Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours offers 39 trips/accommodations
Rioja Vineyard Walk
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Rioja Vineyard Walk
Airport near Bilbao, Spain
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7 Days • from £1,799* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours The vineyards of Rioja are set in huge tracts of land that make for excellent walking countryside. Autumn is an ideal month to go for a vineyard walk – the buzz of the harvest will be in the air, at harvest time the vineyards will be beginning to take on their multicoloured autumn hues, and it should be a great temperature for walking!We meet in Bilbao and drive down to Rioja to check into our first hotel. This afternoon there… more |
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Sandhurst Foundation Wine Tour to Bordeaux
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Sandhurst Foundation Wine Tour to Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
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4 Days • from £550* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This innovative Wine & City tour is exclusively available to Sandhurst Wine Club members, spend a couple of days in this magnificent wine city with wine visits in the company of a wine expert, informative wine tastings and lunch at a Bordeaux wine chateaux. There is also time to explore the beautiful town of St Emilion and the city of Bordeaux; it’s old quarter, shops, wine bars and brasseries.We will stay in a central welcoming 2* hotel (which we have… more |
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Alsace and Mosel by Train
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Alsace and Mosel by Train
Eurostar
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6 Days • from £1,599* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This superb tour to Alsace and the Mosel has featured in the Arblaster & Clarke programme since 1989 and remained extremely popular ever since. We stay in Trier, the oldest city in Germany with many Roman remains. There is an attractive colourful town square lined with many traditional shops and weinstubes. In Alsace we stay in the picturesque town of Riquewihr one of the prettiest of the Alsatian villages. Stylistically the fullness of Alsace contrasts with the elegance of the… more |
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May Bank Holiday Champagne
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May Bank Holiday Champagne
Champagne Airport, France
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3 Days • from £495* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours As on all our wonderful original champagne weekends, we are based in the lively city of Reims and over the weekend. Our aim is to introduce you to a wide spectrum of Champagnes, to visit a good cross section of Houses, from those that forged Champagne’s reputation such as Taittinger, Pol Roger and Veuve Clicquot as well as to search out quality growers and rising stars in the villages.You will taste around 25 Champagnes over the course of the weekend,… more |
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Autumn Champagne
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Autumn Champagne
Airport, France near Reims, France
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3 Days • from £545* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours As on all our Original Champagne Weekends, our aim is to taste a wide spectrum of Champagnes, to visit a good cross section of Houses, from those that forged Champagne’s reputation such as Taittinger, Pol Roger and Veuve Clicquot as well as to search out quality growers and rising stars in the villages.Champagne is fun to drink and a fascinating wine to see being made and being easy to get to makes for a great weekend. Our base for the… more |
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Rioja & Ribera del Duero
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Rioja & Ribera del Duero
Madrid
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7 Days • from £1,599* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This fabulous Spanish wine extravaganza is the culmination of 23 years of Arblaster & Clarke’s wine touring experience in Spain. We reckon this may well be our best tour yet to the region! Whilst newer companies are suddenly making wild and unfounded claims to be the experts in Spanish wine tours (having never even operated there!), Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours has been offering top level tours here to meet the owners of leading estates since 1990 and have throughout… more |
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Switzerland, the Jura & Burgundy by Train
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Switzerland, the Jura & Burgundy by Train
London – Paris Nord
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7 Days • from £1,799* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This unique and innovative early summer tour takes in two very different wine regions, Switzerland and Burgundy, and travels through the Jura region between them making the journey part of the holiday. Our first base is the elegant and relaxed lake-side resort of Vevey on Lac Leman (Lake Geneva) set stunningly at the foot of the Alps. We stay here for three nights in a central four star hotel from where we have a relaxing itinerary to give you time… more |
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Paris Opera & Wine
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Paris Opera & Wine
Paris
