The Reserve Collection
Remuage
Remuage
The Reserve Collection
Bollinger
A cellar in Burgundy
Champagne bottles
Cellars in the Rhone
Arblaster & Clarke’s Reserve Collection are the ultimate wine tours and offer a high level of exclusivity travelling in small parties and staying at private chateaux or winery hotels for our exclusive use or at Relais & Châteaux hotels. We include tastings of expensive wines from the best vintages and from top growths.
The visits are of the highest calibre and the wine and dine experiences are either at top chateaux, Michelin starred restaurants or at the auberges where the local wine cognoscenti eat.
On all these tours we augment the main visits and meals with at least one additional prestige tasting at which your Wine Guide will go into depth on their chosen wine topic and illustrate this perfectly with an instructive and enjoyable tasting often with a range of truly outstanding mature wines.
Our Wine Guides are the most respected experts and often due to their relationships with the leading chateaux, we are able to offer you access to properties that are normally closed to visitors. We are pleased to welcome back Steven Spurrier for Champagne, award winning wine writer Andrew Jefford for Bordeaux, the ebullient Charles Metcalfe for Port, Robert Joseph for Burgundy and leading Italian expert Jane Hunt MW.
We keep the party size small and this is reflected in the price of the tours, though clients consistently rate them as at least good value and above. The small party size means that you will have plenty of time to get to know your Wine Guide and ask questions without being in any way feeling inhibited.
You have total flexibility with your choice of travel; from Club Class to low cost, from self-drive to train. We do not include the travel, but of course will advise and make bookings if you wish.
So, if you have a passion for fine wine, fine dining and a little luxury, these unique tours are for you.
Tours
Bordeaux ‘en Primeur’
9 - 13 June 2008
Ultimate Champagne
5 - 9 November 2007, 17 - 21 March 2008, 30 March - 3 April 2009
Port Reserve
24 - 28 May 2009
Rhone Reserve
21 - 25 October 2007, 22 - 26 March 2009
Stars of the Right Bank
10 - 14 September 2007, 1 - 5 October 2007, 17 - 21 November 2008
Trois Glorieuses - Burgundy Celebration
17 - 21 November 2007, 15 - 19 November 2008
Bordeaux - The Great Chateaux
24 - 28 November 2008, 9 - 13 March 2009
Jerez Reserve
8 - 11 November 2007
Private Guests at Chateau Suduiraut
30 October - 3 November 2006
Ultimate Tuscany
10 - 15 November 2007
