Tours

Vineyard Tours:

Over The Top Tours is a company that specialises in offering you really good quality enjoyable visits to vineyards and / or battlefields. The tours are run and accompanied by professionals who want to offer you the best - but at approachable prices. These tours offer fantastic value.

On the wine side, you can visit the various different wine regions of France and go through doors that others can only knock on. You'll meet and dine with luminaries of the local wine trade - an experience that has no price. Fine food of course goes hand in hand with fine wine and so, you will eat in some of the best restaurants available.

But whether your intended trip is for a group of six friends or for a corporate group of 22 on a team-building exercise, Over The Top Tours is pleased to respond to your enquiry and then design your trip according to your specific preferences. The permutations are endless: you could also combine vineyard trips with visits to local food producers - and we could even arrange for you to take part in cookery classes. You could drive a classic car through the vineyards, and hot air ballooning over vineyards can also be arranged. Prices of our vineyard tours currently start at £435 all-in for three days.

In Bordeaux, as an example, domaines visited include Châteaux Beauregard, de Malle, Domaine de l'Eglise, Fonplégade, Giscours, Kirwan, Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Lafite-Rothschild, Lanessan, Lascombes, Lynch-Bages, Pichon-Baron, Pichon-Lalande, Tertre Rôteboeuf, Trotte Vieille . . . but properties are generally selected according to each client's preferences.

Over The Top Tours' battlefield visits are run in northern France and Belgium with all the passion and enthusiasm you could wish for from our two professional historians. Arnhem, Normandy, the Somme and Ypres are all covered by Over The Top Tours - and here too many people ask for specific visits, which we are of course pleased to organise. Prices of our Battlefield Tours start at just £130 for two days.

Further detail can be found on www.overthetoptours.net or you can of course make contact on one of the telephone numbers on the left of this page.

Explanation of grape development in the Krug Champagne vineyard

The splendour of Château Pichon-Longueville Lalande in Pauillac

TESTIMONIAL

"We really enjoyed our trip with you to Bordeaux, the highlight being TRB. We really could not fault the tour in any way and we learnt a lot. It was fun."

John & Angela C.