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 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 .

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Lyon Wine & City

24 - 27 October 2013

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 (invaluable of course …

Lyons Wine & City - Independent Wine Touring Weekend

Lyons makes a great destination for an Arblaster & Clarke Wine & City weekend. The attractive city of Lyons is easy to reach by plane or train for a weekend, and is France’s gastronomic capital. We’ll take you to two very d…

New Year Douro River Wine Cruise

29 December 2012 - 2 January 2013

For our 2012/2013 New Year tour we have chartered the MV Douro Prince on the River Douro for a wine cruise. A wonderful way to start the New Year, this will mark the end of our 25th Anniversary Celebrations. We are very hono…

New Year Opera & Music in Budapest

29 December 2012 - 2 January 2013

Celebrate the start of 2013 in Hungary’s attractive capital, Budapest and enjoy two wonderful musical events; La Bohème performed in the beautiful Opera House and a Haydn concert in the state of the art Palace of the Arts on …

Opera at the Verona Festival

14 June - 7 September 2013

Arblaster & Clarke offer tailor-made, unescorted breaks with your choice of Opera tickets to the great Roman arena which houses the annual summer Opera festival in Verona. We arrange accommodation in a comfortable central Vero…

Portugal - from the Douro to the Alentejo

15 - 21 October 2012

This superb Classic wine tour of Portugal takes us from the steep sided valleys in the depths of the unspoilt Douro Valley where we’ll discover the superb “table” wines produced by a clutch of dynamic younger wine makers,…

Puccini Festival & Tuscan Wine

Lucca is our base for attending the Puccini opera performances at nearby Torre del Lago. As with all Arblaster & Clarke escorted, small party, Opera & Wine Tours, the days are spent enjoying wonderful wines, often at private in…

Rioja & Ribera del Duero

21 - 27 October 2012

This superb wine tour was the culmination of 23 years of Arblaster & Clarke’s wine touring in Spain. Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours has been offering top level tours here to meet the owners of leading estates since 1990. We be…

Sherry & Andalucia

18 - 23 February 2013

Andalucía is startlingly beautiful with the Sierra Nevada rising dramatically from the sea. The area has mild winters and most years that we have offered this Spanish wine tour in February, we have had fine warm weather with b…

Spring Champagne

23 - 25 March 2013

Taste 25 Champagnes on Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours original Champagne Weekends, starting with a glass at breakfast! Champagne is a fascinating wine to see being made and we make the journey to the region very comfortable, mak…