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"Arblaster & Clarke should be your first consideration for wine tours" — Posted on: 17/01/2011
Its still only early January and Arblaster & Clarke have already been mentioned several times in the UK press. Please see ‘A&C in the Press’ on the right hand menu to view all of our Press mentions.
Out of 52 weekends that the Sunday Times Travel recommended for 2011, Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours featured in two entries. The Sunday Times fantastic mini adventures for a very happy new year included a weekend in Champagne and an Opera & Wine Tour of Tuscany with Arblaster & Clarke’s Original Champagne Weekends.
Our wine cruises for 2011, the Galapagos Islands & South American Wines Cruise and Western Mediterranean Wine Cruise mentioned in the World of Cruising in December 2010.
The Telegraph newspaper on 15 Jan 2011 featured Arblaster & Clarke wine tours as ‘Our Selection’ for both France and Italy, with the Telegraph French Holidays article stating: “Arblaster & Clarke should be your first consideration for wine tours”.
Bordeaux ‘en Primeur’
11 - 15 June 2012
In the company of the multiple award winning wine writer Andrew Jefford one of the world’s most highly regarded wine experts, this is an unmissable chance to taste the 2011 vintage ‘En Primeur’ on a luxury wine tour stayi…
Bordeaux Wine & City
13 - 15 April 2012, 16 - 18 November 2012
Our innovative programme of Wine & City breaks 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 an Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours wi…
Burgundy Hospices de Beaune & Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot
26 - 30 June 2012
In conjunction with Anthony Hanson M.W. of Christie’s Wine International
Our special Burgundy tour this June ‘Hospices de Beaune & Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot’ brings together the brilliant events of wine and m…
Champagne Extra Spring Weekend
24 - 26 March 2012
Our ‘Extra’ Champagne tours are luxury wine tours that are designed for those who are passionate about Champagne and require a higher standard of comfort and exclusivity on their wine holiday. These tours feature some of the hi…
Chile, Argentina & Uruguay
20 February - 2 March 2012
This unique South American wine tour visits the spectacular vineyards of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. All three have made advances in quality and this has firmly established them on the world wine scene. Chile is best known, b…
Gourmet Istanbul
19 - 23 November 2012
With the recent rapid interest in the cuisine of Turkey, the huge improvement in the wines and the many lures of Istanbul, this is another A&C wine and gourmet first. We stay in a traditional boutique hotel in the heart of the …
May Bank Holiday Champagne
5 - 7 May 2012
As on all our wonderful original champagne weekends, we are based in the lively city of Reims and over the weekend. Our aim is to introduce you to a wide spectrum of Champagnes, to visit a good cross section of Houses, from tho…
Piemonte Vineyard Walk
6 - 12 May 2012, 5 - 11 May 2013
Piemonte is a beautiful region of rolling countryside nestling at the foot of the Alps in the North West of Italy and makes for superb vineyard walking territory. On this truly wonderful wine walking holiday, you’ll enjoy the f…
The Grand Wine Tour of Italy
24 June - 3 July 2012
This tour, the culmination of many years of wine tours by Arblaster and Clarke in Tuscany and the rest of Italy takes the spirit of 19th Century ‘Grand Tour of Italy’ and applies it to our 21st Century Wine Tour of Italy. In ad…
Ultimate Champagne
23 - 27 April 2012, 4 - 8 March 2013
This is the Ultimate Champagne Tour, a culmination of Arblaster & Clarke’s 25 years of offering wine tours to Champagne. It is a unique and truly spectacular five day champagne experience exploring the Champagne region in sty…
Bordeaux Vineyard Walk
10 - 16 September 2012
Walk with us through the greatest vineyards in the world just as the exciting preparations for the harvest are underway. Our unique Bordeaux vineyard walk (which we first offered over 12 years ago) gives you a rare insight behi…
Champagne Wine Tasting Festival for A&C 25th Anniversary - Premier Cru
23 - 25 November 2012
Join us for our Champagne Wine Tasting Festival to celebrate 25 years of Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours!
Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours invites you to our weekend party in Champagne for our 25th anniversary celebrations. We ar…
Classic Tuscany
8 - 12 October 2012
A wonderful blend of respect for tradition and a determined attitude to increasing quality makes Italy one of the most exciting wine regions of the world, and nowhere more so than Tuscany. On this tour we’ll visit those estate…
Georgia
7 - 15 September 2012
Tim Clarke spent the spring of 2011 writing a wine tourism strategy for Georgia. In the course of this, he became convinced that it could be an amazing tour. There are some startling facts about Georgian wine. This small countr…
Great Bordeaux: A Merchant's View
5 - 9 November 2012
Nicola Arcedeckne-Butler M.W. a highly respected wine merchant, leads this tour. The theme is about how Bordeaux works from the merchant’s perspective. How the merchants interact with importers, style gurus and chateaux, how…
Jubilee Champagne Weekend
2 - 4 June 2012
This celebratory Champagne Weekend gives you the ideal opportunity to stock-up on your champagne drinking should you be planning a party for the Jubilee, or just the excuse to get away for the weekend (and stock up with great …
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…
Puglia and Campania
9 - 15 April 2012
Our 2012 wine tour of Southern Italy explores the fascinating regions of Puglia and Campania. The Ancient Greeks called Southern Italy Oinotria, “the land of staked vines”, and they left behind a legacy of grape varieties t…
Arblaster & Clarke's Le Ponant Wine Cruise
31 August - 7 September 2011
Western Mediterranean Wine Cruise on Le Ponant 2011
The 2011 small-ship luxury wine cruise was in late summer on the beautiful sailing ship, Le Ponant.
The itinerary took in superb wines from the classic wine regi…
Corporate Hospitality in Bordeaux
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21 years of expertise in Corporate Hospitality
Arblaster & Clarke are the leading specialist in the field of Incentive Wine Tours and Bordeaux is one of our most popular destinations.
Arblaster & Clarke have introd…
Galapagos Islands & South American Wines Cruise
28 January - 5 February 2011
When we recently discovered the award winning M.V. Eclipse, we knew it was the answer to what we had been looking for a long time – a small, comfortable ship to arrange a wine tour of South America on! Of course, there is no wi…
Paris Opera & Wine
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Here is another innovative small party wine and opera tour from the world’s leading wine tours specialists! Attend great opera in Paris on one evening, stay in a comfortable 4* hotel in the Opera region, close to Galarie Lafa…
Switzerland, the Jura & Burgundy by Train
11 - 17 September 2011
This unique and innovative harvest time wine tour takes in two very different wine regions, Switzerland and Burgundy, and travels through the Jura region between them making the journey part of the holiday. We promise those …
The Great Wines & Food of Northern Italy
16 - 22 October 2011
On this gastronomic wine tour we’ll discover, at source, many of Italy’s famous delicacies in the culinary heartland of Italy, Emilia-Romagna and Piemonte. Explore the wonderful food markets and enjoy great wines along with the…
Bordeaux Wine & City II
27 - 30 October 2011
Arblaster & Clarke Wine & City trips are aimed at the more independent traveller who wishes to spend the daytime enjoying wine visits accompanied by a wine expert, with the added advantage that someone else does the driving and…
Grand Cru Champagne short Break
Departures throughout the year.
The Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours two night Grand Cru Champagne break is based on our 25 years of experience in the region and gives you a concentrated snap-shot of the region in the personal company of our local wine expert. …
