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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The Great Wine & Food of Sicily

22 - 30 September 2012

Sicily has long been an Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours ‘Classic’ wine holiday and this up-dated itinerary visits Etna; features the fascinating cities of Syracuse, Palermo and Marsala and, as always on an Arblaster & Clarke …

The Vineyards of Chile

11 - 19 February 2013

This wonderful wine tasting holiday in Chile is dedicated to the fine wine regions of this fascinating and beautiful country. Our 2013 Vineyards of Chile Tour was a great success, with an amazing quality of wines tasted (see “W…

Verona Opera & Wine

9 - 13 July 2013

Journey through the wine villages of Valpolicella and on the shores of Lake Garda by day, and experience the glamour of world-class Opera performed in a magical setting by night. You will be tasting the smooth, cherry like Valp…

Amaryllis Barge 'Grand Cru' Wine Cruise

17 - 23 July 2011, 24 - 30 July 2011

from St Leger to Dijon This 6-night tour aboard The Amaryllis barge is an unmissable opportunity for the wine connoisseur to taste the 33 Grand Crus of Burgundy, including Bonne Mares, Montrachet and Romanée Conti. …

Chablis & Burgundy by Coach

1 - 5 November 2011

This excellent five day wine break takes in the whole gamut of great Burgundy wine starting with the ultimate great chardonnay based wines from Chablis in the North down to the vineyards south of Beaune. We’ll taste some ou…

Champagne Harvest Vineyard Walk

“Champagne” of course means countryside and this short walking holiday takes us deep into the Champagne region. From our base in the Grand Cru village of Aÿ we have walks out of the village to the surrounding hills and Cha…

Explore Cognac staying at a Charente Chateau

The town of Cognac, from which the spirit gets its name, is situated on the River Charente, from which it drew its prosperity due to its navigability. There has been an important port here since the Middle Ages when Charente wa…

Friuli, Istria & Slovenia

13 - 19 June 2011

This fascinating tour takes in three beautiful countries: Italy, Croatia and Slovenia. It combines the undiscovered wines of Istria in the north-west of Croatia, the world class whites of Friuli in Italy and the increasingly im…

Lyons: A Gourmet Weekend for Food & Wine Lovers

Our base for this special reward trip is the beautiful city of Lyons. Lyons is so often by-passed by those rushing south to the sun on the “autoroutes de soleil” that it is not as well known as it should be, so it is likely…

Milan Wine & Opera - Small Group Tour

23 - 26 June 2011

Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours have been arranging Wine & Opera trips for around 17 years now, and since the reopening after major renovation of La Scala in 2004 , have offered a series of independent opera breaks to the city. …