An evening
set with intention.

For nearly twenty years, a rarefied circle of collectors, epicures, and connoisseurs has quietly known where to find the finest in-home culinary experiences — intimate, exacting, and utterly unlike the commoditized tasting-menu landscape of the moment. In January 2024, that legacy found its next expression: Creative Mastery, a five-course dinner and wine pairing series that has, in short order, become one of the most coveted invitations among those who take their Burgundy seriously.

This is not a class. It is not a wine night. It is a celebration of the oldest tradition there is — the gathering of a few kindred people around a table set with intention. Each evening, a menu of five courses is composed alongside a hand-selected pairing of wines, curated by our Burgundy-based wine specialist, drawn not from a single cellar but from across the world's most compelling regions. The result is a conversation between plate and pour, built for a room of no more than a handful of guests.

For a guest who has already toured the obvious cellars of the world, Creative Mastery offers something rarer still — genuine discovery, delivered without pretense, in a room built for real conversation. Each dinner is staged in a distinctive private setting, the table dressed as carefully as the menu is composed — a study in atmosphere as much as in gastronomy.

The result is less an event than an experience: unhurried, richly detailed, and designed for those who understand that the best evenings are the ones that can't be replicated at scale.