Upcoming Cheese Journeys
Discover our 2024 and 2025 tours
June 11 - June 22, 2024
SOLD OUT
Double Occupancy: $7,950 per person
Single Occupancy: $9,150 per person
Join Cheese Journeys’ legendary educator, author, and host, Tenaya Darlington, aka Madame Fromage and Jilly Sitch, The Mary Poppins of Cheese Travel, for an unforgettable food and wine tour through Northern Italy. This is a custom curated travel experience taking you through Italy’s back door to visit some of the finest food, wine, and cheese producers in the world – all friends of Cheese Journeys.
Deep dive into the beautiful Langhe region - the cradle of Italy’s fine food and wine culture - and Piedmont’s Bra region - the epicenter of the Slow Food universe. The aesthetics of this area, and the principles of its famous organization, will serve as our foundation as we explore additional food and wine areas of Northern Italy.
Ever dreamed of staying in an ancient fishing village on an island, overlooking the Swiss Alps? Join us as we explore Lombardy & the Lake Country; home to George Clooney, Gorgonzola, and our favorite Taleggio producer!
This tour is open to all travelers!
July 3 - July 14 , 2024
Double Occupancy: $8,950 per person
Single Occupancy:$9,950 per person
Our most popular tour – as featured in Condé Nast Traveler!
Join Tenaya Darlington, aka Madame Fromage, and Jilly Sitch, The Mary Poppins of Cheese Travel, for a once-in-a-lifetime culinary adventure to the Alpine regions of France and Switzerland, renowned for their cheese, wine and other locally produced goods.
Stay in a 1,000-year-old newly restored château nestled in vineyards at the foot of the French Alps while enjoying excursions to visit alpage cheesemakers. Take a step back in time as you witness cheese being made in a copper pot over a wood burning fire.
Cheese & wine classes are on the menu along with delightful meals prepared by Cheese Journeys’ private chefs who also share their cooking expertise.
This tour is open to all travelers!
*SINGLE OCCUPANCY ROOMS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THIS TOUR. PLEASE CONTACT ANNA@CHEESEJOURNEYS.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION AND BOOK NOW!
September 11 - September 22 , 2024
Double Occupancy: $8,950 per person
Single Occupancy: $9,950 per person
Join Cheese Journeys’ owner Anna Juhl, Jilly Sitch, The Mary Poppins of Cheese Travel, and journalist Patrick McGuigans for a new culinary adventure to one of France and Switzerland’s foremost cheese, food, and wine-producing regions.
Guests will enjoy a seven day stay in a 1,000-year-old newly restored chateau nestled in the vineyards at the foot of the French Alps. Enjoy meals prepared by Cheese Journeys’ private chefs, cooking and cheese/wine classes, excursions to visit regional wine producers, alpage cheesemakers, and a beautiful day in Annecy. During the last four days of this tour, we’ve created a new itinerary to Switzerland as we explore one of the most breathtakingly beautiful regions of the Alps, with the delightful expert hosts- Gourmino, producers of world champion Swiss cheese. gourmino.ch. Cheese making and aging, cow bells, fondue in the alpage, a romantic hotel in the medieval center area of Berne, and a private invitation to the festivities of a Swiss cow parade!
This tour is open to all travelers!
October 6 - October 13, 2024
Double occupancy: $5,700 per person
Single occupancy: $6,400 per person
The New York Times featured tour!
Join Emilio Mignucci, co-owner and VP of Culinary Pioneering for Di Bruno Bros., Anna Juhl of Cheese Journeys, and Jilly Sitch, The Mary Poppins of Cheese Travel, on a Downton Abbey-style Cheese Journey. You will have the unique opportunity to learn from our tour co-educator Patrick McGuigan. You will spend time with, and learn from, Britain’s most renowned artisan cheesemakers, all while staying in a beautifully restored English Manor. A day in London and a trip to the historic and food-loving city of Bath adds to this cheese lovers experience.
This tour is open to all travelers!
October 21 - November 1, 2024
Double occupancy: $8,950 per person (single and double beds)
Single occupancy: Not available for this tour
This is a private tour and open to WineStyles members only. Cheese Journeys will release this tour again for May/June 2025- open to all.
Join Bryan and Andrea McGinness of WineStyles as they travel with Anna Juhl of Cheese Journeys on a new culinary and wine adventure to the Burgundy region of France – home to Époisses cheese, Dijon mustard, the world’s most exquisite wines, and glorious gourmet cuisine.
