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
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.
Burgundy & Beaujolais By Coach or Train	24 - 28 October 2010	Channel Crosing by Shuttle and Executive coach	£1,149.00	£135.00	£250.00	Places available.
Sicily	24 - 30 October 2010	Direct Scheduled Flights	£1,999.00	£325.00	£400.00	Places available.
Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé, Chablis & Champagne	24 - 28 October 2010	Coach & Shuttle Crossing	£899.00	£165.00	£250.00	Places available.
Southern Tuscany & Chianti Classico	18 - 23 October 2010	Meet at Pisa Airport	£1,699.00	£300.00	£400.00	Places available.
Southern Burgundy Master Class	11 - 15 October 2010	Meet at Destination	£2,595.00	£385.00	£550.00	Places available.
Alsace by Train	11 - 15 October 2010	Eurostar and TGV	£1,199.00	£165	£400.00	Places available.
La Scala, Milan Independent Opera	6 - 8 October 2010	Meet at Destination		n/a	£300.00	Places available.
Alsace Vineyard Walk	3 - 9 October 2010	Meet at Destination	£1,499.00	£260.00	£350.00	Places available.
Great Wines of Northern Spain	27 September - 4 October 2010	Meet at Madrid Airport	£1,795.00	£360.00	£400.00	Places available.
Piemonte Vineyard Walk	13 - 19 September 2010	Meet at Destination	£1,699.00	£200.00	£500.00	Fully booked.
Bordeaux Wine & City	9 - 12 September 2010	Meet at Destination	£515.00	£100.00	£150.00	Tour(s) underway.
Douro Vineyard Walk	5 - 11 September 2010	Meet at Oporto airport	£1,550.00	Please Call	£350.00	Tour(s) underway.
Southern Burgundy Harvest Vineyard Walk	4 - 10 September 2010	Meet at Destination	£1,575.00	£280.00	£350.00	Tour(s) underway.
Independent Opera, Puccini Festival	30 July - 1 August 2010	Meet at Destination	£485.00	N/A	£250.00	Tour completed.
USA's Pacific Northwest and the International Pinot Noir Festival	21 - 27 July 2010	Meet in Seattle	£2,199.00	£345.00	£550.00	Tour completed.
Athens to Malta Wine Cruise 2010	11 - 20 July 2010	Meet at Athens Airport	£3,599.00	Please Call	£500.00	Tour completed.
Aÿ Champagne Festival	2 - 4 July 2010	Channel Crossing	£399.00	£90.00	£100.00	Tour completed.
Bordeaux ‘en Primeur’	21 - 25 June 2010	Meet at Destination	£1,999.00	Complimentary	£550.00	Tour completed.

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.