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.
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 Burgundy Trois Glorieuses
Classic Wine Tours explore wine regions covering food, culture & history too. e.g. Galicia & the Douro Valley
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 .
Find a Holiday
Pre-Christmas Champagne
30 November - 2 December 2013
Rhône Reserve
3 - 8 November 2013
Rioja Vineyard Walk
17 - 23 September 2012
Rioja, Ribera del Duero & Navarra - Great Wines of Northern Spain
9 - 16 September 2013
Sicily
21 - 29 September 2013
Southern Champagne and Chablis Vineyard Walk
2 - 8 June 2013
The Food & Wine of the Venetian Lagoon & Po River
8 - 14 September 2013
The Loire from East to West by coach
26 October - 1 November 2013
The Rhône
17 - 22 March 2013
Trois Glorieuses - Burgundy Celebration
Contact us for dates.