Your home base? A Cinderella-style chateau dating back 500 years that has been lovingly transformed into a jaw-dropping five-star vacation home. During your 10-day stay, you’ll visit world-class wine producers, meet iconic cheesemakers, learn from local experts, sample specialties from regional artisans, and enjoy a private invitation from the chateau’s owner to taste his own personal selection of Grand Cru wines (most bottles are never sold to the public).
Your adventure launches from Paris and even includes a day at the annual Chablis Wine Festival, where you’ll take in the French countryside and sip the area’s legendary whites. At the chateau, you’ll enjoy French meals prepared by our private chefs and excursions to a series of culinary and historic sites, including a tour of wine caves built by the Romans, a visit to the historic Hospices de Beaune, and a farmers’ market shopping spree with our chefs. You’ll hunt for truffles, and day-trip to a legendary food city: Dijon, the jewel in the crown of Burgundy cuisine.
Throughout your stay, you’ll have free time to relax by the pool, bike around the countryside, or work out in the private gym. Plus, your schedule includes private classes focused on cheese, wine, and cocktails, taught by our expert co-hosts. You’ll even receive an apron so that you can cook alongside Cheese Journeys’ private chefs during their much-requested hands-on cooking demonstrations – a tour highlight!
April 30-May 9, 2025
Single & Double Occupancy
Full tour details and pricing will be available soon. Email adventures@cheesejourneys.com to request you name be added to our mailing list when tour is released.
Join Anna Juhl of Cheese Journeys and Tenaya Darlington, aka Madame Fromage, in Belgium and the Netherlands for this exciting spring getaway during the heart of tulip season!
While these two featured countries are small, this tour is jam-packed with unique and interesting food and beverage experiences: private backdoor meet-ups, and tastings with some of the world’s greatest cheese affineurs, beer producers, and chocolatiers. Discover Amsterdam’s canals, historic neighborhoods, and thriving food scene -- more than just stroopwafels and Bitterballens! Imagine spending time with the “Julia Child of Cheese,” renowned affineur and educator Betty Koster, owner of Fromagerie L’Amuse, visiting small artisan producers, seeing lush fields of flowers in the countryside at Keuchenhof Gardens, and meandering small villages in the historic Beemster Polder.
After six days in the Netherlands, you’ll venture south to explore Belgium, a country beloved for its beer, seafood, waffles, and world-class chocolate. You’ll tour breweries -- including Cantillon (the premier maker of wild-fermented lambic) in Brussels – and taste Belgium’s famous Trappist beers and saisons. Plus, you’ll have time to relax in Belgium’s cozy beer cafés, famed for long beer lists and hardy cuisine including mussels & fries. Enjoy a private beer-and-cheese tasting at one of Brussels’s best fromageries, plus a chocolate walk that will change the way you think about pralines. Your stay includes a daytrip to the canal-lined streets of Bruges, a UNESCO World Heritage City, that is full of – you guessed it – craft breweries, chocolate makers, and brasseries.
By the end of your stay, you’ll be an expert in cheese, beer, and chocolate. And you’ll have experienced a variety of Dutch cuisine, thanks to home-cooked meals prepared by our private chefs Sylvain Jamois and Milo Waterfield. You’ll return home with recipes – thanks to their cooking demonstrations – and a treasure trove of specialty foods so that you can host a special evening of cheese, beer and chocolate as you share your travel stories.
May 12 - May 19, 2024
Double Occupancy: $6,950 Per Person
Single Occupancy: $8,000 Per Person
Imagine eating the world’s most decadent Brie and sipping Champagne in the City of Love—and by that we really mean “The City of Cheese Love!” Join Anna Juhl, owner of Cheese Journeys, Laura & Chris of Fairfield & Greenwich Cheese Company, and Marisela Paone, owner of Sequels Boutique Resale Shop, on a trip that begins with a relaxing stay on the grounds of a 17th century chateau and ends at a cooking school in the heart of Paris overlooking the Seine. Be prepared to taste exquisite cheese, stroll with a flock of sheep, make cheese, meet artisans, learn about wine, enjoy sumptuous meals, and shop Paris boutiques and markets with your private guides. It’s the ultimate Paris food and shopping tour with a French country twist! Plus, you’ve got private chefs to prepare meals and picnics, not to mention cheese experts, Laura & Chris, Fairfield & Greenwich Cheese Company to teach you everything you could want to know about building drool- worthy boards and creating fresh pairings
This tour is open to all travelers!