from £2,699* per person	5 Days	April
Comfort accommodations		Exertion level: 3
Operator: Arblaster & Clarke Wine Tours		24 people max

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, so prepare to be delighted with visits and meals at the most exclusive Houses that the tour includes.

We are extremely pleased to have Robert Joseph one of the most respected wine journalists and a founder of the International Wine Challenge to host this special tour for us. We taste top cuvées and vintage champagnes from the best Champagne Houses on the Ultimate Champagne Wine Tour with the owners and winemakers! Arblaster & Clarke’s top level tour to Champagne includes over private invitations to lunch and dinner as guests of the Houses and at our own highly-acclaimed comparative tasting.

After we have settled into our small manor-house hotel, which is owned by one of the most highly respected, small, family run houses in Champagne, Robert Joseph will host a comparative tasting of his own personal champagne favourites, augmented by one or two of our own choice which, of course, will include some of the greats. These will be from Houses that we are not visiting during the week – this may include Veuve-Clicquot’s Grande Dame, the very exclusive “boutique” producer, Salon or their “second label”, Delamotte; Cattier’s Clos du Moulin and other great champagnes from leading small Houses. After this splendid start, we visit Philipponnat in the next village, whose single vineyard cuvée de prestige, Clos des Goisses is a truly superb wine; we start the trip in style as their guests for dinner prepared by a Michelin starred restaurant after a visit to the Clos, whose steep sides reach down into the Marne canal below.

Over the next couple of days we’ll taste, in the company of Robert, our knowledgeable wine expert, a series of top cuvees from the most famous names in Champagne,