Vineyards & Lakeshore
Lavaux cellars, lakeside tables and the Riviera vaudoise at its most private. A private, tailored journey of 5 days in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$13,500 per traveler.
- Culinary · Calm
- Ideal length: 5 days
- Best time: December through March for pristine alpine snow, June through September for green valleys, warm lakes and clear summit days.
- Private guiding, access and transfers throughout
- From US$13,500 per traveler — a starting point, tailored to you
- Designed one-to-one by a Forest Travel advisor
- Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels
Lavaux cellars, lakeside tables and the Riviera vaudoise at its most private. A private, tailored journey of 5 days in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$13,500 per traveler.
Few countries pair such effortless precision with wild beauty, and here it is all arranged so quietly that you notice only the ease.
When to go
December through March for pristine alpine snow, June through September for green valleys, warm lakes and clear summit days. Your advisor times it to the light, the crowds and your own calendar.
The experiences
A sense of what this journey can hold — each one arranged privately and shaped to you:
- Walk the terraced vineyards of Lavaux above the lake, a landscape so singular it is held under world heritage.
- Taste in a family cellar opened just for you, wines that rarely travel beyond the shores where they are grown.
- Lunch at a lakeside table on the Riviera vaudoise, the water still and the far mountains sharp in the clear air.
- Cross the lake by private boat at golden hour, a glass in hand as the terraces glow behind you.
A sense of the rhythm
Slow vineyard mornings, long lakeside lunches and unhurried golden evenings; the Riviera vaudoise at its most private and its most delicious.
How to do it well
The counsel our advisors give travelers planning this journey:
- The finest Lavaux wines are made in tiny quantities and tasted best at the cellar door.
- A private boat turns the lakeshore itself into the route between one table and the next.
- Autumn brings the harvest colour to the terraces, the loveliest time to walk them.
- Ask the growers which bottles never leave the region; those are the ones to seek.
What only your advisor can open
The difference between a good trip and an unrepeatable one is access — and access is a relationship, not a booking. Every guide, room and moment is chosen and sequenced for you.
Who it's for
Travelers who value privacy, time and doing it once — beautifully — and who would rather have one trusted advisor orchestrate every detail than assemble it themselves.
Estimated investment
From US$13,500 per traveler, based on double occupancy — scaled to your dates, party size and level of privacy. A starting point, not a final quote; confirmed once your advisor tailors the itinerary.
Designed entirely around you
Nothing here is a package. A Forest Travel advisor shapes the whole journey and stays one message away before and throughout your trip.
Your Virtuoso privileges
As a Virtuoso member, Forest Travel includes benefits reserved for Virtuoso guests at the finest luxury hotels, at no added cost: a room upgrade on arrival when available, daily breakfast for two, a property credit toward dining or spa, and early check-in with late check-out when the hotel allows.
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Questions, answered.
The Lavaux terraces are a world-heritage landscape unlike any other, their wines and lakeside tables reached quietly, through the growers themselves.
At the cellar door. The finest Lavaux wines are made in tiny quantities and taste best where they are made, so this journey includes a tasting in a family cellar opened just for you, with wines that rarely travel beyond the shores where they are grown. Our advisors' counsel: ask the growers which bottles never leave the region. Those are the ones to seek.
Yes. A private boat turns the lakeshore itself into the route between one table and the next, so lunch at a lakeside table on the Riviera vaudoise can be reached across the water. The journey also includes a private crossing of the lake at golden hour, a glass in hand as the Lavaux terraces glow behind you.
You walk terraced vineyards set above the lake, a landscape so singular it is held under world heritage. The walks belong to slow vineyard mornings, privately arranged and shaped to you, before long lakeside lunches. Autumn brings the harvest colour to the terraces, the loveliest time to walk them, and the growers themselves are your way into the wines.
Vineyards & Lakeshore takes 5 days, enough to do it without rushing. Those days follow a gentle rhythm: slow vineyard mornings walking the world-heritage Lavaux terraces, a private tasting in a family cellar, long lakeside lunches on the Riviera vaudoise and unhurried golden evenings, including a private boat crossing at golden hour. Your advisor tunes the length to your calendar and pace.
As a private, tailored journey it starts from roughly US$13,500 per traveler (double occupancy) and scales with your dates, party and level of privacy — a starting point, never a fixed package price. Your advisor confirms the figure once the itinerary is tailored.
The guide points to two windows: December through March for pristine alpine snow, and June through September for green valleys, warm lakes and clear summit days, the backdrop for lakeside lunches and a golden-hour boat crossing. For the vineyards themselves, autumn brings the harvest colour to the Lavaux terraces, the loveliest time to walk them. Your advisor times the journey to the light, the crowds and your own calendar.
Lunch on the Riviera vaudoise is taken at a lakeside table, arranged privately, with the water of Lake Geneva still and the far mountains sharp in the clear air. These are long, unhurried lunches that follow slow mornings in the Lavaux vineyards. A private boat can turn the lakeshore itself into the route between one table and the next, so the meal can be reached across the water.
The golden-hour crossing of Lake Geneva is made by private boat, a glass in hand as the Lavaux terraces glow behind you. It belongs to the unhurried golden evenings that close each day of Vineyards & Lakeshore, after vineyard mornings and long lakeside lunches on the Riviera vaudoise. Like every experience on the journey, it is arranged privately and shaped to you.
Yes. The Lavaux vineyard terraces, on the north shore of Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Vevey, are a UNESCO World Heritage landscape, facing south over the water toward the Alps. The finest wines are made in tiny quantities and rarely leave the region, so a cellar visit arranged with the vigneron is the way to taste them. September and October bring the vendange, when the terraces turn gold and harvest cruises run along the shore.
Yes, and it is most rewarding done privately. On Vineyards & Lakeshore you walk the terraces in the morning, taste in a family cellar opened by the winemaker, and move between lakeside lunches on the Riviera vaudoise by private boat, crossing back at golden hour. The finest cellars pour only by arrangement with the vigneron, so visits are set up in advance. The journey runs five days from US$13,500 per traveler, with Virtuoso privileges at the finest hotels.
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