Your hosts

Michel Galopin, General Manager, Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat
Stephen Williams, Managing Director, The Antique Wine Company
Charles Chevallier, Director, Chateau Lafite Rothschild.

Friday April 20

Guests are invited to arrive from mid-afternoon. Private Limousine airport transfers can be arranged with the Hotel.

• 19:30 Champagne Welcome Reception
  Featuring Dom Perignon 1998
   
• 20:00 Gastronomic Dinner
  Informal gastronomic four-course dinner, introducing Grand-Hotel Cap-Ferrat's new award-winning chef, Didier Aniès, and featuring wines from the Rothschild estates.
   
  The wines will include:
   - Carruades de Lafite 2000
   - Duhart Milon Rothschild
   - Lafite Rothschild 1985
   - Lafite Rothschild 1970
  
  Click here to download menu
  

Saturday April 21

• Breakfast at leisure
   
• Morning programme
  Three alternative activities will be offered
   
• 10:30 Chateau Lafite Masterclass
  An unprecedented vertical tasting of 10 contrasting Chateau Lafite Rothschild, presented by Stephen Williams and John Salvi from Antique Wine and Charles Chevallier from Chateau Lafite Rothschild.
   
  Vintages will include:
  2005 (cask sample), 2003, 2000, 1990, 1983, 1976, 1962, 1955, 1949, 1898 .
  (Precise vintages presented are subject to change dependent upon their condition during preparation.)
   
  Geological, viticultural, technical and historical specifications of Lafite Rothschild will be covered.
   
• 10:30 Principles of Wine Tasting
  An entertaining and informative seminar aimed to provide confidence in identifying quality wine. Guests will learn how to recognise the principle quality factors and faults in wine and build taste recognition skills covering a variety of wines. 8 different wines will be presented.
   
• 10:00 Private Tour
  A morning private tour of two historical palaces of the French Riviera: Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and its gardens, and Villa Kerylos
   
• 13:00 Lunch
  A Mediteranean-style lunch will be served at the Hotel's Club Dauphin,
  accompanied by:
  Roederer Cristal 1997
  Chateau L'Evangile 1995
  Chateau Rieussec 1983
  
  Click here to download menu
   
• 19:30 Black Tie Champagne Reception
   
• 20:00 The Chateau Lafite Rothschild Gastronomic Challenge Dinner
  A magnificent four course dinner featuring seven exceptional vintages of Chateau Lafite Rothschild: 2000, 1982, 1961, 1959, 1953, 1928.
  
  The wine activity during the dinner will be in the form of a semi-blind tasting where guests can put their new-found Chateau Lafite knowledge into practice 
  
  Click here to download menu

Sunday April 22

• Breakfast at Leisure
   
• Departure

This rare and exclusive residential weekend event is offered at £1,900 (2,500 euros) per person to include all the fine wine activities, two champagne receptions, two gastronomic dinners, one gastronomic lunch and two nights accommodation with breakfast at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat.
 
A non-residential package, on Saturday 21st April, is offered at £1,500 (2,000 euros) per person.

Capacity is limited to just 50 residential guests. If you would like to consider participating, please register your interest now, and you will receive the formal printed invitation by post.