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For the readers of Robb Report, the most discerning audience in the world, comes a shopping destination like no other.
It’s called The Vault, and it will house treasures, both physical and experiential, that you’ll prize for life. We worked with the finest makers and companies in the luxury sector to create, and curate, a constantly changing selection that is truly unique—and as such, cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
Whether you’re searching for a gift, a vacation, a celebration, a token of your appreciation or you simply want to treat yourself, we hope you’ll find just what you were looking for—or better, something you never even knew you could have.
New additions will be added to The Vault on a regular basis, and equally regularly, some items will be removed. Many objects or experiences are one-offs—so when they’re gone, they’re gone—while others will be available in limited quantities.
We invite you, Robb Report reader, to a first look inside The Vault. Simply click the “Inquire” button to express your interest in the treats that await—will you choose dinner with one of the finest chefs in the world, a cocktail master class at the hippest bar in New York, a Parisian adventure and vintage chess set by Christofle, or even a rum and cigar experience in Nicaragua?
The Vault is open. Happy shopping.
—Paul Croughton, editor-in-chief of Robb Report
A Champagne Lovers’ Getaway to France with Moët Hennessy Private
Price: US$175,000 (HK$1.36 million)
A dream trip for up to 10 Champagne connoisseurs and enthusiasts. Over the course of four fabulous days and three nights, you’ll accompany cellar masters on private tours and tastings of special bottles at Ruinart, Veuve Clicquot, Dom Pérignon, Moët & Chandon, and finally Krug—and get to take home some very special reminders of your adventure. There will be magnificent meals, private parties, and an extraordinary access-all-areas day in Paris, hosted by Moët Hennessy Private.
On the first day, you’ll be the guests of Ruinart in its stunning cellar caves, before a sumptuous lunch at Le Parc, the Michelin two-star restaurant in the magnificent Domaine Les Crayères hotel, where chef Christophe Moret focuses on contemporary French fine dining. The afternoon will include a second tasting, this time at Veuve Clicquot, before an exclusive night at the private maison owned by the brand, Hôtel du Marc.
The second day will continue in a similar vein, this time focusing on the marques in Épernay, including Dom Pérignon and Moët & Chandon. Lunch today will be at Trianon, the private home of Jean-Rémy Moët, built in the early 1800s and now a UNESCO World Heritage site. You’ll spend the night at Château de Saran, another private estate owned by the Moët family (which is not open to the public), where dinner will be a black-tie soirée after cocktails on the terrace.
The following day takes in Krug, including a tasting and lunch at the Krug Clos du Mesnil vineyards. That evening, you’ll head to Paris to be hosted for a private cocktail party at a secret location in the Parisian Golden Triangle, also owned by Moët Hennessy. On the final day, you’ll explore the city via a series of VIP experiences arranged by LVMH, including private shopping experiences at a choice of Louis Vuitton, Dior, Fendi, Tiffany, and/or Berluti, as well as a backstage tour at Opéra Garnier or a feather-working class with Julien Vermeulen. Included in the price is an extraordinary collection of around 60 rare, collectible bottles from the houses you have visited, as well as rare bottles from Hennessy, Ardbeg, and others.
The fee does not include airfares and accommodation in Paris; it can also be used towards the purchase of Champagne, wine, and spirits from the MH Private Cellar exclusive of tax and delivery within the USA.
Experience La Dolce Vita in Your One-Off Pininfarina Battista Hypercar
Price: US$3.2 million (HK$24.9 million)
The 1,900 hp Pininfarina Battista is so fast it renders hyperbole itself obsolete. Phrases like “mind-bending acceleration” and “insane handling” don’t feel like exaggerations when behind the wheel of the Italian brand’s zero-emissions hypercar, which is the core of this exclusive Vault experience. Driven by an electric motor at each wheel and with a 120 kWh battery that provides up to 300 miles of range, the carbon-fibre arrow hits 60 mph from a standstill in 1.79 seconds—practically a literal heartbeat—and a top speed of 217 mph.
The Battista, of which only 150 examples will be made, is the first production model from the automaker, which itself is a recent offshoot of the design house and coachbuilder established by Battista “Pinin” Farina in 1930. In continuous operation ever since, Pininfarina SpA is responsible for some of the most iconic bodywork in automotive history, for the likes of brands such as Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, and Maserati. Now, Automobili Pininfarina would like to put you in the driver’s seat of a one-of-one Battista inspired by Italy’s dolce vita aesthetic, the carrozzeria’s past masterworks—including the 1947 Cisitalia 202—and your own personal style.
The production journey, which involves working closely with chief design officer Dave Amantea as your car is built by hand, will conclude with vehicle delivery at the marque’s atelier in Cambiano, Italy. After a professional development driver introduces you to the impressive performance capabilities of your new Battista, you’ll get to know it further during a three-day road trip guided by Amantea and Pininfarina CEO Paolo Dellachà, with stays in Tortona and Florence before arriving in Rome. All the major moments—including the final morning’s Vespa tour of the Eternal City and Pininfarina’s closing-night event in your honour—will be included in a signed book of images capturing an experience that, like your new apex hypercar, will follow you home.
A Private BBQ Feast With Aaron Franklin in Austin, Texas
Price: US$71,500 (HK$558,560)
Step into BBQ paradise with an unforgettable invitation: your very own private dinner for 12 guests at Franklin Barbecue in the heart of Austin, Texas, personally hosted by the legendary Aaron Franklin himself.
