Wine Cities

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Short wine weekend breaks

Arblaster & Clarke’s Wine & City short wine breaks are great value, enjoyable, informative wine tasting tours led by wine experts. Private chateaux visits, wine tastings and even private lunches at wine estates are included.

These short break wine trips are arranged by Arblaster & Clarke’s team of UK based wine experts exclusively for our clients, so you travel as a privileged Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours client on an exclusive A&C tour, not just joining part of a locally available, general public group booked onto a “day tour” which is generally not interesting, as may well happen with other wine tour firms.

You meet up on location with our own Wine Guide who will escort the wine events and who is on hand to answer all the wine related questions you may have. The wine visits and meals at wine estates are carefully selected so you will taste a wide range of excellent wines, representing a good introduction to the region to be visited, in a way that is not possible if you are travelling independently.

During these long weekends each city has a good variety of non wine related things to do such as museums, galleries, shops, restaurants and bars. The hotels are centrally located so getting around in the evening is easy and we provide a list of recommended restaurants for you, but unlike on our fully escorted tours the evenings are free for you to make your own choice of dining venue, from simple wine bar to gastronomic Michelin star. We can easily book the hotel for an extra few nights to tie in with your travel schedule or if you simply want to explore the city that you are staying in some more.

Our chosen wine cities are easy to reach from many UK local airports by scheduled or low cost airlines. Flights or travel to the destination are not included in the tour cost so that you can book these yourselves on-line. Alternatively, we are happy to do it for you at the published rate plus a small administration fee. (We are fully bonded with ATOL 2543, so you can book your flights through us with confidence).

If you do not want to fly then consider joining our Bordeaux trip by train. Bordeaux takes about 5 hours by TGV & Eurostar from Ashford, Kent. Alternatively you could drive to the region via the Loire. This has the big advantage that you can bring back more wine or can make the trip part of a longer holiday.

Wine & City breaks probably work out as less expensive than trying to organise everything on your own (if indeed it were possible to organise all of this).

We also offer a range of short wine tours in Champagne

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Tours

Beaune 'Vins et Ville'

29 May - 2 June 2013

Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours new “Vins et Ville” wine holiday in Burgundy spends a couple of days visiting the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits vineyards, whilst based in the wonderful city of Beaune. This outstanding…

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…

Lyon Wine & City

24 - 27 October 2013

Our innovative programme of Wine & City trips 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 a wine expert (invaluable of course …

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…

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Client Comments

"'What did you enjoy most about the tour?' Tasting wines with good company."

— EB, Lyons Wine & City, 2009

"We wanted to say thank you to all for a splendid wine tour of Bordeaux. We thought the selection of chateaux was excellent, enabling us to sample a variety of wines and to see some contrasting producers. Wendy was a superb guide, teaching us a great deal about wine and making sure everyone was comfortable. We can't think of any way the trip could have been improved!"

— AR, Bordeaux Wine & City, 2008

"I wanted to write and let you know how much my friends and I enjoyed the recent tour. Everything was immensely well organised and we thought that the choice of chateaux was excellent with a most interesting range."

— GD, Bordeaux Wine & City, 2008

What did you enjoy most about the tour?"Exploring Bordeaux (Apart from the wine!)"

— S&B W, Bordeaux Wine & City 2009

We took the Arblaster & Clarke Port Wine tasting tour which included a very comprehensive tour of the Taylors Port Lodge followed by an excellent tasting of quite a large number of their excellent range - definitely recommend both the A & C tour and the tasting!

— PBW, Port Harvest Wine & City, 2011

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