Champagne
Champagne is the closest vineyard region to the UK so our Champagne wine tours make for a great weekend. Champagne is where Arblaster & Clarke first started operating, with our first tour there in May 1987. Our fun yet informative formula has actually changed little over the years - it was original then and the style of these weekends remains unique to A&C.
Our aim is to taste a wide spectrum of champagnes, to visit a cross section of Houses in Reims, Epernay and smaller villages, those that forged Champagne’s reputation such as Taittinger and Veuve Clicquot as well as the good growers that we have sought out in the villages where quality champagne can still be found for little over £10. Many of the top cuvées are superb value too and as we travel by coach you may bring back up to 36 bottles per person.
You will taste at least 25 champagnes over the course of the weekend, starting at breakfast, and receive a special welcome and generous Champagne tastings at houses that we have been visiting for many years. On every tour we have at least one meal as guests at one of these houses.
Also see the more luxurious Champagne Extra Tours and The Ultimate Champagne
Tours
Autumn Champagne
24 - 26 October 2009
Our first visits are to two long established, high quality growers Camille Savès who makes a powerful, Bouzy Grand Cru and to Bernard Hatté based in Verzenay. This is on the north-east side of the Montagne (reputed to be the ...
Champagne Weekend (Self Drive to Aÿ)
17 - 19 April 2009, 30 October - 1 November 2009
Our innovative programme of self-drive trips is aimed at the more independent traveller, who would still like to spend a couple of days in a party being taken to Champagne visits in the company of a local wine expert. The Wine ...
Pre-Christmas Champagne
21 - 23 November 2009
Arblaster & Clarke began escorting wine tours to the Champagne region in May 1987 and have returned 10 - 12 times every year since, so we have built up many great friendships and know the region extremely well. This late autumn...
Ultimate Champagne
30 March - 3 April 2009, 15 - 19 March 2010
We have been visiting the Champagne region with our champagne loving clients 15 times a year since 1987, so not only are we the un-rivalled leading experts to the region, we can truly claim to know much about Champagne and hav...
May Bank Holiday Champagne
2 - 4 May 2009
This tour will take you to four very different Champagne firms who are all very much worth visiting. At the grower Madame Hatté in Verzy we will see a genuine "garagiste" Champagne. Taittinger, our afternoon appointment, have ...
Spring Champagne Weekends
20 - 22 March 2009
Champagne is fun to drink and a fascinating wine to see being made and being easy to get to makes for a great weekend. Our base for the weekend is a comfortable 3* hotel in the centre of the lively attractive city of Reims.
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The Sunday Times Wine Club Valentine's Champagne
14 - 16 February 2009
Celebrate Valentine’s night with champagne in Champagne! This ideally timed weekend travels out to the region by 1st class Eurostar so that you can relax and watch the French countryside whizz past.
Spend Valentine’s e...
Growers Champagne
22 - 25 November 2007
It is a few years since we last ran our “Growers Champagne” tour and a lot has happened in the interval. Wine has become more branded with the likes of ‘Blossom Hill’ and ‘Jacob’s Creek’ driven by the supermarkets...
Anniversary Champagne Festival
6 - 8 July 2007
Arblaster & Clarke began escorting wine tours to Champagne in May 1987 and have returned 10 - 15 times every year since, so we’ve built up many great friendships here.
To mark the 20th Anniversary we are staging a Champagn...
Arblaster & Clarke Champagne Festival
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We have been visiting the Champagne region with our champagne loving clients 15 times a year since 1987, so we can truly claim to know much about the region and have a very genuine personal passion for the wines. This private f...
Champagne in WW1
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We are very pleased to announce the first tour in a new series of wine and history tours. We are very pleased to have working with us Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, the highly respected military historian and also the President of...
Late Autumn Champagne
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The first champagne visit on this tour is to the beautiful cellars of Taittinger in Reims, which is a good start with a clear explanation and fine, classic champagne to taste.
The visit at Hatté’s small and rustic cellar...
