Rêverie is a highly curated exploration that will take you deep into some of the most beautiful regions of the world.
Our mission is to help you build relationships, meet the local makers, and immerse yourself in our rich culinary retreats — and have a REALLY good time!
If you are traveling solo and interested in sharing a room with another guest, click here!
2025 Retreats - RESERVATIONS are OPEN!
Loire Valley with Woodland Wine Merchant
May 4 - 10, 2025
Travel to the heart of wine production with our friends from Woodland Wine Merchant, based in Nashville, Tennessee. You’ll meet the producers, the vintners, the wine shop and wine bar owners, and OF COURSE - you’ll learn about and taste so much of what the Loire Valley has to offer. Will Motley and Jami Holder will join us for the week in the stunning Château de Jalesnes.
From $6,500.00 USD
only 4 rooms left!
Toulouse with Erin McDowell
May 17-22, 2025
Erin McDowell joins us for the time second time in the South of France. We’ll taste our way through natural wines, local cheeses, and spend lots of time with the holy trinity of pastry - butter, flour, and sugar! We’ll take a day trip to the rosy city of Toulouse, where we’ll end the week with a meal at one of the city’s best restaurants. Join us for the week of your sweetest dreams!
From $4,600.00 USD
SOLD OUT!!
Toulouse with
MAY 25 - 30, 2025
Looking for a way to level up in your French speaking skills, but don’t want to sleep in a dormitory and eat cafeteria food? Maybe a château will do the trick!
Coucou French Classes and Reverie have teamed up to provide the ideal immersive experience for French language learners to practice their language skills and dive into the rich culinary and historic traditions of Southwest France at the Château de Labusquière.
From $4,600.00 USD
only 2 rooms left!
Toulouse with Emily Leonard
June 10-15, 2025
Emily Leonard will host Reverie’s very first artist retreat in the Southwest of France at our dearest Château de Labusquière. With stunning vistas over the French countryside, flowers in full bloom, and fruit trees beginning to bestow their gifts, it will be difficult to lack inspiration during the effervescent summer in the Gers region of France. We’ll spend the week soaking in the surrounding beauty, and finish things off with a day in the bustling city of Toulouse. Learn more about Emily and the trip we have planned by clicking below!
From $4,600
BLACK FOResT with Adam Trest
JUNE 25-30, 2025
Let’s go to Germany and hide in the Black Forest!! Hosted by Mississippi-based artist, the scintillating Adam Trest, we’ll slip into our luxury chalet hideaway for the week alongside the Elz River. Adam will lead his guests in a week of sketching, journaling, and enhancing their pathways to creative production. Adam is an experienced teacher, and he is so excited to share this week, steeped in fairy tales and forest lore, with you. All guests are welcome for this exciting new twist of a Rêverie retreat - creative backgrounds or not!
From $5,500
Loire Valley with
OCTOBER 3 - 8, 2025
Et oui! We’re already back for more with the effervescent and eccentric Coucou French Classes !! The first 2025 trip that came out of this exciting new collaboration flew off the shelves, so to speak, so we’ve built new shelves and we’re opening a second retreat in our favorite Loire Valley Home - Le Château de Jalesnes.
Want to know something else exciting? This Loire Valley immersive French experience is open to ALL levels of French learners - even complete beginners. This could be just the motivation you needed to dust off those high school textbooks and jump on a plane to start getting your French back. And if you already speak fluently, the Coucou team is ready to welcome you with loads of conversation opportunities and time in the cities to discuss the latest with the locals.
Don’t sleep on this one - tickets will go fast!
From $5,500
GOING FAST!
Loire Valley with cheryl day and nicole rucker
SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 1, 2025
The pastry queens of southern baking will host their first Reverie retreat in the Loire Valley! Cheryl Day and Nicole Rucker have plans to show you a good time in the Château de Jalesnes - playing with apples the French way (Apple Cake! Tarte Tatin!) , making layered pastry crusts (let’s make a vol-au-vent!) , and they’ll show you how to make a show-stopping brunch in the Frenchiest way. These two are a riot together, and their skills and knowledge flow generously. It is such a treat to have them with us next year!!
From $5,500
SOLD OUT!!
FRENCH RIVIeRA with Erin mcdowell
OCTOBER 15 - 20, 2025
A week with the magical Erin McDowell in the romantic french riviera? what could be better?! Join us for this incredible occasion in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Erin will host you at the Château Saint Georges alongside the Rêverie team. We’ll spend lots of time together in the enchanting blue marble kitchen, exploring the expansive grounds of and eternal views from the Château, and roaming the French Riviera’s bountiful countryside. We’ll even spend a day in the city of Nice, where happiness bounces through the streets and your pebble beach (or shopping!!) dreams come true.
From $5,500
GOING FAST!
FRENCH RIVIeRA with Phyllis grant and lisa donovan
OCTOBER 23 - 28, 2025
Spend a week with Phyllis and Lisa in the kitchen, in the writer’s room and out and about in the Riviera. The location will afford us the opportunity to explore the best of coastal France, and the work we’ll do in the kitchen will only inspire more focus and fodder for our writing practice. We will be staying at the Château Saint Georges, and we can’t wait to spend time together in the stunning Grande Cuisine, studded with blue marble accents in true Provençale Baroque fashion. Psst: The château also has a lower-level spa, with a heated indoor swimming pool, hot tub, sauna and cold plunge – so, get ready to relax and pamper yourself in one of the most beautiful regions of France.
From $5,500
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— M. F. K. Fisher
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