Reserve Collection Wine Tours

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A cellar in Burgundy

The ultimate exclusive in-depth wine tours
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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 luxury Relais & Châteaux hotels. We include tastings of expensive wines from the best vintages and from Grand Cru Chateaux.

The wine visits are of the highest calibre. The superb wine and dining experiences are either at top chateaux, even at the Hospices de Beaune, at 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 in depth on their chosen wine topic and illustrate this perfectly with an instructive and enjoyable tasting often with a range of truly outstanding mature and fine 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.

Steven Spurrier hosts our new Southern Burgundy Master Class, Award winning wine-writer Stephen Brook, hosts our prestige Rhone Wine Tour, renowned wine merchant John Avery MW of Avery’s of Bristol hosts our Bordeaux Great Chateaux visits. Other well-respected, high profile wine experts who have (and we are sure will at some time again) hosted Reserve Collection Wine Tours for Arblaster & Clarke include Andrew Jefford, Charles Metcalfe and Robert Joseph.

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 flexibility with your choice of travel; from Club Class to local departures, 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.

Please see our video on Steven Spurrier’s opinion of the 2009 Beaujolais vintage:

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Tours

Southern Burgundy Master Class

11 - 15 October 2010

Steven Spurrier has chosen to host this year’s Masterclass in the now stellar region of Southern Burgundy and the neighbouring and renascent Beaujolais Cru, and with the magnificent harvest of 2009 which was particularly succ…

Bordeaux First Growths

15 - 19 November 2010

The splendid setting of 2ème Cru Classé Château Pichon Longueville is our privileged base for this special tour. This is not a hotel, nor is it open to the general public, so we are truly honoured to be able to extend this …

Burgundy Great Domaines

13 - 18 March 2011

Charles Metcalfe presents his selection of Burgundy domaines and negociants who are setting the pace and making the most exciting wines. Join him for a series of superb tastings! Our tour meets in the charming small town of…

Ultimate Champagne

21 - 25 March 2011

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 have…