Wine Breaks & Wine Holidays for Individuals
Stay in a Margaux Chateau
Barrels in bordeaux
Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours Independent Wine Holidays give you flexibility for your date of departure and size of party. The accommodation options that we offer include a selection of winery hotels and private wine chateaux or other small hotels that we have personally inspected.
Arblaster & Clarke’s Independent Wine Holidays include wine cellar tours and tastings, with a wine guide who is exclusive to your party plus a driver and vehicle suited to the size of your party. Therefore no-one has to worry about navigating or discussing whose turn it is to drive (drink-drive laws are strict in Europe – we do not offer self-drive wine holidays).
These are personal wine tours pre-arranged by the highly experienced Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours team exclusively for your party.
Your private escorted wine touring day includes a series of wine tastings with top local wine producers and wine chateaux personally pre-selected by the extremely experienced A&C wine touring team. Some of the wine trips also include a lunch with wines and sometimes this will be at a wine chateau. You will always have with you the famous Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours restaurant recommendations listings, based on over twenty years of wine touring in each region, and if no meal is pre-arranged you can choose from this or make your own choice based on your personal taste and appetite.
Arblaster & Clarke are a fully bonded and licensed tour operator. We would be delighted to assist you with your bespoke holiday itinerary including accommodation, visits and guides. However, as we are not a visit bookings agency, we are unable to assist with requests that do not include accommodation.
Tours
Independent Opera, Puccini Festival
11 July - 25 August 2013
This independent Opera holiday is based in the attractive Tuscan town of Lucca, and includes the Puccini festival on the lake-side at Torre del Lago. 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Giacomo Puccini.
Most yea…
New Year Opera & Music in Budapest
29 December 2013 - 2 January 2014
Celebrate the start of 2014 in Hungary’s attractive capital, Budapest and enjoy two wonderful musical events; La Bohème performed in the beautiful Opera House and a Haydn concert in the state of the art Palace of the Arts on …
New Year Ballet & Music in Milan
29 December 2012 - 2 January 2013
Spend four enchanting nights celebrating the start of 2013 in cultural Milan and enjoy first class tickets to two wonderful performances; Romeo & Juliette (the ballet) at arguably the worlds leading opera house, La Scala, and B…
Champagne Vineyard Walking Weekend
Departures throughout the year.
Our Champagne Vineyard Walking Weekend is a great way to experience the region of Champagne, while indulging with tasting at top Champagne Houses.
Champagne, just south of Paris and 280 km from Calais, stretches from around…
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…
Bordeaux St Emilion Wine Holiday
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This enjoyable short wine break has the delightful wine town of St Emilion as its base, which is undoubtedly the loveliest town in the region.
The picturesque medieval hilltop town of St Emilion has a maze of cobbled streets…
Explore Cognac staying at a Charente Chateau
Departures throughout the year.
The town of Cognac, from which the spirit gets its name, is situated on the River Charente, from which it drew its prosperity due to its navigability. There has been an important port here since the Middle Ages when Charente wa…
Tuscany Wine Holiday
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Our charming four-star hotel is in Radda-in-Chianti, in the heart of the lovely Chianti region. From here we visit a hand-picked selection of the top Chianti wine estates to taste the traditional Chianti Classico, which at this…
Bordeaux Margaux Wine Chateau Holiday
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This Arblaster & Clarke wine château holiday gives you the opportunity to stay in a Margaux château. Explore the region and enjoy exclusive château visits and tastings with your own personal guide.
An introduction to …
Gourmet Piemonte Wine Holiday
Departures throughout the year.
This short gourmet weekend gives you the chance to experience the classic food market of Alba and to stock up on some superb traditional Italian and Piemontese ingredients for your festive entertaining or purely for your own e…
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. …
Cooking in Provence
Departures throughout the year.
On all Arblaster & Clarke Tours local food and how it is combined with the wines is important, but on this gourmet holiday in southern France, food takes centre stage! Our Cooking in Provence tour consists of four days of cooki…
Porto Wine & City - Independent Wine Touring Weekend
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Portugal is a wonderful place to spend a weekend tasting at Arblaster & Clarke’s selection of Douro table wine and Port producers in the Douro Valley and the Port lodges in Vila Nova de Gaia.
You’ll visit the steep sided…
