Wine Tours & Holidays

Travelling with Arblaster and Clarke, the leading escorted Wine tour specialist, you’ll discover a higher level of wine tour. You’ll enjoy visits to the most famous châteaux in France and top wineries in Europe and the New World. You’ll have great introductions, so you’ll meet, for instance, great wine makers in Italy and owners of top bodegas in Spain.

At the wine visits, you’ll enjoy generous tastings, private lunches and formal dinners as guests of the estates, not just the normal tastings at the cellar door. This kind of tour only happens by special arrangement on top-flight escorted winetours. Arblaster & Clarke have long standing relationships with many of the greatest wine producers in the world and often our wine guides are personal friends of the owners. Whilst the wine makers, managers or owners aren’t waiting around at the cellar door for casual visitors to call, they take the time to meet you and host your tasting if you visit them as part of an organised A&C winetour.

Vineyard Walks and other escorted wine tours

You’ll find Escorted Wine Tours are under the following headings:

Reserve Collection Tours are focused on great wine of a specific place, such as Rhone Reserve
Classic Wine Tours explore wine regions covering food, culture & history too. e.g. Austria
Wine Tours by Coach Similar to Classic Tours with more interest in buying wine. e.g. The Loire, East to West
New World Wine Tours have the Classic Tours ethos with visits to interesting places and do taste the top wines in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, California, Oregon, Australia, South Africa & New Zealand.

More Escorted Tours are under these headings: Gourmet Tours – Escorted Opera & Wine Tour – Escorted Vineyard Walks
Wine & Champagne Weekend trips: Champagne Weekends – Luxury Champagne Tours – Short Wine Breaks

Explore the world of wine

Over the past 25 years, Arblaster & Clarke have arranged winetours to around 38 countries with covering France, Spain and Italy in detail. In the New World we have visited Australia and New Zealand many times and this we year visit South Africa and Chlile, Argentina & Uruguay and California

But winetouring is not just about visiting famous regions; let us take you on a journey of discovery, through obscure regions of Italy not just Tuscany; to regions completely off the beaten track in Spain and Portugal or to once great and now resurgent wine countries like Germany, Austria and Hungary. A&C’s winetours even get to countries such as “Malta:/tours/view/252/malta-and-gozo and Georgia. If you are looking for a really unusual wine tour for 2013, come to Georgia! in the Caucasus where the wine grape comes from and they have over 520 grape varieties. Or perhaps consider our trip to Trentino & Alto-Adige, a superb wine region in the dolomites of Northern Italy.

You could look at a well known region in a different way; perhaps focus on the under-rated table wines from the Port vineyards on our Douro Vineyard Walk, or walk through Bordeaux, discovering what a lovely region this is and how many wonderful chateaux are tucked away in its evocative countryside.

Great Wine Guides & Tour Managers

One of the great advantages of coming on an escorted tour is that you are escorted! Arblaster & Clarke have superb Wine Guides. They introduce the wine regions, bringing the wines and destinations alive with the background, the history, humour and anecdotes, give their comments on the wine and help increase you understanding of wine. Expert Wine Guides

Private Wine Tours

If you are looking for an tailor-made wine trip around South America, a private Wine Cruise in Greece or to take over a cru classé Bordeaux Château: Bespoke Private Wine Holidays
If you have a group of 8 or more please go to Private Groups International – Private Groups UK .

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Bordeaux Wine & City

11 - 14 April 2013, 14 - 17 November 2013

Our innovative programme of Wine & City breaks 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 an Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours wi…

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…

Galicia & the Douro Valley

26 - 31 May 2013

This unique Arblaster & Clarke wine tour of both Spain and Portugal combines two spectacular but less visited wine regions, Galicia and the Douro Valley. These two regions offer a range of wine varieties and styles: Galicia wit…

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 …

Sicily Wine Cruise on MY Voyager

7 - 14 July 2013

Arblaster & Clarke’s 2013 small ship luxury Wine Cruise takes a delightful route around Sicily, which, with its 1400 kms of coastline, is the largest island in the Mediterranean. We’ll call in on the remote island of Pantelle…

South Africa Wine Tour

15 - 23 February 2014

The Cape is one of the most spectacular vineyard regions in the world. Our wine holiday in South Africa covers the best of the wine and some of the most beautiful sites. This year’s tour is an exciting new version of our long…

Wine & Food of Piemonte - Barolo & Barbaresco

15 - 19 May 2013, 9 - 13 October 2013

Join Arblaster & Clarke for an enjoyable gourmet break for wine lovers and “foodies” taking you to Italy’s greatest culinary and wine region, Piemonte. On this Italian wine tour you’ll indulge in fine dining, taste gr…

Aix en Provence Opera & Wine

19 - 23 July 2013

Like our Verona Opera and Wine tours, this special holiday allows you to treat yourself to great wines and winery lunches during the daytime, and superb opera under the stars in the evening. This delightful tou…

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,…

Alsace, with a day in Baden

3 - 7 September 2013

Alsace must rank as one of the most beautiful and charming of all French fine wine regions, it must also be the single most misunderstood! With its location on the German border and Germanic sounding grape varieties, it is easy…