Wine Walking Holidays

The Burgundy Vineyard Walk

Picnic on Rhone and Northern Beaujolais Walk

A&C’s Vineyard Walks walking wine tours

Arblaster and Clarke, the leading wine tour specialists, offer the ultimate in walking wine holidays. The programme currently includes vineyard walks to Burgundy, Chablis and Southern Champagne, Alsace, the Rhone, Rioja, the Douro and Piemonte as well as our fabulous new walk around the vineyards of the South Downs. Our carefully designed programme changes every year so if there is a region you are particularly interested in please get in touch. Our wine trails are planned to take in great vineyards, wonderful views and excellent wine tastings at both traditional and innovative cellars.

Our Vineyard Walks are genuinely wine tours on foot! The vineyard walks are designed to be interesting and educational and on our wine walks you will really get to know and understand how differences in soil and aspect (as the French call “terroir”) determine the resulting wine. On a typical day on a Vineyard Walk you will stroll for an hour through the vineyards to the first tasting, then onto a picnic lunch, in the afternoon there is usually another walk and more tastings! You will cover an easy five to eight miles a day although this varies with each tour so please read the descriptions carefully.

On many of our walking holidays, a small local mini-bus or taxi is on hand throughout the tour. It will transfer your bags and wine after tastings and to take you into the local towns. If at any stage you want to “opt out” of the day’s walk, transport can be called easily. We use characterful accommodation, on the Vineyard Walks; comfortable family-run hotels.

The trails have been walked out and researched extensively by our team to ensure the routes take in the best of a region. Arblaster and Clarke have experienced leaders who are enthusiastic walkers with a good knowledge of a region’s wine, trails, vineyards and food. The party size for all these European walking holidays is limited to just 16 people (or just 12 on our Douro walk).

For private groups of 10 – 16 participants we can arrange wine walks to all the areas detailed below. In addition we can arrange tours to some of our other favourite regions such as the Central and Eastern Loire, Champagne and Bordeaux – all of which are areas to which we have personally arranged scheduled wine walks to in the past.

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Tours

Piemonte Harvest Time Vineyard Walk

1 - 7 September 2013

On this wonderful wine walking holiday, you’ll enjoy the full spectrum of Piemontese wines ranging from the best of the powerful Barolos and elegant Barbarescos, made from the Nebbiolo grape, to the fun and frothy Moscato d’A…

Harvest Burgundy Vineyard Walk

2 - 8 September 2013

Walk the Grand Crus of Burgundy, from Gevrey-Chambertin to Meursault! This is our original Vineyard Walk. The Burgundy Walk was first offered 19 years ago and it has continued to be one of our most enjoyable walking wine hol…

Rhone Vineyard Walk

29 September - 5 October 2013

In response to an overwhelming demand by our regular walkers, we are delighted to bring back our Rhone Vineyard Walk, encompassing the scenery of the delightful Rhône valley and the fabulous wines that can be found here. T…

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…

Ribera del Duero, Rueda & Toro Vineyard Walk

15 - 21 April 2013, 6 - 12 October 2013

We are very pleased to present our new Spanish Vineyard Walk through the vineyards of Toro, Rueda and Ribera del Duero. Our route explores this intriguing region in Old Castile where the Duero River cuts through Northern Spain …

Douro Vineyard Walk

11 - 17 May 2014

The Douro remains as one of Europe’s unspoilt paradises and is classified as a World Heritage Site. On this stunning walking tour we’ll explore the vineyards, quintas, villages and towns of the dramatic Douro valley on foot. …

Alsace Vineyard Walk

25 - 31 May 2014

Alsace must rank as one of the most beautiful and charming of all fine wine regions. It is perfect for a walking holiday with good paths through undulating vineyards that offer stunning views of the wine villages. All the time,…

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…

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Client Comments

"Excellent tour. Food, wine, hotel spot on. Silvia was a star and a very amusing bunch of guests. Only regret not taking a car to bring back some vino. Many thanks."

— NA, Gourmet Piemonte 2008

"I enjoyed the great wines and the landscape"

— PD-R, Great Wines of Piemonte 2009

"We thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience and will definitely use A&C again...The whole group were fantastic and excellent fun. Silvia is a first class, superb host and knows her stuff, accommodates individual's needs without affecting those of the group. Ascheri hotel is first class and the wines also as good. Being able to arrange your own transport is a positive as it allowed us to bring plenty back and extend our European tour."

— PM, Gourmet Piemonte 2008

Why did you choose Arblaster & Clarke? “If you want the best you choose the best.”

— PS Douro Vineyard Walk, 2008

"Our hosts at each vineyard went out of their way to welcome us and take time to talk about their experiences. Even more so given they were in the middle of the harvest in Beaujolais. Paul, our guide, was excellent, approachable and knowledgeable. Enjoyed his company!"

— RB & JB, Northern Rhone & Beaujolais Crus Vineyard Walk

"We would like to thank you both for a wonderful opportunity to take part in the Burgundy Walking Tour. It was a brilliant look at the terroir and many of the amazing wine villages, interesting winemakers and other great sights along the way. Tim’s expertise and fascinating anecdotes added immeasurably to the walk and the food and accommodation experiences were just great. We are enthusiastically looking at doing another walk, if possible, when we come over next year."

— MS&JB, Burgundy Vineyard Walk 2012

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