Reserve Collection Wine Tours

Champagne bottles

Remuage

A cellar in Burgundy

The ultimate exclusive in-depth wine tours
See our video of Steven Spurrier

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.

Scroll down to watch our video of Steven Spurrier.

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 the spring Bordeaux En Primeur tour, Award winning wine-writer Stephen Brook, hosts our new “Bordeaux: People, Power and Politics, based on his own book; Charles Metcalfe takes us round his selection of estates in Burgundy and Robert Joseph is at the helm for our unparrelleled Ultimate Champagne tour, the culmination of 24 years of arranging champagne tours and Anthony Hanson MW and Derek Smedley MW join us in Burgundy in the summer.

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 eminent 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 normally 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.

Below, Steven Spurrier tells us about the 2009 Beaujolais vintage:

View Other Ideas and Past Tours

Tours

Bordeaux ‘en Primeur’

11 - 15 June 2012

In the company of the multiple award winning wine writer Andrew Jefford one of the world’s most highly regarded wine experts, this is an unmissable chance to taste the 2011 vintage ‘En Primeur’ on a luxury wine tour stayi…

Burgundy Hospices de Beaune & Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot

26 - 30 June 2012

In conjunction with Anthony Hanson M.W. of Christie’s Wine International Our special Burgundy tour this June ‘Hospices de Beaune & Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot’ brings together the brilliant events of wine and m…

Great Bordeaux: A Merchant's View

5 - 9 November 2012

Nicola Arcedeckne-Butler M.W. a highly respected wine merchant, leads this tour. The theme is about how Bordeaux works from the merchant’s perspective. How the merchants interact with importers, style gurus and chateaux, how…

Trois Glorieuses - Burgundy Celebration

17 - 21 November 2012

The ‘Trois Glorieuses’ festivities are a series of spectacular wining and dining events connected with the annual wine auction, which, according to wine guru Robert Parker is “the greatest eating and drinking experience o…

Ultimate Champagne

23 - 27 April 2012, 4 - 8 March 2013

This is the Ultimate Champagne Tour, a culmination of Arblaster & Clarke’s 25 years of offering wine tours to Champagne. It is a unique and truly spectacular five day champagne experience exploring the Champagne region in sty…

Bordeaux First Growths

11 - 15 March 2013

Join us on this memorable tour led by wine writer Stephen Brook, author of the definitive tome on the region ‘The Complete Bordeaux’. Stephen will lead us on a journey to visit the First Growths, as well as other specially …

The Rhône

17 - 22 March 2013

The Rhône is France’s second largest quality wine region, and on this trip, internationally acclaimed wine consultant, Steven Spurrier will show you its essence. The Northern Rhône vineyards start just south of Lyons. Th…

View Other Ideas and Past Tours

Client Comments

We loved our trip to Champagne. It was a terrific group whose company we enjoyed very much. The Wine guide was wonderful and taught us all so much not only about Champagne but about all aspects of the wine industry. His comments were amazing and he seemed genuinely happy to share it with us. We also simply adored the Tour Manager's enthusiastic manner and her professionalism was obvious at all times. We are looking forward to our next wine tour!

— P&RM, Ultimate Champagne 2011

Dear A&C, I never did tell you how very much I enjoyed this ultimate tour last year. It was quite perfect in every way - we felt very special from the moment we got on the luxurious coach. It was a perfect birthday celebration for me, and I particularly appreciated your generous upgrade to a suite for me. All four of us have been singing your praises ever since. So thank you again.

— EH - Ultimate Champagne 2010

Dear Charlotte, I am so grateful to you for your fine and attentive care during the most wonderful tour anyone could hope to have. I watched as you constantly sought to ensure that each tour participant got the most out of their journey and that they were well cared for, protected, and, of course, on time for each of the many appointments squeezed into each exquisite and wonderful day. You were professional yet kind and personal. You made a strong connection with each participant yet you gave us our own space when necessary. Really, it has been quite an honor to meet you and to have you as our tour coordinator.

— DN, Bordeaux en Primeur May 2011

Arblaster & Clarke - Wine Tours Worldwide