Wine Tours & Holidays
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.
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 the field of Wine Travel. 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.
The passion for arranging great holidays continues unabated and our 2008 programme is more vibrant than ever.
Bordeaux ‘en Primeur’
9 - 13 June 2008, 8 - 12 June 2009
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 will have judged the most recent v...
Early Autumn Champagne
6 - 8 September 2008
Our first visits are to two long established, high quality growers H. Billiot on the south side of the Montagne de Reims who makes a rich, full style and to B. Hatté based in Verzenay. This is on the north-east side of the Mon...
Gourmet Piemonte
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...
Puccini Festival & Tuscan Wine
11 - 14 July 2008, 24 - 27 July 2008
Arblaster and Clarke are very pleased to offer this Opera and Wine tour based in Lucca, Tuscany, featuring the Puccini festival at Torre del Lago.
Most years since 1930, a stage has been set up by the Massaciuccoli Lake to h...
Sherry & Andalucia
15 - 20 February 2009
Andalucía is startlingly beautiful with the Sierra Nevada rising dramatically from the sea. Being on the coast in Southern Spain the area has a temperate Mediterranean climate and most years that we have offered this tour in F...
Ultimate Champagne
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...
Verona Opera & Wine
24 - 27 July 2008, 1 - 4 August 2008
On this superb Opera and Wine tour we are based in the centre of the lovely city of Verona with it’s magnificent Roman Arena, 14th century Castelvecchio, renaissance buildings and the famous balcony claimed to feature in Rome...
Autumn Champagne
25 - 27 October 2008
The first champagne *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 ...
Bordeaux Wine & City
23 - 26 October 2008, 20 - 23 November 2008, 23 - 26 April 2009, 28 - 31 May 2009
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 a wine expert with the added advant...
Champagne Vineyard Walk
4 - 8 June 2008, 3 - 7 September 2008, 3 - 7 June 2009
“Champagne” of course means countryside and this walk takes us away from the big cellars of Reims and Epernay into the vines of the villages such as Aÿ and Le Mesnil.
For the first two days we cover the Grands Crus of t...
