Wine Guides
To ensure you get the best out of the region you are visiting on an Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tour, we make sure that most tours are accompanied by an expert Wine Guide. All our guides are accessible and can make light of talking in depth, making even the most complex wine issues interesting, easy to understand and fun! Many of our guides are Masters of Wine (MW), the highest qualification in the wine trade, or are renowned experts in their field.
Caroline Guizelin Brun
Caroline is known to many of you who have visited her family at Roger Brun. Her warm personality and enthusiasm for her native Champagne make her an excellent Tour Manager. She will be hosting the Self Drive weekends in 2008. |
Cindy-Marie Harvey
Cindy-Marie Harvey is our Senior Programme Manager. She takes many tours to Italy, Spain, Portugal and South America as the Tour Manager with great enthusiasm. Cindy-Marie also takes tours as a Wine Guide. |
Conal Gregory MW
Conal Gregory MW was for many years the only MP - MW. His wine interests include the classic French regions of Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy. He writes frequently on these regions and on the subject of wine as an investment. |
Francoise Van Den Berge
Francoise has a solid international educational background in Wine Management and Tourism, and she has a passion to share with other wine enthusiasts her interest and knowledge of wine, culture and gastronomy. Open minded and spontaneous she loves travelling and meeting new people. |
Gordon Ritchie
Gordon Ritchie is a wine merchant who works for the Italian specialist importer Tria. Gordon has been immensely popular since he led his first tour for us in 1999. He is deeply passionate about Italy and you will find his enthusiasm infectious! He will be leading some of our exciting Italian tours in 2008. |
Isabel Mazzucchelli
Isabel is a Wine and Food Writer since 1994, a Chemical Engineer and International Wine Judge. She writes at Placer Magazine in Uruguay, Vinomagazine (Belgium), Sobremesa (Spain) and many other international publications. |
Isabelle Legeron
Isabelle Legeron is originally from Cognac where her family are vignerons, however she has lived in the UK for quite a few years now. She runs her own successful business lecturing on wine to wine clubs and companies, and is involved in the wine trade, particularly in arranging tastings. She escorts tours as either a Wine Guide or Tour Manager to France and Spain. |
James Lawther MW
James Lawther MW is a Bordeaux-based wine writer and consultant. James retailed wine at Steven Spurrier's Caves de la Madeleine in Paris in the 1980s, passed the Master of Wine examination in 1993 and is presently a contributing editor to Decanter. |
John Avery MW
John Avery MW is Chairman of Avery’s of Bristol, Vice President of the International Wine & Food Society, a former chairman of the Institute of Masters of Wine and a past master of the Vintner’s Company. |
Lance Foyster MW
Lance Foyster MW (here eagerly awaiting a sample of Madeira) has been guiding tours for us since 1988. A successful merchant, Master of Wine and wine writer, his interests (besides Portugal) include Austria and the Midi. |
