Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

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Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

Wine Cities & Short Wine Breaks

Dining in an Italian vineyard

Dining in an Italian vineyard

These short breaks are great value and mean spending very little time away from work so are likely to suit our younger clientele. You meet up on location with our Wine Guide who will escort the wine events and who is on hand to answer any wine related questions you may have. The wine visits and meals at wine estates are carefully selected so you will taste a wide range of excellent wines, representing a good introduction to the region to be visited, in a way that is not possible if you are traveling independently.

During these long weekends each city has a good variety of non wine related things to do such as museums, galleries, shops, restaurants and bars. The hotels are centrally located so getting around in the evening is easy and we provide a list of recommended restaurants for you. We can easily book the hotel for an extra few nights to tie in with your flight schedule or if you simply want to explore the city you are staying in some more.

Flights are not included in the tour cost so that you can book these yourselves on-line (or we are happy to do it for you at the published rate plus a small administration fee). Our chosen wine cities are easy to reach from many UK local airports by scheduled or low cost airlines. If you do not want to fly then consider joining our Bordeaux trip by train. (Bordeaux takes about 5 hours by TGV from Ashford in Kent). Alternatively you could self-drive via the Loire. This would have the advantages that you can bring back some wine or make the trip part of a longer holiday.

Tours

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Bordeaux Wine & City 2008 & 2009

24 - 27 April 2008, 23 - 26 October 2008, 20 - 23 November 2008, 23 - 26 April 2009, 28 - 31 May 2009

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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 a wine expert with the added advant...
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Port Harvest

28 - 30 September 2007, 26 - 28 September 2008

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Witness, and even take part in the Port harvest on this great value tour offering the unique opportunity to experience treading the grapes! We meet up in Oporto then visit the lodge of Grahams Port for a tasting of these fam...
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Florence Wine & City

6 - 9 November 2007

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This unusual long weekend is based in the wonderful city of Florence, in an ideally situated hotel close to the banks of the River Arno and to the Boboli Gardens and Ponte Vecchio. Close to the city are the beautiful rolling...
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Lyons Wine & City

29 May - 1 June 2008

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Our innovative programme of Wine & City trips 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 a wine expert (invaluable of course ...
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Mosel, Saar, Ruwer & Ahr

1 - 5 October 2008

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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...
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Port & Barco Rabelos

22 - 25 June 2007

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On the eve of Sao Joao (St John, the patron Saint of Porto) this normally subdued and hard working city goes wild. From the magnificent iron bridge built by Eiffel’s pupil, a breathtaking display of fireworks cascade at midni...
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Bordeaux Wine & City

27 - 30 October 2007, 15 - 18 November 2007

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Attempting to arrange a Bordeaux wine tour on your own can be frustrating and the result can, quite frankly, be rather disappointing. Hardly surprisingly, the wine makers and owners of the great chateaux are not just waiting in...