Designed around your occasion

Plan your special occasion journey in France

Tell us what you are celebrating, the dates you are considering and the kind of pace and experiences you enjoy. We will shape a private France itinerary around your plans, from château and cellar visits to markets, cultural guiding and celebratory French dining.

Most requested celebration

Milestone birthday journeys

Celebrate a 50th, 60th or 70th birthday with private dining, memorable hotels, and experiences shaped around couples, families, or friends.

Significant anniversaries

Shape an important anniversary around romantic hotels, private tastings, scenic transfers, and a celebration dinner for two or shared with family.

Retirement and semi-retirement travel

Create a relaxed wish-list journey with signature destinations, meaningful private access, and enough time to enjoy each stop.

Celebrations for couples and friends

Bring together a couple or small group of established friends through private food, wine, cultural, and scenic experiences matched to shared interests.

Honeymoons

Slow the pace with beautiful suites, unhurried mornings, private meals, spa or coastal time, and seamless transfers between stays.

Private milestone travel, tailored around France

A timeless setting for celebration

France is a classic setting for honeymoons, anniversaries, milestone birthdays, retirement trips and long-awaited family journeys, with legendary wine regions, romantic cities, chateau hotels, Michelin dining and private cultural guiding.

Every itinerary is designed individually around the occasion, your preferred pace, your travel dates and the French regions you most want to experience. Cellar Tours has been planning private, chauffeured journeys in France for more than two decades.

Cellar Tours creates private France journeys that combine exceptional wine access with food, culture and carefully planned logistics. Your route might include Bordeaux first growths, Burgundy villages, Champagne houses, Loire chateaux, Provence markets, Rhone estates, Alsace, Normandy or Paris.

The emphasis is on comfort, access and flow. We plan private chauffeured travel, expert city and regional guides, handpicked hotels, VIP chateau visits, wine-focused lunches, cooking classes, market visits and days that feel polished without being overfilled.

France works especially well for special occasion travel because it can be grand or intimate by design: a private Champagne tasting from Paris, a Bordeaux chateau lunch, a Burgundy cellar appointment, a Loire castle stay or a slower gourmet journey through Provence can all be shaped around the moment you are celebrating.

Since 2003: Private luxury wine, food and cultural travel
France-wide: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Loire, Provence, Rhone, Alsace and Normandy
Tailor-made: Honeymoons, anniversaries, birthdays, retirements and family journeys
Private throughout: Chauffeurs, guides, chateaux, hotels, dining and special experiences
Typical journey: 10–14 days, tailored around your preferred regions and pace

What our clients say

Their attention to details and creation of unique experiences based on the specific interests of their clients sets them apart.

Melissa Haskin Private France journey

Featured private journeys

Ways to celebrate in France

These itineraries are starting points. Each journey can be adapted around the occasion, your hotel style, preferred pace, season and the regions you most want to experience.

Celebrate with VIP chateau visits, Saint-Emilion, Medoc estates, Sauternes, elegant hotels, private guides and fine regional dining.

Explore Beaune, Chablis, the Cote de Nuits and Cote de Beaune through private cellar appointments, vineyard routes and refined country stays.

Pair Paris with Reims and Epernay, prestige houses, boutique growers, private tastings, Michelin dining and celebratory Champagne moments.

Combine Loire chateaux, Sancerre, Pouilly-Fume, Chinon, Saumur, riverside hotels and privately guided cultural visits.

Rosés like Domaine Vacheron, Château d'Esclans (Whispering Angel), and Domaines Ott, from regions like Provence and the Loire Valley, capture the essence of summer with their vibrant flavors and delicate balance.

Enjoy Aix markets, Luberon villages, Les Baux de Provence, private wine estates, perfume, art, Michelin dining and relaxed Mediterranean pacing.

A grand private route from Paris to Champagne, Burgundy, Lyon and Bordeaux, designed for guests who want a complete French gourmet journey.

Personal planning

Meet Your Tour Planner

Genevieve Mc Carthy Tour Planning

Genevieve has spent more than 20 years creating private food and wine journeys across Spain, Portugal and France. She regularly visits the regions featured in these collections, meeting with winery, hotel, guide, and restaurant partners and exploring new experiences. She also reviews feedback from Cellar Tours guests. Her role is to help travelers choose the wine region, itinerary style, and pace that best match their interests—not simply the destination with the most famous name.

Travel at your own pace

Comfort and flexibility built into the journey

Because every itinerary is private and tailored, we can shape the route, hotel style, chauffeured travel, guides, winery visits and daily pace around the people traveling together, with no fixed group departure and no need to overfill the days.

Plan with confidence

Helpful guides before you travel

Your services are arranged for your party and confirmed in advance in your personal proposal. Share any mobility considerations, dietary requirements and preferred pace early so they can be built into the itinerary; the guides below explain how the planning process works and when conditions are most comfortable.

Planning guide

How Private Wine Tour Planning Works

Learn how we design tailor-made journeys, select regions and hotels, and build each itinerary around your interests.

Read the planning guide

Seasonal guide

Best Months for Wine Tours

Compare seasons, temperatures and vineyard conditions to choose a comfortable time to travel.

Explore the month-by-month guide

Why Cellar Tours

Private travel, planned with care

For milestone travel, the details matter. Our role is to shape the route, hotels, timing, guides and special experiences so the journey feels smooth from the first conversation to the final day.

Licensed, insured and fully bonded travel agency Operating since 2003, with personally selected suppliers and long-standing private travel experience across France.
Private travel specialists No fixed group departures; every itinerary is private and tailored.
Trusted French partners Guides, chauffeurs, chateaux, wineries, hotels and restaurants selected for fit and reliability.
Recommended by leading publications Cellar Tours has been featured by National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure.

For life’s special occasions Luxury Tours in France