Private Insider Wine & Gastronomy Experiences
Hosted by Chef Marcus & Jamie Guiliano
Legendary Cellars – Family Producers – Grand Cru Vineyards – France’s Culinary Capital
Private custom travel also available for groups, families, and culinary clubs.
Travel from the chalk cellars of Champagne to the legendary Grand Cru vineyards of Burgundy, then end in Lyon, one of the world’s great food cities, with award-winning hospitality professionals who have visited 400+ wineries across six countries.
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Champagne and Burgundy are among the most famous wine regions on earth, yet most travelers only scratch the surface, and that is exactly why we go deeper — past the famous labels and tasting rooms into the cellars, long lunches, and vineyard roads where Jamie and Marcus have built relationships with the families who make the wine. The stories worth hearing rarely happen in tasting rooms. They happen over dinner, in cellars, walking vineyard roads with producers, and around tables after everyone else has gone home.
Champagne, Reims, Épernay, Dijon, Côte de Nuits, Beaune, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, Lyon, and the hidden villages that make France feel personal, layered, and alive.
Family-grower Champagne, underground caves, Grand Cru vineyard roads, historic villages, chef-curated dining, private tastings, food markets, long lunches, small group access, and slow travel shaped by chef-led hospitality.
Join a hosted Champagne & Burgundy departure, or ask us to design a private version for your own group.
Instead, family producers, personal introductions, chef-selected experiences, private meals, village discoveries, long lunches, and behind-the-scenes access. Because sometimes the owner becomes your guide.
Expect chef-driven meals, vineyard lunches, long afternoons, and culinary moments shaped by the people, places, and traditions of France — from grower cellars and Grand Cru roads to the legendary food markets of Lyon.
8-day immersive itinerary
Each day is built around the rhythm of place: Champagne’s chalk and caves, Burgundy’s Grand Cru roads and ancient cellars, and Lyon’s legendary food markets.
Leave Paris behind and watch the landscape slowly transform. Rolling vineyards replace city streets, stone villages begin appearing, and the pace changes. Tonight, Champagne flows as friendships begin forming and the journey officially starts.
Most people know the giant Champagne houses. Very few discover the growers. Travel the vineyard roads around Épernay and Reims where Champagne becomes deeply personal — cellars, stories, quiet villages, and the people behind the wines.
Explore Reims and Épernay before heading down roads most visitors never see. Small villages, back roads, and unexpected discoveries — the side of Champagne guidebooks rarely mention.
Today we enter Burgundy. The conversation changes, the wines change, and obsession begins. Walk Dijon and discover why Burgundy has captivated wine lovers for centuries. Tonight, Burgundy officially begins.
Drive roads you’ve spent years seeing on labels: Vosne-Romanée, Gevrey-Chambertin, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Fixin. This is vineyard country — Grand Cru country — the kind of places collectors dream about. Lunch at Au Clos Napoléon slows everything down, exactly as Burgundy should.
Slow down. Burgundy deserves it. Explore Beaune through markets, underground cellars, and long lunches. Wine here isn’t rushed. Neither are we.
Welcome to Lyon. For Chef Marcus, this is sacred territory. Walk Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse and experience one of the great food markets on earth — seafood, cheese, pastries, charcuterie. Tonight, one final dinner. One more bottle. One more story. One more toast.
Spend your final day in Conca de Barberà, visiting Carlania’s organic vineyards and Dignitat’s boutique sparkling wines. Walk leafy rows between castles and chapels, taste rare cuvées, and enjoy a farewell lunch celebrating new friends, shared laughs, and memorable bottles.
Expect wines shaped by centuries of tradition and some of the most coveted vineyard land on earth.
Champagne
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Meunier lead, with rare heritage grapes like Pinot Blanc, Arbane, and Petit Meslier. Expect Blanc de Blancs, structured Pinot Noir, and grower rosé across the Montagne de Reims, Côte des Blancs, Vallée de la Marne, Côte des Bar, and Côte de Sézanne.
Burgundy
Pinot Noir is Burgundy’s soul — red cherry, raspberry, violets, earth, and finesse. Chardonnay reaches some of its highest expressions here, from razor-sharp Chablis to rich Côte de Beaune whites. Look also for bright Aligoté and food-friendly Gamay in the south, across Chablis, the Côte de Nuits, the Côte de Beaune, the Côte Chalonnaise, the Mâconnais, and Beaujolais.
Only 8–14 guests are invited into this hosted Champagne & Burgundy experience. Leave your details and Marcus or Jamie will personally share more tour details.
Your details are used only to follow up about the Champagne & Burgundy hosted journey or private travel request.
