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"Arblaster & Clarke should be your first consideration for wine tours" — Posted on: 17/01/2011
Its still only early January and Arblaster & Clarke have already been mentioned several times in the UK press. Please see ‘A&C in the Press’ on the right hand menu to view all of our Press mentions.
Out of 52 weekends that the Sunday Times Travel recommended for 2011, Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours featured in two entries. The Sunday Times fantastic mini adventures for a very happy new year included a weekend in Champagne and an Opera & Wine Tour of Tuscany with Arblaster & Clarke’s Original Champagne Weekends.
Our wine cruises for 2011, the Galapagos Islands & South American Wines Cruise and Western Mediterranean Wine Cruise mentioned in the World of Cruising in December 2010.
The Telegraph newspaper on 15 Jan 2011 featured Arblaster & Clarke wine tours as ‘Our Selection’ for both France and Italy, with the Telegraph French Holidays article stating: “Arblaster & Clarke should be your first consideration for wine tours”.
Bordeaux Wine & City
11 - 14 April 2013, 14 - 17 November 2013
Our innovative programme of Wine & City breaks is aimed at the more independent traveller who would also like to spend a couple of days in a party being taken to wine visits in the company of an Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours wi…
English Vineyard Walk of the South Downs
5 - 7 April 2013, 4 - 6 October 2013
This vineyard walk in the South Downs has been inspired by the countryside that the A&C team have the pleasure to live and work in. With the arrival in this region of an outstanding selection of award winning wineries, we are d…
Galicia & the Douro Valley
26 - 31 May 2013
This unique Arblaster & Clarke wine tour of both Spain and Portugal combines two spectacular but less visited wine regions, Galicia and the Douro Valley. These two regions offer a range of wine varieties and styles: Galicia wit…
Wine & Food of Piemonte - Barolo & Barbaresco
15 - 19 May 2013, 9 - 13 October 2013
Join Arblaster & Clarke for an enjoyable gourmet break for wine lovers and “foodies” taking you to Italy’s greatest culinary and wine region, Piemonte. On this Italian wine tour you’ll indulge in fine dining, taste gr…
Alsace, with a day in Baden
3 - 7 September 2013
Alsace must rank as one of the most beautiful and charming of all French fine wine regions, it must also be the single most misunderstood! With its location on the German border and Germanic sounding grape varieties, it is easy…
Amalfi Coast & Cilento - Food & Wines of Southern Italy
7 - 12 April 2014
Over the course of this relaxing week-long holiday you’ll visit a range of artisanal food and drinks producers to experience the best of the Food & Wines of the Amalfi Coast and the Cilento Reserve. Including a producer of th…
Arblaster & Clarke’s Wine Cruise on Sea Cloud, Venice to Athens
6 - 14 August 2014
Arblaster & Clarke’s small ship luxury Wine Cruise – Italy, Croatia & Greece
Sail with us on the stunning Sea Cloud to small harbours from Venice to Athens. Our route takes us on a wonderful journey of discovery between t…
Austria Wine Tour
30 September - 5 October 2013
The renaissance of Austrian wine is in full swing. The Dark Age is a long time behind it and we are now in the era of masterpieces and inspiration. On this timely tour we’ll meet most of the great winemakers who are driving A…
California
3 - 9 November 2013
This wonderful wine tour includes vineyard lunches, superb tasting of great wines with the winemakers and pairings of wine and food. California is best known for full-bodied reds and full bodied, oaky whites made from very rip…
Chile, Argentina & Uruguay
17 February - 2 March 2014
This unique South American wine tour visits the spectacular vineyards of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. All three have made huge advances in quality wine and this has firmly established them on the world wine scene. Chile is per…
Georgia
8 - 18 September 2013
Georgia is a small country on the far-east edge of Europe, beyond Turkey and nestled between the Greater and Lesser Caucasus Mountains. It is and always has been a ‘wine country’. There are some startling facts about Georgian w…
Great Bordeaux: A Merchant's View
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Nicola Arcedeckne-Butler M.W. a highly respected wine merchant, leads this tour. The theme is about how Bordeaux works from the merchant’s perspective. How the merchants interact with importers, style gurus and chateaux, how…
May Bank Holiday Champagne
25 - 27 May 2013
Spend Bank Holiday weekend in the Capital of Champagne, Reims, tasting 25 champagnes and starting at breakfast! Over the course of the weekend we’ll escort you to a good cross section of Houses, from those that forged Champa…
Piemonte Vineyard Walk
8 - 14 June 2014
Piemonte is a beautiful region of rolling countryside nestling at the foot of the Alps in the North West of Italy and makes for superb vineyard walking territory. Piemonte can be compared best to Burgundy, due to the fragmentat…
Sherry & Andalucia
24 February - 2 March 2014
Andalucía is startlingly beautiful with the Sierra Nevada rising dramatically from the sea. The area has mild winters and most years that we have offered this Spanish wine tour in February, we have had fine warm weather with b…
Trois Glorieuses - Burgundy Celebration
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The ‘Trois Glorieuses’ festivities are a series of spectacular wining and dining events connected with the annual wine auction, which, according to wine guru Robert Parker is “the greatest eating and drinking experience o…
Ultimate Champagne
17 - 21 March 2014
This is the Ultimate Champagne Tour. It’s a unique and truly spectacular five day champagne experience exploring the Champagne region in style. We taste top cuvées and vintage champagnes from the best Champagne Houses and di…
Bordeaux ‘en Primeur’
11 - 15 June 2012
In the company of the multiple award winning wine writer Andrew Jefford one of the world’s most highly regarded wine experts, this is an unmissable chance to taste the 2011 vintage ‘En Primeur’ on a luxury wine tour stayi…
Bordeaux Vineyard Walk
10 - 16 September 2012
Walk with us through the greatest vineyards in the world just as the exciting preparations for harvest are underway. Our unique Bordeaux vineyard walk gives you a rare insight behind the scenes and deep into the countryside of …
Champagne Wine Tasting Festival for A&C 25th Anniversary - Premier Cru
23 - 25 November 2012
Join us for our Champagne Wine Tasting Festival to celebrate 25 years of Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours!
Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours invites you to our weekend party in Champagne for our 25th anniversary celebrations. We ar…
Classic Tuscany
12 - 16 May 2014
A wonderful blend of respect for tradition and a determined attitude to increasing quality makes Italy one of the most exciting wine regions of the world, and nowhere more so than Tuscany. On this tour we’ll visit those estate…
Dubrovnik New Year Wine Holiday
29 December 2013 - 2 January 2014
An Arblaster & Clarke New Year tour is a great escape for a few enjoyable days after Christmas and to welcome in the New Year in style. Our 2013/2014 New Year wine holiday will be in the stunning setting of the UNESCO World He…
Gourmet Istanbul
19 - 23 November 2012
With the recent rapid interest in the cuisine of Turkey, the huge improvement in the wines and the many lures of Istanbul, this is another A&C wine and gourmet tour first. On this unescorted Turkey cooking holiday we stay in a …
Lyons Wine & City - Independent Wine Touring Weekend
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Lyons makes a great destination for an Arblaster & Clarke Wine & City weekend. The attractive city of Lyons is easy to reach by plane or train for a weekend, and is France’s gastronomic capital. We’ll take you to two very d…
New Year Douro River Wine Cruise
29 December 2012 - 2 January 2013
For our 2012/2013 New Year tour we have chartered the MV Douro Prince on the River Douro for a wine cruise. A wonderful way to start the New Year, this will mark the end of our 25th Anniversary Celebrations.
We are very hono…
Paris Opera & Wine
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Here is another innovative small party wine and opera tour from the world’s leading wine tours specialists! Attend great opera in Paris on one evening, stay in a comfortable 4* hotel in the Opera region, close to Galarie Lafa…
Puglia and Campania
9 - 15 April 2012
Our 2012 wine tour of Southern Italy explores the fascinating regions of Puglia and Campania. The Ancient Greeks called Southern Italy Oinotria, “the land of staked vines”, and they left behind a legacy of grape varieties t…
Switzerland, the Jura & Burgundy by Train
11 - 17 September 2011
This unique and innovative harvest time wine tour takes in two very different wine regions, Switzerland and Burgundy, and travels through the Jura region between them making the journey part of the holiday. We promise those …
The Grand Wine Tour of Italy
24 June - 3 July 2012
This tour, the culmination of many years of wine tours by Arblaster and Clarke in Tuscany and the rest of Italy takes the spirit of 19th Century ‘Grand Tour of Italy’ and applies it to our 21st Century Wine Tour of Italy. In ad…
The Great Wines & Food of Northern Italy
16 - 22 October 2011
On this gastronomic wine tour we’ll discover, at source, many of Italy’s famous delicacies in the culinary heartland of Italy, Emilia-Romagna and Piemonte. Explore the wonderful food markets and enjoy great wines along with the…
Arblaster & Clarke's Le Ponant Wine Cruise
31 August - 7 September 2011
Western Mediterranean Wine Cruise on Le Ponant 2011
The 2011 small-ship luxury wine cruise was in late summer on the beautiful sailing ship, Le Ponant.
The itinerary took in superb wines from the classic wine regi…
Bordeaux Wine & City II
27 - 30 October 2011
Arblaster & Clarke Wine & City trips are aimed at the more independent traveller who wishes to spend the daytime enjoying wine visits accompanied by a wine expert, with the added advantage that someone else does the driving and…
Burgundy Hospices de Beaune & Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot
26 - 30 June 2012
In conjunction with Anthony Hanson M.W. of Christie’s Wine International
Our special Burgundy tour this June ‘Hospices de Beaune & Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot’ brings together the brilliant events of wine and m…
Champagne Extra Spring Weekend
24 - 26 March 2012
Our ‘Extra’ Champagne tours are luxury wine tours that are designed for those who are passionate about Champagne and require a higher standard of comfort and exclusivity on their wine holiday. These tours feature some of the hi…
Corporate Hospitality in Bordeaux
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21 years of expertise in Corporate Hospitality
Arblaster & Clarke are the leading specialist in the field of Incentive Wine Tours and Bordeaux is one of our most popular destinations.
Arblaster & Clarke have introd…
Galapagos Islands & South American Wines Cruise
28 January - 5 February 2011
When we recently discovered the award winning M.V. Eclipse, we knew it was the answer to what we had been looking for a long time – a small, comfortable ship to arrange a wine tour of South America on! Of course, there is no wi…
Grand Cru Champagne short Break
Departures throughout the year.
The Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours two night Grand Cru Champagne break is based on our 25 years of experience in the region and gives you a concentrated snap-shot of the region in the personal company of our local wine expert. …
Jubilee Champagne Weekend
2 - 4 June 2012
This celebratory Champagne Weekend gives you the ideal opportunity to stock-up on your champagne drinking should you be planning a party for the Jubilee, or just the excuse to get away for the weekend (and stock up with great …
