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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Amalfi Coast & Cilento - Food & Wines of Southern Italy

7 - 12 April 2014

Over the course of this relaxing week-long holiday you’ll visit a range of artisanal food and drinks producers to experience the best of the Food & Wines of the Amalfi Coast and the Cilento Reserve. Including a producer of th…

Arblaster & Clarke’s Wine Cruise on Sea Cloud, Venice to Athens

6 - 14 August 2014

Arblaster & Clarke’s small ship luxury Wine Cruise – Italy, Croatia & Greece Sail with us on the stunning Sea Cloud to small harbours from Venice to Athens. Our route takes us on a wonderful journey of discovery between t…

Austria Wine Tour

30 September - 5 October 2013

The renaissance of Austrian wine is in full swing. The Dark Age is a long time behind it and we are now in the era of masterpieces and inspiration. On this timely tour we’ll meet most of the great winemakers who are driving A…

Autumn Champagne

26 - 28 October 2013

As on all our Original Champagne Weekends, our aim is to taste a wide spectrum of Champagnes, to visit a good cross section of Houses, from those that forged Champagne’s reputation such as Taittinger, Pol Roger and Veuve Clic…

Beaune 'Vins et Ville'

29 May - 2 June 2013

Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours new “Vins et Ville” wine holiday in Burgundy spends a couple of days visiting the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits vineyards, whilst based in the wonderful city of Beaune. This outstanding…

Bolgheri & the Tuscan Coast

21 - 25 October 2013

Focusing on the greatest wine estates in the iconic region of Bolgheri, on the Tuscan coast, this ‘Reserve Collection’ Italian wine tour includes sensational wine tastings. We will visit the leading vineyards that created the o…

Bordeaux First Growths at Château Pichon Longueville

25 - 29 November 2013, 10 - 14 March 2014

Join us on this memorable tour on a journey to visit the First Growths, as well as other specially selected out-performing chateaux, with Charles Metcalfe in November and Stephen Brook in March 2014. The November 2013 date is c…

California

3 - 9 November 2013

This wonderful wine tour includes vineyard lunches, superb tasting of great wines with the winemakers and pairings of wine and food. California is best known for full-bodied reds and full bodied, oaky whites made from very rip…

Chile, Argentina & Uruguay

17 February - 2 March 2014

This unique South American wine tour visits the spectacular vineyards of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. All three have made huge advances in quality wine and this has firmly established them on the world wine scene. Chile is per…

Friuli-Venezia-Giulia & Slovenia

6 - 11 October 2013

This fascinating wine tour combines the world-class wines of Friuli in Italy and the little known but impressive wines of Slovenia. As with many A&C tours, this tour is pioneering, in wine content and in visiting little known a…