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4 Days • from £1,475* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours Here is another innovative small party wine and opera tour from the world’s leading wine tours specialists! Attend great opera in Paris on one evening, stay in a comfortable 4* hotel in the Opera region, close to Galarie Lafayette and the Opera Garnier, and enjoy days out in the most famous French wine regions which are easily reachable by train in each direction making for wonderful and unique wine day’s out! You simply will not find this special wine tour… more |
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Bordeaux: People, Power & Politics
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Bordeaux: People, Power & Politics
Bordeaux
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5 Days • from £3,125* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This tour is led by wine writer Stephen Brook, author of “The Complete Bordeaux”, and takes its name from Stephen’s previous multi-award winning volume. Despite being written 10 years ago, the book is still extremely relevant. “Bordeaux – People, Power and Politics” is not a snapshot of a region or a catalogue of chateaux with wine notes that would have dated it. It is about the ‘how’ of Bordeaux. How the region works, how the merchants, importers, style gurus and… more |
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Champagne Extra Spring Weekend
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Champagne Extra Spring Weekend
Airport near Champagné, France
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3 Days • from £850* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours Our ‘Extra’ Champagne tours are luxury wine tours that are designed for those who are passionate about Champagne and require a higher standard of comfort and exclusivity on their wine holiday. These tours feature some of the highest quality houses, a prestige cuvée tasting on the first evening, and lunch and dinner at a Champagne House.Numbers are restricted to just 24, so that you have plenty of space to spread out on the coach and extra room to bring back… more |
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Burgundy Cote D'Or Vineyard Walk
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Burgundy Cote D'Or Vineyard Walk
Airport near Gevrey-Chambertin, France
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7 Days • from £1,599* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This is our original Vineyard Walk. The Burgundy Walk was first offered 19 years ago and it has continued to be one of our most enjoyable walking wine holidays.You will hear much about the importance of ‘terroir’, and by walking through the appellations, you will gain a far greater understanding of what makes great Burgundy wine. We visit selected growers, all of them good quality and some very well known. At these, you’ll taste a wide range of appellations, covering… more |
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Classic Tuscany
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Classic Tuscany
Airport near Pisa, Italy
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5 Days • from £1,499* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours 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 nowhere more so than Tuscany. On this tour we’ll visit those estates who have been at the forefront of quality and whose fortunes we have been following for more than the past 20 years. And of course, all with the beautiful backdrop of the quintessential Tuscan countryside of rolling, cypress studded hills.The Italian… more |
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California
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California
San Francisco Airport
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7 Days • from £2,125* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours The wine world owes so much to California; the idea of varietal wines, of the ‘boutique winery’, of scientific site selection, indeed the whole idea of ‘the new world’.This wonderful wine tour includes idyllic vineyard lunches, superb tastings of the greatest wines with the winemakers, gorgeous pairings of wine and food and in-depth discussions about the wine. California is best known for full bodied reds and full bodied, oaky whites made from very ripe fruit. In fact, it is one… more |
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Le Ponant Wine Cruise
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Le Ponant Wine Cruise
Nice, France
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8 Days • from £3,999* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours A&C are excited to announce our new small ship luxury wine cruise for late summer 2011 on this most beautiful sailing ship. Of all the ships that we have sailed on to date, since 1994, Le Ponant has been the most highly praised by our clients for its perfect size, elegance of line, comfort, cuisine and the overall professionalism of the Captain and his team. The new itinerary takes in superb wines from the classic wine regions of the South… more |
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Opera at the Verona Festival
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Opera at the Verona Festival
Airport near Verona, Italy
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3 Days • from £600* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours Arblaster & Clarke offer tailor-made, unescorted breaks with your choice of Opera tickets to the great Roman arena which houses the annual summer Opera festival in Verona. We arrange accommodation in a comfortable central Verona 4* hotel within easy walking distance of the Opera house.Verona is a wonderful city to spend a few days in, with its 14th century Castelvecchio, renaissance buildings and an excellent archaeological museum. You will have time to enjoy Verona’s Roman and Medieval sites, elegant shops,… more |
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Galapagos Islands & South American Wines Cruise
