Wine Tours & Holidays

Travelling with Arblaster and Clarke, the leading specialists, 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 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 ‘en Primeur’

9 - 13 June 2008, 8 - 12 June 2009

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A rare opportunity to taste the latest Bordeaux vintage just as it is being released onto the market. This tour takes place shortly after the trade tastings where professionals and journalists will have judged the most recent v...
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Early Autumn Champagne

6 - 8 September 2008

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Our first visits are to two long established, high quality growers H. Billiot on the south side of the Montagne de Reims who makes a rich, full style and to B. Hatté based in Verzenay. This is on the north-east side of the Mon...
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Gourmet Piemonte

9 - 12 October 2008, 23 - 26 October 2008

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This is an extremely good value autumn short break giving you the chance to visit some of Northern Italy’s classic food markets and stock up on some superb ingredients for your festive entertaining or purely for your own enjo...
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Le Ponant Venice to Malta 9 - 19 August 2010

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Following the huge success of the 2008 Cruise on Le Ponant, Arblaster & Clarke have managed to secure one of the few remaining sailing dates on this beautiful ship for 2010. This wonderful new itinerary takes in many of our ...
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Sherry & Andalucia

18 - 23 October 2009

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Andalucía is startlingly beautiful with the Sierra Nevada rising dramatically from the sea. Being on the coast in Southern Spain the area has a temperate Mediterranean climate and most years that we have offered this tour in F...
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The Sunday Times Wine Club Port Festival

1 - 3 May 2009

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Join Club President Hugh Johnson 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...
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Tuscany

24 - 28 May 2009

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On this classic wine tour of Italy there is a great Italian spirit. A wonderful blend of respect for tradition and a determined attitude to increasing quality makes Italy one of the most exciting wine regions of the world, and...
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Ultimate Champagne

17 - 21 March 2008, 30 March - 3 April 2009

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We have been visiting the Champagne region with our champagne loving clients 15 times a year since 1987, so we can truly claim to know much about the region and have a very genuine personal passion for the wines. On this spe...
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Autumn Champagne

25 - 27 October 2008

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The first champagne visit on this tour is to the beautiful cellars of Taittinger in Reims, which is a good start with a clear explanation and fine, classic champagne to taste. The visit at Hatté’s small and rustic cellar...
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Bordeaux Wine & City

23 - 26 October 2008, 20 - 23 November 2008, 23 - 26 April 2009, 28 - 31 May 2009, 22 - 25 October 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...