Patrick was a chef for 16 years in Brazil, Nicaragua, Canada and Belgium. When his interests turned from food to wine, he returned to his native France to learn to make wine in Beaune Burgundy, where he stayed for 5 years. In 2002, while living in Paris, he tasted a bottle of Château Cheval Blanc and decided to move to Saint-Emilion. He draws on his culinary expertise to personally oversee the tour’s daily food and wine pairings.

Rosa grew up in a Canadian prairie city known for its giant mall. When her family moved to Paris for two years while she was growing up, she discovered patisseries and never looked back. Her early efforts at making croissants and eclairs were flops but that didn't stop her. At 26 she left her job as a food writer at a daily Canadian newspaper and moved to Paris. After ten years in Paris, where she wrote about restaurants for a number of guidebooks and magazines and founded her own company, she now spends most of her time in Nice where she teaches Provençal cooking in her home. She spends a few days every month in Paris keeping up with restaurants, conducting food tours, and sampling the finest patisseries and chocolates.