Chartogne-Taillet and Pierre Péters Champagne Dinner at DANIEL

Three bottles of Champagne Chartogne-Taillet Cuvée Hors-Série 2019, same vintage, same cuvée, different closures and format: crown cap, cork, magnum. That is the kind of detail that makes a collector sit forward before the first cork is eased from the bottle.

On Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 6:30pm ET, La Fête du Champagne brings Alexandre Chartogne, Rodolphe Péters, Chef Daniel Boulud and Chef Arnaud Lallement to DANIEL, 60 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065, for the Chartogne-Taillet & Pierre Péters Dinner. The published price is $1,995 plus tax, with purchase access listed as exclusive to American Express Platinum Card and Centurion Members, according to the official La Fête du Champagne event page.

This is an upcoming seated dinner, not a walk-around tasting, and La Fête notes that exact wines and vintages are subject to change. Still, the announced program is unusually explicit. It frames Champagne not as luxury shorthand, but as a set of choices: chalk, grape variety, closure, bottle format, time sur latte and blending across soil types.

A New York Champagne dinner built around decisions in the cellar

The strongest reason to consider this dinner is not simply that two respected growers will be in the room. It is that Alexandre Chartogne and Rodolphe Péters have shaped the flights around questions collectors actually debate when buying and cellaring Champagne.

Chartogne leads his family estate, Chartogne-Taillet, in Merfy, a village in the Massif de Saint-Thierry northwest of Reims. La Fête describes Merfy as historic and rich in diverse terroirs, a useful cue for understanding why Chartogne’s wines often feel tied to place rather than house style alone. Rodolphe Péters oversees 20 hectares of vines predominantly in Le Mesnil sur Oger, the Grand Cru Côte des Blancs village where Les Chétillons sits.

That pairing gives the evening its geography. Merfy brings the conversation toward the Massif de Saint-Thierry and its patchwork of soils. Le Mesnil sur Oger brings it to the Côte des Blancs, where Chardonnay and chalk form one of Champagne’s most legible dialects. DANIEL supplies the service setting, while Boulud welcomes Lallement of the three Michelin-starred l’Assiette Champenoise in Reims to collaborate on the menu. The menu itself has not been published, so the wines remain the clearest guide to the night’s intent.

At $1,995 plus tax, the dinner asks for more than casual enthusiasm. The booking verdict is direct: this is most compelling for Champagne collectors who want technical comparisons rarely available outside producer cellars, especially the Chartogne-Taillet closure and format study and the Pierre Péters lees-aging sequence. If your pleasure lies mainly in a broad range of famous labels, another La Fête event may suit you better. If you like to taste the architecture of a wine, this one has a strong argument.

The chalk study: Chemin de Reims, Les Montjolys and Les Chétillons

The first announced flight is billed as a study of different types of chalky soils. It lists Champagne Chartogne-Taillet Chemin de Reims Blanc de Blancs 2019, Champagne Pierre Péters Les Montjolys Cuvée Spéciale Blanc de Blancs 2018 and Champagne Pierre Péters Les Chétillons Cuvée Spéciale Blanc de Blancs 2018.

All three are Blanc de Blancs, but the point is not to flatten them into a Chardonnay comparison. The point is site. Chemin de Reims places Chartogne’s Merfy perspective beside two Pierre Péters cuvées from the Côte des Blancs context. Les Chétillons, in particular, carries special weight for followers of Le Mesnil sur Oger, and its appearance early in the evening establishes a reference point that returns later in older form.

For your own notes, resist the temptation to rank the wines immediately. A flight like this rewards attention to shape. Does one wine feel more linear, another broader through the middle? Does the chalk register as grip, salinity, aroma, length or a particular austerity? Those observations will matter more than a simple preference, especially when the dinner later moves from soil into cellar practice.

La Fête’s official description emphasizes that chalk across Champagne is far from homogeneous. That sentence is easy to read quickly, but it is the spine of the opening flight. Champagne often gets spoken of as if chalk were a single material with one voice. This flight suggests a more precise conversation.

The Chartogne-Taillet Cuvée Hors-Série 2019 closure and format flight

The second published study is the collector’s magnet: Champagne Chartogne-Taillet Cuvée Hors-Série 2019 under crown cap, Champagne Chartogne-Taillet Cuvée Hors-Série 2019 under cork and Champagne Chartogne-Taillet Cuvée Hors-Série 2019 en magnum.