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Galapagos Islands & South American Wines Cruise
Quito, Ecuador
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9 Days • from £4,399* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours When we recently discovered the award winning M.V. Eclipse, we knew it was the answer to what we had been looking for a long time – a small, comfortable ship to arrange a wine tour of South America on! Of course, there is no wine worth mentioning in Ecuador, but there is so much to offer from the rest of the continent with Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and fast up and coming Brazil, that tasting all these wines in such a… more |
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La Bohème at La Fenice Carnival 2011 Opera Holiday
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La Bohème at La Fenice Carnival 2011 Opera Holiday
Venice, Italy
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4 Days • from £795* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours It is hard to overstate the historic importance of Venice’s opera house, La Fenice. Five of Verdi’s great operas including La Traviata were first perfomed here, and that was after its baroque heyday or when one great belcanto opera after another by Rossini and his contempories was produced here. The beautiful but small opera house of La Fenice, so tragically destroyed by fire a few years ago has been lovingly restored, indeed connoisseurs say that the acoustics are better than… more |
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Bordeaux Wine & City
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Bordeaux Wine & City
Bordeaux Airport, Mérignac, France
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3 Days • from £475* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours 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 an Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours wine expert with the added advantage that someone else does the driving and navigating for you!Bordeaux, the seventh largest city in France, is situated in the South West in the Aquitaine region and is the centre of… more |
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Pre-Christmas Champagne
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Pre-Christmas Champagne
Reims, France
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3 Days • from £499* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours Champagne is fun to drink and a fascinating wine to see being made and being easy to get to makes for a great weekend. Our base for the weekend is a comfortable 3* hotel in the centre of the lively attractive city of Reims.Our aim is to taste a wide spectrum of Champagnes, to visit a good cross section of Houses, from those that forged Champagne’s reputation such as Taittinger, Pol Roger and Veuve Clicquot as well as to search… more |
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Trois Glorieuses - Burgundy Celebration
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Trois Glorieuses - Burgundy Celebration
Airport, France near Lyon, France
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5 Days • from £2,550* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours The ‘Trois Glorieuses’ festivities are a series of spectacular wining and dining events connected with the annual wine auction, which, according to wine guru Robert Parker is “the greatest eating and drinking experience on the face of this planet!”. This starts on Saturday evening with a dinner at Clos Vougeot and ends with a marathon lunch on Monday in Meursault. It is now possible to bid in the wine auction that takes place on Sunday and is now run by… more |
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Ultimate Champagne
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Ultimate Champagne
Champagne Airport, France
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5 Days • from £2,699* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This is the Ultimate Champagne Tour, a culmination of Arblaster & Clarke’s 25 years of offering wine tours to Champagne. It is a unique and truly spectacular five day champagne experience exploring the Champagne region in style. We taste top cuvées and vintage champagnes from the best Champagne Houses and have meals as private guests of the top Houses. Champagne is hailed as the luxurious celebratory wine of France and this is Arblaster & Clarke’s top tour to the region,… more |
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The Vineyards of Chile
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The Vineyards of Chile
Airport, Chile near Santiago, Chile
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9 Days • from £2,999* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This wonderful wine tasting holiday in Chile is dedicated to the fine wine regions of this fascinating and beautiful country. In order to do the vineyard regions justice we will be visiting and meeting winemakers from the following valleys: Casablanca, San Antonio, Maipo, Rapel (for Colchagua & Cachapoal) and Maule, for this in-depth wine tasting holiday. We will also be tasting wines from other regions such as Bio Bio, Elqui and Leyda. We are offering a fantastic optional extension to… more |
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Bordeaux Wine & City II
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Bordeaux Wine & City II
Bordeaux
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4 Days • from £590* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours Arblaster & Clarke Wine & City trips are aimed at the more independent traveller who wishes to spend the daytime enjoying wine visits accompanied by a wine expert, with the added advantage that someone else does the driving and navigating for you! Specifically on this new programme of Bordeaux II Wine & City tours we have organised for your Wine Guide to introduce to completely different wine chateaux and the French wine-making skills used in Bordeaux. You will be able… more |