Franklin will oversee the meal himself, dishing on techniques that have helped him earn those accolades: If smoking meat is an art, he’s Picasso and Michelangelo combined. Expect a menu of pulled pork, pork ribs, sausages, turkey, brisket, and more—all of Franklin’s signature dishes.
That brisket is a real standout, as it has sold out every single day since the restaurant opened 15 years ago after he trialled the concept in a trailer parked in a vacant lot behind a friend’s coffee roastery.
His process remains painstaking but unfussy. He starts pit fires solely with post-oak wood and butcher paper dredged in the tallow from the previous day’s brisket. The meat is on the smoker for as long as it takes Franklin to finish the New York Times’s crossword puzzle—that’s around an hour.
Come to learn more about that—and perhaps persuade him to share the spice-rub recipe. Even if you don’t manage to get him to spill the formula, the evening will include a private tour of the smokers, as well as a signed copy of his New York Times best-selling cookbook, Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto.
A Private Cocktail-Making Class With the Owner of the World’s Best Bar
Price: US$10,000 (HK$78,120)
Fancy learning exactly what makes the perfect martini from the owner of the award-winning cocktail den Dante, which has earned countless accolades—including the top slot at the World’s 50 Best Bars contest? This exclusive experience for The Vault will allow you and up to 11 friends to spend time with co-owner Linden Pride as he shares the cocktail-making secrets that have helped his team become so renowned ever since he opened the first site barely a decade ago.
Pride, an Australian who runs the operation with his wife, Nathalie, worked closely with champion chef Neil Perry in Sydney before decamping stateside to chase the dream of opening this bar. He landed on a storied site in Greenwich Village, Caffé Dante, which was established in 1915 but had long lost its lustre; Pride set out to restore it. He focused on that classic Italian aperitivo, the Negroni, as the core of the cocktail list, riffing on the recipe endlessly, whether swapping tequila for gin (and adding a few other treats) in the aptly named Unlikely Negroni or perfecting the bourbon-driven Boulevardier. By 2020, he’d opened a second outpost, in the West Village, this time focusing on martinis (try the Dante martini, which combines both gin and vodka and a few other treats—spotting a theme?), before adding a third location, inside the Maybourne Beverly Hills, in 2023.
In this Vault experience, available at any of those three locations, Pride will personally host an interactive evening cocktail class, schooling attendees in the skills that he has deployed with such success. You’ll leave with some pre-bottled cocktails from Dante’s own range—as well as newfound know-how to impress even the pickiest of cocktail snobs back home.
The Tyger Guitar by Tempest Guitars
Price: US$36,000 (HK$281,230)
London-based artisan Daisy Tempest spends from 600 to 700 hours on every bespoke, handmade guitar she produces; her capacity is capped at no more than eight each year. Her designs are anticipated by collectors around the world—her order book is full for the next five years—but you can jump the line with this exclusive offer.
Tempest says the inspiration for this piece came to her when reading The Tyger, by Romantic poet William Blake—its famous opening lines are “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright/In the forests of the night/What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” “He celebrates British wordsmanship at its finest, and I took the visual, visceral aspects of that poem and translated them into actuality,” she explains.
The guitar is made of very rare Tasmanian Tiger myrtle, named for its deep striations of black on orange wood, and uses a creamy white Swiss “moon” spruce for its top, named for its time of harvest, the full moon, when the wood will have the lowest sap content, conferring superior sonic performance as well as reliable stiffness to its structure. Look at the hand-marbled book endpaper rosette inlay, too, a nod to the literary inspiration for the piece.
Tempest is particularly proud of this design, as it’s the first larger-bodied model she has made. It’s voiced with precision to the perfect frequency for its inherent resonance, comfortable for both seasoned players as well as beginners.
A 27-Litre Bottle of Liber Pater 2019 Bordeaux and a Gala Dinner in Monaco, Hosted by Prince Albert II
Price: US$1.5 million (HK$11.7 million)
Liber Pater—or “free father” in Latin—has rapidly earned cult status among wine lovers.
Owner Loïc Pasquet relishes his renegade reputation, earned in part for refusing to play by the accepted rules of French viticulture. Rather than rely on grafting, the go-to technique in a post-phylloxera era, he’s using varietals, ecosystems, and growing techniques that are as close as possible to the old French ways of vine-tending—Pasquet earned reproof from the authorities for everything from planting vines too close to allowing grass to grow. Still, he stayed his ground, determined to produce a remarkable wine. And he succeeded: Liber Pater’s highly limited annual vintage is regularly the most expensive bottle upon release in the world, craved by collectors for his superb technique and intriguing use of forgotten grapes. Pasquet says his mission is simple: trying to preserve and champion “the real and old taste” of Bordeaux wines. The contents of his bottles, Pasquet says, are like tasting the past.
This package focuses on a spectacular and unique 27-litre bottle of 2019 Bordeaux, made using nine 100 per cent franc de pied indigenous varieties of Bordeaux; it’s one of just 501 bottles in the world, and the other 500 are the regular size. Purchasing this jaw-dropping masterpiece isn’t just a chance to add a trophy to your cellar, though, as the package also includes a table for eight at the prestigious Francs de Pied Gala Dinner, which takes place at Monaco’s Oceanographic Museum in November. Prince Albert II will be present, as will an assortment of the wine world’s most exciting talents, Pasquet included. As befitting such a rarefied event, you’ll taste blockbuster wines throughout the meal, including Liber Pater.
