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2010 Wine Tours

All tours for 2010 are now available and already attracting lots of positive interest! There are some fabulous new tours including Burgundy & Switzerland by train; the USA's Pacific North-West and Friuli, Istria & Slovenia. In the autumn, there are exciting new tours including: - Southern Burgundy Vineyard Walk and Piemonte Vineyard Walk; Southern Burgundy Master Class with Steven Spurrier, St Emilion and Cognac by TGV (combinable with a Champagne Weekend with a direct train from Bordeaux to Reims) and Milan Opera, Lakes & Gardens Wine Tour.
Visit the download centre to download our 2010 brochure now!

2010 New World Wine Tours

For Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, Argentina & Uruguay, California plus the USA's Pacific North-West see New World Wine Tours or visit download centre to get the New World Newsletter pdf.

2010 Arblaster & Clarke Wine Fair, 4th March at the Vintners' Hall

Come to the Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours Wine Fair at the Vintners' Hall, City of London on the 4th March 2010. There will be two wine tasting sessions, 11am - 2pm & 5pm - 8pm. There also Master Classes held by Steven Spurrier on Cru Beaujolais, by Derek Smedley MW on award winning wines from the International Wine Challenge, by Tim Clarke on Sicily and by David Gleave MW on Australia.

Full details are now available, do call or email the office to reserve your places.

2010 Wine Cruise on the Sailing Cruiser Panorama

A superb cruise on the 25 cabin super-yacht Panorama. Athens to Cephalonia, then Syracuse (Eastern Sicily), the Aeolian isles, the Egadi isles, Marsala (Western Sicily), Tunis, and the islands of Pantelleria, Gozo and Malta. The cruise is fully booked, however, if you are interested in wine cruises do call. See past cruises on our Wine Cruise page. Go to Athens to Malta Wine Cruise.

Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours is a fully bonded tour operator.
All money paid to us is fully protected by bonds lodged with the Civil Aviation Authority (Atol Licence 2543) and by our AITO Trust Bond (1005). Why this is important for you.

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"An utterly splendid tour; brilliantly organized with lots of valuable insights into a mysterious region.
Thank you again. RM, Burgundy"

Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours offer you 22 years of wine touring experience and the widest range of superb Wine Tours available. This includes our famous and original Champagne Weekends, a range of Wine Tours in the major vineyard regions of Europe, plus excellent wine touring in the New World.

The New World wine touring destinations for 2010 are California, the Pacific North-west, South Africa, New Zealand and South America (Chile, Argentina and Uruguay).

Great chateaux and winery visits

Travel with Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours and you will have private tastings in France, including at the greatest Bordeaux chateaux; you'll experience special visits and tastings at New World wineries; and you will be invited into top growers' cellars in Spain, Italy, Portugal and 18 other wine producing countries. You'll experience great, rare and undiscovered wines. You'll enjoy gourmet food, often a lunch or dinner at the cellars.

Expert led wine tours

On our superb Escorted Wine Tours, your tour is led by an expert wine guide, often a 'Master of Wine' or a Wine Writer and at many visits to wineries, chateaux or Champagne cellars, you'll actually meet wine-makers and owners. Your visits and tastings will be in depth and the background, terroir and history will be explained, normally with some 'insider' stories and humour.

Our programme of wine related holidays also includes:
Wine Walking Holidays in France, Spain and Portugal;
Gourmet Holidays in Italy;
Wine Tasting Weekend breaks in France in Bordeaux and Rhone.
Plus Wine & Opera breaks and Independent Wine Holidays.
See Types of tour for the full range.

Arblaster & Clarke is the leading wine tour specialist world-wide and is run by the original owners and founders Lynette Arblaster & Tim Clarke and our team of dedicated and experienced multi-lingual wine travel specialists.

We personally research and set up and even escort our wine tours. You will often find that the person you speak to or correspond with is the person who travels with you on tour. In this world of ever larger corporations such personal service is rare. Our passion is to give you a great wine holiday from the moment you first contact us.

For F.A.Q.s, see the FLAGS at the bottom of the page!

Please explore the Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours site in your own way:

'Dates & Prices' takes you to a list of scheduled winetours, from short champagne weekends to luxury in depth tours, organised by date.
Try 'Last Minute' for departures coming up soon.
'Destinations' shows you the full range of wine regions we visit, from Bordeaux & Tuscany to Australia, South Africa & Chile.
'Types of Holidays' gives the full range: Luxury Winetours, Walking trails in the vineyards, Wine Weekends, Private Groups, wine Opera breaks, cruises....

You will also find our Opera programme, with escorted Wine & Opera tours to Italy featuring the festivals at Verona, Torre del Lago and Milan plus privately arranged trips to the Opera at La Scala, Milan and La Fenice, Venice, Vienna and Verona.