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Northern Rhone & Beaujolais Crus Walk
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Northern Rhone & Beaujolais Crus Walk
Juliénas, France
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7 Days • from £1,575* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours There is something iconic about walking whole Beaujolais Crus, Brouilly, Côte de Brouilly, Régnié, Morgon, Chiroubles, Fleurie, Moulin-à-Vent, Chénas, Juliénas and St Amour, and tasting each in turn! The walk starts in the northerly Cru, St Amour and from here goes to Juliénas, where we taste achitypical wines. We continue through the vineyards and woods of Chénas, stopping for a picnic. We’ll see the famous windmill of Moulin-à-Vent then finish the day with a great tasting of Fleurie and Moulin-à-Vent.… more |
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Chile, Argentina & Uruguay
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Chile, Argentina & Uruguay
Airport, Chile near Santiago, Chile
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12 Days • from £3,599* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This unique South American wine tour visits the spectacular vineyards of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. All three have made advances in quality and this has firmly established them on the world wine scene. Chile is best known, but Argentina has huge potential and Uruguay is a big surprise! We recommend a night in Chile’s capital, Santiago (which we will be pleased to arrange for you) before the start of the tour. From here, we head south to the small, traditional… more |
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The Grand Wine Tour of Italy
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The Grand Wine Tour of Italy
Airport near Florence, Italy
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10 Days • from £3,450* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This fabulous new tour takes the spirit of 19th Century ‘Grand Tour of Italy’ and applies it to our 21st Century Wine Tour of Italy. In addition to wonderful wines we’ll be taking in Italy’s beautiful gardens, famous historic sites and a chamber music concert on the island of Ischia at William Walton’s La Mortella Garden. We start this wonderful journey through Italy in Florence, travel south to Umbria, then on to Rome and finish in Naples.The first of our… more |
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South Africa Wine Tour
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South Africa Wine Tour
Cape Town Airport, South Africa
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8 Days • from £2,499* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours The Cape is one of the most spectacular vineyard regions in the world. Our wine holiday of South Africa covers the best of the wine and some of the most beautiful sites. On this winetour, unlike casual tourists in the wine lands, you receive personal welcomes from the wine-makers, great wine tastings and private invitations to lunch or dinner.The Cape has a long tradition of wine production dating back to the Dutch settlers of 1652. When the British took over… more |
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Bordeaux ‘en Primeur’
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Bordeaux ‘en Primeur’
Bordeaux Airport, Mérignac, France
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5 Days • from £2,999* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours In the company of the multiple award winning wine writer Andrew Jefford one of the world’s most highly regarded wine experts, this is an unmissable chance to taste the 2011 vintage ‘En Primeur’ on a luxury wine tour staying at top chateaux. Shortly after the trade tastings in the spring, you will be able to assess the 2011 vintage well ahead of the rest of the claret drinking public and hear how he compares this to 2010 and other years.You… more |
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Independent Opera, Puccini Festival
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Independent Opera, Puccini Festival
Lucca Airport, Lucca, Italy
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3 Days • from £799* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours This independent Opera holiday is based in the lovely Tuscan town of Lucca, and includes the Puccini festival on the lake-side at Torre del Lago.Most years since 1930, a stage has been set up by the Massaciuccoli Lake to host a handful of performances of Puccini’s Operas and this year, as ever, some of his greatest works are being staged. There are only a total of 15 performances this year, so availability is very limited and if you are thinking… more |
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The Great Wines & Food of Northern Italy
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The Great Wines & Food of Northern Italy
Turin, Italy
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7 Days • from £1,699* per person
Provider: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours On this gastronomic wine tour we’ll discover, at source, many of Italy’s famous delicacies in the culinary heartland of Italy, Emilia-Romagna and Piemonte. Explore the wonderful food markets and enjoy great wines along with the huge variety of local foods. We begin in Turin, capital of Piemonte and one of Italy’s gastronomic centres with a tasting over dinner at a classic restaurant. Turin was where chocolate was first made in Europe and there are still many artisan chocolate producers in… more |
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