability of electric vehicles. With a decade of experience in helping clients navigate data, new technologies and human behaviour, he brings his analytical brain to the Future of Wine team.
Adam Bastock
Adam is the founder of People Planet Pint, bringing people together to understand local climate adaptation issues in their community.
Reviews
A fun and practical session with interesting wines and facts thrown in! A great way to think about the effects of climate change in a glass and the decisions we make each day from vineyard to table.
A great way to spend an evening learning and tasting wine while learning about the effects of climate change on this industry.
Good facts and good wine, a classic combination!
A thoroughly enjoyable evening learning about wine, business, and the climate. What’s not to like?! If you’re looking for a way to engage the public on climate change, wine is the answer.
‘The Future of Wine’ event was a really informative way of demonstrating the impact of climate change on an industry we often enjoy without considering the broader challenges. Adam & Alex presented these in a fun, tasty and data-led format which encouraged people to build on relationships and local sustainability projects
The evening was absolutely fantastic, I learned so much, drank some yummy wine (including my first taste of orange wine) and met some new friends. Adam and Alex were exceptional!
The best wine tasting I’ve ever attended – and I worked in events!
The traditional European winemaking regions are frighteningly exposed to climate change. Adam & Alex are putting together a great forum for people from the sustainability sphere and the wine sector to interact
A thoroughly enjoyable evening learning about wine, business, and the climate. What’s not to like?! If you’re looking for a way to engage the public on climate change, wine is the answer.
Really engaging evening with a new look at climate impact
An excellent wine tasting done differently, educational delicious and networking in the mix too!
Wine tasting is a creative (and fun!) way to introduce discussions about climate change. As humans, there is not a single thing we do that does not have an impact on our planet and by addressing what might happen to the things we love doing if we don’t take action, we can engage many different demographics. Adam and Alex were knowledgeable and gracious hosts, the information was clearly presented and the wines were well chosen!
Why Wine?
We often get asked if we can do a tasting with Coffee, Chocolate or Whisky instead. These are certainly possible but we wanted to focus on making the best wine tastings we can. Wine offers a unique opportunity to do “vertical tastings” too, where you explore the wine over several years from the same producer (vintages) to compare, or explore the same grapes from regions around the world. We have found that while this is possible with coffee, chocolate and whisky, none of them provide the width, breadth and depth that Wine does. The thousands of years of history, the records kept over the centuries and the depth of culture around wine is unrivalled by any other product.
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