Vineyard Walking Holidays
Vineyard Walking Holidays
Vineyard Walking Holidays
The Burgundy Walk
Vineyard Walking Holidays
Arblaster and Clarke, the leading wine tour specialists, offer the ultimate in vineyard walking wine holidays to Burgundy, the Mosel, the Douro, Rioja, Champagne and Northern Rhone. Our routes are planned to take in the great vineyards, to give the best views of the châteaux and to take you to wine tastings at great cellars. The routes have been walked out extensively by our team (It takes us about one man/month to set up a vineyard walk, we are not just following arduous French hiking trails, or putative paths shown on maps - all too often these go somewhere neither beautiful nor useful and sometimes no-where at all!). The vineyard walks are designed to be educational, and on one of our vineyard walks you'll begin to see all those differences in soil and aspect which the French call “terroir”.
Arblaster and Clarke have experienced leaders who are enthusiastic walkers with a good knowledge of wine, the trails, the vineyards, food and the region. They include Tim Clarke and Claire Martin.
On many Arblaster and Clarke walking wine tours a small local mini-bus is on hand throughout the tour to transfer your bags and wine after tastings and to take you into the local towns. We use characterful accommodation from comfortable family-run 2*/3* to 4* châteaux. (All with en-suite bathrooms, and many have a swimming pool).
On a typical day on one of our Vineyard Walks you will stroll for an hour through the vineyards to our first tasting, then onto a picnic lunch, then more walking and tastings! You’ll cover an easy 5 to 8 miles a day although this varies with each tour so please read the descriptions carefully. If at any stage you want to "opt out" the coach can be called easily. The ground covered on our Vineyard Walks varies according to the tour, Burgundy is the lightest of the walks, Loire, Champagne and Bordeaux are also easy walking, but the trails in Rioja, Alsace and certainly in Beaujolais are more strenuous, but would still not really be considered hiking. The party size for all these tours are limited to 16 people.
Tours
Burgundy Vineyard Walk
5 - 11 October 2008, 24 - 30 May 2009, 6 - 12 September 2009
Champagne Vineyard Walk
4 - 8 June 2008, 3 - 7 September 2008, 3 - 7 June 2009, 2 - 6 September 2009
Douro Vineyard Walk
11 - 17 May 2008, 6 - 12 September 2009
Rioja Vineyard Walk
7 - 13 September 2008
Northern Rhone & Beaujolais Crus Walk
7 - 13 September 2008
Walking in the Vineyards of Central Loire
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Mosel Vineyard Walk
10 - 16 September 2007
Alsace Vineyard Walk
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Bordeaux Vineyard Walk
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