Wine Tours & Holidays

Founded in 1986 by husband and wife team Lynette Arblaster & Tim Clarke, Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours have long been recognised as the world leader in this field. On our special holidays you will discover beautiful parts of the world from a unique perspective - through the wines and through the people who create them. Wine tasting doesn’t take up all the time though, travel itineraries are well balanced with free time and visits to places of interest.

Travelling with Arblaster and Clarke, the leading specialists, you'll enjoy superb tastings at famous châteaux and top flight wineries, many of which are not normally open to the public. You'll discover small unknown producers, meet top winemakers, owners of chateaux and be invited into vignerons’ homes. On vacation you'll enjoy lunches, dinners, informal picnics and large tastings as guests of the estates, the kind of thing that is not possible if you are travelling alone in the wine country, even if you visit the same cellars.

The passion for arranging great holidays continues unabated and our 2008 programme is more vibrant than ever.

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Bordeaux ‘en Primeur’

9 - 13 June 2008

LAST TWO PLACES REMAINING A rare opportunity to taste the latest Bordeaux vintage just as it is being released onto the market. This tour takes place shortly after the trade tastings where professionals and journalists w...
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Gourmet Piemonte

4 - 7 October 2007, 9 - 12 October 2008, 23 - 26 October 2008

This is an extremely good value autumn short break giving you the chance to visit some of Northern Italy’s classic food markets and stock up on some superb ingredients for your festive entertaining or purely for your own enjo...
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Ultimate Champagne

5 - 9 November 2007, 17 - 21 March 2008, 30 March - 3 April 2009

We have been visiting the Champagne region with our champagne loving clients 15 times a year since 1987, so we can truly claim to know much about the region and have a very genuine personal passion for the wines. On this spe...
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Autumn Champagne

25 - 27 October 2008

The first visit on this tour is to the beautiful cellars of Taittinger in Reims, which is a good start with a clear explanation and fine, classic champagne to taste. The visit at Hatté’s small and rustic cellar is a comple...
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Bordeaux Wine & City 2008

24 - 27 April 2008, 23 - 26 October 2008, 20 - 23 November 2008

Our innovative programme of Wine & City trips is aimed at the more independent traveller who would also like to spend a couple of days in a party being taken to wine visits in the company of a wine expert with the added advanta...
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Champagne Extra

5 - 7 May 2007, 3 - 5 May 2008

It is exactly 21 years since our first Champagne weekend so we have a rather special tour lined up with some cracking tastings! These start on the first evening, when Tim Clarke will present a comparative tasting of Champagnes ...
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Champagne in WW1

17 - 20 October 2008

We are very pleased to announce the first tour in a new series of wine and history tours. We are very pleased to have working with us Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, the highly respected military historian and also the President of...
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Chile, Argentina & Uruguay

13 - 24 February 2007, 20 February - 3 March 2007, 10 - 21 February 2008, 17 - 28 February 2008, 15 - 27 February 2009

This outstanding tour offers you the chance to visit three fascinating South American countries in one well planned trip! All three countries have made significant advances into quality wine that has firmly established them ...
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Greek Archaeology & Wine Cruise

6 - 13 June 2009

Download this Brochure from the Download Centre now! Wine and Archaeology Voyage with Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours and Andante Travels - leading specialists in Wine tours and Archaeology holidays Together aboard the ma...
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Independent Opera - Andrea Bocelli in Carmen

27 - 30 June 2008

Arblaster & Clarke Independent Opera Offers - Andrea Bocelli in Carmen Arblaster & Clarke have only a handful of much sought after tickets to what promises to be a fabulous evening of Opera, starring Andrea Bocelli. Andrea w...