Keeping the cuvée and vintage constant while changing closure and bottle format is what makes the comparison valuable. Many Champagne lovers talk about crown cap versus cork for lees aging, and many have opinions about magnum development, but few restaurant dinners give you the same wine in three versions within one focused sequence.

The event page frames this as a study of the impact of different types of bottle closures and format. That wording matters. It is not a promise that one version will be superior. It is an invitation to ask what oxygen transmission, lees contact, pressure, bottle size and maturation rhythm may do to texture and development.

If the published lineup holds, this is the flight to mark before you arrive. Note the order as served, the temperature, the way each glass changes over several minutes and how the accompanying course, once revealed on the night, handles the wine’s texture. The magnum may be especially visually satisfying bottle on the table, but the quieter comparison between crown cap and cork could be the detail you remember when you next buy Champagne for the cellar.

Pierre Péters and the lees-aging sequence

The next Pierre Péters flight continues the technical thread with three wines and clearly stated time on lees: Champagne Pierre Péters Les Chétillons Cuvée Spéciale Blanc de Blancs 2013, six years on lees under crown cap; Champagne Pierre Péters Réserve Familiale 2013, 10 years on lees under crown cap; and Champagne Pierre Péters Œnothèque 2010, 12 years on lees under cork.

That sequence gives you three variables to hold in view: cuvée, vintage and lees-aging framework. Les Chétillons 2013 returns after the 2018 version in the opening chalk study, allowing the vineyard name to echo through the dinner. Réserve Familiale 2013 shifts the focus to a different cuvée from the same vintage, while Œnothèque 2010 adds further age and a cork-aged lees framework.

The official program specifies six, 10 and 12 years on lees. Those numbers are not decorative. Time sur latte can change the way Champagne carries its mousse, its mid-palate and its savory register, though no preview should pretend to know how these bottles will show on the night. What we can say is that the published structure lets you taste time as a decision rather than an abstraction.

For collectors with Pierre Péters in the cellar, this may be one practically useful part of the evening. It can sharpen your thinking about when to open Les Chétillons, how you respond to extended lees aging and whether the added dimension of an Œnothèque release aligns with your own drinking window.

The final blending study and the practical booking details

The final announced wine study turns to soils, grape varieties and blending. La Fête lists Champagne Chartogne-Taillet Les Barres 2019, Champagne Chartogne-Taillet Les Orizeaux Blanc de Noirs 2019 and Champagne Pierre Péters L’Etonnant Monsieur Victor MK13.

After the earlier Blanc de Blancs and technical comparisons, this last set broadens the register. Les Barres and Les Orizeaux bring Chartogne-Taillet back through named cuvées, with Les Orizeaux identified in the program as Blanc de Noirs. L’Etonnant Monsieur Victor MK13 brings Pierre Péters into the blending conversation. The evening’s arc moves from chalk in Chardonnay to the more intricate question of how grape varieties and soil types can be woven into a finished Champagne.

The practicalities are as important as the wine list. The dinner is scheduled for Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 6:30pm ET at DANIEL, 60 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065. The listed ticket price is $1,995 plus tax. La Fête states that purchase access is exclusive to American Express Platinum Card and Centurion Members, who unlock access by entering the 10-digit toll-free Customer Service phone number from the back of the eligible card, without spaces, dashes or the initial 1.

The terms also state that tickets must be purchased with an eligible Platinum Card or Centurion Card, that Premium Events Collection Presale Tickets are sold and fulfilled by third party ticket sellers rather than American Express, and that prices, fees, rules and conditions are set by the ticket seller, event promoter and venue. Availability may be limited, purchase limits may apply, and refunds, exchanges and resale may be prohibited. Card Members may be asked to present the eligible American Express Card used for purchase at admission. Attendees must be 21 or older.

If you are coming into New York for La Fête du Champagne, build in margin around the 6:30pm start and check the official event page before booking travel, as details, prices, exact wines and vintages are subject to change. For the right Champagne drinker, the draw is clear: a dinner at DANIEL where Merfy, Le Mesnil sur Oger and Reims meet in a set of flights designed to show how Champagne becomes itself.