Archived Tours
The wine tours below are those tours that we have offered in previous years and are here for your information. Where tours are featured below that are not on offer in the current year we may well be operating these at a future date. So if you are interested in any of these tours please click on them, read more information and click on the 'Register Interest' button at the bottom of the page!
New Year in Amalfi
29 December 2008 - 2 January 2009
The Arblaster & Clarke New Year tours are a great way to relax after the hard work of Christmas and to celebrate in a beautiful location. These holidays have long been an annual A&C tradition and are enjoyable, convivial breaks...
La Scala, Milan, Cosi Fan Tutte
29 October - 1 November 2008
This superb escorted tour features Opera at La Scala, Milan, arguably the greatest Opera venue in the world, (with 1st category tickets) and tastings of the great wines of Northern italy over superb meals in and around Milan.
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Gourmet Istria
29 October - 2 November 2008
Istrians tend not so much to think of themselves as Italians, Croatians or Slovenes, more as Istrians first who happen to be Italian, Croatian or Slovene. The majority of Istria is in Croatia and that is where this tour is base...
Ravenna, Urbino & The Marche
26 - 31 October 2008
On this fabulous wine holiday we visit Le Marche which nestles between the Adriatic Sea and the Apennine mountains and has beautiful, unspoilt landscapes, dotted with many secret villages. One of the most dynamic of Italy's win...
Burgundy by Coach
26 - 30 October 2008
Visit the classic French vineyards of Burgundy just after harvest time when there are plenty of exciting new stories to catch up on, and when there may still be some activity in the vineyards and cellars. The vineyards will be ...
The Loire by Train
25 - 30 October 2008
The base for the tour is the town of Saumur with its famous castle. Our hotel is a particularly comfortable well run 3* with a lovely, riverside position and a good restaurant.
We start by looking at the local red, Saumur-C...
Mosel, Saar, Ruwer & Ahr
1 - 5 October 2008
One of the fastest growing sectors of the wine trade is quality German wine so it is fitting that we should have a new tour that takes you to the heartland of the Mosel and its tributory rivers the Saar and Ruwer. For the first...
Sicily to Venice Wine Cruise aboard Le Ponant
27 July - 1 August 2008
A wonderful voyage of discovery taking in dramatic sites out of the way places and great food and wine. We sailed from Sicily to Gallipoli and Trani in Puglia, Korcula in Croatia before ending in Venice.
"*Go to our 2010 Wi...
Corsica, Italy & Croatia Wine Cruise
22 July - 1 August 2008
A luxury small ship Wine Cruise from Nice to Venice, with great food and wine. We sailed round Italy, calling in on Corsica, Sicily and the Croatia's Dalmatian islands too. being on a smaller ship we were of course able to cal...
Nice to Sicily Wine Cruise 2008 aboard Le Ponant
22 - 27 July 2008
The cruise started in Nice, and took in Genoa, Porto Venere, Corsica, Gaeta, Agropoli for Paestum and Taormina in Sicily.
Go to our 2010 Wine Cruise or for the full itine...
Independent Opera - Andrea Bocelli in Carmen
27 - 30 June 2008
Arblaster & Clarke Independent Opera Offers - Andrea Bocelli in Carmen
Arblaster & Clarke have only a handful of much sought after tickets to what promises to be a fabulous evening of Opera, starring Andrea Bocelli. Andrea w...
Opera & Wine in Rome Carmen with Andrea Bocelli
27 - 30 June 2008
The famous tenor Andrea Bocelli and Hungarian mezzo Ildiko Komlosi star in Bizet’s Carmen at the Teatro dell’ Opera, Rome.
Our chosen hotel, the beautiful Bernini Bristol (5* luxe) is in the heart of The Eternal City an...
The Sunday Times Wine Club Venetian Wine Festival
23 - 26 June 2008
Join the Club in Venice for several wonderful days of wining and dining with the fabulous backdrop of the world’s most romantic city.
Upon disembarking from the British Airways flight, you will be met by the Wine Club Tou...
The Sunday Times Wine Club Party in Venice
22 - 25 June 2008
We are extremely excited about the main Club overseas event for 2008. Possibly the most romantic of all trains, our journey begins at London Victoria where we board the British Pullman Carriages of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Exp...
Portugal Anniversary tour
25 May - 1 June 2008
It is 20 years since A&C's ground breaking tour of Portugal, our first major tour, which revealed for the first time to the UK wine drinker the quality wine revolution that was going on there. (Only a few specialist merchants w...
Provence in the Spring
22 - 27 April 2008
Provence as an historical entity was created by the Romans, who regarded it as a 'province' of their empire and indeed, Provence saw the first plantings of vines in Gaul when the Greeks introduced them in the 6th century BC. En...
Campania & Naples in the Spring
26 - 30 March 2008
This new itinerary explores Campania, staying on the bay of Naples convenient for our wine visits here and in Naples itself. The viticultural heartland of Campania is just inland from the volcano of Vesuvius. Here we find the e...
South Australia Wine Tour
10 - 17 March 2008
This fabulous second part to our 2008 Australia itinerary takes in the star regions around Adelaide and visits many of the friends that we have been going to see for the past 14 years. Again, it is likely to be in harvest time,...
Western Australia
3 - 10 March 2008
This fabulous itinerary takes in many of the star regions and visits of our past twelve tours giving a really up to the minute, comprehensive overview of not only what is going on wine-wise, but of many of the most lovely parts...
La Scala, Milan, Cosi Fan Tutte
14 - 17 February 2008
This superb escorted tour features Opera at La Scala, Milan, arguably the greatest Opera venue in the world, (with 1st category tickets) and tastings of the great wines of Northern italy over superb meals in and around Milan.
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