Your Journey
Your Way
Bespoke Private Wine Tours Designed Entirely Around Your Vision & Preferences
Private Journeys
Gather the people who matter most for a private journey shaped around your shared interests, preferred pace, and way of traveling from the estates you visit to the wines you taste and the tables where you gather. Every detail is considered expressly for your group
A journey entirely your own.
Your people, your pace, your champagne.
A private journey offers the freedom to linger over lunch or devote an afternoon to a favorite producer, explore a quiet village, or balance serious wine discovery with art, cuisine, history, and time simply to enjoy one another's company. There's no fixed itinerary to follow, no unfamiliar group to accommodate. Only a journey designed around what matters to you.
Expertise that opens doors...
Each journey is personally curated by Raymond James Irwin, Sommelier and founder of Fizz Champagne and Bubbles Bar, and a knight of the L'Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne. Years spent building relationships through the world of champagne allow us to arrange thoughtful introductions and intimate experiences that go beyond the conventional tasting room visit. Designed around you. Some groups arrive with deep knowledge of champagne. Others simply want to celebrate beautifully. We begin by understanding your interest, travel style, and reason for gathering, then create a journey that feels personal from beginning to end
Designed Around You
Every private journey begins with how you want to travel, where you wish to go, what draws you there in the moments you want to share
Memorable Tables
Dining is chosen with the same care as the wine, from celebrated restaurants to relaxed regional meals and private estate tables.
Personalized Luxury Wine Experiences Tailored to Your Preferences
Every element of your journey is tailored to your preferences, passions, and personality.
Your Destinations
Begin with the place you love, or let us guide you toward the regions best suited to your interest, timing, and travel style.
Thoughtful Places to Stay
Character hotels, elegant country estates, and distinctive private properties are selected to complement the journey.
Exclusive Experiences
Personal access, meet winemakers, visit exceptional estates, and experience intimate tastings thoughtfully arranged through relationships.
Concierge Support
Our dedicated team manages every aspect, ensuring a seamless and unforgettable experience.
Why Travel Privately?
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The Journey Belongs to You
Your interests shape every decision. From the destination and accommodations to the estates, restaurants, and experiences included along the way. Nothing is selected simply because it belongs on a standard itinerary.
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The Freedom to Linger
Stay longer over a memorable lunch. Spend more time with a winemaker. Leave a space for an unplanned afternoon. The pace belongs to your group, allowing each day to unfold naturally.
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Access Made Personal
Our relationships allow us to arrange meaningful introductions into tastings and visits that reach beyond the conventional cellar door experience. The emphasis is not simply on where you go, but on how you experience it.
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Time with the People who Matter
A private journey creates space to reconnect, celebrate, and discover something remarkable together without accommodating unfamiliar travelers or following someone else's schedule.
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Investment in Memories
Custom trips are not just vacations; they're investments in creating memories that will last a lifetime. These are the experiences you'll reflect on for decades the conversations, the discoveries, the moments of beauty and connection that define a truly exceptional life.
How Your Private Journey Takes Shape
Simply
Enjoy
With every detail arranged and support available throughout your travels, all that remains is to arrive, explore, and enjoy the journey.
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Refine
& Reserve
Together we adjust the details until the journey feels entirely right. Once approved, your deposit secures the planning and reservation process.
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Receive Your Private Proposal
We translate your ideas into a considered itinerary, including recommended accommodations, private experiences, dining, transportation, and a personalized quotation.
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Begin with a Conversation
Tell us where you would like to go. Who's traveling? What you love? And what would make the journey meaningful to you
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Begin the Conversation
We learn about your group, preferred date, interest, travel style, and appropriate approximate budget. From there, we begin shaping the possibilities.
8 MONTHS BEFORE
Why 8 months?
This timeline allows us to secure exclusive access to boutique wineries, negotiate the finest accommodations, and create a truly bespoke experience that cannot be rushed. Quality takes time and your journey deserves nothing less.
Planning your Private Journey
We recommend beginning at least eight months before departure, allowing time to secure exceptional accommodations, private appointments, and the experiences best suited for your group.
6-7 MONTHS BEFORE
Proposal & Reservation
You receive personalized itinerary and quotation. Once your proposal is approved, your deposit allows us to begin confirming accommodations, private visits and key arrangements for your journey.
3-5 MONTHS BEFORE
Design & Refinement
We develop the journey in greater detail, arranging private visits, dining, transportation, and cultural experiences while refining the itinerary with you.
8 MONTHS BEFORE
Begin the Conversation
We learn about your group, preferred date, interest, travel style, and appropriate approximate budget. From there, we begin shaping the possibilities.
6-7 MONTHS BEFORE
Proposal & Reservation
You receive personalized itinerary and quotation. Once your proposal is approved, your deposit allows us to begin confirming accommodations, private visits and key arrangements for your journey.
Final Details
Reservations and logistics are finalized, preferences are reconfirmed, and you receive everything needed to travel with confidence.
3-5 MONTHS BEFORE
Design & Refinement
We develop the journey in greater detail, arranging private visits, dining, transportation, and cultural experiences while refining the itinerary with you.
1-2 MONTHS BEFORE
1-2 MONTHS BEFORE
Final Details
Reservations and logistics are finalized, preferences are reconfirmed, and you receive everything needed to travel with confidence.
What Our Guests Say
"Thank you for a wonderful adventure with all kinds of VIP treats at the beautiful wineries!"
WILLAMETTE VALLEY TRIP 2024
"The hospitality, accommodations, food, and bubbles were all to die for. We didn’t want to leave."
NORTHERN ITALY TRIP 2025
"I have attended 3 trips now and I'm scheduled to attend two more. You can't put a price tag on joy."
NORTHERN ITALY TRIP 2025
"I have traveled the world and multiple trips to France, but this Champagne trip was my most memorable due to the wonderfully organized itinerary and our small group of travelers."
CHAMPAGNE, FRANCE TRIP 2025
Private Journeys from $12,000 per guest
Final investment is determined by group size, length of stay, accommodations, access and level of personalization.