for our Wine Tours

To view the next departing wine tour and other tours departing soon use the LAST MINUTE tab above.

Arblaster & Clarke tours sorted here in descending order from the travel date furthest in the future. Click on the arrow next to ‘Date’ to reverse the order. In Europe the main seasons for wine touring are May – June for spring (particularly good for vineyard walking holidays) and September- November for the harvest/autumn wine tours. New World wine tours are usually February – March (during their harvest & avoiding the heat of summer). In July we often have Opera festivals combined with wine touring and our wine cruise.

Some tours fill up very quickly and go straight from PLACES AVAILABLE to FULLY BOOKED in a matter of days. This may be because a large number of people have pre-registered, sometimes it is because the tour is very popular! Where a tour is marked as FULLY BOOKED it is still worth calling to check. Places may be being held as options or there could be cancellations. We have a waitlist or can suggest similar winetours.

For more on joining the tours, please see our F.A.Qs and F.A.Qs for our American clients

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Click on Date to change from ascending to descending date order

Tour	Date ↓	Travel	Price	Single Sup	Deposit	Availability
Le Ponant Wine Cruise	31 August - 7 September 2011	Meet at Nice	£3,999.00	Please call	£750.00	Places available.
Milan Wine & Opera - Small Group Tour	23 - 26 June 2011	Arrange Own Flights to Milan	£1,199.00	£190.00	£500.00	Places available.
Piemonte Vineyard Walk	8 - 14 May 2011	Meet at Destination	£1,699.00	£200.00	£500.00
Spring Champagne Weekend	26 - 28 March 2011	Coach/Ferry	£395.00	£80.00	£100.00	Places available.
Ultimate Champagne	21 - 25 March 2011	Eurostar to Lille	£2,675.00	Complimentary	£550.00	Last few places.
Burgundy Great Domaines	13 - 18 March 2011	Meet at Destination	£2,875.00	£475.00	£550.00	Places available.
California	13 - 19 March 2011	Meet at Destination	£1,999.00	£380.00	£550.00	Places available.
The Vineyards of Chile	21 February - 4 March 2011	Meet at Santiago	£3,499.00	£700.00	£650.00	Places available.
Sherry & Andalucia	19 - 25 February 2011	Meet at Malaga	£1,525.00	£350.00	£400.00	Places available.
New Zealand Wine Tour	15 - 26 February 2011	Meet in Auckland	£3,499.00	£600.00	£650.00	Places available.
South Africa Wine Tour	12 - 19 February 2011	Meet at Destination	£2,275.00	£450.00	£550.00	Places available.
Chile, Argentina & Uruguay	7 - 19 February 2011	Meet at Destination	£3,599.00	£700.00	£650.00	Places available.
Galapagos Islands & South American Wines Cruise	28 January - 5 February 2011	Meet at Quito	£4,399.00	n/a	£750.00	Places available.
New Year in Malta	30 December 2010 - 3 January 2011	Direct Scheduled Flights	£1,399.00	£250.00	£400.00	Places available.
Independent La Scala New Year Tour, Milan	30 December 2010 - 2 January 2011	Arrange flights to Milan	£975.00	£450.00	£500.00
Pre-Christmas Champagne	27 - 29 November 2010	Shuttle	£450.00	£95.00	£100.00	Places available.
South Africa Wine Tour	20 - 27 November 2010	Meet at Destination	£1,999.00	£300.00	£550.00	Places available.
Bordeaux First Growths	15 - 19 November 2010	Meet at Destination	£2,799.00	£400.00	£550.00	Last few places.
Bordeaux Wine & City	4 - 7 November 2010	Meet at Destination	£525.00	£100.00	£150.00	Last few places.
Autumn Champagne	29 - 31 October 2010	Ferry Crossing to Dover	£435.00	£95.00	£100.00	Places available.

There is a little over a years availability showing here. For Wine Cruises and long haul (New World) wine tours there may be a longer run up of up to 18 months. The New World Wine Tours dates are normally available by February the year before travel.

Opera breaks and Wine & Opera tours have a much shorter lead time because Opera Houses and Festivals are often rather late in announcing their programmes and even later in announcing the soloists. As soon as we have details we publish them. If you are interested in Opera trips, register with us and we can keep you posted.

Tours are generally left up on the site for up to a year after they have they happened for your information. Also some rather more obscure tours, or tours that we do only very occasionally are left up for some years. If you are interested in any of these please do click REGISTER INTEREST on that tour. We acknowledge this as a vote to run that tour again.

At the last minute, tours that include flights are normally sold without the travel as any flights we were holding are likely to have been released back to the airline. It is obviously better to discuss all these tours some time before departure. However, even at the last minute do call us anyway, (even if the tour is later that week, or seems to be ‘sold out’). We may still have availability, we do get cancellations and we may still be able to get flights or find a way that you can join the tour. It is better to view these tours using the LAST MINUTE tab above.