Les sens en-mêlée, jeu de dégustation inspiré du rugby

Pre-match talk: Welcome and team formation

Participants are divided into teams and given a glass and a piece of paper in their team's colors. A brief presentation of the Domaine de Cassagnole and an explanation of the rules of the game are provided.

1st half: Combinations of the senses

The goal here is to awaken the senses and test the participants' recognition skills through two challenges:
-“The color test”: Each player must taste and guess the color of the wine only blindly (black glasses).
-“Aroma Alignment”: Vials containing typical wine aromas (red fruits, citrus fruits, etc.) are offered to participants. Each team must match the vials to the corresponding aromas.

2nd half: The taste test

This part challenges the teams' memory and sensory analysis skills.
-“Decisive Pass”: The facilitator gives a detailed description of a wine (aromatic notes, mouthfeel, grape varieties, terroir). The team must identify the corresponding wine from several options using their knowledge and intuition.
-“In my wine there is…”: A wine is served to all participants at the same time. In turn, each player must give a word describing the wine by starting their sentence with: “in my wine there is…”. This can be a sensation, an emotion, a memory or an aroma perceived in the wine. The next player must repeat the previous sentence by adding a word. No word must be forgotten or replaced!


3rd half: Rugby would be nothing without its famous third half, and neither would this tasting!

-Award ceremony: The winning team receives a symbolic reward
-Free tasting and discussions, anecdotes from the winemaker: Audrey or Simon share some stories from the estate, the vineyard and the winemaking process.