Small Ship Luxury Wine Cruises

Sea Cloud with full sails

Sea Cloud with full sails

Wine cruises on small luxury ships

Every year since 1994 Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours has arranged a small ship wine cruise. On these special small-party wine holidays, you visit interesting out of the way places, sail into small harbours to avoid the crowds and stop for impromptu swims off the boat along the way, if you wish. There is a superb programme of on board wine tastings and wine dinners offering a panoply of wines from the regions we are visiting on the wine cruise. These are chosen by our in-house wine team who personally join you on board to comment on the wines. There are also private wine visits and meals at wine estates ashore.

These small luxury ship wine cruises appeal to a discerning clientele and are often described as floating house-parties. It is rather like chartering your own very luxury yacht with a party of very interesting friends all of whom have come together as they enjoy the good things in life. There is no noisy after dinner entertainment, just one civilised sitting for a truly relaxing wine-tasting dinner and on arrival in each port there is just one coach to meet the party (rather than a huge bank of 30 coaches-plus, which is the nightmare scenario awaiting you on a mass market cruise where you arrive in a destination like a marauding hoarde – it is simply NOT possible to have a luxury wine experience when shared with 600 or several thousand other people!).

The Arblaster & Clarke Wine Cruise for 2012 is on the stunning square rigged Sea Cloud, departing 8 July. This beautiful wine cruise sailing accommodates just 50 passengers.

New Year 2012 – 2013: A wonderful new wine river cruise – on the Douro for the New Year in 2012! Please see below for details.

Please see the short clip below from the Ponant, 2008 Wine Cruise from Nice to Venice on SY Ponant, kindly sent in by a client from this trip:

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Arblaster & Clarke's SeaCloud Wine Cruise

8 - 15 July 2012

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Arblaster & Clarke’s Small-Ship luxury Wine Cruise on SeaCloud, Rome to Nice 2012 Just 48 participants (no, this is not a mis-type, this is a genuine small party experience) can join Arblaster & Clarke’s 2012 Wine Crui…
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New Year Douro River Wine Cruise

29 December 2012 - 2 January 2013

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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…
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