Wine Tours & Holidays

Travelling with Arblaster and Clarke, the leading wine tours specialists world-wide, you'll enjoy superb tastings at famous châteaux and top flight wineries, many of which are not normally open to the public. You'll discover small unknown producers, meet top winemakers, owners of chateaux and be invited into vignerons’ homes. On vacation you'll enjoy lunches, dinners, informal picnics and large tastings as guests of the estates, the kind of thing that is not possible if you are travelling alone in the wine country, even if you visit the same cellars.

Founded in 1986 by husband and wife team Lynette Arblaster & Tim Clarke, Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours have long been recognised as the world leader in the field of Wine Travel. On our wine holidays you will discover beautiful parts of the world from a unique perspective - through the wines and through the people who create them. Wine tasting doesn’t take up all the time though, travel itineraries are well balanced with free time and visits to places of interest.

Arblaster & Clarke's expert Wine Guides include some of the most eminent members of the British Wine Trade. There are wine journalists, wine consultants, wine merchants, members of our in-house team plus some locally based colleagues around the world. They introduce the wine regions, bringing the wines and destinations alive with the background, the history and anecdotes. They know the people and the inside story, understand the science and have their own ideas and interpretations. Guides

For more than 21 years Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours have been organising special holidays, almost all around the theme of wine. On this site you'll find our escorted wine tours, wine cruises, vineyard walks, opera & wine tours, gourmet holidays and more. The passion for arranging great holidays continues, and our programme is more vibrant than ever.

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Bordeaux Wine & City

23 - 26 April 2009, 22 - 25 October 2009, 19 - 22 November 2009

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...

Burgundy & Beaujolais

24 - 28 May 2009

This popular tour is a great introduction to Burgundy and Beaujolais. The tour includes visits to good domaines and firms who also offer good value, not always easy to find in Burgundy, as well as a day spent out in the beauti...

Chile & Argentina

9 - 21 February 2010

We are delighted to offer this tour at the same price as 2009 despite the fall of the pound against the dollar. This outstanding tour offers you the chance to visit two fascinating South American countries in one well planned ...

Port Harvest

25 - 27 September 2009

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...

Puccini Festival & Tuscan Wine

9 - 12 July 2009

Arblaster and Clarke are very pleased to offer this Opera and Wine tour based in Lucca, Tuscany, featuring the Puccini festival at Torre del Lago. Most years since 1930, a stage has been set up by the Massaciuccoli Lake to h...

Rome Opera & Wine

30 July - 2 August 2009

Enjoy a performnce of Bizet's Carmen, set amongst the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. This is a highly atmospheric, relatively small venue where productions are generally fairly traditional and performances are of high...

Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé, Chablis & Champagne

25 - 29 October 2009

This excellent value five day break takes in the best white wines in France and visits some beautiful unspoilt country. We travel down to the region by coach and to make the journey go with a swing, we taste some wines en route...

The Great Wines of Piemonte

14 - 18 September 2009

Piemonte is the premium wine region of Italy and we are very pleased to feature it in our Reserve Collection. This is a very high quality, in depth tour that will appeal to all lovers of great wine as well as our regular Italo...

The Sunday Times Wine Club Port Festival

1 - 3 May 2009

Join Club Secretary John Kemp for this wonderful Festival in Oporto, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Discover the diversity of Portuguese wines and the full range of Port Styles! On our first evening, there is the option to jo...

The Sunday Times Wine Club Wine Stars of Rioja

23 - 27 September 2009

Join us as we take in a superb tour of the region of one of the Club’s most popular wines – Rioja in Northern Spain. The wines of Rioja have never been more popular, and quite rightly so! No Club tour would be complete ...