After many successful years in the wine trade, involving countless tastings and dinners and, more importantly, a little more time to spare, we started taking our customers on wine holidays. Over the years we have heard many comments along the lines of: “you know all these winemakers, why can’t you take us to visit them so that we can get a real feel for the area and its wines?”. Well, we decided to do exactly that!

After tremendously successful trips to the Loire Valley, Champagne, Bordeaux, Alsace, Veneto and Rioja, we set up a separate company under the Grapes umbrella to specialise in purely wine holidays. The group size on each trip varies, and all have been great fun and very informative.

In 2022 we had an excellent time in Tuscany in May, followed by a memorable trip to Oporto in October. Last May we went to Burgundy, taking in Champagne and Chablis along the way, and a fabulous time was had by all. This was followed in October by a fine trip to Amboise in the lovely Loire Valley

Our next trip will be to Piedmont in Northwest Italy fron Sunday May 19th to Sunday May 26th inclusive. 22 of us will be enjoying this trip!

We are travelling by luxury coach, with on board facilities, via ferry from Dover to Calais initially down to Beaune.

We will be staying overnight at the lovely hotel we stayed in last May and dining at the restaurant next door. On the Monday we will make a picturesque journey to our 4* hotel in Piedmont. This is part of its own famous winery with restaurant and spa and is only 10 minutes walk from the centre of one of the ‘gourmet’ towns in the region.

Tuesday will be spent at the winery enjoying a tour, tasting and light lunch followed by dinner in the restaurant in the evening.

On Wednesday we are visiting a Gavi specialist for a tour and tasting followed by lunch. Thursday and Friday will continue in the same vein, with tours and tastings at other wineries in the area followed by luncheons. On the Saturday we start our journey home, via the same hotel in Beaune with dinner. Sunday morning will see us making our way back to Worthing via the Calais to Dover ferry. The trip includes all travel, coach and ferry, hotel accommodation on a B&B basis, at least a luncheon or dinner each day, winery visits with tours and tastings.

This promises to be another exceptional trip with great company, good fun, food and wine, in lovely surroundings…we look forward to hearing from you.

We are hoping to organise a trip to Cahors in South West France for the end of September/beginning of October this year - watch this space for further details.

Please contact us if you would like further details on any of these visits, or if you are interested in us arranging a trip for your own group in the future.

Please see picture galleries below for a few pictures from Burgundy in May 2023 and Oporto in October 2022.