Emilly
From R$ 220.00
Skip the drive down the Bandeirantes for a special dinner. A personal chef brings a multi-course tasting menu to your home in Campinas, pours a wine matched to every course, and walks your table through each pairing.
Campinas has tech salaries, agribusiness fortunes, and some of the highest property values in the interior — but for a true tasting menu with wine service, locals still drive an hour-plus to São Paulo. A personal chef closes that gap in your own dining room.
The Serra da Mantiqueira paulista, home to award-winning Syrah from Espírito Santo do Pinhal, is about an hour away. A chef can build your pairing around these interior-of-São-Paulo wines — a dinner that tastes like the region you actually live in.
The spacious homes of Alphaville, Swiss Park, and Gramado were made for entertaining, and Campinas executives host clients and friends constantly. A guided pairing dinner turns a good dinner party into an experience people talk about for months.
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Tell your chef the occasion, guest count, and taste preferences. They propose 4-6 courses with a wine per course — sourcing bottles for you or pairing around what's already in your cellar.
Your chef arrives early with fresh ingredients — often straight from the Mercadão — preps in your kitchen, and serves course by course, presenting each wine at the table.
You host; the chef runs the show. After dessert and the final pour, the kitchen is cleaned and you keep the pairing notes.
From amuse-bouche to dessert, each plate is composed around the glass it's served with. Plan on a leisurely 2.5 to 3 hours at the table.
Tasting pours of sparkling, white, red, and dessert wines in a deliberate progression, balancing Brazilian labels — including Mantiqueira Syrahs — with imports to fit your budget.
The chef introduces each course and explains why the wine works — informative without turning your dinner into a lecture.
Cheeses and cured meats from the Mercadão, Holambra produce, and figo roxo from Valinhos worked into a menu that could headline a Cambuí restaurant.
Mise en place, plating, wine service, and a spotless kitchen at the end. Your only job is choosing who sits where.
Campinas gives a pairing menu real local material to work with. A chef might open with artisan cheese and cured meats from the century-old Mercadão alongside a Brazilian sparkling, run a Nikkei course honoring the city's Japanese heritage with a crisp white, plate a contemporary main with a Syrah from Espírito Santo do Pinhal, and close with a figo roxo de Valinhos dessert and a late-harvest wine. Every course maps to somewhere within an hour of your table.
It's also the format that fits how Campinas entertains. Tech and R&D executives from the CIATEC park host clients at home in Nova Campinas and Alphaville; Unicamp researchers celebrate defenses and graduations; families in Swiss Park and Gramado gather twenty people without blinking. Instead of another churrasco or the long drive to a São Paulo tasting counter, a chef-led wine dinner brings the destination to the house — with no one worrying about the Bandeirantes at midnight.
Local Tip
Ask your chef to feature a Serra da Mantiqueira paulista Syrah from the Espírito Santo do Pinhal wineries as the red of the night. Most guests have no idea world-class wine grows an hour from Campinas — it's the reveal that makes the dinner.
Wine pairing dinners in Campinas are priced by course count, menu complexity, and wine tier. Most chefs quote the menu per person with bottles billed separately, so you can scale the wine budget or pour from your own cellar.
R$180 - R$400 per person
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